hazardous metals News
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No challenge is too big
No challenge is too big for our two-shaft shredders, regardless of whether hazardous waste, WEEE, metal chips, electronic scrap or bulky waste, the two powerful cutting shafts leave even difficult-to-shred and large-volume materials no chance. No challenge is too big for our two-shaft shredders, regardless of whether hazardous waste WEEE metal chips electronic scrap or bulky waste ...
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EPA invites public to discuss ongoing investigation and cleanup at Hegler Zinc Smelter Site (IL)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 will hold open house-style availability sessions Thursday, Oct. 28, to discuss with residents the ongoing investigation and cleanup plan for the former Hegeler Zinc smelter Superfund site in Hegeler, Ill. There will be two sessions: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. at Westville High School, 918 N. State St., Hegeler. EPA as well as state and local ...
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Glanris and Green Tech
Whether it is the shiny finish on your tools, silverware, car, furniture or computer, the finish on an orthopedic replacement joint, or the electrical components inside of solar panels, cell phones and all electrical goods — you can thank the metal finishing industry for providing it to you. Often known as plating, electropolishing or electrodeposition, this process is involved in ...
By Glanris
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Government officers from Henan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology visited JIAOZUO DOING
On March 1, 2023, a group of officers from Henan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology and Jiaozuo Municipal Government visited our production factory, Jiaozuo City Doing Mechanical Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd (referred to JIAOZUO DOING). They carried out research activities on economic operation, safe production, and the development of us from an “Innovative ...
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Furuya Metal Opens Pyrometallurgical Facility Supplied by Tetronics
Tetronics International, the global leader in the supply of Direct Current (DC) plasma waste recovery plants for the treatment of hazardous waste and metal recovery, is pleased to announce that Furuya Metal Co. Ltd., Japan has officially opened its new plasma facility supplied by Tetronics for the reclamation of Platinum Group Metals (PGMs) from spent catalysts. Furuya has introduced the plasma ...
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Tetronics Shortlisted for National Recycling Award
Tetronics Ltd., a global leader in the supply of Direct Current (DC) plasma waste recovery plants for the treatment of hazardous waste and metal recovery, is delighted to announce that it has been shortlisted for the National Recycling Awards 2012. These awards recognise excellence in all parts of the waste hierarchy and in all sections of the industry, with awards ranging from 'waste ...
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EPA honors 2012 presidential green chemistry challenge award winners
“EPA congratulates the 2012 winners for designing, developing, and implementing these innovative green chemistry technologies that will help create more sustainable industries and greener, safer products to protect people’s health and the environment,” said Jim Jones, EPA’s acting assistant administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention. ...
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EPA orders proper disposal of intercepted electronic waste shipment destined for Vietnam
Metro Metals Corp. and Avista Recycling, Inc. have been ordered to properly dispose of computer waste they attempted to illegally export from Minnesota to Vietnam through the Port of Seattle, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA is simultaneously seeking a $31,600 penalty against the companies for violating federal hazardous waste laws. Metro Metals Corp., a Toronto, ...
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Furuya Metal selects Tetronics Plasma Technology to recover platinum group metals from waste catalysts
The technology will be used to reclaim high levels of Platinum Group Metals from chemical, automotive and other industrial waste catalysts. Tetronics Ltd., the global leader in the supply of Direct Current (DC) plasma waste recovery plants for the treatment of hazardous waste and metal recovery, today announced that it has been selected by Furuya Metal Co. Ltd., Japan to supply a new plasma ...
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Following Fatal Blast, Metal Recycler Required to Invest in Modern Technology and Company-Wide Protections to Prevent Future Accidental Chemical Releases
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that AL Solutions, a West Virginia-based metal recycler, has agreed to implement extensive, company-wide safeguards to prevent future accidental releases of hazardous chemicals from its facilities, resolving alleged Clean Air Act violations (CAA) stemming from an explosion at the company’s New Cumberland, W. Va. facility that killed ...
