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Melting record for Chinese stainless producers
Asia: Last year, China melted more than 20 million tonnes of stainless steel, with its crude production accounting for 50.5% of the global output of 40.6 million tonnes, concludes Austria-based Steel Market Intelligence (SMI) Over the last ...
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Deal will make NZ steel sector `more sustainable`
New Zealand: Australia`s BlueScope Steel has agreed to acquire assets of downstream long products business Fletcher Building`s Pacific Steel (PSG) for a sum of NZ$ 60 million (US$ 51 million) plus working capital. The deal, completion of which ...
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BIR Stainless Steel World Mirror February 2014
Global: The following article is based on the latest Stainless Steel & Special Alloys World Mirror produced by the BIR world recycling organisation for the benefit of its members. Global demand for stainless steel climbed more than 4.5% ...
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UAE claims car recycling scoop
United Arab Emirates: Valuable metals contained in the vast numbers of dumped vehicles across the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will finally be recovered with the opening of its `first` car recycling plant, says recycler Bee`ah. The facility ...
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SMS absorbs two car yards
United States: Scrap Metal Services (SMS) has purchased two car scrap yards - Paul`s Auto Yard Inc. and Shafer`s Auto Yard Inc. - in Indiana and Michigan for an undisclosed sum. The dual acquisition has given rise to a new division known as SMS ...
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Kuwaiti firm wins $97m US Army waste contract
A consortium including Kuwaiti logistics firm Agility and affiliate Metals and Recycling Company (MRC) has been awarded a scrap management contract by the Defense Logistics Agency of the US army’s department of industrial waste in Kuwait, Iraq and ...
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Malaysian company to build tyre recycling plants in US at cost of $50m
Malaysian company Octagon Consolidated has signed heads of agreement with KK Incinerator Engineering & Construction Co Ltd (KKIEC) of South Korea and Canadian Carbon Converters LP (CCC) covering the setting-up of a joint venture company with the aim ...
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New Australian technology for refining scrap metal waste
New technology pioneered in Australia for refining scrap metal waste is to be put to the test in northern Tasmania. The Tasmanian government has granted approval for Sydney-based Intec Ltd to build a plant at its Hellyer mill in Burnie to refine ...
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Europe now recycles two-thirds of its steel packaging, says APEAL
Over 2.5 million tonnes of food/drinks cans and other steel containers were recycled in Europe during 2006. This equates to a recycling rate of 66% - an increase of five percentage points compared to 2005, according to latest figures from the ...
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Leading electronics firms launch recycling venture in US
Three leading electronics brands have established a new product recycling company to manage collection and recycling programmes in the USA. Initially, Electronic Manufacturers Recycling Management Company, LLC (MRM) will focus on providing ...
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Car industry faces urgent recycling challenge
More vehicles will be produced in the next 25 years than in the entire history of the motor industry - posing a major worldwide recycling challenge, according to a study from the UK-based DRIVENet network for the design for dismantling, reuse and ...
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Recycling could reduce the EU`s CO2 emissions by 144m tonnes a year - study
New research shows that establishing EU-wide legally binding recycling targets for municipal solid waste could save up to 144 million tonnes of CO2 per year. A study conducted by German consultancy Ökopol calculates, for the first time, the CO2 ...
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Estonians invest in Bulgarian recycling factory
Envatech Baltic Service OU, a recycling company located in the Estonian city of Tallinn, is planning to build a recycling factory in Pleven, Bulgaria. The investment is valued at Euro 30 million (US$ 43 million). Expected to come on stream in 15 ...
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IBM’s greener way to reuse silicon
US computer and electronics manufacturer IBM claims to have developed a greener method for recycling silicon wasted during the manufacture of computer chips. In making microprocessors and other computer chips, circuitry is imprinted on discs of ...
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Further UK expansion for Sims Group
Sims Group UK, part of the massive Australia-based scrap group, has acquired West Midlands ferrous metal recycler ER Coley (Steel). The purchase is part of Sims’ strategy to expand its metals business into new regions. Managing Director Tom Bird ...
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Japan probes possible price fixing on molten scrap metal
Japan’s Fair Trade Commission is investigating possible price fixing of molten scrap metal by four companies, namely Nippon Mining & Metal subsidiaries Nikko Shoji and Nikko Environmental Services, Mitsubishi Material subsidiary Material Eco ...
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Siemens to build EAF in Latvia
A consortium led by the Siemens Metals Technologies division of Austria has been awarded a contract by Latvian steel producer AS Liepajas Metalurgs to build a turn-key integrated electric steel plant. Clinched for an undisclosed sum, the contract ...
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Stena Metall Group`s wider European Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) role
The European Recycling Platform (ERP) - a pan-European Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) compliance scheme - has selected Swedish recycler Stena Metall Group to act as its new general contractor for Austria, Germany and Poland. ...
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Israeli dump to become recycling park
An Israeli landfill, which served as a dumping ground for the Tel Aviv region for 46 years, is to be transformed into a model of environmental rectitude -complete with recycling plants and a recycling theme park. The US$ 250 million (Euro 170 ...
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Bartin acquired by Veolia
Veolia Environmental Services has acquired the Bartin Recycling Group, France’s third-largest ferrous and non-ferrous metals recovery and recycling company. Bartin generated revenues of Euro 249 million (US$ 364 million) last year and recycles ...