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Armco in scrap supply deal with Midland Resources
Asia: Chinese recycler and iron ore distributor Armco Metals has entered into a steel scrap supply agreement with Midland Resources Co. The deal will see Armco Metals become a sourcing agent for the Hong Kong-based business to import ferrous scrap into China. Under the agreement, Midland Resources will use its import licences and financing capabilities to import steel scrap for direct processing ...
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BIR Ferrous World Mirror May 2014
Global: The following article is based on the latest Ferrous World Mirror produced by the BIR world recycling organisation for the benefit of its members. The steel scrap recycling industry 'seems to be in the process of restructuring' - which is 'good news', according to Christian Rubach, president of the BIR Ferrous Division. He bases his assertion on merger and acquisition activity that has ...
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BIR Ferrous World Mirror May 2014
Global: The following article is based on the latest Ferrous World Mirror produced by the BIR world recycling organisation for the benefit of its members. The steel scrap recycling industry 'seems to be in the process of restructuring' - which is 'good news', according to Christian Rubach, president of the BIR Ferrous Division. He bases his assertion on merger and acquisition activity that has ...
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Reduced buying activity helps dampen prices
Global: Steel scrap prices lost a little ground towards the end of April, not least because of the decision by mills in Turkey to step back from the international market. The early-month flurry of deep-sea ferrous scrap purchases by Turkish mills dwindled to a trickle in the second half of April, prompting prices to drift. Meanwhile, the World Steel Association (WSA) is predicting that the pace ...
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Top speakers announced for BIR World Convention
United States: Analysts from two internationally-renowned consultancies will provide an insight into steel and scrap market trends and prospects at the BIR Ferrous Division meeting in Miami on June 4, the world recycling organisation has confirmed. The meeting will form part of BIR's latest World Convention, taking place in the US city on June 2-4. Renate Cakule, senior steel market analyst at ...
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GM Wentzville Adopts Green Construction
SOURCE: General Motors DESCRIPTION:From operating 100 landfill-free facilities, to donating 250 vehicle shipping crates to be reused as raised garden beds, GM is committed to waste reduction. In fact, the GM Green Construction program has facilitated the recycling of more than 150,000 tons of waste since it began in 2011. The most recent GM Green Construction site, GM’s Wentzville Assembly Plant, ...
By 3BL Media
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Searching For A Tyre Pyrolysis Plant For Sale?
Are you currently purchasing a high-quality tyre pyrolysis plant available for purchase? If so, you possess come on the right place. Were you aware that you can find over 300-million worn-out tires discarded annually in the states alone? Yes. Waste tires are certainly not biodegradable and result in landfills for a lot of decades ahead. Waste tires take precious landfill space and negatively ...
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Innov-X and Steinert cooperate in meatball extraction technology
WOBURN, MA – April 28th, 2010 –Innov-X Systems and Steinert have entered into an OEM agreement to market a new high speed, x-ray fluorescence-based (XRF) sorting system that will effectively identify and remove copper containing material, such as “meatballs”, from ferrous scrap. This new technology will be a welcome solution for metal recyclers worldwide who have long been challenged by copper ...
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11th international automobile recycling congress IARC 2011
After the big success of the 10th International Automobile Recycling Congress in Basel, the Swiss organizer ICM AG will move its 11th International Automobile Recycling Congress IARC 2011 to the beautiful city Budapest in Hungary. The IARC 2011 will take place from March 23 – 25, 2011 in the Hotel Intercontinental. Delegates from industry, authorities and academia will discuss and present ...
By ICM AG
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US program removes one million mercury switches from scrap cars
A US program that has cut more than one ton of mercury has reached a major milestone: 1 million switches have been removed from scrapped vehicles. The millionth mercury switch was removed through the National Vehicle Mercury Switch Recovery Program, a collaboration among the US Environemtnal Protection Agency, automobile manufacturers, steel makers, scrap recyclers, automotive recyclers, states ...
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Recycling Industry Launches Partnership to Teach the Science of Scrap
One person's trash may or may not be another person's treasure, but these days it very likely can be the launch pad to a great career. That's the reason behind a new partnership between the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. and JASON Learning – to inspire America's students to think about careers in the scrap and recycling business, and give them the scientific and technical ...
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New Report on `Green` Recycling Industry Exposes Unregulated Toxic Air Pollution Threat - California Agency to be First in the Nation to Regulate Toxic Air Pollution from Industry
EL CERRITO, Calif. - A new report by a leading California Environmental Justice group, Global Community Monitor (GCM), has uncovered a potentially massive problem from the nation's billion dollar metal recycling industry. The report finds that metal recycling, generally considered a green industry, both releases toxic air contaminants during processing operations and is currently unregulated. In ...
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Metso receives scrap metal shredding technology order from Russian Vyksa Steel Works
Metso Corporation's press release on August 16, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. local time The used technology can save more than 70 percent of the energy needed for the steelmaking process and reduces pollutants to the environment substantially Metso will deliver a metal shredder plant to the Russian Vyksa Steel Works, part of United Metallurgical Company (OMK). The order is the largest ever for ...
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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 Paul's Auto Yard. Through this move, SMS will offer customers auto parts from the selection of used cars and trucks at each location. The two yards also ...
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Eriez offer solution to meatball problems with new scrap drum
Eriez Magnetics Europe Ltd has recently launched their Super Strength P- Rex Permanent Magnetic Scrap Drum. For many years electric motors or meatballs in shredder streams have caused problems for both scrap processors and steel mills. With the launch of this new Separation System Eriez can minimise meatball hassles and maximise revenue opportunities while reducing the need for hand sorting. The ...
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OmniSource to acquire Recycle South for US$505m
OmniSource, the scrap metal processing arm of Steel Dynamics, Inc. (Fort Wayne, IN), and metals recycler Recycle South LLC (Spartanburg, SC) have entered into a definitive agreement whereby OmniSource will acquire Recycle South in a transaction valued at about $505 million. Under the terms of the transaction, OmniSource, which already owns about 25% of Recycle South, will pay $232 million in cash ...
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Eriez introduces the New Shred1 Ballistic Metal Sorter to Scrap Processors
Eriez Magnetics Europe Ltd introduces their new Shred1™ Separator which uses ballistics to efficiently separate iron-rich ferrous from much of the mixed metals and waste material in the post Magnetic Drum flow in scrap processing lines. This powerful and innovative separator delivers three distinct fractions with the first being a high value, low-copper content ferrous product. This ...
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Call for papers: 10th International Electronics Recycling Congress IERC 2011
The 10th International Electronics Recycling Congress IERC 2011 will take place from January 19 – 21, 2011 in Salzburg, Austria. Over 450 experts from industry, authorities and academia will discuss and present the newest information and challenges of the WEEE recycling business. The preliminary program includes sessions on: Contributions for sustainability How to stop climate change ...
By ICM AG
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Locus Awarded Contract to Manage Jack Engle & Co. Environmental Data
Locus Technologies (Locus), the industry leader in Cloud-computing enterprise software for environmental, energy, air, water, and compliance management, has been selected to manage the compliance and environmental activities of Jack Engle & Co., with its award-winning Environmental Information Management (EIM) and ePortal software. Jack Engle & Co., one of the largest scrap metal ...
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Project - USA 1 - Tradebe SDS-I
Project Description: Commissioned in 2004 in East Chicago Indiana, the ATDU Solids Distillation System (SDS) has been in operation for more than 15 years processing RCRA listed waste streams and converting them into saleable products. The ATDU facility offers waste generators an effective and cost-efficient method for recycling organic solid waste that might otherwise be disposed of. Prior to ...
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