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amg vanadium tO BOOst catalyst
recycling capacity By 30%
AMG Vanadium has signed a US$ 35 million multi-year agreement
with an existing customer to process and recycle spent catalysts from
‘a major oil refinery’ in North America. The deal will mean an expan-
sion of AMG’s spent catalyst recycling operations.
Part of the Amsterdam-based AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group,
AMG Vanadium plans to install a new flue gas desulfurization unit at its
facility in Cambridge, Ohio. Subject to environmental permitting which
is expected by the third quarter of 2018, the company is aiming to
complete the expansion by the end next year, at which point its spent
catalyst recycling capacity will increase by approximately 30%.
The expansion ‘will allow us to continue to provide our partners with
an industry-leading environmental solution for their spent catalyst
recycling needs as their requirements grow’, comments AMG
Vanadium’s president Hoy Frakes.

Zanker turns tO rOBOts tO
BOOst recycling rates

Plexus recycling Technologies (PRT) and ZenRobotics are to
deliver robotic recycling systems to Zanker Recycling of San José
in the US state of California. The ZenRobotics Recycler units will
be the first to be installed on the US west coast and are sched-
uled to be operational by the autumn.
Zanker Recycling handles 2600 tons per day of construction and
demolition waste, processed through three recycling systems. By
purchasing a fourth processing line featuring the ZenRobotics sys-
tems, Zanker Recycling ‘will increase both recovery rate and pro-
cessing capacity’. Each of the four arms on the two ZenRobotics
Recyclers will be picking objects weighing up to 30 kg.
Denver-based PRT supplies an array of advanced waste process-
ing technologies to the US and Canadian markets, including those
devised by Finland-based ZenRobotics. PRT’s ceo Marcel Vallen
comments: ‘Robots are now proven technology and the growth
potential on the US market is substantial. We expect that virtually
all new plants will be based on robotic sorting – and existing
plants will be upgraded with robots. Robots are the most dramat-
ic paradigm change in the recycling industry for decades.’

what is the Best way tO
recycle e-scrap?
In response to recyclers’ quest for information about the pres-
ence of materials and components in electronic waste that
require separate treatment, European electronics producers and
producer responsibility organisations have teamed up to create
‘the Information for Recyclers Platform’, or I4R.
Heralded as ‘a unique one-stop source’, I4R aims to provide a
whole range of information and guidance on how to handle
e-scrap. The initiative is being headed by DIGITALEUROPE and
the European Committee of Domestic Equipment Manufacturers,
together with the WEEE Forum.
I4R will allow recyclers to access information about the presence
and location of materials and components that need separate
treatment.
‘We wish to drive solutions to this problem, and the I4R platform
is key to better inform managers in the recycling industry and to
train workers on safety issues,’ explains DIGITALEUROPE’s direc-
tor general Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl. ‘By providing information at
product group level, the I4R platform will help recyclers to opti-
mise sorting where applicable,’ she adds.

TRENDS & UPDATES

World’s largest manufacturer of cable recycling equipment!
www.eldan-recycling.com

Boost production?
Complete lines or single machines
Refurbishing existing recycling lines
Modifying/improving recycling lines
– also other suppliers
Original spare and wear parts

Recycle harness wire
Solutions for processing of harness wire manually
dismantled or from car shredder!

Produce copper high grade #2
Dust friendly environment

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