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Norsk Hydro
Norway-based Norsk Hydro has agreed the acquisition of WMR Recycling GmbH
of Dormagen in Germany and will thus ‘own the most advanced aluminium scrap
sorting technology in the world’. The deal with Kural GmbH and Kurth Grund-
stücksverwaltungs UG was signed in late February and is expected to close by
the beginning of April, subject to regulatory approval from competition author-
ities. Employing X-ray transmission and several other sorting technologies, the
Dormagen facility has the capacity to sort 36 000 tonnes of aluminium scrap per
year. Hydro recycled almost 1.1 million tonnes of aluminium last year.
www.hydro.com

Hulamin
South African aluminium products manufacturer Hulamin has announced plans
to invest ZAR 300 million (US$ 25.4 million) in an aluminium recycling plant that
will take used beverage cans as its input material. The company explains that
gas-fi red furnaces would provide recycled aluminium to the local market while
using only a fraction of the electricity required to smelt new metal.
www.hulamin.com

Balcan
Major bulb and lamp recycling systems supplier Balcan Engineering of the UK has
completed its fi rst installation in Bulgaria. Balcan has developed a system for
e-scrap fi rm Eltechresource JSC that processes up to 1500 linear tubes per hour
alongside the processing of other types of lamp and bulb. The MP4000 bulb and
lamp recycling plant features dual loading areas for both linear fl uorescent light-
ing as well as whole and crushed lamps. www.cfl -lamprecycling.com

Green Rubber Global
The Green Rubber Global company of Malaysia is to open a new recycling plant
equipped with a ‘patented devulcanisation technology’. The site will have the
capacity to process up to 25 000 tonnes per year, while the rubber will be used
primarily by shoe manufacturers Timberland and New Balance. Around 8 million
tyres reach their end-of-life stage every year in Malaysia, most of which end up
in landfi ll. www.greenrubbergroup.com

Refi nd
The US market is becoming increasingly important for e-scrap sorting technol-
ogy specialist Refi nd of Sweden. The company has recently sold its latest innova-
tion to recycler Battery Solutions, making it ‘the fi rst US-based company’ to invest
in automated sorting and data collection technology to manage waste batteries.
The Refi nd system sorts up to 1.1 tonnes of batteries per hour and will ‘signifi –
cantly improve existing sorting capabilities’ employed by Battery Solutions.
Batteries are identifi ed by their visual characteristics and are separated by air
ejectors at a rate of more than 10 batteries per second. www.refi nd.se

ISRI
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) has published nine new plastics
specifi cations in its Scrap Specifi cations Circular. These include premium fi lm, A+
grade fi lm, A grade fi lm, B grade fi lm, C grade fi lm, MRF fi lm, grocery fi lm,
agricultural greenhouse fi lm and agricultural ground cover fi lm. ‘The nine new
plastics specs were designed to give defi nition and clarity in the plastics fi lm
market,’ comments ISRI president Robin Wiener. www.isri.org

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The Aliaǧa shipyard on Turkey’s
Aegean coast has begun dismantling
work on the major oil refi ning ship Kuito
despite fears the vessel may contain
signifi cant amounts of radioactive mate-
rial. A team of 150 workers is scheduled
to dismantle the 350-metre-long ship
within a year, yielding an estimated
46 000 tons of steel.
The vessel has been operating in the
Angola area since 1979, refi ning 100
000 barrels of oil each day while boast-
ing a storage capacity of 1.4 million
barrels. At a recent press conference, it
was alleged that the Kuito’s radioactiv-
ity levels are fi ve times higher than what
is considered normal.

‘Once the ship anchors in Aliaǧa, it will
be very diffi cult to send it back to Ango-
la,’ comments Baran Bozoǧlu, former
president of environmental engineers
within the Union of Chambers of Turkish
Engineers and Architects.
Recent tests, authorised by the Turkish
Atomic Energy Authority, concluded that
the Kuito was free of radioactive mate-
rial and hazardous waste but these were
‘unsatisfactory’ as they took only two
hours to complete, he maintained.
Government offi cials have promised that
the dismantling process will be ‘watched
closely’, including daily updates and
monitoring of samples.
Source: Hurriyet Daily News

Warnings over scrapping
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