IFAT 2024

Highlights at IFAT 2024

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 03/2024

Magnificent

Dear readers, I would say it was the best IFAT I have ever attended – IFAT 2024 in Munich at the end of April. And I‘m not so quick to use superlatives. It was clear to see that the global industry is...

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Maintain your optical sorters for optimum efficiency

Author: Clinten van der Merwe, VP and Head of Service for TOMRA Recycling Sorting Today’s optical sorters are finely tuned machines. Their software and hardware components work together in a...

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Coverstory recovery 4/2017

Major contract from Switzerland: Non-ferrous metals in incinerator bottom ash are turned into valuable resources

BHS-Sonthofen planned and implemented a turnkey plant for the processing and refinement of metals derived from waste incineration plant slag and other metal-bearing fractions. Recycling machines from...

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Issue 05/2024 Added value through composting

Making sensible use of fermentation residues from biogas plants

Biogas is a success story: 9000 biogas plants in Germany currently cover around 4.5 % of the national electricity demand and make a significant contribution to the energy transition. Another benefit...

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Masotina chooses ZenRobotics as partner for AI-based sorting of plastic waste

Italian waste management frontrunner Masotina has partnered with ZenRobotics to retrofit their plastics sorting facility (PRF) with an AI-powered robotic sorting station for the recovery of clear PET...

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Issue 01/2024 IFAT Munich

Mastering the current challenges of the circular economy

Recycling all types of secondary raw materials is an immensely important and interesting, but often also very challenging task, as the partner associations of the world’s leading environmental...

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Issue 03/2022 IFE AUFBEREITUNGSTECHNIK GMBH

Material handling technology at its best

… that’s what IFAT 2022 visitors can expect at the IFE booth. There, the machine manufacturer will not only provide insights into its portfolio of screening, magnetic and vibratory conveying...

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Issue 03/2023 Digitalization for a comprehensive circular economy

Material stock always available with 3D LiDAR

Optimizing recycling plants through collecting and processing status and process data is a vital factor in achieving a comprehensive circular economy. However, one question that has yet to be answered...

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Issue 03/2021

Material tests on shredder-extruder machines

What is already common practice at the company‘s location in Ansfelden/Austria, PURE LOOP now makes possible in North America as well. From now on, the specialist for shredder-extruder recycling...

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