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Vol 004 Issue 6 Nov - Dec 2014 The region’s premier bimonthly waste and recycling magazine
Best practices in hazardous waste management
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Editor’s Comment
Another year is drawing to a close and I’m a bit nostalgic as I sit down to write this note, the last one for 2014. Looking back, I can say the region’s industry has fared well despite the ups and downs that seem to be a constant in every sphere of activity worldwide ever since the economic crisis hit a few years back. The Middle East, especially UAE has seen tremendous growth in business and all emirates have been moving ahead in all fields including waste management and recycling, bringing in legislations and the requisite infrastructure facilities to ensure programmes are on track to achieve their ‘zero waste’ targets. Other countries in the region are also looking at these issues in earnest. For instance, Oman has been taking appropriate measures to deal with different waste streams (including hazardous waste) in a scientific manner, and in this edition a senior officer from the relevant body in Oman discusses their strategy for industrial and healthcare waste management in the country. This year has also been interesting with some unique events held in the region. The most recent was the Renault Trucks mega launch event I had attended in Doha. The auto maker introduced a whole new range of vehicles that have been in the making for a decade. And I must say they did it in style! Turn to page 29 for a detailed launch review. On the global front, a recycling expert says free trade is key to the development of the industry and recycled materials should be allowed to flow freely beyond borders. Robert Voss also explores the changing dynamics of the recycling business and outlook for the sector. With good news on the region’s industry and cautious reminders by international organisations, this edition of Waste & Recycling Middle East again provides the latest updates and informative articles on a variety of topics in addition to the ones mentioned above. We thank all our readers and advertisers for your support in making this year a great one for Waste & Recycling Middle East. The holiday season may soon begin, but it is business as usual in our industry and the prospects seem bright once the festivities are over. Enjoy reading this edition and do send in your comments and suggestions at [email protected]. Here’s to another great year!
Swaliha Shanavas Editor
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NEWS• Dubai Municipality targets zero waste in the emirate 10
• CEO Dialogue promoting sustainable business 11
• Madinat Jumeirah scores international sustainability
certification first 12
• EcoWaste 2015 to showcase next generation organic
waste technology 13
• DM launches first E-waste collection service 14
• Emirates Golf Club receives sustainability award for ‘efficient
use of resources’ at IAGTO Awards 15
• Abengoa to develop largest biomass power plant in the world 16
• In-house Recycling:
International visitors at “Discovery Day 2014” 17
• Younger Americans not as “Green” as
older generations: Survey 18
COVER STORY• Best practices in hazardous waste management 20
TECHNOLOGY• Shredding industrial waste in Brittany, France 26
• Don’t just recycle – Create value! 27
FOCUS• “It is essential that recycled materials are allowed to flow freely
around the world in what is a truly international market” 28
LAUNCH REVIEW• Renault Trucks unveils new range of trucks for Middle East markets 30
BUSINESS SOFTWARE• Technology platforms - mitigating risk and
creating efficiencies 34
TYRE RECYCLING• BIR Convention: “Leading Expert
Talk on Tyres Recycling” 36
COMMENT• Recovered Paper Market Report 41
SPECIAL REPORT: PLASTIC• Performance of Plastic: Nov/Dec Report 48
METAL BULLETIN• Base Metals Outlook -
Base Metals Decline on Deflation Concerns 50
TECHNOLOGY• Innovative solutions from Arjes GmbH 45
• Sennebogen 830 with Vario Tool at scrapyard 45
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Dubai Municipality targets zero waste in the emirate
The ‘Clean Up the World’ campaign was launched by HE Eng. Hussain Nasser Lootah, Director General of Dubai, in Dubai under the slogan ‘Our Place…Our Planet…Our Responsibility’ in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Al Warqaa 3 area. Senior officials of Dubai Municipality and participating organisations were present on the occasion. The seven day campaign was aimed at spreading environmental awareness and education and maintaining the cleanliness through effective participation of the maximum members of the society. The Director General said that the civic body aimed to achieve zero waste through reuse, recycling and reducing waste in tune with the best international practices. He also urged the general public to cooperate with Dubai Municipality in its efforts to make Dubai one of the smartest cities in the world. He visited various activities, workshops, exhibitions and programmes organised by school students, companies and organizations participating in the one week cleanup campaign. The campaign activities include cleaning of public places in the emirate of Dubai such as beaches, parks and Dubai creek with the participation of companies, schools, organisations, government departments and all segments of the society. The Dubai Municipality provided all cleaning equipment to the participants in all areas of the emirate. The Director of Waste Management department Abdul Majeed Saifaie said, “This year we received tremendous response from all segments to join the cleanup campaign, as the number
of volunteers registered reached above 40,000 showing the increased awareness and interest of individuals, companies, schools and government departments to participate in the environmental initiatives.” “Having completed 20 years of the eventful journey with the global initiative ‘Clean Up The World’ campaign, Dubai Municipality’s waste management department is extremely proud to be a key player in creating environmental awareness through its various initiatives,” Saifaie said. He also urged the public to join this noble cause and spread the message to the maximum number of people, stating that each and every step of anyone in this regard will largely contribute to achieve their aim to be one of the top sustainable cities in the world. “Clean Up the World” engages an estimated 35 million volunteers in 130 countries each year, making it one of the largest community based environmental campaigns in the world. It inspires and empowers community groups, schools, businesses, and local governments to join as members and carry out community-based activities that address local environmental issues. Recycling campaign at Mirdif As part of the ‘Clean-up-the-world’ campaign Dubai Municipality, in collaboration with Dulsco, also embarked on a drive to spread awareness on waste recycling within Mirdif ’s residential community. Mirdif residents were encouraged to collect recyclables like paper, plastics, cans, bottles and take those recyclables to Mirdif Park. There were educational games at the park and residents got a chance to know the positive impact they created by segregating waste at source. Residents got a chance to recycle and win exciting gifts
like i-pads and other eco-friendly gifts for their contribution to the environment. Eng. Abdul Majeed Saifaie, Director of Waste Management department said, “People have the notion that waste is non-recyclable and cannot be used further. This myth has to be dispelled at the earliest and informing the masses through campaigns and events can help waste management go a long way.” “The role of residents in waste management is important and effective as they can help carry the message across to the society through their families and friends… Dubai Municipality in its efforts to maintain its record as the cleanest city in the region also aims to be one of the most sustainable cities in the world by 2020. We have intensified our efforts to increase awareness among the residents of Dubai by launching campaigns to educate the people about the recycling concepts, and thus to achieve the Zero Waste concept using the most advanced methods in reducing, recycling and reusing all type of wastes. The residents of UAE have a high sense of social responsibility and commitment to keeping the surroundings clean due to the various campaigns run across the city. Regular campaigns will be rolled out to instill this recycling behaviour among UAE
residents,” Saifaie added.
Free green waste removal serviceThe waste management department has announced that the civic body will provide free service for bulk removal of waste composed of garden or park waste, such as grass or flower cuttings and hedge trimmings. Saifaie said Dubai is one of most beautiful cities in the world, and they appreciate the residents for their high level of education and awareness on different ways of disposing various types of wastes. “Now we are aiming to create awareness on the proper disposal of green waste generated from parks and gardens as a result of regular maintenance work such as trimming and beautification,” Saifaie said. “Our dedicated team is always ready to teach the members of the society the proper ways of waste disposal and anyone can call the hotline 800900 to get the free waste removal services of Dubai Municipality for green waste or bulk household waste,” he further stated. “Within this campaign, we have planned to use all possible media to disseminate the message to the maximum number of people in the society and we never forget the role of media in creating a high level of cleanliness awareness in our city,” he added.
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Held in Dubai on 12 November at Al Ghurair Rayhaan by Rotana, this year’s CEO Dialogue marks the third year of the annual event aimed at promoting sustainable business. It was co-organised by Dubai Chamber and Al Ghurair Investment, in association with Dubai Municipality and in line with Dubai’s strategic vision to become one of the world’s most sustainable cities by 2020. The event brought together businesses and different stakeholders to discuss best practices and challenges in waste management and resource efficiency in the UAE. “Acting responsibly and sustainably towards the environment is arguably the most pressing issue facing businesses in the
region today,” said Atiq Juma Faraj Nasib, senior vice president commercial services, Dubai Chamber. “This is not only from a social responsibility standpoint. It brings real economic savings to a business and is becoming a key component to sustaining the health of regional economies. Through the Dubai Chamber Centre for Responsible Business we are constantly striving to create a business environment based on sustainable best practices leading to investments and jobs, while enhancing the living environment for the people,’’ added Nasib.Adil Toubia, Group CEO, Al Ghurair Investment added, “The huge uptake and success of previous two years have already shown that this event drives change and positive action within business and society. “Once again this year it gathers senior
executives representing private and government corporations, NGOs, academia and the media to discuss the current trends surrounding waste management and resource efficiency in the region. Private-public partnerships are crucial in sustaining such important environmental initiatives and an event such as this is a crucial platform in developing such partnerships. All this falls in line with Dubai’s strategic 2020 vision for creating a sustainable future economy.”Participating companies and speakers discussed topics such as waste-to-energy and recycling initiatives, environmental governance within facility management, carbon reduction and energy-saving programmes.
The event also served as a platform to highlight the ‘Be Responsible – Act to Sustain’ campaign. As part of the campaign over 50 corporates will be actively involved in jointly promoting Waste Management and Resource Efficiency through best practice seminars, internal communication campaigns, mall promotions, movie nights, consumer awareness sessions and so on.Commented Sameera Fernandes, Head of Corporate Affairs & Communications at Al Ghurair Investment and Campaign Lead, “In our efforts to promote environmentally sustainable business practices, both governments and businesses around the world need to explore innovative and sustainable ways to manage waste and raise awareness on the importance of reducing industrial, commercial and household waste. This is vital if we want to protect
the world for future generations and create a more efficient and sustainable business community in the UAE. The ‘Be Responsible – Act to Sustain’ campaign encourages All Communities and Corporates to work together to bring about positive change.” Other initiatives tied into the campaign include an awareness building session with Dubai Municipality and Trakhees, a CEO forum with Dubai Municipality, a session on Green Buildings, Best practice seminars at Universities and much more.A moderated panel discussion titled ‘Developing Environmental Governance towards Sustainable Waste Management in the UAE’ examined how to develop and
implement robust frameworks and processes for improved environmental governance. It also looked at how to create effective strategies for mainstreaming environmental considerations into development planning processes, and the support and partnerships needed in the transition to a green economy at national level.The companies participating in the Waste Management Campaign include Al Ghurair Investment, Apparel Group, Henkel GCC, Majid Al Futtaim Properties, Eros Group, Dulsco, SamTech Middle East, Al Rostamani Pegel, Veolia Environment, QBG Facilities Management, Al Futtaim Carillion, Six Construct, Intercoil International LLC, ECCS.Co, du, Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC), Blossom Nursery, Lulu Hypermarket and Saeed, Dulsco & Mohammed Al Naboodah Group.
