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November 2015, No.9
Industry faces diminishing margins and rising costs
Paper exporter Wade Schuetzeberg: ‘China will come out stronger’
Safety: scrap yard can still be a deadly place to work
Attero dialling in on India’s e-scrap challenge
BIR meets in Prague:Struggling
through tough times
A ‘high risk’ industry
It attracts generally only a small news headline but its
impact is large and lasting: ‘Man killed at scrap yard’.
Although the recycling sector is much safer than 10 or
15 years ago, there is still much to be improved. In the
USA, indeed, recycling is still said to be ‘the fifth deadliest’
industry.
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Autumn in Prague / 18
More than 850 hardy souls from 54 dierent countries converged on the
historic Czech capital Prague in late October for the latest BIR world recycling
convention. e adjective ‘hardy’ is appropriate given that they would have
travelled with little expectation of hearing much in the way of good news.
And so it proved: business conditions are almost universally dicult and
many companies are creaking under the pressure.
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Sections
3 Viewpoint
6 News
15 Products
39 In the Laboratory:
Independence day for rare
earths in the USA?
52 Events calendar
55 Beck’s – the Manfred Beck
column
58 Next issue
Markets
40 Ferrous
44 Nickel & stainless
46 Non-ferrous
50 Paper & textiles
And also…
20 BIR Ferrous
21 BIR Non-ferrous
23 BIR Paper
24 BIR Plastics & Tyres
25 BIR Textiles
33 Expert opinion on fire safety
35 Women in recycling:
Rebecca Earley
Stainless steel yet to peak
Although very small in number, there were at least some
optimistic voices to be heard at BIR’s Prague gathering.
Even if China’s growth were to remain in the slow lane,
annual world consumption of stainless steel would still
leap from around 37 million tonnes per year at present
to 50 million tonnes in a decade and a half from now,
suggested leading analyst Dr Gerhard Pariser of Heinz H.
Pariser Alloy Metals & Steel Market Research, Germany.
Recovered paper:
feeding the Nine Dragons
Wade Schuetzeberg heads up ACN (Europe), one of the
world’s biggest recovered paper exporting companies.
Recycling International talks with Schuetzeberg about
managing growth, China’s
economy and, of course,
the quality issue.
Dialling in to India’s
e-scrap challenge
In 2015, Indians are expected to buy more than 300
million new mobile handsets, and that is good news for
entrepreneur Rohan Gupta of electronics recycling com-
pany Attero. The business appears to be well on track to
become India’s ‘largest and most innovative’ e-scrap
recycler.
