IFAT 2024

Highlights at IFAT 2024

Issue 02/2024

Kobelco Construction Machinery Europe B.V.

Highly efficient technologies for recovering raw materials from scrap and waste metal, vehicle recycling and selective demolition of buildings will be the focus of Japanese tracked excavator...

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Issue 06/2022 Largest investment in the history of KOMPOTEC

KOMPOTEC composting plant in Nieheim will be upgraded to an energy plant

The composting plant located in Nieheim/ Germany, will be expanded. With an extensive set of measures and the largest investment in the history of KOMPOTEC, the plant is going to make a significant...

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Issue 01/2025 Prevention of fires caused by LI batteries

KORN Recycling implements WeSort.AI‘s AI system

KORN Recycling, one of the leading mid-sized recycling companys, has recently implemented an advanced technology from WeSort.AI to further enhance safety and sustainability in the sorting of...

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Issue 01/2024 Fully automated sorting station

Kuljetusrinki transforms waste handling with Heavy Picker Robots

Kuljetusrinki, a waste management and environmental services company based in Helsinki/Finland, has introduced a ZenRobotics® fully automated and independent waste sorting station into its new waste...

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Kunststoff Recycling Grünstadt starts up expanded processing plant

Kunststoff Recycling Grünstadt (KRG) completed the final expansion stage and commissioning of its sorting and processing plant in mid-February. The Rhineland-Palatinate-based company, which is...

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Issue 02/2023

Kuusakoski announces first composite treatment plant in Finland

The Finnish recycling company Kuusakoski announced plans to build a new composite shredding and treatment plant at its Hyvinkää site in Southern Finland. The new composite treatment plant will shred...

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Kuusakoski invests in first carbon free steel recycling plant

Kuusakoski, a forerunner of the green transition, is going to build a market first steel recycling plant that will operate 100 % carbon free and utilise the latest technology. The investment responds...

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Kuusakoski invests € 25 million to meet increasing demand in pure recycled metal products

Recycling pioneer Kuusakoski invests € 25 million in a major new production line that is being built at the company’s recycling plant in Heinola/Finland, to meet higher demand. Demand for recycled raw...

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Kuusakoski´s new copper centre to recycle all cables in Finland

A € 7 million processing plant for aluminium and copper containing materials will be completed next year in Heinola/Finland. This is part of the multi-year investment program which aims to increase...

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Issue 02/2024 Peak value

Laboratory high-intensity magnetic separator for battery recycling research

A European mining and technology university has purchased a laboratory-scale Bench Induced Roll Magnetic Separator (BIRS) for use in research projects including the recycling of lithium-ion batteries....

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