CEO Dialogue promoting sustainable business
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Luxury resort becomes the world’s first mixed-use hospitality destination to gain Green Globe certification. Three hotels, conference centre and souk have been recognised for outstanding environmental efforts by sustainability specialist Farnek.Madinat Jumeirah resort in Dubai has been awarded international Green Globe certification across its entire luxury complex. The integrated resort is the first mixed-use
hospitality destination in the world to receive the Green Globe badge of honour.The resort’s three high profile hotels, popular conference centres and souk-themed mall were given the Green Globe seal of approval following a comprehensive sustainability audit conducted by Dubai-based consultancy Farnek, Green Globe’s partner in the Middle East.Margaret Paul, General Manager at Madinat Jumeirah,
said, “We are proud to show leadership in sustainable practices and delighted to share this responsibility with our colleagues and guests. We work daily to ensure we create harmony at the resort, enhance the knowledge of our local culture and preserve our environment. In addition, we ensure our colleagues are valued and engaged, our customers have exhilarating experiences and our local community wellbeing is increased.”
The successful certification includes two firsts for the region. The Madinat Conference Centre became the first of its kind to be Green Globe certified in the Middle East & Africa and Souk Madinat also scooped the same accolade as the first shopping centre to be certified in the region.“We were very impressed by the resort’s established track record of both employee and guest engagement and its associated achievements in the area of
sustainability. Change and innovation are a cornerstone of Madinat Jumeirah’s corporate philosophy and this was a key driver in supporting the efforts of all five hospitality-related units in integrating a remarkable collection of environmental technologies over the past year, with the resort as a whole aiming for a 3% year-on-year increase in Green Globe sustainability criteria,” said Sandrine Le Biavant, Director Consultancy for Farnek, Green
Globe’s Middle East partner and authorised auditor.Madinat Jumeirah achieved extremely high scores across all areas of the operational audit. A host of ground-breaking initiatives positively impacted its performance including the Madinat Conference Centre’s successful Green Meetings programme that covers both back and front-of-house operations to address waste reduction, paperless event planning and food donation initiatives.
The trio of hotels has also been active in the area of waste management, investing in a composting machine and Al Qasr became one of the first UAE properties to implement the Bokashi Digester Compost Programme. Around 2.1 tonnes of composted waste per month are used to fertilise the resort’s gardens with the hotel also introducing a glass-crushing machine earlier this year.Each individual operating unit within the resort also undergoes monthly monitoring and benchmarking using Farnek’s Hotel Optimizer programme to maximise performance and support further energy enhancement initiatives. In addition, a new rooms management system at Dar Al Masyaf allows customers to control their own energy consumption using an iPad and Souk Madinat also implemented a new automatic door system in order to effectively partition specific areas of the operation to make further energy savings.These examples, combined with other ongoing energy management practices have shown a 14% annual saving since 2008. “Innovation extends beyond the implementation of technology and Madinat Jumeirah, the first audited property in the Middle East to have a dedicated Community Engagement Manager, also happens to be a UAE national,” noted Le Biavant.
Madinat Jumeirah scores international sustainability certification first• Thetrioofhotelshasalsobeenactiveintheareaofwastemanagement• Around2.1tonnesofcompostedwastepermonthareusedtofertilisetheresort’sgardenswiththe hotel also introducing a glass-crushing machine earlier this year
Madinat Jumeriah receiving five Green Globe awards
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Given the alarming statistics emerging out of the Middle East and North Africa region that up to 250kg of food is discarded per individual every year at a cost of over US$60 billion dollars annually, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), EcoWaste will turn the spotlight on innovative next generation food waste technology at its second edition in January 2015, according to the organizers. A key highlight of the exhibition will be a showcase of Hong Kong based-GreenGood Oklin’s innovative composting machines that convert organic waste into high-grade compost within 24 hours. The United Nation Environment Programme estimates that one third of the food produced worldwide, valued at US$1 trillion, is discarded by consumers. Closer to home, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region relies on imports for over 50% of its food and wastes nearly 16 million tonnes of wheat every year, an amount that could feed up to 100 million people. With figures suggesting that close to 40% of the daily domestic waste produced by Abu Dhabi and Dubai residents consists of discarded food, managing organic waste is a growing problem in the UAE. As part of its priority to address critical topics on recycling
and effective waste collection, EcoWaste 2015 will highlight GreenGood Oklin’s food waste decomposition systems that can process between two to 500 tonnes of food waste per year.The UAE is facing an uphill battle with waste generation, particularly with the amounts of food that residents tend to discard. According to figures released by the Abu Dhabi Municipality, 39% of the municipal waste generated by residents in Abu Dhabi is attributed to food waste, while residents in Dubai discard a staggering 38% per cent of food every day.Trends do not normally change overnight and as the UAE looks to embark on new initiatives to divert waste from landfills, technologies usually offer the best and quickest solution. EcoWaste 2015 will aim to highlight such solutions for the overarching benefit of the region at large.The effective disposal of organic waste is a major concern. The UAE needs a viable alternative to landfills. Companies such as Oklin integrate next generation technology to offer game changing solutions. Oklin’s compositing machine does not need to be connected to a water supply or sewer system. The decomposition
process, which employs high temperature microorganisms, is energy-efficient and can break down food waste in one day. The system can reduce sold food waste by up to 90% in volume. The end product can be used as a fertiliser in gardens or agricultural land. Therefore, there are no landfill costs or wastewater.Amish Choksey, General Manager of GreenGood Eco-tech FZCO, distributors of the technology in the MENA region, said: “Oklin composters employ the most advanced and up-to-date technology to convert food waste. This is made possible by patented aerobic microbes to break down waste at a much faster speed than can be done by anaerobic microbes. These microbes are collected in high temperature regions and are carefully cultured and cultivated in a secure lab.”Running from 19 - 22 January, EcoWaste, co-hosted by Masdar and Tadweer (Center of Waste Management - Abu Dhabi), seeks holistic solutions for challenges in waste management. The event organized by Reed Exhibitions, is expected to draw more than 2,000 buyers and key industry experts as well as 50 leading companies from all around the world.
EcoWaste 2015 to showcase next generation organic waste technologyGreenGood Eco-tech FZCO to highlight innovative composting system
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Emirates Golf Club receives sustainability award for ‘efficient use of resources’ at IAGTO Awards
Emirates Golf Club, the annual host of the European Tour sanctioned Omega Dubai Desert Classic has received the Efficient Use of Resources Award at the prestigious International Association of Golf Tour Operator (IAGTO) Awards held in Lake Como, Italy. Based in Dubai, Emirates Golf Club remains an icon for golf in the United Arab Emirates. As part of their partnership with Golf Environment Organisation, IAGTO recognised environmental and social excellence at the 15th annual awards ceremony held in Lake Como, Italy.Emirates Golf Club was presented with the award for a highly focused and sustained approach to irrigation water technology in a region where pressure on the vital resource is enormous. The Club has invested in a state-of-the-art irrigation
system alongside other key initiatives which have resulted in significant benefits to the environment, including a reduction in irrigation consumption by 34%. As part of the long-term strategy, Emirates Golf Club changed the water supply to treated sewage effluent water – 100% recycled water that would otherwise maintain a high environmental cost to dispose of. To help this succeed, the turf grass was also transitioned to a variety far better adapted to lower quality water. The club also initiated a turfgrass reduction programme to minimise areas requiring high maintenance, including fertility, mowing and irrigation providing numerous environmental benefits.Craig Haldane, Director of Golf Course Maintenance at Emirates Golf Club, said, “The installation of the irrigation system
took 208 days and over 150,000 man hours to complete… Technology has moved on considerably since the previous irrigation system was installed in 1988. The new system, using over 8,800 metres of mainline piping and 33,500 metres of lateral piping, makes use of the latest technology and delivers water savings by ensuring increased distribution efficiency throughout the golf course.”As part of the upgrade, a new state-of-the-art pump station that allows up to 6,500 gallons of treated sewage effluent (TSE) water per minute to travel through the network, was installed. One of the key considerations for upgrading the system was to make it environmentally sound by improving the distribution of the golf club’s most valuable resource, water, and minimising all waste where possible.
Sims Recycling promotes Stephen Phelan to MD-Middle East Sims Recycling Solutions (SRS) announced it has promoted Stephen Phelan to manage its Middle East operations based in Dubai.Phelan helped set up the operations in the region and was its Operations Manager till April 2014 when he took over as Country Manager before being formally appointed as its Managing Director in September 2014. In his new role, Phelan will be responsible for the operational, commercial, profit and loss activities for Sims Recycling Solutions in the Middle East region.Phelan said, “The global trends show that the E-waste problem is not going away anytime soon. If anything it is only going to get worse. Studies have shown that from 2012 to 2017 volumes are expected to rise by 33 percent. We will be expanding throughout the region in the very near future. We have received requests from organisations wishing to partner with us across the region and I am currently visiting the different countries to evaluate these possibilities.”
The volume of material received for processing year on year by SRS has increased significantly. With the increase in volumes, the company has hired and trained
more staff and introduced a second shift into its operations to double capacity and cope with the demand.“I expect us to outgrow our facility within the next 12 to 18 months,” added Phelan. “I am now looking at plots of land where we can build a much larger facility similar to our international sites that will include automated shredding and separation technologies.”Phelan is a former IT specialist at FedEx and general manager of the electronics division at Enviroserve. He then started his own E-waste recycling business (Akhdar FZCO) in 2009 and sold it to a publicly traded multi-national organisation (SRS) in 2012.He set up and managed the Middle East’s first national recycling campaign (Envirophone) in the United Arab Emirates, according to the press release. This was in conjunction with UAE Ministry of Environment &Water, the TRA (Telecoms Regulatory Authority), Etisalat, du and several other corporate sponsors.
Club has invested in a state-of-the-art irrigation system; Changed water supply to treated sewage effluent water – 100% recycled water that would otherwise maintain a high environmental cost to dispose of
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Dubai Municipality launches first E-waste collection service
‘Landfill bans set to help recycling’: International Environment Council
Dubai Municipality introduced the first electronic waste collection service in Dubai, in partnership with waste management company Averda, as part of the Civic body’s ‘Clean Up the World’ campaign launched on November 09.The Director General of Dubai Municipality, Eng. Hussain Nasser Lootah, said, “We are delighted to launch the first e-waste collection service in Dubai, which is part of our wider environmental initiative tackling the harmful effects of electronic waste in landfills.“The first e-waste bin is now located at the Al Etihad Mall in Muhaisna, and other e-waste bins will be distributed around Dubai for public use. The action is part of a sustainable recycling programme to help further the city’s goals in preserving the environment by reducing the amount of electronic waste sent to landfills, minimising the impacts of hazardous e-waste on the environment, and assisting in salvaging valuable material,” he said.“Electronics like laptops and smart phones have limited lifespan, and as these products
age, we are starting to see an increase in e-waste and the need for a specialised solution to manage it,” said Eng. Abdul Majeed Saifaie, Director, Waste Management Department at Dubai Municipality. “Adapting to these evolving circumstances can only be done through creativity and a common purpose, in this case, an understanding of the immense benefits of transforming waste. Providing e-waste services for the first time in Dubai is a huge milestone as we continue to work with the city to ensure a green future
for generations to come,” said Jeroen Vincent, Chief Operating Officer at Averda in the GCC.“The new and smart e-waste bin utilises a single stream collection method, allowing the waste management company to collect different types of e-waste via a safe collection method, whereby material is dismantled and channelled for further processing. The product is also fitted with sensors to alert the company when it is full and need to be emptied,” he said.
