March 2011

In this issue:

Fever!  The other night, I dreamed that I was stuck on a desert island with three beautiful women. Unfortunately, I was a palm tree. This only goes to... more Mixed response to ship recycling initiative The ship demolition market has adopted breaking methods which are not highly capital intensive but which instead promote the role of the workforce.... more Thwarting the thieves: a battle still to be won   With copper at US$ 10 000 a tonne and with many other metals hovering in the upper reaches of their recent price ranges, scrap has become an ev... more Scott Horne: ‘A war on raw materials is a frightening idea’ As Vice President of Government Relations and General Counsel at the US Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), Scott Horne is deeply involved... more Global Recycling: primed for the next challenge Global Recycling’s Steve Gilbert is a true metals recycling enthusiast who is proud to declare that scrap ‘flows through my veins’. But enthus... more Copex’s CVB 1750t: ‘an iron hand in a velvet glove’ Recycling equipment manufacturer Copex has orchestrated a significant leap in production capacity at Hourquet & Fils by supplying the French ind... more Logan Oil: Ca$h for gas Logan Oil of San Diego on the US west coast has found its own niche in the recycling industry: collecting gasoline from end-of-life vehicles before ... more PGM recycling hitches ride with car sales recovery Economic recovery in some of the world’s key markets, including the USA, has been reflected in an improvement in car sales; and as a consequence, ... more Mirko Siakkou-Flodin adopts scrap as his medium ... more Granutech nowhere near sales saturation point Granutech has already built a considerable reputation around the world for systems dedicated to either tyre granulation, electronic scrap recycling ... more EU mulls action plan on illegal e-waste exports One of the leitmotifs of the International Electronics Recycling Congress (IERC) held recently in the Austrian city of Salzburg was illegal exports ... more Harsco: delivering efficiency through know-how The business proposition of Harsco Metals is a unique combination of metallurgical knowledge and an unparalleled global commercial footprint. In thi... more Positive chapter in good-news story Even a full-blown economic and financial crisis has failed to stop the forward momentum in Europe’s plastics packaging recycling. While global pla... more Stretching Europe’s aluminium resource Aluminium recyclers and remelters have seen business pick up to record levels since the steep fall brought about by the financial crunch of 2008. An... more Stability follows scrap price slideWorld events have impacted upon the international steel and scrap markets over the last four weeks, a period in which scrap prices rapidly lost ground... more Copper’s five-figure forayTraders are eying the strong increases in non-ferrous metals prices with suspicion and their margins are being squeezed because of the rising costs of... more Nickel on its way to US$ 30 000? Recent weeks have seen stainless scrap prices broadly mirror the rising trend in LME nickel. As February draws to a close, the 304 quality is fetching... more Fibre shortages prompt sales boostThe period immediately following the Chinese New Year holidays is not known traditionally for strong purchasing activity by the country’s recove... more