IFAT 2024

Highlights at IFAT 2024

Issue 02/2020 Artificial Intelligence in sorting technology

GAIN retrofit for AUTOSORT systems

Increasing scarcity of resources and even larger flows of waste are leading to a more and more important role for the subject of recycling. The focus is on the quality of the recycled materials. Above...

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GAINnext crowned Recycling Machinery Innovation of the Year at the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe

TOMRA announced that TOMRA Recycling’s GAINnext™ – the AI-powered sorting system with deep learning technology – has been awarded ‘Recycling Machinery Innovation of the Year’ in the 2025 Plastic...

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GEM donates protection masks through URT

The long-standing business relationship between URT Umwelt- und Recyclingtechnik GmbH and GEM High-tech Co., Limited from China developed into a friendship some years ago. The two managing directors...

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Generational change at Stahlwerke Bochum GmbH

Stahlwerke Bochum GmbH, specialized in the casting of highly wear resistant tools and components for steal and metal fragmentizing as well as for the processing of minerals, rocks and construction...

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Gentle method allows for eco-friendly recycling of solar cells

By using a new method, precious metals can be efficiently recovered from thin-film solar cells. This is shown by new research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. The method is also more...

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FOR A ZERO WASTE FUTURE

Geocycle Mexico Declares War on Landfills with Lindner’s Polaris 2200

Mexico’s mountains of waste may soon be history. To achieve this ambitious goal in a country that produces around 100 000 t of waste a day, the affiliate of the cement giant Lafarge Holcim is relying...

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Issue 02/2019 Top achievements

German Sustainability Award 2019

The German Sustainability Award was presented in front of 1200 guests in Düsseldorf on 7 December 2018.

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Issue 01/2024 Pioneers of transformation

Germany‘s most sustainable companies honored

As part of the 16th German Sustainability Award, the „Pioneers of Transformation“ in 100 sectors were honored for the first time in cooperation with the Federal Ministry for the Environment, the DIHK...

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Germany’s households are guilty of producing THIS much e-waste

Christmas is right around the corner and Germans across the country have already begun shopping for their loved ones. One of the most popular Christmas ‘gifts’ will be electronic products, but as...

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Issue 04/2018 Practice-tested

GKD filter media for microplastics or phosphorus recovery

“We are moving in the right direction,” comments Peter Wirtz, Head of Industrial Mesh at GKD – Gebr. Kufferath AG (GKD), referring to the solutions presented at the IFAT fair in Munich by the family...

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