| Celebrating the companies 50th birthday, the new partnership will be announced at Ecomondo.

| BHS Europe, Nihot Recycling Technology and NRT will showcase the companies’ integrated recycling solutions at Ecomondo in Rimini. Unlike previous years, the booth will also showcase new equipment.

| According to Eurofer Director General Axel Eggert, growth in 2015 is not foreseen to be much higher, but more balanced over the year and more harmonised across the steel using sectors.

| World crude steel production for the 65 countries reporting to the World Steel Association was 134 million tonnes (Mt) in September 2014, a slight decrease of -0.1% compared to September 2013.

| The Jeanne D’arc will be dismantled in the Port of Bordeaux during a 32-month project. The company wants to recycle 90 percent of the ship’s material.

| According to a study by YouGov, that was commissioned by Veolia UK, only 57% of 18-24 year olds in Britain think it is very important to recycle as much household waste as possible, compared to 74% of over 55s.

| The partnership between Umicore and WorldLoop has won the first Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs Trophy. The jury praised the partnership for its joint efforts in providing local African entrepreneurs with the educational tools and knowledge to set up environmentally sound solutions for e-waste collection and dismantling in Africa.

| The German recycling company Saperatec and the Czech equipment manufacturer Sklopan Liberec present a new recycling technology to regain PVB from shredded flat glass with the purpose of reusing it as a secondary raw material for new front shield or other laminated safety glass.

| At the meeting of waste shipments correspondents on 7 October, the European Commission presented the long-awaited feasibility study for the establishment of an EU Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) for waste shipments. The main objective of the project was to assess the definition of a common data standard that will allow direct electronic exchange of data between member states.

| Copex has just delivered the most powerful of its Reflex scrap shear balers in 900 tons cutting force to Metallo-Chimique based in Beerse, Belgium.

| The french recycler gets a 16 million dollar loan from Glencore.

| The company had stronger results in Australasia and Europe and lower earnings in North America and UK. For 2015, CEO Claro expects an annual EBIT of $32 million.

| The latest EU customs statistics show that third country imports remained on a rising trend in July and August: finished steel imports rose 32 percent year-on-year, compared with a 6 percent rise in Q1 and 33 percent rise in Q2.

| The European Federation of Waste Management and Environmental Services (FEAD) has launched its Strategy for 2014 to 2020, “Driving the Circular Economy”.

| The World Steel Association has released its Short Range Outlook (SRO) for 2014 and 2015. Worldsteel forecasts that global apparent steel use will increase by 2.0% to 1,562 Mt in 2014 following growth of 3.8% in 2013. In 2015, it is forecast that world steel demand will grow by another 2.0% and will reach 1,594 Mt.