IFAT 2022

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Issue 06/2021 Increase in material recovery

Norway’s first AI-powered robotic sorting station

The new robotic sorting facility will substantially increase material recovery at Bjorstaddalen and make a major move from waste incineration toward a circular economy in the Nordic country. The...

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Issue 06/2021 An interview with Stena Recycling

X-ray technology and CO2 reductions – how are the two compatible?

Denmark’s Environment Minister Lea Wermelin and Henrik Grand Petersen, CEO of Stena Recycling, officially opened the new “X-ray Sorting Centre” in Roskilde. Afterwards, Steinert spoke to Stena’s...

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Issue 06/2021 Centro Rottami and Indinvest

New life for recycled aluminium

In the province of Latina, a scrap recycler supplies a nearby foundry with recycled aluminum that has been sorted by TOMRA’s machines to produce a green billet with 85% recycled content. This is an...

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Issue 06/2021 Commissioning of stage 2 now underway

Construction of battery recycling demonstration plant completed

Primobius GmbH has initiated the commissioning phase for the hydrometallurgical refining circuits in its showcase lithium-ion battery (LIB) recycling demonstration plant at SMS group’s Hilchenbach...

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Issue 06/2021 Demand for raw materials is increasing

Magnetic separator for lithium battery powder

Lithium is extracted from salt lakes such as the Salar de Atacama in Chile, where there are huge reserves of brine containing lithium. Some large producers process this lithium into a powder that...

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Issue 06/2021 It pays to have less volume

How the Schwarzach Offset Printing Plant saves 70 000 truck kilometres per year with a new HSM baling press

The packaging specialist from Rheintal in the Vorarlberg region of Austria has been recycling its paper waste as high quality used paper for decades. Thanks to a new baling press from HSM, the...

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Issue 06/2021

Eriez® appoints Managing Director for Eriez-Germany

Eriez® President and CEO Lukas Guenthardt announced the company has selected Eric Adams to serve as Managing Director for the company’s newly established Eriez Deutschland GmbH, based in...

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New sales managers at Vecoplan AG

Vecoplan has had two new sales managers since the beginning of October 2021: Tim Hamer is now responsible for Sales in the Recycling | Waste division, Kersten Beib in the Wood | Biomass division....

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The future of textiles & footwear recycling

With the production of textiles for clothing, linen and footwear expected to increases by 2.7 % each year up until 2030 (“The State of Fashion 2021”, Business of Fashion & McKinsey et Company’s), the...

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Fraunhofer LBF to become organizer of the Forum Plastic Recyclates 2022

The Forum Plastic Recyclates will now be operating, with immediate effect, under new management: All rights associated with the event have been transferred from Hanser Publications to the Fraunhofer...

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