IFAT 2024

Highlights at IFAT 2024

Issue 03/2021 Metal recycling

Current global trends

Metal recycling extends the lifetime of resources and benefits the environment. At the same time, the recycling of metals is more cost-efficient than primary production. The following paper describes...

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Issue 02/2022 Evaluation of plastics in the circular economy

Current work focus of the VDI guideline committee 4095

In 2020, the guideline committee VDI 4095 „Assessment of plastics in the circular economy“ was founded to develop practical and legally compliant recommendations for action for the circles concerned....

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Issue 01/2021 Informative and entertaining

Customers from 55 countries witnessed live stream of test centre opening

Several hundred customers viewed the live broadcast of the inauguration online on 22 September. Customer feedback indicates that the show was not only informative, but also entertaining. View the...

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Issue 03/2019 It is a dream come true

Cypriot President inaugurates the first turn-key plastics recycling facility in the Island State

PCC Recycling, a Poullaides Group company, is taking an important step towards a circular economy with modern recycling technology from Austria and Germany. The flexibility of the recycling facility...

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Issue 05/2018

Declaration on the revised Bulgarian legislation on used clothing recycling

At the BIR London Convention’s “Workshop on the Bulgarian Eco-Tax on Second Hand Clothing” on 8 October 2018, the Bulgarian Association of Recyclers and Traders of Second Hand Clothes (ARTSHC)...

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Issue 03/2024 Waste wood sorting in focus

Demonstration event at DIEFFENBACHER in Eppingen and at DIEFFENBACHER partner TOMRA in ­Mülheim-Kärlich

In May 2022, DIEFFENBACHER and 19 organizations from seven countries joined forces in the EcoReFibre (“Ecological solutions for recovery of secondary materials from post-consumer fibreboards”)...

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Denmark inaugurates first robotic sorting plant for construction waste

Solum, one of the leading Danish companies in recycling, has inaugurated the first robotic facility dedicated to the sorting of construction waste in Denmark. The new plant, located in Roskilde,...

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Denmark's leading recycling company relies on XPower® wheel loader from Liebherr

RGS Nordic specialises in recycling construction and demolition waste materials and is the market leader in Denmark. It operates a fleet of around 130 construction machines, about two-thirds of which...

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Design for recycling: the way forward for the plastics industry

Over 300 participants gathered in Brussels to debate plastics recyclability and latest plastics recycling developments. With 94 % of the European citizens declaring that products must be designed to...

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Issue 04/2022 Rethinking is not enough

Development status of plastics recycling

Environmental reports often mention the goal of a recycling economy. That is supposed to count for the plastics industry, too, based specifically on extensive recycling of plastic waste. The reality...

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