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* Andritz
Australia’s Visy Industries, which claims to be the world’s largest pri-
vately-owned packaging and recycling company, has selected the Andritz
international technology group to supply technology and systems for the
expansion of its Tumut paper mill in New South Wales, Australia.
The order encompasses the upgrade of the existing fibre line and recaus-
ticising plant, as well as the installation of: a new recovery boiler; a pre-
evaporator; a lime kiln; equipment for the recycled fibre plant; stock
preparation kit; and approach flow systems. The total value of the order
is approaching Euro 70 million.
www.andritz.com
* CP Manufacturing and Shred Tech
The Sharjah Environment Corporation, a United Arab Emirates-based
environmental solutions and services company also known as Bee’ah, is
to spend over US$ 100 million (Euro 68 million) on US and Canadian
recycling equipment for its new recycling programme.
Shred-Tech will supply all the machinery for a cryogenics tyre recy-
cling facility – the first of its kind in Sharjah – for the manufacture of a
variety of rubber-based consumer and industrial products. Meanwhile,
CP Manufacturing will provide all the equipment for a material recla-
mation facility (MRF) which, Bee’ah predicts, will be the largest single
sorting and recycling facility in the world in terms of annual throughput.
This particular contract is worth in excess of US$ 25 million.
www.beeah-uae.com
Sold!
Legally-binding, EU-wide recy-
cling targets for municipal solid
waste could save up to 144 million
tonnes in annual carbon dioxide
emissions, according to a study con-
ducted by German consultan-
cy Ökopol. The European Parliament
has asked for such binding targets in
its first reading of the EU waste
framework directive.
Figures in the study suggest that
the EU’s average recycling rate for
municipal solid waste of 37% saves
some 160 million tonnes in annual
CO emissions. Additional savings
could reach 88 million tonnes, it is cal-
culated, if every EU member state
achieved the current minimum target
of 50% by 2020 and if those already
surpassing the target maintained
their efforts. But if all member states
mirrored the Netherlands’ current
recycling rate of 65%, an additional
144 million tonnes of CO2 emissions
would be saved every year.
These data were published ahead
of an international conference on
waste and climate change, which
was held in London on January 31.
www.oekopol.de
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Interseroh
enters US steel
recycling market
German services and raw materials trading group
Interseroh will acquire a 25% share in US steel recy-
cling and scrap trading company ProTrade Group
LLC of Hudson, Ohio. A co-operation agreement
signed in 2007 allows for the former’s share to be
increased to 75% in the medium term.
According to Interseroh, this move will enable it
to enter the US steel scrap market, the world’s
largest with annual volumes running at approxi-
mately 60 million tonnes. For the recycling activities
clustered within the ProTrade Group, the investment
will bring a strengthening of its financial power to
expand its position in the USA as well as a continu-
ous transfer of know-how in the fields of production,
technology and the environment.
The US company has realigned itself over recent
few years: steel and metal scrap trading activities
have been expanded with the addition of several
treatment and processing sites, as well as a number
of collection and trans-shipment centres. The group’s
assets include: a treatment plant for waste electrical
and electronic equipment in Florida; two shredder
locations in the Midwest; and several trading offices
in this region and on the East Coast.
Call for papers
for battery
congress
The 13th International Congress for
Battery Recycling organised by ICM AG
will take place on September 17-19 this
year in the German city of Düsseldorf.
Organisers are now inviting prospective
speakers to submit their presentation pro-
posal before February 29.
The event is expected to cover various
topics, and will include: a worldwide update
of legislative issues relating to the battery
and recycling industry; reports on the revi-
sion and implementation of the EU Battery
Directive; and an examination of how bat-
tery manufacturers close the recycling loop.
Participants will also have the chance to
visit two battery recycling plants – those of
Umicore in Olen, Belgium, and DK
Recycling in Duisburg, Germany.
ICM AG, Birrwil, Switzerland,
Phone: +41 62 785 10 00,
Fax: +41 62 785 10 05, E-mail: [email protected]
www.icm.ch
Study reveals CO2
reduction from recycling
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