K 2022

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Issue 02/2023 Recycled rubber, rice husks and plastic bottles

Sustainable materials in tire production

Car tires are round, black and made of rubber. Look closer, however, and you’ll see that the design of tires and the interaction of the various materials that go into making them are extremely...

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Issue 02/2023

Kuusakoski announces first composite treatment plant in Finland

The Finnish recycling company Kuusakoski announced plans to build a new composite shredding and treatment plant at its Hyvinkää site in Southern Finland. The new composite treatment plant will shred...

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Issue 02/2023 Turning up the volume

Increasing the production volume at RCS to 70 000 t rPET granulate

RCS, a medium-sized waste disposal and recycling company based in Werne/Germany, turns up its production volume 4.5 times by adding a second EREMA VACUNITE® bottle-to-bottle system.

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Issue 02/2023 Flexible system

Quick-change mixed waste processing

Santa Barbara County’s Resource Center efficiently sorts both MSW and single stream using the same circuit with TOMRA AUTOSORT™ units to successfully reduce landfilling.

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Issue 02/2023

Second Doppelmayr RopeCon® system at Lenzing AG

For the planned expansion of wood chip transport between the storage area and the digester house at their cellulose processing plant, Lenzing AG, a leading company in the field of the production of...

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Issue 02/2023 Largest single order in the company’s history

A material revolution instead of waste

UBQ Materials has patented the world’s first thermoplastic material consisting entirely of unsorted household waste – including organics. The sustainable substitute for petroleum-based plastics will...

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Eriez® reports soaring demand for coolant recycling systems amid supply chain scarcities

Eriez Senior Technical Sales Representative Clay O’Dana reports that the company is experiencing heightened demand for coolant recycling systems as economic and supply chain constraints make it...

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Terex Ecotec announced new distributor for Taiwan

Terex Ecotec announced the appointment of A+Tradex Solutions as their authorised distributor for Taiwan. A+Tradex Solutions will supply the full range of Terex Ecotec’s wood processing, biomass, and...

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Kuusakoski invests in first carbon free steel recycling plant

Kuusakoski, a forerunner of the green transition, is going to build a market first steel recycling plant that will operate 100 % carbon free and utilise the latest technology. The investment responds...

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New energy-efficient method for recycling lithium-ion batteries

Researchers at Linnaeus University have developed a more environmentally friendly way of retrieving cobalt from used lithium-ion batteries. With a liquid solvent made of readily available substances,...

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