Olivier François of Group Galloo, Chairman of the BIR’s International Environment Council (IEC), shared some “good news” with delegates at the meeting in Paris on October 28 (BIR Convention, Oct 26-28).“We can hope for good consequences for our work on recycling,” he commented. In what he described as “a convergence” of legislation, France introduced a new law on October 14 calling for a 50% landfill reduction by 2025 while the EU has proposed the objective that “landfilling of all recyclable waste shall be prevented by 2025”.But in the first of two presentations relating to the UN-EP Basel Convention, BIR’s Environmental & Technical Director Ross Bartley expressed concern at the different benchmarks that existed for Environmentally Sound Management (ESM) at the world level for industrialised countries and developing countries. “The bar is shifting depending on what wastes you are dealing with between countries and regions,” he told the meeting. It was also clear, he said, that close attention would need to be paid to whether the Basel Convention adhered to its original remit
of solely hazardous wastes and wastes from households.Eric Harris, Associate Counsel/Director of Government & International Affairs at the US Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, focused his presentation on draft technical guidelines on transboundary movements of e-waste and used electrical and electronic equipment, with particular regard to the distinction between waste and non-waste under the Basel Convention. Two options had been put forward: the first entailed a set of specific conditions under which non-functional used electrical and electronic equipment would normally not be considered waste; while under the second, so-called “fall-back” option, parties would be able to define the conditions under which such non-functional equipment would not be considered waste, and should inform the Basel Convention’s Secretariat about any such conditions. Having noted that parties had been invited to submit comments to the Secretariat by the end of February next year, Harris added, “There is now a real desire to move things forward.”The IEC meeting in Paris also dwelt on the
issue of extended producer responsibility (EPR). As a “pillar” and “free asset” of EPR schemes, the recycling industries should be part of their governance, it was argued by the Executive Director of French recycling federation FEDEREC, Alfred Rosales. He also reiterated his call for independent monitoring of company data to avoid confidentiality issues. There were already some 400 EPR schemes across the OECD spectrum and their development would continue, Rosales contended. Of those that were already in operation, around 90% were based either in Europe or the USA while some 35% of the total related to waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).Alicia García-Franco Zúñiga argued that positions of power were being “abused” through EPR schemes in Spain, notably in the cases of end-of-life tyres and WEEE. The Director General of the country’s recovery and recycling federation FER contended that take-back schemes were required “when the waste generators are dispersed”, but not when the generators were traceable and when there was a proper control of public authorities.
Eng. Hussain Nasser Lootah launching the e-waste collection service
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A whole new world of machinery, equipment and tools of all types, shapes and sizes will be featured at the Aluminium Middle East 2015, the specialized aluminium industry exhibition, which brings together manufacturers, producers, investors and service-providers under one roof, according to the organisers.The plant, machinery and accessories category includes equipment for aluminium extraction, processing and refining services, consultancy, information, and education, among others. The exhibition is expected to introduce producers and manufacturers to more than 200 suppliers and vendors from over 25 countries. The event, which will be held from 14-16 April 2015 in Dubai comes at a critical time when the GCC region is not only increasing its aluminium production to five million tonnes by the end of 2014, but
also moving fast from upstream industries into downstream industries to create added value for aluminium products.Cast Aluminium Industries, a secondary aluminium smelting company which will be participating in the 2015 edition, will be showcasing dross/scrap processing technologies for current and upcoming projects (primary smelters and other dross producing companies) in the region. The company, which has served DUBAL since 1999, is looking to benefit from the strong growth in the Gulf region for primary smelters and extruders. “Both existing and the upcoming projects give us ample opportunities in the coming times. The zero wastage to landfill, after the processing of drosses and scraps, will not only serve the business purpose of our company but the entire aluminium industry in the region as well,” said Muhammad Kashif Nazir, Plant Manager,
Cast Aluminium Industries. Harbor Intelligence, a firm specialized in global aluminium markets’ trends, analysis and forecasts, estimates Gulf investments in the aluminium sector to reach $55 billion by 2020 compared with $30 billion in 2011, as a result of smelters’ expansion and new projects in the region.As GCC aluminium production is expected to hit the five million tonnes mark by the end of this year, downstream factories in the GCC countries are racing to acquire the state--of-the-art machines and latest equipment.Since aluminium production started in the region in 1971, there have been significant developments in the number and variety of downstream aluminium industries that cater for the needs of regional and international markets.The list of major GCC downstream players includes Gulf Extrusions and Al-Hamad Aluminium Extrusions in the
UAE, Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill (GARMCO) and Midal Cable in Bahrain, Alupco and Al-Taisser in Saudi Arabia and Oman Aluminium Rolling Company (OARC) in Oman.Around 70 per cent of all primary aluminium produced in the GCC is exported in various shapes and alloys, while 30 per cent is used by downstream industries, half of which (15 per cent) is re-exported to international markets, according to Gulf Aluminium Council. Given the importance of the aluminium industry for Gulf economies and the availability of the metal as a raw material, all the GCC countries with primary aluminuim production are actively pursuing the policy of establishing more downstream industries, to utilize aluminium as a raw material to produce more value-added products, create jobs and encourage more inward investments.
Flowrox is launching a new slurry knife gate product designed to enhance current pipeline equipment and processes using enhanced technology for fluid control. The new SKW valve – Slurry Knife Wafer was developed for use in the oil & gas, mining, minerals and metallurgy, power and waste water industries,
where abrasive or corrosive slurries, powders or coarse substances are processed.Based on three decades of experience they have engineered the SKW valve at full-bore with no flow restrictions, allowing processes with abrasive or corrosive fluids, such as lime slurry or mineral slurries, to move without compromising
performance, says the company. The main benefit to a full-bore design is that the valve itself becomes an integral part of the pipe and allows it to process the same fluids in the harshest of conditions. In addition, the SKW valve is designed as a full port fluid control device that allows a more efficient process, requiring less
pumping energy to operate. The valve incorporates smart manufacturing techniques and incorporates a cast single-piece body, which eliminates any potential leak paths from the body and offers a versatile tower construction that will accept manual, electric, hydraulic or pneumatic forms of actuation.
Aluminium Middle East exhibition to showcase latest technologies and equipment
Flowrox launches industrial valve for processing abrasive and corrosive substances
• Downstreamindustriesaccountfor15percentoftotalGCCexportstointernationalmarkets• Gulfinvestmentsinthealuminiumsectortoreach$55billionby2020comparedwith$30billionin2011
Productoffersexceptionalfluidcontrolperformanceforindustrialpipelinesforoil&gas,mining,mineralsandmetallurgy,powerandwastewatertreatment
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On 29 October 2014 over 130 existing and potential international customers and guests invited by Erema were at the company’s headquarters in Ansfelden near Linz in Austria for “Discovery Day 2014”. The focus of the company’s series of events this year was on in-house recycling, one of their core competencies. With focused talks given by experts representing the entire value chain and live demonstrations
on several types of Intarema systems, Erema demonstrated how the quality of the end products can be kept constant with intelligent in-house recycling solutions while saving production and labour costs at the same time.Flexible packaging accounts for a quarter of the world’s plastic applications. Special polyethylene (PE) film applications such as shrink and stretch films and biaxially oriented PP (BOPP) dominate the field with annual growth rates of 3-5% in the market. As material costs account for a majority (over three quarters) of the production costs, less production “waste” also means lower costs for raw material
and disposal. With “Don’t waste your waste” as the motto, Erema showed how one can use intelligent in-house recycling solutions to return up to 100% of the plastic “waste” to the production process and thus save production and labour costs.Over 130 existing and potential customers and guests of Erema attended from Europe, Russia, Israel, Thailand and Senegal to benefit from the information
about the latest trends and product news in this sector. Experts from the well-known companies Borealis, SML, OCS, Polifilm Extrusion and Erema provided valuable insights in their presentations. The live demonstrations took place in the Erema Customer Centre which, together with a plastics analysis lab, features worldwide state-of-the-art engineering.Intelligent in-house recycling solutionsIn-house recycling solutions for flexible plastic packaging are a core competency at Erema – some 2,000 of the over 4,000 Erema systems sold around the world operate in this application field. According to
the company, the new Intarema plant generation offers users an additional boost in efficiency: the new, patented Counter Current technology means even higher output capacity, the Smart Start system makes operation extremely easy with a remarkably high degree of automation and enhanced EcoSave technology reduces energy costs even further.Existing and potential customers who want to
integrate recycling in production benefit from Erema being able to provide concrete solutions to individual challenges, especially in terms of quality and personnel costs, says the company. The perfect preconditioning of the plastic material prior to extrusion is
crucial for the quality of the recyclate. Erema fulfils these requirements with its systems through the combination of a preconditioning unit with the recycling extruder. The Counter Current technology also ensures remarkable recycling process stability despite varying characteristics and conditions of the input material. Thanks to the Smart Start system, however, the personnel required for the recycling process is kept to a minimum, which is important as in-house recycling systems often only run “on the side” compared to the actual film production plant. Inline & offlineErema presented both inline and offline systems at “Discovery Day 2014”. The recycling systems can thus be integrated not only in the production lines but also installed externally. For flexible and highly efficient offline
applications Erema presented to attendees the brand new EFS Crocodile system with a technical conveyor belt for the dosing of endless edge trim. This innovation enables the constant feeding of tangled edge trim without pre-cutting for the first time.
In-house Recycling: International visitors at “Discovery Day 2014”
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Younger Americans not as “Green” as older generations: Survey
According to a recent survey conducted online in November among over 2,000 U.S. adults by Harris Poll on behalf of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), younger American adults ages 18-34 are significantly less likely to say they always recycle (33% vs. 48% of those ages 35+). In addition, younger Americans ages 18-34 are less likely to say that recycling is the socially responsible thing to do (61% vs. 53% of those ages 65+), and that it is critical to reducing energy consumption (36% vs. 46% of those ages 55-64) and will help reduce landfill space (45% vs. 60% of those ages 45+). Younger adults ages 18-34 are also more likely to say they wish they recycled more than any other age group (37% vs. 22% of those ages 35+). These are some of the key findings in a national survey released by the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) in conjunction with America Recycles Day that took place on November 15.
“Over the last several decades communities have strived to make recycling easier through curbside pickup, drop off locations, convenient public cans located near trash cans, recycling drives, and more. There are corporate buy-back programmes and in-store drop-offs for recyclables as well,” said Robin Wiener, President of ISRI.“That is why it is so disappointing and shocking to see young people not fully understanding the value of recycling. Clearly, more needs to be done both to encourage recycling and better comprehend why younger generations aren’t seeing the energy, environmental, and economic benefits that recycling provides.”According to the poll, Americans would like to see more readily available options to recycle. The vast majority (90%) of Americans think that recycling collection sites need to be more readily accessible to consumers. Furthermore, 68% believe that manufacturers and/or retailers should pay for recycling
programmes when they are not already available to consumers, while 62% think the government should pay for these recycling programmes.
