IFAT 2024

Highlights at IFAT 2024

Issue 03/2021 Resource recovery

Battery recycling with URT plant concept

„Our goal is to create our own cycle with more than 90 % recycling of our batteries,“ says Thomas Tiedje, Head of Technical Planning at Volkswagen Component. „We don‘t want to hand over the process at...

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Issue 01/2019 Source of raw materials

Battery recycling: Challenges and chances

“We have entered an area of ‚Disruption‘ where progress in technology is taking place at record speeds and driving new societal attitudes. Portable and industrial batteries are playing a key role in...

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Issue 01/2018 Increasing throughput

Bee‘ah starts up BHS Mixed Waste MRF

Sharjah/UAE-based environmental management company Bee’ah is processing municipal solid waste (MSW) with the company’s recently renovated material recovery facility (MRF). The 75 t/h system is...

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Issue 02/2025 Remote monitoring: Principle and practice

Benefits and pitfalls of adopting advanced technologies

The potential for remote monitoring and machine learning to enhance performance in the recycling industry promises impressive time and cost savings. While technologies using remote sensors can help to...

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Benefits of overband magnet armoured belts

The highest wear part on an Overband Magnet is the belt that transfers the separated metal away from the conveyor and into a collection area. In order to reduce such wear, Bunting developed a special...

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Issue 02/2018

Bergmann: Roto Compactor to take off

Heinz Bergmann has been the inventor and pioneer of the Bergmann Roto Compactor.  Waste, compacted directly at the point of origin, helps save hard cash in many companies and in a lot of industries by...

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Issue 01/2021 Resources-efficient circular economy – still topical in 2020

Berlin Recycling and Secondary Raw Materials Conference 2020

Practical economic solutions for a resources-efficient circular economy, with the aim of conserving natural resources, continue to be an indispensable precondition for sustainability and climate...

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Issue 02/2022 Focus on plastics and battery recycling

Berlin Recycling and Secondary Raw Materials Conference 2021

While last year‘s Berlin Recycling and Secondary Raw Materials Conference could just be held as a real conference before the lockdown caused by the Corona pandemic, in 2021, like so many other events,...

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Better recycling of plastic packaging: new process extracts fragrances

What doesn't smell good is hard to recycle. This simple rule also applies to the growing volume of plastic waste worldwide. One way to recycle it in an environmentally compatible and climate-friendly...

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Issue 06/2021 Impurities in biological waste

Better recycling rates with innovative processing technology

Shredding, screening and separating create the necessary conditions for efficient recycling. Komptech develops processing plants designed around the composition of the respective feedstock, and the...

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