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International Shipbreaking
The US Navy has awarded International Shipbreaking of Brownsville in Texas a
contract to dismantle and recycle its conventionally-powered aircraft carrier USS
Constellation which was decommissioned in 2003 after nearly 42 years of service.
The Texan recycler will receive US$ 3 million to recycle the vessel.

G&P Batteries/Refi nd Technologies
UK-based battery collection and recycling company G&P Batteries claims to have
doubled its capacity thanks to an improved automated sorting system. The solu-
tion by Refi nd Technologies allows the company to sort around 3 million cells
per week. www.g-pbatt.co.uk

CCNA
The Carton Council of North America (CCNA) has announced that 50% of US
households can now recycle cartons through kerbside and other local recycling
programmes. This is hailed as ‘a milestone’ considering carton recycling access
has grown 177% over the last fi ve years, starting at just 18% in 2009 when the
Carton Council was fi rst formed. www.recyclecartons.com

Danieli Henschel
Major scrap machinery manufacturer Danieli Henschel has brought more new
technology through to market with its POWER-S system, developed for the
company’s heavy-duty CIB shear range with cutting strengths ranging from 800
to 1600 tonnes. www.danieli-centro-recycling.com

Veolia
French waste management and recycling giant Veolia Environnement has sold
its 65% stake in Marius Pedersen Group of Denmark for Euro 240 million
(US$ 325 million). According to Veolia, the sale to the Marius Pedersen Founda-
tion is part of its plan to reduce its debt through divesting non-core assets.
www.veolia.com

Kennedy Group
The US Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR) has heralded the
Kennedy Group for its recycling-friendly and water-based PET bottle labels. The
new PureVue pressure-sensitive clear and white fi lm labels exceed all the crite-
ria in APR’s strict guidance document for modern-day packaging.
www.kennedygrp.com

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Japan’s scrap imports fell sharply
during May, according to figures
released by the country’s Ministry of
Finance. Totalling 12 500 tonnes, vol-
umes were 28.7% lower than in the
same month last year and down 41.9%
from the previous month.
The largest scrap exporter to Japan was
South Korea with 6000 tonnes shipped
during May, followed by Taiwan on 2200
tonnes – a total nearly 50% lower than
that of May 2013. In third place was the

USA, with its exports to Japan amount-
ing to 2100 tonnes for a 35% decline
over the same month last year.
However, Japan’s scrap imports across
the fi rst fi ve months of 2014 were a
massive 230% higher than in January-
May 2013 at 260 000 tonnes. During
this period, the USA was Japan’s largest
overseas scrap supplier on 102 200
tonnes, followed by Hong Kong on
65 600 tonnes and South Korea on
39 800 tonnes.

Japan’s scrap imports
slide in May

Manufacturers’ organisation
EEF has warned the UK government to
act over escalating risks to the country’s
supply of essential materials. And
among its recommendations, contained
in a report entitled ‘Materials for Manu-
facturing: Safeguarding Supply’, the
body calls for regulation of waste ‘so
that we extract more economic value
from what we discard’.
The EEF also recommends: the establish-
ment of an offi ce of resource manage-
ment for strategic co-ordination of
government action; a thorough and
regular assessment of material supply
risks and vulnerabilities; and stronger
incentives for resource effi ciency ‘to help
overcome market failures’.
The combination of global growth in
middle-class consumers, increased
demand for all commodities and an over-

reliance on China for strategic supplies is
leaving the UK ‘underprepared and over-
exposed’, according to the EEF. China is
the leading supplier of materials to the
UK, producing 22 of 38 elements of stra-
tegic economic value. ‘These are minerals
and metals that are vital to British manu-
facturing,’ the organisation points out.
EEF senior policy advisor Susanne Baker
comments: ‘While competitor nations
are already taking evasive action, our
government is in danger of burying its
head in the sand.’ www.eef.org.uk

EEF calls for stronger UK
response over ‘essential materials’

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