Li-ion to take the world by storm
October 2015Country: BATTERIES Author: Kirstin Linnenkoper The global battery market was worth US$ 60 billion in 2014, Christophe Pillot declared at the recent International Congress for Battery...
View ArticleCircular economy highlighted at 'Save the Planet' congress
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: In line with new global trends, the 7th edition of the ‘flagship event’ Save the Planet will focus on new technologies and best practices that...
View ArticleMajor growth for steel sector in Bangladesh
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: Bangladesh is one of Asia's leading emerging steel markets and has a growing need for raw materials and steelmaking technologies. So says...
View ArticleMRAI: focus on India's scrap metals progress
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: The Metal Recycling Association of India (MRAI) will organise its third International Indian Metals Recycling Conference on 22 and 23 January...
View ArticleDubai prepares for Middle East recycling conference
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: The Bureau of Middle East Recycling (BMR) will host the fifth edition of its annual international conference on February 19-20 next year in the...
View ArticleAn 'unequalled arena' for circular materials debate
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: The renowned Chalmers University and Nordic Publishing have joined forces in organising the Circular Materials Conference, which will take place...
View ArticleRecycling yachts 'in the eye of the beholder'
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: 'Yacht recycling needs to pick up its pace,' argued Pierre Barbleu, manager of France's APER network for end-of-life recreational craft at the...
View ArticleEuRic: Legislation should reflect 'huge' benefits of recycling
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: Despite the big contribution to a low-carbon economy, the cost of EU regulation remains substantially higher for electric arc furnace steelmakers...
View ArticlePRE sets new date for plastics recycling show
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: The annual Plastics Recycling Show Europe - which was postponed in November owing to the security alert in Brussels - has been rescheduled for...
View ArticleIARC: curbing illegal exports of end-of-life vehicles
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: The 16th International Automobile Recycling Congress will be held from March 16 – 18, set in the German capital of Berlin. The anticipated event...
View ArticleSensor-based sorting advances on the radar in Germany
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: The latest trends and best practices regarding sensor-based sorting technology will take centre stage at this much-anticipated annual conference...
View ArticleThe sustainability race is on for Gulf’s plastics sector
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: ‘Currently, less than 10% of all plastic is recycled in the Gulf region,’ Kaunain Shahidi has observed ahead of the inaugural Gulf Packaging &...
View ArticleSkurnac: e-scrap recyclers must target diversification
Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: In order to survive, electronics recyclers will need to diversify increasingly in new business areas such as refurbishment, according to Steve Skurnac, global...
View ArticleInternational Electronics Recycling Conference 2016
Gal_Teaser_16z9: IERC congress in Salzburg, Austria (2016).
View ArticleClosed-loop supplies 'negating' third-party scrap purchases
February 2016Country: COVERSTORY Author: Martijn Reintjes 'Closed-loop recycling sounds like an intelligent solution to the recycling challenge, but it is fraught with operational and commercial...
View ArticleCopper recycling conference to highlight emerging technologies
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: Metal Bulletin Events' Copper Recycling Conference will be held for the fifth time on June 15-17, with the German city of Munich this year...
View ArticleEuropean car sector 'working hard' for recycling success
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: 'The automotive industry is showing great commitment to making its contribution to sustainable practices at an early stage in the development and...
View ArticleNew business models crucial to survival
March 2016Country: E-SCRAP Author: Martijn Reintjes A major white goods recycler in the Netherlands will switch from scrapping cast iron contra weights from old washing machines to direct reuse of...
View ArticleRecyclers witness a very dark day in Brussels...
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: ‘There can be no doubt that Tuesday was a very dark day for Brussels, Belgium and for Europe,’ lament the organisers of this week’s PRS Europe...
View ArticleReinhold Schmidt: 'existential distress' for German paper recyclers
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: 'Thanks to its highly modern production sites, Germany was once again Europe's largest consumer of recovered paper and cardboard in 2015 – with a...
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