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Country: UK – Capacity: 18 tonnes/hr.
Footprint: 1.775 m2 – Input: commingled,
mixed dry recyclables
Beatson Clark goes down
optical sorting route for
glass
UK company Beatson Clark has
invested £840 000 (US$ 1.28 million) in
its recycling plant at Rotherham.
The previous manual sorting system has
been replaced by an optical machine
which uses light and cameras to sort glass
of different colours and to identify ceram-
ics, stones and porcelain which can cause
defects in the glass and damage the fur-
nace if not removed. An overbelt magnet
and eddy current sorter pulls out any met-
als from the glass; metals are then baled
automatically. The new plant processes six
tonnes of materials per hour compared to
3.5 tonnes under the previous system.
‘Sourcing the right quantity of glass cullet
can be difficult at times so our new,
improved recycling plant will help to pre-
vent us running short,’ says the company’s
supply chain manager Colin Saysell. ‘The
improvements will also help us to reduce
our carbon footprint as the recycled mate-
rial only has to travel a few metres from
the plant to the furnace rather than being
brought in from a recycling processor sev-
eral miles away.’
Beatson Clark, which makes glass bottles
and jars for the food, drink and pharma-
ceutical sectors, holds the contract to man-
age Rotherham’s recycling collections.
LME introduces new
steel scrap contract
The London Metal Exchange has
launched LME Steel Scrap, one of three
new contracts it is now offering. The other
two contracts launched this week are
LME Steel Rebar and LME Aluminium
Premiums.
The new scrap and rebar contracts will be
traded on the LMEselect electronic plat-
form and are intended to enable industry
participants ‘to reduce their risk exposure
by hedging more steps in the steel pro-
duction process’. The contracts are cash-
settled against physical Turkish scrap and
rebar price indexes, and will be supported
by market-making programmes to opti-
mise market depth and tightness of
spreads, according to the LME.
With the physically-settled LME Alumin-
ium Premiums contract, participants will
be able to hedge the regional ‘all-in’ price
to ensure metal they receive is readily
available in a non-queued LME ware-
house at a convenient location.
These are the first new contracts to be
offered by the LME in more than five
years. Their launch at the start of this
week was timed to coincide with a major
upgrade of the LME’s electronic systems,
including LMEselect and real-time clear-
ing system LMEmercury, which complet-
ed successfully on November 23.
‘We have worked extensively with the
market on these products, which will
allow users to fully risk-manage their
exposure to regional market dynamics,’
comments the LME’s head of business
development Matthew Chamberlain.
www.lme.co.uk
Tough times for China’s
non-ferrous industry
China’s so-called ‘new normal’ econo-
my has tempered the country’s fast-growing
metals production, it was highlighted by the
China Metals Recycling Association (CMRA)
at its latest convention in Ningbo.
For the first nine months of 2015, China’s
secondary aluminium output was up 5.5%
and lead was up 15% whereas its secondary
copper production dropped 7.1% year on
year, reports trade magazine Recycling Today
based on figures presented by Ren Xudong,
executive vice president of the China Nonfer-
rous Metals Industry Association (CNIA).
‘Prices are in a downturn both at home and
abroad,’ he also told delegates. The second-
ary non-ferrous sector was ‘important to
help establish the green, low-carbon system
China is aiming for, but companies will have
to check out their own opportunities’, he
continued. ‘We need to be confident and
take measures to look for new areas of
growth in this industry.’
CMRA’s vice president and secretary gen-
eral Wang Jiwei underlined that the ‘new
normal’ of slower economic growth in China
had made 2015 a difficult year for produc-
ers, with ‘capacity rates of some enterprises
being less than 50%’. www.cmra.cn
