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* Shark Solutions
The Germany-based Reclay environmental and waste management group has
acquired a stake in Shark Solutions A/S of Svinninge in Denmark. The latter recycles
polyvinyl butyral (PVB) – a plastic used as an interlayer in windscreens, safety glass
and construction glass. To date, the Danish company has been active primarily in
Europe. Following the Reclay Group link-up, it is planning to move into the US
market where large volumes of end-of-life windscreens are available.
www.shark-solutions.com
* EWSI
E-Waste Systems Inc. (EWSI), a London-based provider of e-waste processing
services, is partnering with a US electronics waste and commodity trading firm – Fine
Resources, Inc. of Alabama – to expand the company’s ability to source large vol-
umes of end-of life electronics. Fine Resource’s President and founder Rick Fine
will join EWSI as a global business development consultant.
www.ewastesystems.com
* UNTHA America
Austrian commercial shredding machinery manufacturer UNTHA has moved its US
headquarters from Newburyport in Massachusetts to Hampton, New Hampshire.
The new complex has larger office and warehouse space as well as an expanded
test facility for its single- and four-shaft industrial shredders.
www.untha.com/us
* Van Gansewinkel
Waste management specialist Van Gansewinkel is expanding its business in Northern
France, with the Dutch group’s local subsidiary taking over Delrosso of Erre, near
Valenciennes. The latter processes some 10 000 tonnes per annum, targeting mainly
paper and cardboard, but also glass, industrial waste, wood and hazardous waste. Van
Gansewinkel France already handles some 100 000 tonnes at three facilities – in Bois
Grenier, Armentieres and Bethune – and says it will expand in France trough organic
growth and acquisitions over coming years. www.vangansewinkel.com
* Hydromet
Industrial waste recycling specialist HydroMet has acquired PGM Refiners – a fellow
Australian company active in electronics recycling – as part of its diversification and
expansion strategy. PGM operates a newly-upgraded processing facility in Dande-
nong, Victoria, and has plans for expansion into other Australian states. The com-
pany has designed and developed its own technology to recover valuable com-
modities such as aluminium, copper, steel, plastics and precious metals from
electronic waste. It also separates and upgrades lead-containing cathode ray tube
glass from televisions. www.hydromet.com.au
Business
The United States Patent and
Trademark Office has granted a patent
to Ohio-based advanced energy com-
pany Polyflow covering its proprietary
pyrolysis process that converts mixed
and contaminated plastic and rubber
waste into transportation fuels and
chemical intermediates.
The technology offers an alternative
end-of-life solution for all types hard-
to-recycle mixed and contaminated
polymer and rubber waste with empha-
sis on plastic types 3-7, tyres and car-
pet. Polyflow is designing a full-scale
process capable of converting up to 2.5
tonnes of these streams per hour into
transportation fuels and aromatics.
An additional process and apparatus
patent has also been issued by the
Commissioner of Patents in Australia.
Polyflow’s CEO Jay Schabel describes
both the US and Australian patent issu-
ances as further validation of the
unique characteristics associated with
the Polyflow technology. He adds: ‘As
the world continues to seek more effi-
cient and sustainable methods of man-
aging complex waste streams embed-
ded with polymer and rubber-based
items, the Polyflow process is well posi-
tioned to meet this demand. The receipt
of these patents further strengthens our
effort to commercialise a world-chang-
ing technology that will redefine waste
as a resource.’
Implementation of the technology is
expected to take place during the second
quarter of 2012. www.polyflow.co
Two patents for US
waste-to-oil technology
Riccoboni’s new oil filter recycling plant
A new oil filter recycling plant has been commissioned in Italy’s Piemonte
region. The new line at Grassano S.p.a. stores and treats various hazard-
ous and non-hazardous industrial wastes.
Part of the family-owned Riccoboni Group, which specialises in hazardous
waste processing, Grassano focuses on the disposal of used oil and oil-
contaminated waste. The new installation was supplied by MeWa Recy-
cling Maschinen und Anlagenbau GmbH of Gechingen in Germany and
replaces a plant at Grassano that was no longer compliant with state-of-
the-art requirements and could not cope as required with increasing input
quantities.
The new facility is capable of continuously processing 5 tonnes of oil filters
per hour. Used oil filters consist to a large extent of iron and also smaller
amounts of aluminium, while residual oil makes up around 20% of the
material mix. www.riccoboniholding.com
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