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Scholz
Germany’s Scholz Group has continued the process of streamlining its portfolio
by selling its aluminium recycling business ScholzAlu Stockach GmbH, which is
based at Stockach on Lake Constance. All of the shares have been purchased by
investors advised by Orlando Management AG.
Employing 160 people, ScholzAlu Stockach produces cast and wrought alloys from
scrap aluminium and treats salt slag from secondary aluminium production.
www.scholz-group.com

Borealis
Borealis, a leading provider of innovative solutions in the fields of polyolefins, base
chemicals and fertilisers, has reached an agreement to acquire in full the German
plastics recyclers mtm plastics and mtm compact. www.borealisgroup.com

BHS Sonthofen
Recycling company DHZ AG of Switzerland has chosen German recycling technol-
ogy provider BHS Sonthofen to build a complete plant for processing concentrate
from incinerator bottom ash. The plant will also be capable of processing and
refining a wide range of metal-bearing materials. Based in Lufingen, DHZ AG
operates a recycling facility which is used to sort resources and contaminants from
materials destined for its adjacent landfill. The unit for processing ash from waste
incineration plants, which can handle more than 100 000 tonnes per year, takes
up ‘a major portion’ of the recycling facility. www.bhs-sonthofen.de

Liebherr
USA Germany-based material handling company Liebherr has formed Liebherr
USA, Co. to provide a simpler structure and a broader reach in the market. ‘As we
continue to grow our brand in the United States, we are transitioning into a mixed-
sales company,’ explains the new entity’s managing director Dr Torben Reher.
www.liebherr.us
Uz-Prista Recycling
A new plant for recycling waste industrial oils is to be started up in Uzbekistan.
On a yearly basis, the facility will be capable of processing up to 43 000 tonnes of
waste motor oils. Uz-Prista already produces up to 30 types of synthetic, semi-
synthetic, mineral, hydraulic and gear oil, as well as special fluids and antifreezes.
The products are supplied into the domestic market and exported to several
Central Asian countries. www.uzprista.ru

Business

Quote ~ Unquote

‘All empty souls tend toward
extreme opinions.’

-William Butler Yeats

Gemini: 5000 containers
per month from all over
the world
In 1991, Surendra Borad Patawari
founded Gemini Corporation; late May,
Borad Patawari, together with his family
and some 700 invitees, celebrated the
company’s 25th anniversary in Antwerp
where it all began and where this major
plastics recycler and trader has always
been headquartered. During the past
quarter of a century, Gemini has become
a big driver of the local economy, in par-
ticular the Port of Antwerp.
In its first month, the company shipped one
container of plastic scrap; nowadays, some
5000 containers of steel scrap, plastics
scrap, rubber scrap and other industrial
grade scraps are shipped from all over the
world from over 100 seaports every month.
The company now boasts a Euro 500 mil-
lion turnover and has associate companies
and sub-offices in 16 countries, including
China, India, the USA and the UAE.

Partly thanks to scrap majors such as
Gemini, the Port of Antwerp has seen
spectacular growth, confirmed the port’s
chair Marc Van Peel in a speech to honour
Gemini and Borad Patawari. ‘In 2015, the
number of containers grew by 7% and is
expected to climb further in 2016, he
enthused. ‘In the past 25 years, the vol-
ume of cargo passing through the Port of
Antwerp has doubled from 100 million
tonnes to 200 million tonnes.’
Manjeev Singh Puri, India’s ambassador
in Brussels, told invitees that ‘no other
city in the EU has so much trade with
India than Antwerp’.
During the celebration, it was also high-
lighted that the Global Business Leader
Award 2015 from the Institute of Char-
tered Accountants of India had been
conferred on Gemini’s chairman Borad
Patawari.

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Al Sharif Metals receives
Excellence Award
Al Sharif Metals, which has its headquarters in Jordan’s capital Amman,
has been chosen to receive an Excellence Award by King Abdullah II of Jordan.
Al Sharif Metals is part of the Sharjah-headquartered scrap recycling and trad-
ing giant Sharif Metals. Founded in 1963, this company counts as one of the
largest privately owned businesses in the Middle East as well as in North
Africa.
According to the World Trade Organization, the United Arab Emirates has become
a ‘key player’ in global trade. Its review of the ‘growing trade hub’ complimented
the thriving multilateral trading system and policies for a free and open economy
– and came in the year that marks the 20th anniversary of the country’s accession
to the World Trade Organization. www.alsharifmetals.com