Other key findings include:• An overwhelming majorityof Americans (94%) say they recycle, but those ages 35+ (48%) are significantly more likely than those ages 18-34 (33%) to say they always recycle. Those ages 65+ (54%) are also more likely to say this than those ages 35-44 (43%).• Amajority(68%)ofAmericansbelieve recycling is the right thing to do, but the percentage decreases as age goes down, with only 62% of adults 18-34 holding the belief compared to 78% of adults aged 65+.• More than half of Americanssay recycling is the socially responsible thing to do (55%), but older adults ages 65+ are more likely than those ages 18-34 to believe this (61% vs 53%, respectively).• 40% of Americans believe
recycling is critical to reduce energy consumption, but older adults ages 65+ are more likely than those ages 18-34 to say this (46% vs 36%, respectively).• Some Americans have doubtsabout recycling as 26% say they are not always certain if an item is recyclable and 6% say they don’t believe the items they set aside for recycling are actually recycled. Younger Americans ages 18-34 (33%) are more likely than those ages 35-64 (22%) to say they are not always certain if an item is recyclable.• More than 3 in 5 (62%)Americans agree that if a product is not easy/ convenient to recycle, they probably would not recycle it.This survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Poll on behalf of ISRI from November 3-5, 2014 among 2,013 adults ages 18 and older. This online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated.
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Abengoa (MCE: ABG.B/P SM /NASDAQ: ABGB), the company that provides technology solutions in the energy and environment sectors, has been selected by the electricity and gas company, Belgian Eco Energy (Bee), to develop the largest commercial plant in the world of new construction in Ghent, Belgium. The plant will produce 215 MW of electricity, being one hundred percent of the raw material biomass (wood
chips and agro-residues) and the amount of the project will exceed 315 million euro, according to reports.Abengoa will be responsible for the engineering, design and construction of the plant.The project is expected to create up to 1,100 jobs during the execution phase.The plant of Abengoa in Ghent will use as raw material wood chips and agro-residues.Through the technology of “Circulated Fluidized Bed” the
biomass is transformed into high pressure steam, which subsequently passes through a steam turbine to produce electricity.Requiring no support fossil fuels, the plant will generate 215 MW of clean energy, free from carbon dioxide, which will be used for the power supply industry. And thanks to a system called “district heating” approximately 100 MW of thermal energy will be distributed to supply heating
to industries and households in the city of Ghent.With the development of this new plant, Abengoa will support Belgium being closer to achieve the environmental objectives set by the European Union. Abengoa has biomass plants in Europe, Latin America and the United States that meet the criteria of responsibility, energy efficiency and provide large economic and social benefits in the communities in which they are installed.
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Industrial Waste Treatment Facility The increased activity in the society and in particular the industry in Oman has made industrial waste a major concern for public health. It is therefore very important that actions are taken to control the risk. According to the ministerial decree 18/93 industrial waste is: “Any waste arising from commercial, industrial, agricultural or any other activities which, due to its nature, composition, quantity or any other reason is, potentially hazardous to human health, to plants or animals, to air, soil, or water. This includes explosives, radioactive material or flammable substances, which may cause decease as well as those issued by decision from the minister”. How much Industrial waste is produced in Oman?A total inventory from 2013 shows, that 1.47 million tons ton of industrial waste
is produced in Oman. A major part of this is however low risk slag from many of the metals smelters, particularly in Sohar. The rest is approx. 352,000 ton which was divided into the groups shown below:
Due to the rapid development of the population and the industry in Oman the waste amount is expected to increase substantially from 352,000 ton in 2011 to 626,000 ton in 2032.
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WiththetremendousgrowthoftheindustrialsectorindevelopingcountriesincludingtheMiddleEast,hugeamountsofhazardouswasteisbeinggenerated,andthedisposal/propertreatmentofthiswasteposesamajorchallengeformostcountries.Omanhasstartedaddressingthisproblemandistakingstepstoputin
placenecessarymeasuresforthescientifictreatmentofhazardouswaste.Mogens Straarup, Head of Industrial Waste sector, Oman Environmental Services Holding Company S.A.O.C (be’ah), Oman, talks to Waste & Recycling Middle East talksabouttheissuesinOmanandtheprogrammesandprojectsbe’ahisundertakingtotreatindustrialandhealthcarewasteinapropermanner.
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Figure 1: Amount of industrial waste in Oman 2013
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Where is the industrial waste generated, and what is the risk from untreated industrial waste?The waste is mostly generated in the industrial areas of Oman, particularly in Sohar and the North coast of Oman. It is estimated that approx. 90% of the total amount of industrial waste (including slag) is generated in Sohar or a pprox. 70% of the industrial waste amount is exclusively slag.The industrial sector in Oman is growing and the Omani Government does tremendous work to allure more foreign industries to Oman. More industries generate more industrial waste – a fact that can be seen all over the world. From present statistics it can be foreseen that in 2015 Oman will have 1.5 million tons of industrial waste, which if untreated will create a harmful situation for people and the environment.
What is the current situation in Oman?A large amount of industrial waste is stored on the premises of industries and a minor amount is being exported for treatment overseas. At these temporary storages at the industries, if not managed appropriately, the volatile waste components will evaporate and some might, depending on the quality of the storage facility, could leak into the ground. It is further estimated that a portion of low risk waste is being deposited at uncontrolled dumpsites. Be’ah is operating a Temporary Industrial Waste Storage Facility in Liwa, with a good laboratory for identifying the waste and with a good environmental protection of the stored waste.
What are the solutions?At the beginning of 1990s, the Government identified the urgent need to establish a “National Hazardous Waste Management System” and in 2009 a Royal Decree 46/2009 was issued, by which the Government owned company Oman Environmental Services Holding Company S.A.O.C (be’ah) has been tasked to setup the collection, treatment and disposal facilities for all waste types (except sewage sludge and water) in the nation. The provisions of the Royal Decree include all hazardous waste other than radioactive waste and explosives. A national strategy has been developed for Oman to tackle the problems associated with industrial waste in the Sultanate. In the strategy it is suggested preparing a national Industrial Waste Treatment Facility in Sohar.
This facility with the most modern and well proven technology will majorly treat and dispose hazardous waste generated in Oman as a whole. The plant will be located in Sohar Free Zone, over 12 km from the nearest residential area, and is expected to treat approx. 135,000 tons of the most toxic industrial waste per year.
The main facilities at the plant are:Reception, sampling and analysing facilities: The waste will be received and inspected at the entrance of the plant and samples taken for analysing and identification of the waste. The final treatment of the waste will be decided by trained waste evaluators.
Pre-treatment: The waste comes in many different mixtures and it will be necessary to pre-treat the waste especially for the thermal waste treatment. The pre-treatment will further minimise the manual handling and the emissions from the plant.
Industrial waste landfill: Inorganic mineral waste will be deposit at the industrial landfill which will be equipped with a double composite liner for optimum groundwater protection. The landfill will be prepared in stages; and the total capacity is 3 million cubic meters.Slag landfill: The huge amount of slag especially from the metal smelters in Sohar will be deposited in dedicated slag landfills in 3 existing valleys. The total capacity of the slag landfill will be 28 mill m3. This slag is low risk and will be in lined landfills.
Figure 2: Liwa Temporary Hazardous waste storage
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Stabilisation plant: Some of the mineral waste must be stabilised with concrete for minimisation of the leaching from the waste before it can be deposited in the industrial waste landfill. A stabilisation plant with a capacity of approx. 100,000 t/y is foreseen.
Physical-Chemical Treatment plant (PCT): The inorganic liquid waste like acids and alkalis will be neutralised in the PCT plant. Cyanide waste will be oxidised and Chromium VI waste will be reduced to Chromium IV which is much less harmful. The PCT plant will be designed for approx. 1000 t/y.
Thermal Treatment plantIn this plant the waste will be incinerated under controlled conditions in a rotary kiln. The process will generate energy which can be recovered and produce steam in a steam turbine. A comprehensive flue gas cleaning system will be installed to ensure that the plant meets the flue gas emission criteria in the EU directives. The plant will further be equipped with a comprehensive automatic system for monitoring the plant operation as well as the emission from the plant. The incineration plant will have a capacity of 50,000 t/y.
Recycling of particular waste streams: Special types of waste like lead acid batteries, e-waste and end-of-life vehicles (ELV) will be collected and recycled through dedicated systems for these waste types.Time frame: The different plants are expected to be taken into operation in phases:• TemporarySlagStorageFacilityin2015 (intermediate solution)• Industrial waste landfill, slaglandfill, solidification plant, waste storage facility in 2016• Physical Chemical TreatmentPlant, reception etc. in 2018• Thermal Treatment plant, wastepre-treatment etc. in 2019
National Health Care Waste Treatment in Oman
Health Care Waste TreatmentHealthcare waste is by its very nature not recyclable, it has to be treated and either destroyed or rendered sterile.
Incineration plantAl Multaqa treatment plant was constructed and commissioned by Ministry of Health in December 2005 and incorporates two incineration lines each capable of destroying 2.75 tons of waste per day to European temperature and emission standards. The units are model HP 1000 from ATI Mueller. The units have been operated up to a capacity of 4 tons per day successfully. The plant consists of two parallel incinerator lines, each with a capacity of 250 kg/hour. Each line consists of an automatic batch waste loader (Figure 3), primary combustion chamber (700 – 900°C), post combustion chamber (850 – 1100°C), waste heat exchanger and exhaust gas treatment system. The exhaust gas treatment system consists of a three-stage air pollution control system: dry scrubbers to neutralize acid gases (HCl, SO2 and NOx); active carbon absorption to remove dioxins, furans and heavy metals; and ceramic filters to remove particulates (the emission is below the EU emission limits for incineration plants, which is checked).
AutoclaveIn 2013 be’ah tendered for an additional treatment line to treat 2.4 tons per double shift
by a process of autoclaving and shredding. The selected autoclave waste discharge meets European standards for sterility and can be disposed to an engineered Municipal landfill. The waste when treated is unrecognisable and sterile and suitable for landfilling. The selected unit is a model T 1000 from Ecodas.
The life of the incineration plant is expected to be a further 5-7 years by which time the national industrial waste facility shall have incineration capability for those goods which cannot be autoclaved, mainly pharmaceuticals.
Once there is an alternative incineration plant for hazardous waste, the existing HCW incineration plants may be replaced by shred autoclave systems. However, this will depend on the logistics of waste transport as the main centre of waste in Muscat may have moved to Barka and the new Medical City, at which point there may be an economical case for relocating the treatment to Barka engineered landfill or nearby.
The operational date of the additional treatment shred autoclave plant was August 2014 at which time the plant capacity is upward of 7.9 tonnes per day (14 -16 hours).When the additional capacity comes on line at Al-Multaqa the plant will treat all healthcare waste from the Muscat Governorate, Al-Dhakliya, and North and South Al-Sharqiya Governorates subject to timing for repairs to the incinerator lines.
Figure 3 : Waste loading system for HCW incinerator
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The T1000 Ecodas autoclave in Muscat
The facility utilises a system of 660 L and 240 L lockable waste containers (or bins) to collect waste from the healthcare institutions in Muscat Governorate.
