18-06-2014 Non-Ferrous Metals Parked vehicles at risk from autocat theft Europe – There is evidence of thieves targeting catalytic converters – or autocats – from parked cars in order to…
25-03-2014 Business ICM conference EU’s end-of-life vehicle goal ‘within reach’ Europe – ‘In the past 30 years, China has achieved phenomenal economic growth,’ noted Prof. Duan Weng at last week’s…
17-09-2012 Batteries EMR and RECUPYL target electric vehicle batteries UK/France – The UK-based recycler EMR has contracted the French player RECUPYL SAS Innovative Battery Recycling to recycle lithium-ion batteries…
08-08-2012 Ferrous Metals Radioactive vehicles pile up in Japanese yards Japan – Vehicle recyclers in the Fukushima Prefecture of Japan are suffering serious consequences of last year’s earthquake-related nuclear power…
04-06-2012 Plastics Electric vehicles ‘tremendous’ market for plastics United States – Increased production of electric vehicles (EV), projected to expand more than 80% by 2017 across Europe and…
10-02-2012 Ferrous Metals IAA to ship salvage vehicles to China China – Having recently struck a deal with Insurance Auto Auctions Inc. (IAA) of the USA, Chen Jia has been…
18-09-2011 Batteries Vehicle batteries could help store renewable energy Canada – A stationary battery installation in Canada could reuse end-of-life battery packs from electric vehicles to store electricity from…
13-04-2011 Ferrous Metals Scholz/Loacker JV sets up vehicle processing plant Germany – A new German recycling company, Regensburg (RVR), a 50:50 joint venture between the global Scholz Group and major…
05-12-2009 Business New French polyamide recycling channel for end-of-life vehicles Archiv – France | Car maker Renault and its partners Rhodia, INDRA SAS / Re-source Industries, Steep and Mann+Hummel have…
14-07-2009 Business Recycling achievement in the Netherlands 85.6% of each end-of-life vehicle Archiv – In 2008 85.6% of the total weight of discarded end-of-life vehicles in the Netherlands was recycled, says industry…
03-03-2009 Business Crisis forces Nippon Yusen to slash vehicle carrier fleet Archiv – Japan | The world’s largest operator of car transporter ships, Nippon Yusen, may double the number of carriers…
