IFAT 2024

Highlights at IFAT 2024

Issue 02/2018

Official Opening of New Electrical and Electronic Waste Recycling Plant in Hong Kong

In the presence of Chief Executive Ms. Carrie Lam, the Head of Government of the special administrative region of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Minister for the Environment Wong Kam-sing, as well as the...

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OMV and Borealis sign long-term supply agreements with TOMRA for recycling feedstock produced from mixed waste

OMV and Borealis have entered into long-term feedstock supply agreements for their recycling facilities with TOMRA Feedstock, a subsidiary of leading sorting technology producer TOMRA. These...

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Issue 05/2022 Berlin Recycling and Secondary Raw Materials Conference 2022

Once again high preference: plastic and electronic scrap recycling

This year it was not only the pandemic that had an impact on the conference taking place on March 07 and 08, 2022, but it was also overshadowed by the Ukraine war. Thus, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Goldmann, TU...

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Issue 03/2021 Support from afar

Online commissioning provides fast help despite the pandemic

Before the pandemic really broke out, hardly any company expected the impact of Covid-19 to be as serious as it turned out to be – and a manufacturer of refuse-derived fuels (RDF) from Slovakia and a...

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Issue 05/2020

Online format of World Recycling Convention in October

Despite all efforts and best intentions to offer a “physical” World Recycling Convention this October in Brussels, the organizating team of BIR  World Recycling Convention in October must now confirm...

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Issue 04/2018 Upgrade to zero waste

Opening of the biggest plastics sorting plant in Austria

Shortly before Christmas 2017, Saubermacher Dienstleistungs AG placed an order with REDWAVE for the planning and construction of the expansion and renewal of the plastic packaging sorting plant in...

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Issue 04/2022

Operations start at the Hannover Recyclables Center (HWG)

Less than two years have passed since the groundbreaking ceremony in December 2020. Now, the Hagedorn Group of Companies opened the Hanover Recyclables Center (HWG) at the end of April. In the three...

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Issue 06/2024 Deep learning technology

Optimising the purification process of rPET production

Nord Pal Plast (NPP), a France-based subsidiary of the European group Dentis that specializes in producing recycled PET flakes derived from post-consumer plastic bottles, was the first to test TOMRA’s...

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Issue 04/2022 BHS fine treatment process recovers valuable metals from residual materials

Optimized output quality in an innovative standard process

There is currently no way around the issue of resource saving, but how can valuable materials be recycled in the best possible way? Metals in particular are considered important and scarce raw...

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Issue 02/2018 How to master extreme conditions

Optimizing cooling and air flow with Cleanfix Reversible Fans

Extreme conditions like these in the recycling industry create big challenges for radiators and cooling systems. The particulate materials clog cooler screens and cooling-fins. The cooling fan act...

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