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Editorial staff changes
at Recycling International
With effect from January 1 2015, Manfred Beck – Recycling International’s
editor-in-chief for almost 17 years – stepped down from his post and passed on
the baton to Martijn Reintjes, formerly the magazine’s associate editor. In turn,
deputy editor Kirstin Linnenkoper has been promoted to associate editor.
Manfred Beck will stay on as publisher and will also be responsible for special
projects at Recycling International (see also page 6).
In future, please send press releases to:
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From left to right: Manfred Beck, Kirstin Linnenkoper and Martijn Reintjes toast the future.
Getting ferrous and non-ferrous
metals from waste-to-energy (WtE) ash
is a growing business around the world.
It is also a fast-evolving business in tech-
nology terms, with ever more powerful
magnets being developed and more
elaborate systems designed every year.
Meldgaard of Denmark, which has been
in this business area for more than 20
years, has expanded its activities into the
USA. In Europe, the bottom ash is kept
separate from the fl y ash whereas Amer-
ica’s WtE ash is typically combined, lead-
ing to ash recycling challenges when
dealing with the lime content of the fl y
ash. Meldgaard now has three operating
ash recycling plants in the USA, each
one of which is distinct because the ash
differs from plant to plant. In addition,
each facility is processing ash at a dif-
ferent stage in the ash handling process,
either directly from the plant without
any buffer storage through to processing
on monofi lls with ash being stockpiled
for several weeks.
The company’s latest ash recycling plant
is integrated into the ash handling sys-
tem of the WtE plant such that there is
no interference in the removal of ash for
disposal. People in trucks loading the
ash are unaware that Meldgaard has
already extracted the valuable metals
from it to share with the WtE plant
operator.
This was no easy task given that 500
tonnes of ash is delivered daily by con-
veyor straight from the WtE plant to
Meldgaard’s feed hopper. That ash is still
moist and fresh from the ash bunker,
making it diffi cult for current US recy-
clers to process. ‘However, we were able
to develop a unique system for the ash
processing which means we are now
extracting record levels of non-ferrous
metals,’ Meldgaard explains.
www.meldgaard.com
Danish know-how extracts
dollars from American ash
You don’t have to be an airline pas-
senger to share in the high life now that
aircraft giant Boeing has revamped its
‘Custom Hangar’ online shop so people
can buy items made from ‘genuine vin-
tage aircraft parts’. These include a
glass-top coffee table fashioned from
the core of a 747 jetliner engine.
The Boeing project spans anything from
aircraft window panes and miniature
plane sculptures to leather business-
class seats. Consumers can even get
their hands on a pilot and co-pilot yoke
or control stick from a P-51 Mustang
fighter. Boeing explains: ‘Odds are
you’re never going to get to fl y in an F-4
Phantom, but now you can know what
it was like by taking a seat in your very
own F-4 Phantom II Ejection Seat.’
With price tags ranging from US$ 200
to several thousands, Boeing’s
brand management expert James
Newcomb says it is proving dif-
fi cult to keep up with demand.
‘It’s amazing how quickly it
sells,’ he declares. ‘We have
trouble keeping stuff in stock.’
Ultimately, Boeing hopes that
expanding its online portfolio
will boost industrial recycling
and prove to aviation fans every-
where that ‘used’ doesn’t mean
‘expendable’.
www.boeingstore.com
The sky’s no longer
the limit with Boeing
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