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Harsco Metals Forms Strategic Alliance with Tetronics
Tetronics Ltd., a global leader in the supply of Direct Current (DC) plasma waste recovery plants for the treatment of hazardous waste and metal recovery, today announced that it has signed a Strategic Alliance Agreement with Harsco Metals Group Ltd, an established and well respected globally operating services company. Through this alliance Harsco will seek to extend their technical offering ...
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Heartland Plating Co., of Bettendorf, Iowa, ordered to address Hazardous waste issues at metal electroplating facility (IA)
EPA Region 7 has ordered Heartland Plating Co., of Bettendorf, Iowa, and its owners to immediately address a series of issues related to the improper storage and management of hazardous wastes at the metal electroplating facility. Last month, EPA representatives inspected Heartland Plating’s operations at 3900 Elm Street in Bettendorf, and documented throughout the facility spilled and ...
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Tetronics Celebrates Win at National Recycling Awards - Tetronics wins the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Recycler of the Year 2012 category.
Tetronics Ltd., market leader in the supply of Direct Current (DC) plasma waste recovery plants for the treatment of hazardous waste and metal recovery, is delighted to announce that it has won the National Recycling Awards 2012 for the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Recycler of the Year. These awards recognise excellence in all parts of the waste hierarchy and in all sections of the ...
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EPA publishes notice identifying hardrock mining industry for financial responsibility requirements
The U.S. EPA has identified the hardrock mining industry as its priority for developing financial assurance requirements. Financial assurance requirements help ensure that owners and operators of these facilities, not taxpayers, foot the bill for environmental cleanup. These requirements will be developed under section 108(b) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability ...
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Tetronics partners with Costain under government innovation programme for nuclear waste
Tetronics International, the global leader in the supply of Direct Current (DC) plasma plants for hazardous waste treatment and metal recovery, is delighted to announce that together with its lead partner Costain it has been successful in winning a grant in a UK government funded competition to design and build a prototype plasma system for nuclear waste vitrification. The competition is led by ...
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Mitsubishi and Tetronics to tackle hazardous waste from aluminium industry
A new collaboration partnership will see Mitsubishi Corporation and Tetronics working together to treat the problematic Spent PotLiner (SPL) hazardous waste that is routinely generated during the manufacturing of aluminium. Tetronics Ltd., a leader in the supply of Direct Current (DC) plasma waste recovery plants for the treatment of hazardous waste and metal recovery, announced the signing of a ...
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Santa Clarita Faces Environmental Challenges with Whittaker-Bermite Property
In the California city of Santa Clarita there is a 996 acre piece of land that developers would like give a new lease on life to with new construction. The problem is the property has been found to be contaminated with various toxic substances. For decades the land was the site of various manufacturing plants that included everything from the manufacturing of dynamite and fireworks to ...
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Tetronics Webinar: From Hazard to Resource-An insight into the rapid growth of APCr from EfW
The growth in EfW plant capacity is leading to a corresponding increase in the generation of Air Pollution Control residues (APCr), making it one of the fastest growing hazardous waste streams in the EU. Fact: For every 100,000 tpa of MSW that is converted to energy using thermal treatment processes, approx. 4,000 tpa of hazardous APCr is produced. APCr is a hazardous waste, generated in the ...
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More reasons not to store dust in your dust collector hopper
One of the most common baghouse operation practices that we find when we send a dust collector technical advisor out to various facilities is that many plant unwisely use the hopper on their dust collector for storage of the collected dust. Sometimes this is done unwittingly, as maintenance staff simply overlook emptying the hopper on a regular basis. Other times, this is more or less included ...
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U.S. EPA conducts surprise inspections targeting SoCal, NoCal, metal finishers / agency fines facilities across LA, San Fernando Valley, for hazardous waste violations (CA)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is pursuing enforcement against California metal finishing companies for violations of federal hazardous waste laws. The violations were discovered during inspections conducted in Los Angeles, Rosemead, Sun Valley, Compton, Van Nuys, South El Monte and Santa Clara during the current fiscal year. As a result of these enforcement actions, all nine companies ...
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