New facilities outside MuscatThe scope is to develop a national system for all of Oman for management of Healthcare Waste by taking into consideration appropriate, safe, and cost effective methods for collection, transport, treatment, storage and disposal.
To this end plans have been put in place for:• Additional plant at Al Multaqa to serveAl-Dhakliya, North and South Al-Sharqiya Governorates and the whole Muscat Governorate. This has now been installed but has been overtaken by a huge increase in waste received from Ministry of Health. • NewplantinDhofarGovernoratetoserveSalalah and all producers in Dhofar• NewplantinSohartoserveAl-Buraimi,Al-Dhahira, North and South Al-Batinah• PlansforinclusionofHCWtreatmentplant
and system in Musandam, Jabel Akhdar to be included in the Municipal systems• Plans for thecollectionofwaste in theAl-Wusta Governorate for treatment or transfer at the facilities for Duqum
• Plans to provide recommendations for thelong term sustainability of the system. This now includes recommendations for an additional treatment plant in Barka to absorb the additional loads from Healthcare expansion.
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Its main purpose is to produce valuable fuel for nationally and internationally operating cement manufacturers from domestic, household and industrial waste. In this process, the hydraulically powered FineCut 2500 single-shaft shredder made by WEIMA Maschinenbau GmbH, from Ilsfeld, Germany, forms a central element and is used on-site as part of the final shredding process.On weekdays, around 130 tonnes of waste are delivered to the Brest waste disposal facility, covering an area of 4 hectares. As a result, the facility’s monthly waste processing volume totals in excess of 2,500 tonnes and consists mainly of industrial and local household waste collections. Anything in all the trash cans around Brest ultimately ends up at the “Centre de Tri” operated by Recycleurs Bretons.
First of all, it is necessary to initially shred materials to then separate and sort the waste and make it suitable for fuel production. Wood with wood, plastic with plastic, metal with metal, paper with paper, etc. In Brest, this is done in many different ways. The facility uses sorting drums, overhead conveyor magnets and cutting-edge air separators to efficiently separate even the smallest material fragments. However, not everything can be done fully automatically. For this reason, employees monitor the material flow on conveyor belts to be able to manually react to any issues during sorting. In this process, it is particularly important
to separate so-called impurities, such as large rocks. This is intended to safeguard the homogeneous character of the RDF material flow, but also counteract increased wear during shredding.
After separation, the last step is to retrospectively shred the materials using the WEIMA FineCut 2500 single-shaft shredder. Its particularly fine-grained output meets the increasing demand for higher RDF qualities. The specially developed FineCut rotor is ideally suitable to retrospectively shred materials thanks to its aggressive infeed response.
The 30-tonne waste shredder is driven by an innovative Hägglund Bosch-Rexroth hydraulic unit with an output of 250 kW. Hydraulic drives bring about one, crucial
advantage: they are not fitted with a traditional transmission unit which would normally be subject to wear caused by impacts, the units can react quicker and are less susceptible to impacts caused by impurities, such as metal fragments.Hydraulic drives also operate very efficiently at high cutter forces, as is the case when shredding PP, filaments, multi-filaments or big bags, thanks to their high torque and initial breakaway torque. Hydraulic drives also score high with regard to their flexibility. The rotor speed can be set continuously and for this reason, the shredder can be ideally configured to match the material for shredding, regardless of hard or soft, solid or fibrous.
This is how WEIMA shredding technology contributes to producing refuse-derived
Shredding industrial waste in Brittany, France
“Les Recycleurs Bretons” has been one of France’s leading waste disposal companies for the past thirty years. 2013 saw the inauguration of a regionally operating and contemporary waste recycling plant situated on the outskirts of the historical coastal town of Brest, in the heart of proud Brittany.
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fuels at the Brest facility in two shifts. The fuel ultimately ends up in the incinerators of renowned cement manufacturers. Jean-Michel Abiven, Production Manager at “Les Recycleurs Bretons”, positively reflects on the first year of operation, “the WEIMA shredder is extremely durable and fully meets our requirements. Regular maintenance is paramount. Consequently, we are able to safeguard an efficient production.”
About WEIMAThe WEIMA Group has been building shredding machines for almost 30 years for a wide range of applications with customers in the plastic, wood and recycling industry from all over the world. The WEIMA Group has about 170 employees around the world with sales locations in Europe, North and South America and Asia. The production range includes single-shaft shredders, four-shaft
shredders, granulators, briquette presses and systems including accessories.
WEIMA Maschinenbau GmbHContact:JörgTöpfer,SalesDirector,Bustadt6-1074360Ilsfeld(Germany).Tel.+49-(0)7062-9570-0,Fax+49-(0)[email protected]
ALIAT FZ-LLC is the local office of both companies in the Middle East. For inquiries or any questions, WEIMA and MAS can be contacted through: [email protected]
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The unique MAS conical co-rotating twin screw extruder enables recycling and compounding in one step, for example compounding of 70% LDPE film flakes with 29% CaCO³ powder and 1% Masterbatch. The final product is a perfectly homogenized, melt filtrated and degassed non-comparable recycled pellet for a specific customer or market.
The unique process characteristics make the MAS extruder also a perfect solution for processing PET. Lowest shear in combination with a short dwell time due to the short process length of the MAS extruder result in a supreme quality product with lowest AAvalues, bright colours and lowest IV-drop. The MAS extruder is applicable in the production
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DRD dry cleaner and DRD dryer: The first advantage of the water-free cleaning method is the significantly lower investment in comparison to a conventional washing line. Additionally, the water-free functionality eliminates the necessity to obtain legal authorisations for installation of the equipment and eliminates operational costs for the process
water → filters, chemicals, heating and disposal of sewage. The DRD dry cleaner perfectly removes solid contamination like sand, dust or soil as well as moisture up to 20%. The DRD turns waste materials like PP raffia bags, LDPE agricultural or industrial film into valuable raw materials which can be further extruded and pelletized, for example.
Apart from the dry cleaning function, the DRD can be also be used for highly efficient drying of wet plastics, for example after a conventional washing line.
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Many people around the world think that “Recycling” is a new phenomenon...
It is not. Whilst it may be the buzz word - the band wagon that politicians and bureaucrats want to jump on to - metals recycling has been around for thousands of years. Man has been reusing precious raw materials more than once since time immemorial.
But things have probably changed more in this global industry over the last 20 years than over the previous 2000.
The advent of high tech equipment has meant that the physical handling of metal scrap has been revolutionised and is far less labour intensive than in years gone by. As a result new types of products and the ability to extract even more valuable elements from this valuable form of raw material have been realised.
However, perhaps one of the most dramatic and often unseen changes to the trade of metals worldwide is as a result not of the advent of ingenious and well designed handling machinery or even handheld testing “guns”...but as a result of the revolution that has affected the whole world…the dramatic technological revolution ensuring that information is now available to every single person on planet earth who has access to a computer and the internet.
Making money out of people’s ignorance is a thing of the past - for there is no longer any ignorance in the metals recycling industry...everyone knows everything...!!!
If you are in the middle of a South American jungle or a desert in Africa - providing you can get a signal - you can get a live feed to the LME or your Forex broker-or chase your Chinese or Indian customer for his latest scrap prices.
Notwithstanding that - what is happening in the world of recycled metals and what is the outlook?
Since the financial crisis of 2008-the world of recycled metals has come to rely even more on the age-old adage - “My word is my bond” and the relationship between buyer and seller and the trust built between contractual parties has come to be a critical feature of daily trade.
After buyers - including some large and substantial companies - reneged on their contractual obligations as markets plummeted in 2008 - sellers only wanted to trade with those companies they knew and trusted… and that has to a great extent continued. “Know you customer” has become a well heard phrase.
So non-ferrous contracts fixed on the LME became more common ensuring that fixed price material did not arrive in ports across the world at a time when the market was tumbling. Similarly, many sellers started to ask for deposits at the time of contract, ensuring that the buyers had a commitment to a contract irrespective of market movements. This meant even more trust between the parties.
As a result this and the increased cost of compliance worldwide with local and international environmental licensing - means the barriers to entry in the industry have grown and few new trading companies have been able to start up in the last few years.
One other major issue in the recent years has been the growth - or perhaps explosion is a better word - in environmental controls and legislation covering so called “waste” which of course encompasses our secondary raw material-recycled metals.
“It is essential that recycled materials are allowed to flow freely around the world in what is a truly international market”
Robert Andrew Voss CBE By Robert Andrew Voss CBE
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This is something that is not going to reduce in coming years as the world seeks to tidy up its bad environmental behaviour of past years although often whilst relevant to the Waste industry - the legislation is less relevant to the recycled materials industry which has become trapped - nowhere more so than in the EU.
Another issue which is seen as a growing problem is the attempts by a number of countries to hinder the free flow of our raw materials around the world and the implementation of the “proximity principal” by a number of states-often under the guise of “environmental legislation” but most often having a commercial reason in the background.
It is essential that recycled materials are allowed to flow freely around the world in what is a truly international market.
How many other industries can say that every country on the planet produces its products and at the same time every country on the planet consumes its products? We - the recycled metals industry - can say that with certainly. And that must be allowed to continue to ensure that recycling is allowed to (and encouraged to) grow worldwide and that material finds its best market to be consumed in the best manner at the world market price.
Despite all these external pressures, our industry suffers - perhaps more than most -from the dramatic industrial and financial swings effecting world markets.
As the development in China and India slows down, as Japan creeps back into recession, as parts of Europe tinker on the brink of another precipice, as USA continues to print money to try and spend it’s way back to the good times - as tensions rise in the world’s hotspots-so the demand for metals, and especially secondary raw materials - i.e. recycled metals suffers dramatically and sales become more restricted, prices fall and the flow of business is interrupted. Less confidence means less consumption means less production means less demand.
We find ourselves in such a position at this time in both ferrous and non ferrous metals and we have not seen demand generally so low across the globe for many many years.
Let us hope 2015 brings renewed activity and the world starts to wake up again from its recent slumber. And the unusual aspect of the situation this time is that it seems to be across the globe (possibly with the exception of USA) that demand has shrunk dramatically.
One area of growth in the industry is theft…!Not only the “micro” thefts such as lead from church
roofs or cables from railway lines - but we have seen the recent growth of organised crime in the guise of theft of containers of copper scrap worth in excess of $150,000 on a regular and well coordinated basis. One problem with trading a commodity which is so readily saleable worldwide at an international price and being almost unidentifiable is that the criminal element in society sees this industry as easy pickings.
Where is the industry going in the coming years?
There is no doubt that recycling will continue and will grow around the world. There is also no doubt that many countries will continue their development in years to come. Will China stop developing its infrastructure? Of course not. Will India not continue to develop into a major world economy? Of course not. Will the demand for automobiles globally be reduced? Of course not.
So demand will come back and flows will continue (as long as there is no national or international interference) but as this industry is often referred to as “The Pendulum of The Economy”- we swing and others follow.
But predictably the growth of legislation and controls around the world as well as thefts both Macro and Micro may also continue their expansion.
