13-08-2020 Business ARA to showcase US car recycling sector ‘at its best’ The US Automotive Recyclers Association’s upcoming annual convention and expo, initially scheduled to take place in Reno, Nevada will be...
07-08-2020 Ferrous metal recycling Careful consumers will see fewer cars being scrapped The world’s automotive market has experienced a rocky time recently. The question is: what’s on the horizon for recyclers? Dr...
21-07-2020 Business Gold, cash and luxury cars found at Dutch scrap yard Hundreds of kilos of precious metals, including gold, have been confiscated during a police investigation at a recycling company in...
10-07-2020 Business Car recyclers kick off ‘post Covid-19’ conference season While many recycling conferences have been cancelled or postponed because of the pandemic, the leading international congress for automotive recycling...
19-05-2020 Electronics recycling Swiss car shredders ‘working overtime’ While Europe’s scrap recycling industry in general has been hit hard by the coronavirus crisis, surprisingly enough, some in the...
28-04-2020 Business Platinum group metals suffer from low car sales and idle mines Record prices for palladium and rhodium have gone into reverse as car sales continue to plunge in the wake of...
12-03-2020 Battery recycling Finnish initiative to solve critical metals scarcity Chemical giant BASF, energy supplier Fortum and mining group Nornickel plan to establish a battery recycling network to serve the...
10-03-2020 Plastics recycling Plastics outlook: New Year optimism stalled by virus scare Strong trading in Europe in January was blown away by the coronavirus bringing Chinese industry and transport to a standstill....
10-03-2020 Editors’ Top Picks Plot twist: can the coronavirus accelerate car recycling? The coronavirus is slowly putting a damper on business prospects worldwide. ‘For the automotive industry, however, it could be an...
10-03-2020 Non-Ferrous metals recycling Germany pumps millions into robotic car battery hub The German ministry of the environment is investing EUR 13 million in a car battery and electric vehicle motor dismantling...
16-01-2020 Battery recycling Recovering vital metals by recycling more car batteries ‘Battery costs are falling by half every five years as the scale of manufacturing increases,’ Berenberg bank analyst Asad Farid...