K 2022

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Issue 06/2021 Demand for raw materials is increasing

Magnetic separator for lithium battery powder

Lithium is extracted from salt lakes such as the Salar de Atacama in Chile, where there are huge reserves of brine containing lithium. Some large producers process this lithium into a powder that...

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Issue 06/2021 It pays to have less volume

How the Schwarzach Offset Printing Plant saves 70 000 truck kilometres per year with a new HSM baling press

The packaging specialist from Rheintal in the Vorarlberg region of Austria has been recycling its paper waste as high quality used paper for decades. Thanks to a new baling press from HSM, the...

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Issue 06/2021

Eriez® appoints Managing Director for Eriez-Germany

Eriez® President and CEO Lukas Guenthardt announced the company has selected Eric Adams to serve as Managing Director for the company’s newly established Eriez Deutschland GmbH, based in...

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New sales managers at Vecoplan AG

Vecoplan has had two new sales managers since the beginning of October 2021: Tim Hamer is now responsible for Sales in the Recycling | Waste division, Kersten Beib in the Wood | Biomass division....

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The future of textiles & footwear recycling

With the production of textiles for clothing, linen and footwear expected to increases by 2.7 % each year up until 2030 (“The State of Fashion 2021”, Business of Fashion & McKinsey et Company’s), the...

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Fraunhofer LBF to become organizer of the Forum Plastic Recyclates 2022

The Forum Plastic Recyclates will now be operating, with immediate effect, under new management: All rights associated with the event have been transferred from Hanser Publications to the Fraunhofer...

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CopperDigital – Data platform to increase efficiency, productivity and sustainability on copper alloy materials

The Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS wants to provide a platform with data on copper alloy materials along the entire life cycle together with partners. The data,...

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Metso Outotec launches Index online tool for metal recycling machines

The new Index operating and production data collection system from Metso Outotec’s Metal Recycling business transfers relevant data from the recycling machine directly to the customer’s equipment....

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New Bunting-Redditch Customer Experience Centre

Bunting’s newly extended manufacturing facility in Redditch, UK houses a world-leading testing and laboratory centre. The new Customer Experience Centre focuses on material separation with a wide...

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Issue 05/2021 Technological breakthrough in Brazil

Construction of the largest mechanical sorting plant in Brazil

With an eye to the future, STADLER recently signed an agreement with Orizon Valorização de Resíduos to build the largest mechanical sorting plant in Brazil. The agreement is of particular importance...

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