T H I S I S S U E
Copper captains say:
It’s time to adjust the sails / 18
Global use of recycled copper fell from 8.5 million tonnes in 2013 to 8.3 million
tonnes last year, Carlos Risopatron told Metal Bulletin’s latest Copper Recycling
Conference, held recently in Barcelona. China’s scrap imports had dropped to
a six-year low in the first quarter of 2015, the director of economics and envi-
ronment at the International Copper Study Group also observed.
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6 News
17 Products
60 Events calendar
63 Beck’s – the Manfred Beck
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66 Next issue
Markets Analysis
48 Ferrous
52 Nickel & stainless
54 Non-ferrous
58 Paper & textiles
And also…
26 Pacific Metals of Vancouver
36 Agricultural Plastics Recycling
38 ARN: making the best of
ELV minerals
47 In the Laboratory:
constructive self-destruction
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Recycling is a skill like any other, one that can be taught
and perfected after being imprinted on our memory, or
so believes Professor Ernst Worrell of the Technical Uni-
versity in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
A drone fl ying across Baden-Baden captured spectacular
views of recycling machinery on display at this year’s
much-anticipated Recycling Aktiv expo in Germany.
Only 50 container vessels and 50 tankers were recycled
in the fi rst fi ve months of this year – just half 2014’s level.
‘Weaker’ construction activity and a sharp fall in global
steel prices were mainly responsible for the slowdown in
shipbreaking.
China’s once-booming economy has slowed, and the
metals business is getting dragged down with it. In 2014,
the world’s second-largest economy experienced a 7.4%
growth rate – its lowest in 24 years.
Interview:
Professor Ernst Worrell
A pop-up scrap yard
Ship owners turn screw
on South Asia
Raising scrap ratios:
China’s ‘new normal’?
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