More of the developing countries will start to produce their own recycling infrastructures as products, automobiles, buildings, etc. reach the end of their life and have to be scrapped. So, for example, we are already seeing the growth of a domestic scrap industry in China which will certainly grow in the next few years. That may lead to less demand for imported scrap which will have to find new markets as production flows increase.
There is no doubt that the number of individual collection and processing facilities in the Western World has seen a dramatic reduction in the last couple of years, and that too is likely to continue as the economies of scale become more critical in the industry.
But the “Pyramid of Scrap” will not change… it will just have fewer players involved.
The industry that has been in existence for thousands of years - is here to stay for many more - albeit always in a changing guise.
Let us hope that swing is upward from now on.
The author, Robert Andrew Voss CBE (Commander of the Order of The British Empire) is Chairman-Voss International Ltd; Immediate Past President-Eurometrec; Chairman-BIR International Trade Council; Chairman-BIR Arbitration Committee; Board Member BIR Non Ferrous Board
Another issue which is seen as a growing problem is the attempts by a number of countries to hinder the free flow of our raw materials around the world.
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Renault Trucks unveils new range of trucks for Middle East markets •Foreseesdoubledigitgrowthintheregionfor2015•Settodeliver190trucks-CandDranges,inQatar
Renault Trucks unveiled their new range of trucks for the Middle East market, choosing Doha as their launch platform. The new C, K and D ranges were introduced to industry professionals in a dramatic manner at a glittering ceremony held at the Diplomatic Club against the backdrop of The Pearl-Qatar.
Over 250 industry professionals and officials from across the region attended the two-day event. Attendees were also invited to take part in workshops and test drive the new trucks around Losail International Motor GP Circuit track.
Following around eight years of development and rigorous testing in real time operational settings, Renault Trucks launched its new range in this market, including the distribution focused D range trucks, which it had introduced to the region earlier this year with a revamped model.
The company is putting in great efforts in the Middle East which has “great potential” with five of the seven
largest oil producing countries located in this region, said Lars-Erik Forsbergh, President, Renault Trucks Middle East.
These countries with a fairly strong economy are developing tremendously, with a lot of construction activity in the UAE, Qatar, Oman, KSA, and countries like Iraq rebuilding and developing their infrastructure. Everything needs to be transported, he said. “...And we want to be part of this development.”
“Our ambition is to be among the top three brands in the Middle East” he noted, adding that it’s quite tough because they’re up against
the best in the business. “But it’s definitely possible; In Qatar we are one of the three leading brands on the market.”
The President of Renault Trucks Bruno Blin, who flew in from France for the event said, “We are very happy because we are involved in intense launch activity. And something very special is that we received the international truck of the year award 2015. We see that the Middle East has a great future and is full of opportunities, also with Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup, World Expo 2020 Dubai, etc., coming up, we want to be a part of this
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After about a decade of development and rigorous testing in real environments, Renault Trucks introduced its C, K and D ranges to the Middle East market at an impressive launch event in Doha, Qatar, also giving the attendees a chance to get behind the wheel of this new range of trucks and get a real feel for the performance and handling of these vehicles. Waste & Recycling Middle East travelled to Doha to experience first-hand their capabilities.
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adventure and want to increase our activity and participation.”
The French manufacturer has invested heavily in the development of the trucks to deliver the highest possible level of reliability, with the most rigorous endurance tests the company had ever carried out, according to the company. So the new range is fully adopted to operate under extreme conditions as required by this region, especially in terms of weather conditions and challenging terrain.
They’ve developed this whole new range over the last eight years and spent some 2 billion euros on this range, with about 5,000 people involved in the process.
And surely these vehicles have been rigorously tested for about 5 million hours and the trucks have made some 15 million kilometers with different customers around the world to actually verify the quality and functions of the trucks.
Over the past two years, the trucks have been tested by 50 customers worldwide in real life setting. In the Middle East, one truck has been running in Oman, used by Oman Rocks quarry for heavy duty work for about a year, touching around 100,000 km over the 12 months in very demanding conditions.
“Oman presents the type of extreme conditions in terms of heat and topography that are ideal to test a truck to its limits. The new Renault Trucks ranges performed extremely well with no issues reported. This is vital for businesses that need to be able to rely fully on their vehicles for maximum productivity,” said Forsbergh.
This whole range has undergone rigorous in-house tests. Thierry Hours,
Vice Presidentin charge of renewing the construction and long distance ranges, explained the development process including the several series of tests carried out under extreme conditions. As part of the test Renault ran 300 units 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for over three years, said Hours. As a result the range has been proven to withstand temperatures ranging from -40°C to 60°C. In this context, he said the Airbus A350 was tested in temperatures spanning -40°C to 45°C. And this range has undergone 5 million hours of tests equal to 1,000 flights from Earth to Mars.
The C and K ranges set new standards in terms of robustness and productivity, and with the capacity to accept a variety of body types, says Renault. Each model can easily be adapted to a wide range of applications and customer demands found within the distribution and construction segments.
For instance, options in the C range vary from that of construction to long haul or
waste management, and this range will enter the market with two options of cabin width, 2.3 and 2.5 m, both of which are designed for specific jobs. The 2.3 m is built for distribution and deliveries while the 2.5 m cab is for long haul, light construction and heavy distribution.
“In developing the C and K ranges, we have deployed significant resources to ensure these vehicles deliver maximum reliability,” Bruno Blin said.
“Each range has undergone rigorous quality trials and has also been exhaustively field tested under actual operating conditions. Ruggedness, driver comfort, payload, pulling capacity, and easy body mounting are the features which set these trucks apart and make these the perfect tools for demanding businesses,” he continued.
“The Renault Trucks C range offers superior driver comfort, exceptional reliability and optimal fuel efficiency, making it ideal for both long-haul and certain construction applications. The K range offers new standards in durability and robustness. The front bumper is 100% steel with headlamp protection and has models that suit the harsh demands of the construction industry.”
Herve Bertrand, Director of Design and creator of the new range, said, “This original design, as well as the attention paid by the Hall of Design teams to the sides of the vehicles, has added a great deal of dynamism to the new ranges.”
The cabs on the C and K offer great on-board comfort. The ergonomic steering wheel, with three-position adjustment, as
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well as the 200mm range of seat adjustment, offers drivers a perfect driving position and more space to relax. The dashboard is easily accessible and is equipped with several controls (electrical and automatic parking brake, differential locks, Optidriver transmission, etc.) for enhanced driving comfort and simplicity. The driver also has rotating buttons to hand and buttons that can be located as required, to customise the driving position and meet particular needs.
In order to cover all customers’ demands, the manufacturer has also refreshed its Distribution range (D-Range) and kept the Kerax model for extremely demanding applications. Along with the reliability and quality of the previous vehicles, the new D Range has evolved with improved ergonomics and adopted a more assertive design.
The company offers two models: the D cab 2.1m (from 13 to 18 tons) used mainly for distribution, delivery and Waste Management; and D WIDE (from 19 to 26 tonnes) ideal for medium distribution and delivery applications. The D Range will be equipped with Euro 3 engines, DXi 5 and DXi 7 with a power rating from 190 to 280 hp.
The D range also offers new interior fittings which improve on-board comfort and to meet the multiple needs of users, the auto maker is offering a broad choice of chassis and body mounting possibilities with a number of models dedicated to specific activities.
Renault Trucks fits, as optional, automatic transmissions which reduce fuel consumption, preserve the vehicle’s mechanical parts, limit maintenance costs
and enable drivers to fully focus on their driving. These trucks have been designed to easily access the narrowest areas, featuring a tight turning radius to facilitate maneuvering. The controls, located within easy reach are comfortable to use, with ample storage space and excellent visibility.
Renault Trucks has a dealer network in 13 countries in the Middle East with 36 service points around the region, and has seen steady growth over the past three years. The company also has a strong presence in the UAE, Dubai being the commercial hub for the brand. Qatar is one of the key markets with an expected growth of 30% between 2012 and 2015.
Renault Trucks which is well established in Qatar through its long term partner of 40 years, Al-Attiya Motors. They also inaugurated their new workshop on the
outskirts of Doha. There are more than 2000 Renault trucks in the country, said Forsbergh.
The manufacturer recently won a contract from Qatar’s Mechanical Equipment Department (MED) and is all set to deliver the first batch of 190 trucks of C and D ranges.
In Saudi Arabia, Renault along with its partner is building a new production plant in King Abdullah Economic City, north of Jeddah. Unique for Oman is the oil field applications where they require heavy duty trucks, and about 2000 Renault trucks are running at the moment with further investments planned for 2015.
The company sees great potential in Iraq where it recently opened a new production facility south of Baghdad containing a modern production line with a capacity upto 3000 trucks per year.
Highlighting their strong points including Renault’s financing capabilities, Renault’s Middle East President confidently said, “We have all the tools to succeed in this region and we foresee double digit growth for 2015. We are optimistic and of course, with this new range of trucks we are also strengthening our position in this segment.”
And why not? With ten years of dedication to the development of the vehicles, the whole new range boasts a strong bold design, robustness, reliability, comfort, fuel efficiency, safety, superior ergonomics, and proven capabilities. Looks like these truck ranges will surely live up to the expectations of the Middle East customers.
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The last few decades achieved almost unimaginable advances in computer technology, resulting in efficiency gains across all industries. Innovations in the field will continue and include ongoing improvements in hardware and data management systems, with the latter providing one of the largest opportunities and challenges to business. Capturing and organizing clean data and integrating it into systems that employ advanced algorithms to identify trends and recommend strategies is highly complex. This has been a top priority for companies striving to innovate in highly volatile, competitive, and low margin markets, like the metals industry. All technology platforms will vary in scope and complexity but serve the same purpose: mitigating risk and creating efficiencies. Systems today are capable of gathering pricing data from major metal exchanges like the LME, economic data such as PMI readings, company inventory, cash flow, transportation costs and other data sets, aggregating the information
for display on a management dashboard while running Monte Carlo simulations. Each of these systems has its unique challenges and is tailored to the operation of focus. An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system manages all departments across a company, and a Supply Chain Management (SCM) system focuses specifically on sourcing and manufacturing processes. Many advanced trading platforms used by hedge funds and other financial participants gather tremendous amounts of data from vendors in different industries that are then fed into algorithms that conduct analysis and make trading recommendations. Metal scrap yards may have systems that link their scales, invoicing/accounting, yard inventory and current market pricing for metals, providing managers a panoramic real-time view of company operations. Enterprises employing these types of systems will gain numerous advantages over their competitors that have not invested in these platforms.
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Each management system will display data differently and provide a distinct user experience, with the best platforms being simple and logical to use. Creating single screens (dashboards) that aggregate all relevant data for specific tasks saves the user time, as they do not have to navigate multiple sections of the platform. It also allows the user to make better decisions since the information determined to be most relevant for achieving a specific task or role is displayed in one location. MetalPrices.com provides the raw data that powers business intelligence systems for companies of all sizes across the globe. As a distributor of data feeds from numerous metal commodity exchanges, such as the LME, as well as a price aggregator for 700+ metal prices, MetalPrices.com’s data is of value to any metals professional responsible for tracking the value of metal commodities. The online subscription-based service provides a platform with tools that encourage productivity and market transparency. Our latest tool is a fully customizable dashboard, enabling users to add and arrange data from across the website on one screen. Another
tool very popular with our clients is an alloy calculator that pulls data from exchanges and our scrap and secondary metals database to calculate the market value of material containing multiple types of metal. The MetalPrices.com Real Time Data Client (RTD) allows users to stream any exchange feed or metal price from the website directly into Excel in real-time. MetalPrices.com also has a mobile application for smartphones and tablets, in addition to many other tools and functionality for metals professionals. Regardless of company size and budget, strong technology platforms can provide immense efficiency gains across individual departments and entire companies. They not only provide potential competitive advantages, but the return on investment is traditionally quick and well worth the effort.
