Recycled plastics sorting systems developer and manufacturer S+S Group has announced the launch of a new website www.pet-recycling.com for PET recyclers. The site covers all aspects of the PET sorting process at both bottle and flake ...
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On 24th July 2012, Directive 2012/19/EU on waste electrical and electronic equipment (the "recast WEEE Directive") was published in the Official Journal. The directive shall enter into force on 13rd August 2012.Member States must transpose ...
Sims Metal Management Limited the world's largest listed metal and electronic recycling company announced the sale, effective November 30th 2012, of its Arizona scrap metal recycling assets to SA Recycling LLC. SAR is a joint venture owned ...
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The BMW group has signed an agreement with Boeing to contribute in the joint research of carbon fiber recycling in the US. As part of the deal, both the companies are to share the knowledge on carbon fiber manufacturing process ...
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Amcor has announced that the company’s profit after tax (PAT) before significant items increased by 11.3% to $634.9m for the year ended 30 June 2012. Amcor managing director and CEO Ken MacKenzie said its full year result ...
By launching recently its"proEnergyTec",a technology for prefoaming profiles,the profine Group is setting new trends in cost effective manu-facture and the thermal insulation of the future. "The main advantage of this new technology is ...
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Glass container supplier Beatson Clark has announced that its new euro 5.4m white flint furnace is fully operational. With a daily capacity of about 200t of glass, the furnace gives the company in Rotherham, UK the same size melting area of ...
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Ball Packaging Europe will demonstrate innovative cans for modern drinks with a slogan ‘Everything – Everywhere – Forever’ at Brau Beviale in Nuremberg during 13-15 November 2012. The can's attractiveness is ...
Mariouche Gagne, the founder and head designer of Harricana, has created an Ecoluxe brand based on her convinction that luxury can be synonymous with eco-consciousness. By re-using and re-modeling noble and rich materials such as fur , ...
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Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has voted against a plastic bag recycling bill. The reason given by Quinn for vetoing it was that though it was well meaning, enacting the legislation would have been an impediment to innovation which would not ...
BMW and Boeing are known to pioneering the use of carbon fiber in their products. With the release of the BMW i3 in late 2013, followed later by the BMW i8, the BMW Group will bring two vehicles with a carbon passenger cell onto the market ...
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A colorful week of highs and lows characterized the international ship recycling markets with almost all major competing markets reaching parity, being only a few dollars apart. The deciding factor for vessels now will be their last port ...
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Danish packaging company Farch Plast has developed a new black crystalline polyethylene (CPET) material that can be detected by Near InfraRed (NIR) sensors. The move will enable recyclers to sort CPET in the mixed plastics waste stream. ...
Demand and a greater urgency to buy and stock yards before the year end was evident this week from Pakistan as cash buyers diverted tonnage destined for India and one or two new sales were reported to hungry recyclers. The gas free for ...
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EuCertPlast, a certification scheme for implementing post-consumer plastics recycling that would also promote eco-friendly products for consumers, has released a new standard that uses the current CEN standard 14343 as its base. The ...