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* Metso Texas Shredder
Metso Minerals is to supply two shredders to leading US scrap proces-
sor Alter Trading Corp. The first is due to be installed by the end of April
at Alter Trading’s new scrap recycling operation in Mobile, Alabama. The
second is scheduled to be delivered to Alter’s facility in Iowa by the sum-
mer.
The Alabama delivery comprises a 5000 hp shredder and complete fer-
rous and non-ferrous downstream options; this shredder will process
27 000 tonnes of scrap metal per month. The Iowa contract comprises a
4000 hp shredder with ferrous downstream only; this shredder will
process 7000-9000 tonnes of scrap per month.
The equipment will be delivered by Metso Texas Shredder, Inc., the
leading supplier of metal shredder plants and related after-market ser-
vices in North America.
www.metsominerals.com
* Wendt Corp.
PSC Metals is upgrading the equipment at its US shredding opera-
tions in Nashville, Tennessee, and Columbus, Ohio. At the latter facility,
PSC has also brought on stream an all-metal separator supplied by Wendt
Corp. of Tonawanda, New York; this is expected to recover non-ferrous
metals missed by the plant’s eddy-current separation system. In
Nashville, the company has installed a cross-belt metal analyser from
Gamma-Tech of Cincinnati which, according to PSC, will enable the com-
pany to provide steel mill customers with a premium low-copper material.
www.wendtcorp.com
* Gamma-Tech
River Metals Recycling of Newport, Kentucky, USA, has installed its
second Gamma-Tech Crossbelt Metal Analyzer from Cincinnati-based
Gamma-Tech. As a result, all of River Metals’ shredded scrap will be
analysed by Gamma-Tech equipment, leading to cleaner shredded mate-
rial with lower residuals. Its parent company David J. Joseph Co. helped
develop the technology with Gamma- Tech. The Crossbelt analyser has
allowed River Metals to ship shredded scrap with 0.13-0.15% copper con-
tent, according to the company.
www.rmrecycling.com
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Dutch environmental technology
specialist EnvoSmart Technologies
is planning to convert waste plastics
into green diesel at plants through-
out Europe, beginning at a site near
Berlin in Germany.
The company has already signed a
Euro 118 million (US$ 142 million)
licensing deal with Australia’s
Ozmotech to secure access to vital
technology. Ozmotech has developed
a system capable of transforming
unsorted plastic waste into high-qual-
ity green diesel that complies with
international and European stan-
dards. Meanwhile, the EnvoFuel
process uses the so-called ThermoFuel
system – involving liquefaction, pyrol-
ysis and catalytic breakdown of plas-
tics – to convert waste plastics into
diesel fuel. The system can handle a
wide variety of plastics that are cur-
rently dispatched to landfill.
Advantages of the process include
its ability to handle unsorted,
unwashed plastics, as well as its
extremely high efficiency. An
EnvoFuel plant can produce up to
9300 litres of high-grade diesel fuel
from 10 tonnes of waste plastics,
with system module capacities rang-
ing from 10 up to 20 tonnes per day.
EnvoSmart holds the exclusive
sales and distribution rights for
Ozmotech’s ThermoFuel system in
14 European countries. The compa-
ny plans to install and operate at
least 31 ThermoFuel lines from
Sweden down to Italy as part of an
investment programme worth some
Euro 200 million (US$ 240 million).
The line to be installed near Berlin
will require investment of some
Euro 40 million (US$ 47 million) and
is expected to become operational in
the first quarter of 2007; it will pro-
duce 38 million litres of diesel per
annum from 42 000 tonnes of plastic
waste. Also scheduled for next year
are plants at Amsterdam and
Eindhoven in The Netherlands, as
well as facilities in Poland and
Sweden, according to EnvoSmart.
For more information, visit:
www.envosmart.com and
www.ozmotech.com.au
Diesel from waste plastics
Scotland achieves
recycling target
Local authorities in Scotland have
managed to meet a ministerial target
of recycling or composting a quarter
of their household refuse. In the latest
statistics to be published, the average
composting/recycling rate among the
country’s 32 councils improved to
25.1% in the three months to
September 2005. This compares to a
rolling average for the year of 21%.
The milestone was achieved three
months ahead of the target date
despite the fact that almost half of
the local authorities fell short of the
25% threshold, with several councils
achieving recycling/composting rates
only around the 10% mark.
In welcoming this steady progress
towards higher environmental stan-
dards, Scotland’s environment min-
ister Ross Finnie insists that the
most important figures relate to
diversion of waste from landfill. It
has been noted, for example, that
the Shetland Isles achieved a 67%
diversion rate during the July-
September period last year, largely
as a result of the energy recovery
plant that has been established in
its main town of Lerwick.
According to environmental lobby
group Friends of the Earth, the figures
cannot disguise the fact that ‘Scotland
still has a serious waste problem’.
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