| North American plastic recyling company Cedar Poly LLC recently commissioned a plastic washing system from Lindner washTech which enabled them to significantly boost both capacity and product quality.

| According to World Steel association, world crude steel production reached 1,662 million tonnes (Mt) for the year 2014, up by 1.2% compared to 2013.

| Terex Minerals Processing Systems has expanded their CR Series portable plant line with the addition of the Terex Cedarapids CRS620S screen plant.

| To date, customers of Erema North America (ENA) have had a trial centre already covering some 1,000 m² of floor space and three recycling systems for trials at their disposal at the company's North America base in Ipswich, Massachusetts.

| Mr Vermeulen is Vice President Paper for Recycling of the Smurfit Kappa Group and represents CEPI in the EPRC. His ERPC chairmanship began on 1 January 2015 and he will remain in this position until the end of 2016.

| The company will expand her cooperation for the delivery of high quality Subcoal pellets with Dyckerhoff in Germany.

| The facilities will be capable of incinerating approximately 680 tons of waste per day and approximately 220,000 tons per year.

| The HNPK location in the Queis area of Landsberg (Sachsen-Anhalt) will be retained, and will continue operations as a subsidiary. The employment relationships with the around 50 members of staff will also be maintained unchanged by HZID.

| The federation regrets the uncertainty around the future of the EU’s circular economy proposals.

| Eurofer foresees for 2015 continued but slow growth, although the outlook remains vulnerable to downside risks such as an escalation of the conflict in the Ukraine, slow growth in the emerging world and persisting weakness in France and Italy.

| PRE regrets the delay announced today for the EU’s Circular Economy Package. The European Commission unveiled its 2015 Work Programme today, during the European Parliament’s plenary session in Strasbourg, which withdraws the circular economy proposal.

| “Try Italy,” suggests our well-travelled Transport and Plant Correspondent, Malcolm Bates. A regular visitor to trade shows all over the world, he always tries to make it to Rimini every November for ‘Ecomondo’. Here is his report on the 2014 event.

| The BIR has welcomed OECD proposals of multilateral action to counter the harmful impact of export restrictions on steelmaking. The advice was given at an OECD workshop in Cape Town on December 11 which highlighted the detrimental effects of such export restrictions and the efficiency gains to be made from their simultaneous removal both upstream and downstream of steelmakers.

| The 15th International Automobile Recycling Congress IARC 2015 organised by ICM AG will be held from March 25 – 27, 2015 in the Hotel Palace in Berlin, Germany.

| Steel supplied on the EU market by European steel producers complies with the European regulations and standards. This is not guaranteed in the case of Chinese steel imported in the EU, notably imports of wire rod, rebar and bar, as well as hot-rolled coil and heavy plate. "Steel made in Europe means reliability in trade, stability of properties during processing and safety in the use of the material", Eurofer Director Axel Eggert says.