Bryant Dulin is Director of Operations at MetalPrices.com. Patricia Cauley is Director, Business Development at the same firm.
Regardless of company size and budget, strong technology platforms can provide immense efficiency gains across individual departments and entire companies.
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BIR Convention: “Leading Expert Talk on Tyres Recycling”
The importance of driving market innovation and of pursuing end-of-waste status for products derived from end-of-life tyres (ELTs) was stressed by the speakers at “Leading Expert Talk on Tyres Recycling”, hosted by the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) during its recent World Convention in Paris (27-28 October 2014).
Cees van Oostenrijk, Director of Dutch ELT management organisation RecyBEM, argued that “innovation is needed” because demand for products derived from used tyres was growing “insufficiently fast”. On the positive side, he said, tyre producers were taking their ELT responsibilities much more seriously and were even approaching processors to ask how they might assist them better, according to BIR press release.
Touching upon innovation, Van Oostenrijk highlighted that the market needed “a breakthrough in devulcanisation”, a topic that was addressed specifically by fellow guest speaker Wilma Dierkes, Associate Professor at University of Twente in the Netherlands. Whereas processes such as pyrolysis generated a number of streams including gas, polymer fragments, oil and residues, devulcanisation produced a replasticised material “with a very high performance”, she explained. Work at her university had focused on the thermal devulcanisation of sulphur-vulcanised styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) and had already yielded some promising findings - for example, that oxidation stabilisers resulted in more efficient devulcanisation, especially at higher temperatures.
With regard to the continuing push for end-of-waste status within the European used tyre sector, outgoing BIR Tyres & Rubber Committee Chairman Barend Ten Bruggencate of the Netherlands argued that the necessary qualifying criteria were already met by casings suitable for retreading and also by granulates, powder and chips obtained from the processing of the rubber fraction from tyres. These criteria are: that a market or demand already exists; that there is no overall adverse environmental/human health impact; and that the end product is fit for the specific use, and meets existing technical and legislative requirements.
But despite recognising the “good relationship” and support for an “end-of-waste” regulation among all tyre industry stakeholders, BIR
Environmental & Technical Director Ross Bartley warned that the failure of a similar proposal for waste paper had “harmed the whole process” and bred caution within European Commission circles. While Bartley suggested this negative experience with paper had made securing end-of-waste status “a lot harder” for other streams, he also underlined, “It’s not impossible.”
The “Leading Expert Talk on Tyres Recycling” also featured presentations from Jean-Philippe Faure, Manager of Research & Development at French ELT management company Aliapur, and from Catherine Clauzade, Chair of Reevalu and of the CEN/TC366 technical committee addressing materials from used tyres. The former pointed out that the share of ELTs destined for energy recovery in France had jumped from around 48 percent in 2012 to almost 55 percent last year whereas material recycling from ELTs had slid from over 33 percent to a little over 28 percent. And the latter gave firm examples of how standards and standardisation could play a vital role in proving industry’s ability to “produce and reproduce a consistent quality product over time”, thus helping to free up markets that had previously been “blocked”.
New Chairman for BIR Tyres & Rubber Committee
End-of-waste status is “the way to go” for tyre recycling in Europe, according to Jean Pierre Taverne of the European Tyre & Rubber Manufacturers’ Association. Addressing the BIR Tyres & Rubber Committee meeting in Paris on October 28, he said such a move would eliminate the negative connotations linked to “waste” while improving recycled material’s competitive position.
On the issue of producer responsibility, Taverne noted that many of the end-of-life tyre schemes in Europe were exceeding 100 percent when comparing performance with obligations - a reflection, he said, of the persistent problem of “free riders”. The situation required “intervention from EU member states” and strengthened enforcement. He added that countries such as France and Italy were already imposing penalties on “those who put tyres on the market but don’t want to play by the rules”.
After almost two decades as Chairman of the BIR Tyres & Rubber Committee, Barend Ten
But despite recognising the “good relationship” and support for an “end-of-waste” regulation among all tyre industry stakeholders, BIR Environmental & Technical Director Ross Bartley warned that the failure of a similar proposal for waste paper had “harmed the whole process” and bred caution within European Commission circles.
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Advanced technology for tyre recycling
Bruggencate of VACO in the Netherlands stepped down at the Paris meeting. BIR World President Björn Grufman hailed him as a “great servant” both to the global recycling organisation and to tyre recycling. His successor as Tyres & Rubber Committee Chairman, Ruud Burlet of Rubber Resources in the Netherlands, began his tenure with a presentation on his own company. Tracing its roots back to 1956 and an initiative by Dutch tyre producer Vredestein to use recycled material in its compounds, Rubber Resources became totally independent
13 years ago and, in 2015, is scheduled to start up its third production line using NTE, or New Technology Extrusion. Advantages of this technology include: scope for higher processing temperatures; quicker internal cooling leading to “better physical properties”; and flexibility in handling different polymer types.
According to Burlet, the technology was also “scalable” in steps of 2500 tonnes and could be transferred to tyre recycling plant locations for faster growth and valorisation of know-how. “This fills a gap in Europe,” he stated.
As the limited petroleum resources are dwindling and the energy yield is low compared with the energy required for the production of tyres, thermal utilisation of end-of-life tyres neither makes sense ecologically nor economically. Under these premises, material recycling of the main components is the better alternative.
Material recycling of waste tyresIn order to recycle the tyre materials, the tyres
must be crushed and then the components-rubber, steel and textile fibres must be separated
completely. Normally, the tyres are pre-crushed in two-shaft shredders or rotor-cutters and afterwards processed to crumb and powder of different granular sizes in a single- or multi-stage grinding process.
The process that is possible with Kahl technology is “Warm grinding”, which takes place at ambient room temperature. For this reason it is also called “ambient grinding”. The tyre chips are crushed in fast running granulators or mills without being made brittle. By means of (cutting) granulators connected in series the product is reduced gradually to the requested
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granular size. The disadvantages of warm grinding with granulators are the high energy demand due to the use of several crushing phases as well as the relatively high wear of the granulator knives causing high maintenance and wear parts costs.
Tyre grinding with flat-die granulation mills
The supplied tyres are cut in a preliminary stage to a chip size of 50 to 100 mm. Via an intermediate buffer the chips are conveyed into the core component of the plant, the rubber grinding unit. Here the tyre chips are ground in a Kahl flat-die granulation press according to the pan grin¬der roller principle.
The tyre chips are ground between the cylindrical pan grinder rollers and the circular die designed as perforated plate. The shearing forces produced by the pan grinder rollers when rolling over the circular die as well as the pressing forces of up to 120 bar applied by an automatically regulable hydraulic system decompose the tyre parts and separate the different components. Unlike the traditional (cutting) granulators, the material is not reduced to small pieces by geometrically shaped cutting edges, but only by the shearing forces produced between the grinding tools and in the product. As a result, the wear of the grinding tools does not have any influence on the granulation result.
Conditioning of the ground productAfter grinding, magnets separate the uncovered
steel wires and steel/rubber compounds. In a first screening phase, fines smaller than 8mm are separated and conveyed to the crumb cleaning system. The coarse frac¬tion and the steel/rubber compounds are returned to the granulation press, the quantity of the returned material depending on the particle size spectrum of the requested product.
After granulation, the ground product is classified according to customer requirement and cleaned in fractions in a multi-stage sorting and sifting system. Metal separation is effected in magnetic drums, classification by means of screens. Final sifting for separation of textiles and minerals is realized by means of zigzag sifters and table separators. Depending on the requirements of the customer, the cleaned crumb can be packed in small or big bags. Alternatively, it can also be stored in silos for bulk loading in tank trucks or containers.
The modular system is designed for a plant capa¬city of 2.5 t/h per granulation press in three-shift operation. This corresponds to a throughput of up to 15,000 t/a for one line. By mounting several modules in parallel, the plant capacity can be increased almost at random.
Wide range of application for productsApart from the high degree of purity of the
rubber crumb and meal, the process also excels by the very pure steel fraction obtained as final product. With a maximum residual impurity of three percent rubber and textiles in the steel, for the first time prices of clearly more than 100 Euro/t can be reached with the steel fraction. This high-quality steel is used in blast furnaces for steel production or recently as additional concrete reinforcement for the construction of buildings.
The rubber crumb obtained by warm grinding has a much larger specific surface than the cold-ground crumb. Rubber crumb and meal are used in different fields of application. They are used as filler in the caoutchouc industry, for example. Thus material costs can be reduced and the production process simplified.
With the addition of PU binders, the material can also be pressed to protection mats for playgrounds and sports surfaces. Another possibility is the addition to topsoil which improves the compaction and drainage behaviour of heavily trampled lawns. When adding plastic crumb, such as recycled thermoplastics, instead of PU binders, elastomer compounds can be produced in special extrusion pro¬cesses. By means of extrusion or injection moulding, a large number of products can be produced from these materials. Warm-ground rubber meal is particularly appropriate for this purpose.
When added to asphalt, the asphalt properties for road construction are improved, as the rubber asphalt reduces noise emissions by up to nine decibel. Besides, the temperature stability of the road surface increases, so that the formation of lane grooves in summer and frost cracks in winter is reduced.
The application possibilities, particularly for warm-ground crumb, are numerous. But they are only efficient when using an economic granulation process.
Advantages of the Technology• Compactconstructionsize• Reducedmachineexpenditureduetosingle-
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costs of 5 Euro/t• Highthroughput• Fastandsimpletoolchange• Automaticadjustmentofthegrindinggapby
means of the hydraulic system• Automaticlubrication• Noiseemissionlevelbelow85dB(A)• Productioncostsofabout40€/t
Rubber crumb and meal are used in different fields of application. For instance, they are used as filler in the caoutchouc industry.
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In the month of November, the downward trend continues in European prime plastic prices. Some of the prime producers tried to keep the prices stable, but Ethylene and Propylene prices fell by almost Euro 70 per ton from October, hence they did not succeed. Most of the producers reduced their prices in the range of Euro 30 to 50 per ton in different polymers. Crude oil prices were also on downward trend. In the beginning of November it was at USD85 per bbl as compared to the level of USD95 per bbl at the beginning of October, and by the end of month it reached about USD70 per bbl. In in last two months it has come down by almost 25 per cent.
Asian prime plastic prices were also on downward trend. Prices in South East Asia were having a premium over North East Asia. Ethylene and Propylene prices fall by almost USD 70 in North but in South it was around USD 15, which brought both markets almost at par. Most of the producers reduced prime prices by USD 20 to 50 per ton. Especially Polystyrene had a big reduction compared to other polymers which was in three digit figure.
