October 2011

In this issue:

Nervy times for the ferrous tradeThe scrap market trend has been decisively downwards at the start of October as consuming mills prove generally reluctant to make purchases. Although ... more Copper ‘most at risk’ in current climateThere was no place to hide for non-ferrous metals as the economic woes of recent weeks led to substantial losses in values on the world’s exchanges.... more A corner turned in the market?Despite continuing tightness among the lower grades of recovered fibre, mills have been pushing their suppliers for price reductions. Conditions in No... more Savage price cuts for stainless scrap Substantial value has been sliced off 304 and 316 stainless steel scrap prices since our previous report: in the case of the former, the price range h... more Fuxing: carpet manufacturing business For a man whose initial intention had been to make an impact in the paper business, Wang Yulin is nonetheless achieving great things with his recyclin... more Dr Bernd Drouven: leaving Aurubis on a high In copper terms, Dr Bernd Drouven sits atop the world’s leading integrated group and its largest recycler: with revenues approaching Euro 10 billion... more Low rates leave shipping lines in capacity quandary Container carriers have added upwards of 20% of new capacity on the Asia-Europe trade this year alone - only to see the world dissolve into further ec... more Scholz AG - a multi-faceted recycling giant Scholz AG of Germany, along with its subsidiaries, is among Europe’s leading recyclers of steel and other metal scrap. The company enjoys an extraor... more Recycling and the Olympics - the inside track With well under a year to go before the biggest sporting event on earth, this introductory article looks at the broad ‘green’ aims of the 2012 Lon... more Platinum group metals | Decelerating car sales dent PGM prospects As well as assessing recent developments in the platinum, palladium and rhodium markets, this feature addresses the outlook for platinum group metal (... more High quality products made of elastomer powders Rubber residues as production waste are often only reusable for secondary products. Crushed into a powder or granulate, they are found in modern play... more Marta Martinez - recycler and ecologist Marta Martinez is an environmental engineer who is passionate about the fight to save the planet. One of her companies, Ecologist Services and Disposi... more Robotic recycling is here The manufacturing industry of the world has enjoyed the benefits of industrial automation and robotics for decades. This, in turn, has led to an unpre... more Turkish delight at expansion drive Aymas Makina is among the emerging players in the scrap metal processing technology market and is currently enjoying a steep growth curve. Coupling ye... more The Recycling & Waste Management show (with the CIWM) | Activity persists amid economic angst For the first time in 2011, EMAP’s long-established Recycling & Waste Management (RWM) show was merged with the Futuresource exhibition of the C... more International Congress for Battery Recycling 2011 | Recycling efficiency and the batteries of tomorrow While it is not known how successful the world’s car manufacturers will become in marketing electric vehicles, efforts to develop a recycling struct... more Mark Langan’s corrugated path to successIt would be hard to find someone more in love with the conventional cardboard box than Mark Langan. The creations of this US artist are based on corru... more A specific ‘type’ of artistJeremy Mayer makes full-scale human figures from typewriter parts. Interestingly, he doesn’t solder, weld or glue these assemblages; he reassembles ... more Healthy humour I’m currently a big fan of the medical profession thanks to my recent rapid recovery from surgery. But despite their undoubted skills, doctors have ... more