Market

At the IARC 2018, Christophe Pillot will provide his view on the e-mobility market, especially on the future of batteries. Before the conference we asked Christophe Pillot how he evaluates the current development in the market for electric vehicles.

In an industry based on connections, being able to network and access key information wherever you are, is essential to a successful business. The new mobile app launched by the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), ISRI Connect, is built around this concept and the importance of networking, news and information, and industry resources.

Full year 2017 sales came to €450.3 million, up 18% compared to 2016. Sales during the fourth quarter of 2017 came to €112.7 million, a decrease of 4% on the fourth quarter of 2016.

News that China would ban certain scrap imports shook the recycling industry last summer, yet U.S. global scrap exports increased overall in 2017 according to a new analysis from the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI).

Once per year Europe’s entire PET value chain meets in Brussels for the annual Petcore Europe Conference. Due to its success in recent editions this year’s conference was held for the first time over two days and welcomed more than 200 industry experts.

Montello S.p.A., based near Bergamo, Italy, uses the latest sensor-based technology of 40 Tomra machines to give a new lease of life to tonnes of post-consumer plastic arriving from Lombardy.

According to Research and Markets, there are currently 86 facilities in the United States for combustion of municipal solid waste (MSW), with energy recovery. These facilities are located in 25 states, mainly in the Northeast

Since 2015, the installed capacity for recycling flexible PE has grown approximately from 1.5 million tonnes per year to 2.3 million tonnes per year.

The Monterey Regional Waste Management District (MRWMD) has started up its new Materials Recovery Facility (MRF). Supplied by Bulk Handling Systems (BHS), the technologically-advanced recovery system processes up to 80-tons-per-hour (tph) on two lines.

Industrial weighing scales manufacturer, Marsden, has launched a new range of heavy duty platform scales, suited to weighing heavily-laden pallets, roll cages and dolavs.

Petcore Europe has created the new Plastic Aerosol Recycling Special Industry Group (SiG) in order to anticipate the need to recycle higher amounts of plastic aerosols.