car recycling Articles
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Automotive recycling - an American success story
In this article, leading automotive recycling consultant Richard T.Paul investigates the current status of car recycling in the USA, along with recent developments and emerging trends affecting the sector. He dwells in particular on the collection of mercury switches from end-of-life vehicles, proposed national legislation to retire vehicleidentification numbers, and the Automobile Recyclers ...
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Albert Looms in UK replaces saucepan with Model 4 Skimmer
Albert Looms (used car recycling) recently purchased an oil skimmer to collect the oil from their interceptors and drains. Having previously used a saucepan with a long handle, the idea of a machine being able to do the work for them seemed quite appealing. Albert Looms' Operations Manager Ray Kirk explained, 'Removing the oil was one of those jobs that has to be done but is time consuming and ...
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Is it profitable to recycle waste car radiators with car radiator recycling machine?
Car radiators are made of copper, aluminum and iron, very worth to recycle and reuse, so it is very profitable to recycle waste car radiators with DOING car radiator recycling machine. Next, let me analyze the profitability of this car radiator recycling machine for you in detail.In the first place, DOING Company car radiator recycling machine has a 99% separation rate. Waste car radiators ...
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Car and e-scrap recycling: the Chinese experience
In late November, more than 220 delegates met in China for the World Recycling - Shanghai congress organised by Switzerland-based ICM. Among other issues, the focus fell on latest trends in car and electronics scrap recycling within China itself. Several speakers emphasised that much remains to be done to bring the country into line with standards adopted in other parts of the world. Tighter ...
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Recycling end of life vehicles with COBRA KR
We often talk about scrap in its broad sense. It’s that precious ferrous and non-ferrous scrap that recycling companies collect and transform into secondary raw materials. It is an increasingly vital cycle for the survival of the planet and the sustainability of our economic growth. But those who deal with scrap often also collect and recover also end-of-life vehicles: cars, commercial ...
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Dust is a major problem, especially quartz dust
All over the world the rules are stricter now. BEEPRO BV in the Netherlands brings the patented product BeeFoam on the market to take the dust away. BeeFoam has been updated so that the effect will be even better. After some time of testing, the BeeFoam adjusted to provide you with better service. By using a new ingredient in BeeFoam the product gifs a coat on the material so the dust is ...
By BeePro BV
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ASR Waste Shredder for Sale & Cost
ASR material that is shred by a recycling plantor shredder is called ‘’commercial ASR waste’’. Commercial A.S.R. waste consists valuable waste that can be sold and used as a basis to produce new products. CM Shredders provides a variety of shredders (Single shaft shredder, Two shaft shredder, Granulator) to create this commercial/valuable waste. By combining these ...
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Engine Crushers – Making A Profit Out Of Old Cars
Engine crushers make recycling engines quicker and economical. The purpose of an engine crusher is to reduce engines and gearboxes into small particles. This makes sorting aluminium from ferrous metals more efficient. Challenger Group Engine crushers are available in large and standard sizes. Both engine crushers have the capacity to include optional extras such as; the type of fuel engine, ...
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Optimal heat-reversible snap joints for frame-panel assembly in aluminium space frame automotive bodies
This paper presents a method for designing heat-reversible snap joints, locator-snap systems that detach non-destructively by heating a certain location of parts. It is expected to dramatically improve the recyclability of aluminium space frame (ASF) bodies by enabling clean separation of frames and body panels. Extending our previous work on the sequential design of the locators and heating area ...
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Car Shredder & Vehicle Recycling
A car shredder (auto shredder) is an imperative downsize device in a vehicle recycling plant. A car shredding done right can effectively break down a car and later on ease the metal separation. The shredding process is usually comprised of 2 shredders from primary shredding to secondary shredding to fine shredding. A vehicle shredder can process all kinds of scrap cars including motorcycles, ...
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Belt conveyors in manufacturing – a brief history
Belt conveyors have not always been used in manufacturing This can be difficult to comprehend because they have become indispensable in production lines. belt conveyors are used in a wide variety of settings including; food production, recycling, car manufacture, super markets and retro television shows (The Generation Game) to name a few. As with most practical inventions there is no one ...
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Waste Management - Bulgaria
Bulgaria is a country, that faces serious waste management challenges. The current infrastructure is old, fractional and insufficient. Addressing the issue constitutes a major priority for the Bulgarian government and the planned areas for development include the creation of regional waste disposal systems, as well as the construction and exploitation of large scale waste and ...
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Sustainable engineering management: end-of-life vehicles with recovery in mind
Growth sustainability requires to lower pollution and raw materials consumption. The paper deals with car end-of-life recovery (reuse, recycle) regulation as new business issue, and outlines modelling and simulation paths, to assess problems in reverse logistics for items collection and process data management. The backward flow (from exhausted items, to useful provisions) is fostered to lower ...
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Remove My Car stands up for vehicle recycling industry
Vehicle recycling expert Remove My Car is standing up for the ELV (End of Life Vehicle) industry at a time when the reputation of vehicle recyclers has been put under national scrutiny by the International Roundtable on Auto Recycling in Japan. The company believes the vehicle recycling industry in the UK is cleaning up its act, helped along by recent legislation, and that it no longer deserves ...
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ASR Recycling Plant for Sale
Auto Shredder Residue or ASR recycling deals with all the light fractions left over from recycling End-of-Life Vehicles (ELVs). This material also known as Shredder Light Fraction (SLF), auto or car fluff make up as much as 25 % of the ELVs weight and contains many different materials: plastics, rubber, glass, sand, textiles, wood, metals, and dust. ASR recycling is the process of downsizing the ...
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Sustainability of the automotive recycling infrastructure: review of current research and identification of future challenges
In addition to rising fuel prices, government policy-makers are endeavouring to reduce the environmental impact of the automotive industry through directives and standards. Automotive manufacturers are working to reduce the use phase environmental impact of automobiles by introducing innovative vehicle designs. However, these product design changes may jeopardise the profitability of the business ...
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Materials flow of platinum group metals in Germany
Platinum group metals have become indispensable in modern industrial society and the demand for PGMs has greatly increased. An in-depth quantitative analysis of PGM applications, lifecycle structure, deficits and optimisation potential in Germany has been carried out by Umicore Precious Metals Refining and Oko-Institute. Besides detailed insights into one of the more opaque metal markets, the ...
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Why choose when you can have it all? - Case Study
Recycling areas: AluminiumCableElectronic Waste (WEEE)Tyre Company name: Remat Bucuresti Sud S.A. Located: Bucharest, Romania Founded: 2003 Employees: 180 REMAT Bucuresti Sud S.A is a part of REMATHOLDING CO. SRL group. REMATHOLDING was founded in 2003 as a recycler of metallic and non-metallic scrap. Today they have the most compact and extended waste collecting network in the South and ...
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Best management practices for automobile salvage yards
This paper collects a group of best management practices (BMPs) that outline the techniques needed to establish an environmentally friendly automobile recycling facility. Using common as well as unique BMPs from several different states, a full but not detailed set of management practices has been established. Since every facility is different, each facility will need a set of BMPs that meets its ...
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EU directive poses threat to vehicle recyclers
Even the architect of the ELV directive believes proposed vehicle recovery and recycling quotas are ‘very tough’ and that the new definition of recycling proposed for the revised Waste Framework Directive could present problems to the ELV recycling industry. And the recent International Automobile Recycling Congress in Amsterdam also heard a leading steelmaker urge shredder operators to use and ...
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