European plastic scrap prices should have gone down, but there was no reduction in scrap prices. In fact prices went up a little bit due to less availability of raw materials with a constant demand. Most of the suppliers/collectors complained of less collection over the last few months. Despite the falling oil prices and prime plastic prices, scrap got treaded at higher prices than in the month of October. The weakened Euro helped exporters in keeping their costs down. They were able to pay higher prices to suppliers for the raw material.
In beginning of November, Asian recyclers were also strong in buying as there was not much material in warehouses. The demand for plastic scrap was good so prices did not reduce and remained at the same level as of the previous month. In the second half of November where crude oil reached as low as USD 70 bbl, recyclers started feeling the pressure that fundamentally prices might go down so many of the recyclers started reducing their buying prices.
Since the beginning of December
European and Asian prime plastic prices continued their downward trend. Ethylene and Propylene prices have reached to lowest level in the past two years. Crude oil prices have reached almost USD 64 per bbl which will lead to further reduction in prime plastic prices. Most of the converters in Europe have reduced their buying to finish their stock as they are approaching Xmas and New Year holidays. But they are expecting a reduction of Euro 50 to 100 per ton by end of year. Asian converters also expect prices to go further down in the end of December by USD 70 to 100 per ton.
Now European plastic scrap prices are showing some softness. Asian buyers have reduced their procuring and started reducing the prices of plastic scrap. This will bring some pressure in European market to let the prices go down but the coming Xmas and New Year holiday in Europe may defer this pressure to January. If falling crude oil prices and prime prices will not show any correction, there will be a strong reduction in plastic scrap prices in the upcoming period.
Sea freight from European main ports to Asia is still going down. In November the freights have gone down by USD 75 to 100 compared to the month of October. Availability of empty containers is normal. One of the reasons of downward trend of freight is the serious reduction in crude oil prices. The freight levels in December are the same as in November and we expect stability in freight unless oil prices drop further.
Performance of Plastic November–DecemberReport
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COMMENT
At the beginning of this month I travelled to Indonesia to make a presentation to the paper industry there about Strengthening the Indonesian Paper Value Chain by Empowering all Stakeholders. The Indonesian Government is keen to move away from being a producer of primary products and into the production of value added products. In the paper industry this means the end products for their mills and pulp. For a long time the Indonesians have been substantial buyers of ONP from the UK, but this is declining both because there is less available in the UK and a global decline in end markets for the newspaper mills. Discussions were wide ranging but returned to familiar subjects quality of secondary materials and how can it be controlled and price of both primary and secondary raw materials.
Indonesia has a long established overseas quality control system operated by their mills, and concerns were expressed that the costs for this were being borne by the mills. To me there seemed much overlap in the ambitions of the Indonesian mills and the Chinese mills and in fact the mills of every nation using recovered paper as their raw material. They wish to be secure in the knowledge that they are buying wood fibre and not water or some other material, which although
potentially of value is a problem for the receiving mills. As it was an exhibition as well as a conference, the other feature was the number of stands filled with familiar names of paper machine manufacturers. They mentioned that the current trend was not to buy brand new machines but rather extend the life of current machines by refurbishing them.
So there is a common material being used in common machines all over the world and common problems in policing that material. And yet, I do not hear anyone advocating that there should be either common global standards applied to that material, or common global methods of measuring and verifying those standards. If anything, the US and European standards are diverging and the Chinese are looking to introduce their own and yet there could be such cost savings from harmonising those standards. Not only in promoting those standards but also policing them. The Chinese and Indonesian mills would not need separate quality controllers. They could use the same one hence avoiding duplication and the potential for standards competition where one supplier after being rejected by one of the quality controllers tries the same material with the other one to see if it can sneak through. So too could the Indians, the Vietnamese, the Koreans and many, many more, this is a global industry.
The discussion then moved to price and the erosions in price that were occurring for recovered paper as a result of the squeeze on demand from China, although exports from the UK to China have continued to increase, which slightly defies this trend, and the desire to shift back to a higher primary content. This
is reinforced by some very competitively priced pulp being available. Furthermore Indonesia is a substantial exporter of pulp globally and manages to combine this with being a substantial importer of recovered paper. Among all the technological advances that are being proposed by the industry might one of them be to develop machinery that can be switched swiftly between different forms of raw material without any deterioration of quality of the end product? Would that give a greater degree of flexibility with which to manage the costs of raw material which represent, according to one of the other presenters, up to 40% of the operational costs of the mill. In comparison, energy represented some 15% and yet far more effort was being placed in managing this cost!
Similarly, no consideration was being put into the financial savings of more efficient inventory management. It is very clear that imports will still be required for some time as domestic collections are insufficient and may never be sufficient to sustain current mill production. So the inventory is partially at sea. With letters of credit being required to purchase imported recovered paper that means effectively funds are held in limbo throughout the shipping process, some 8 weeks from Europe, would it not be more efficient to operate through a central clearing house where payments are made on delivery of the material and contracts are secured by bonds?
Should not the paper industry be thinking about these issues now on a global scale, or is it so busy dealing with day to day problems that it cannot see the wood from the trees?
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Angus Macpherson Managing Director, The Environment Exchange
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METAL BULLETIN
Dr. Sayed J. Hussain, CEO, Sayed Metal
Base Metals
OutlookBase Metals Decline on Deflation Concerns
OverviewCommodities in general lost ground on continued strengthening dollar and drastic decline in oil. Copper crumbled to eight-month low with other base metals ending lower on month to month average. The ferrous complex similarly weakened. Likewise, precious metals also declined but managed to be relatively stable. With oil declining 10% in just two days and dollar showing growing optimism put equity markets in USA to yet another record high.
Base metals are vulnerable to slowing world economies particularly macro data coming out from China is worrying
investors’ confidence, though China’s multiple mini-stimulus package has not helped yet. Aluminium is particularly affected by growing Chinese product exports which is adding surplus in physical markets.
The weak macro numbers coming from Europe, China and Japan could impact US growth modestly. The China central bank cut its one year deposit by 0.25% to 2.75%, a move for the first time in two years. China has also relaxed the lending policies and increased the loan-to-deposit ratios. The real estate prices are declining and thus demand for based metals are estimated to decelerate in the coming months.
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CopperCopper hit an eight-month low due to crumbling oil price along with China related growth concerns. Despite the drop in lending rates from China for the first time in two years copper prices fell USD200/MT on the last day of the month. Chinese policy makers has indicated more rate cuts in coming months, though it has not revived the confidence in investors yet. ICSG reports that July was 40,000MT surplus and August 83,000MT surplus mounting pressure on copper prices. Prices will be on down trend mainly due to strengthening of the dollar, lacklustre world economies and poor technicals. Support is seen at 6321USD and resistance at 6650USD in December. During 2015, prices are forecasted to trade between 6000USD to 7450USD averaging around 6600USD. On the supply side, stocks remain tight with all LME, COMEX and SHFE at 265,000MT in September. Similarly Chinese bonded warehouses is at 550,000MT which is low for 23 million MT trading market. Should the concentrates constrain due to natural or logistic issues it could spur the prices next year.
Lead Lead put in the second worst performance among base metals mainly due to China now being a net exporter of refined lead. ILZSG reported a 12,000MT surplus during the first nine months of this year. However, stock-to-consumption ratio is 2.7 weeks which is a strong reason to keep prices resisting at 1950USD. Global demand for refined lead is projected to rise from 1% - 2% according to various reports. However, short-term prices are affected by secondary lead supply which continues to flow in healthy levels.2015 will see a balanced year for lead with price ranging from 1800USD to 2350USD with average of 2150USD.
ZincLike most metals, zinc lost substantially due to collapse in oil prices. Nevertheless there’s a decline in stock of about 30% YTD which is at several months low. ILZSG documents that there is 309,000MT deficit during first nine months of the year. Interestingly the stock-to-consumption ratio has also tightened to 6.2 weeks. The declining Chinese realty market and slowing of global car sales are practically suggesting additional physical zinc. The most important variable in deciding the prices for next year is Chinese real estate industry and its policy which has weakened the demand for construction. 2015 should see prices trading at 1940USD to 2575USD with average around 2350USD.
Aluminium During November, trading prices are within 80USD range giving aluminium a fairly stable position across the board. Significantly the LME inventories are continuously declining stands at minus 21% from the start of the year. Due to backwardation the metal is now trading at premiums in physical markets. Once again, China is playing a major role by increasing output by 7% from 2013 level. Even small plants like Aldel of Holland overcame bankruptcy suggesting that even inefficient smelters are projecting profits at these price levels. Smelters in China are heavily subsidised and cheap loans are steaming the growth output which is projected to be around 6% next year. Having said that, it means more than half of the Chinese smelters are operating at a loss, which most probably would not be sustained by China policy makers.
NickelNickel ore shortage due to Philippine monsoon season has hit nickel prices to multiple weeks high. Meanwhile, Chinese low stockpiles have added pressure on supply concerns. Chinese imports for September and October have been on decline trend suggesting the tightness in market and therefore explaining the price rise. INSG reports a 16,800 MT surplus in September while last year the same period was 15,500 MT surplus. December will see an increase in prices due to uncertainty on supply side. Q1 of 2015 will see solid demand as Philippine monsoon season will hit its peak. 2015 prices will fall to 13,800USD levels with highs of 22,000USD mainly due to insecure ore supply. Indonesia ore supply could play wildcard thus dampening the bullish run.
[Disclaimer :This commentary does not purport to be an exhaustive analysisandmaybesubjecttoconflict.Thisreportdoesnotconstitutearecommendationortakeintoaccounttheparticularinvestmentobjectives,financialconditions,orneedofindividualinvestor/trader.Issuedate30November2014.]
* Source: LME, Bloomberg, Reuters, Sayed Metal Commodity Risk Analysis
AluminiumCopperLeadZincNickelTin
Base Metals Price ForecastLME Cash(USD/MT)
2014 Q1(Actual)1,7087,0412,1062,02914,64322,648
2014 Q2(Actual)1,7986,7872,0962,07318,46523,163
2014 Q3(Actual)1,9876,9942,1812,31118,57621,930
2014 Q4(Forecast)1,9406,7352,1202,35017,12520,650
2015 Q1(Forecast)1,9606,6002,1552,37018,10021,500
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TECHNOLOGY
During the last years the recycling sector grew from a niche market to a future market. The worldwide trend goes to creating a healthy environment. More and more countries and continents are under pressure to install future-oriented policies conserving resources and the environment. One which has experienced this development was Norbert Hammel. He continuously creates innovations and new technologies for the recycling sector. Under his management and owned by his wife Tetyana Hammel ARJES GmbH grew within seven years to a 100 people company. With more than 25 years of experience in the recycling industry, Tetyana and Norbert Hammel founded Arjes GmbH in 2007. They started with 19 employees in Thuringia. The combined goal in mind is improving the recycling sector with innovative technology and more efficient machines. The name Arjes stands for dynamic strength and constant development. The Arjes logo, with the battering ram with the ram’s head defies all obstacles and is a symbol of strength for the company employees and the machines, according to the company. During the course of rising environmental consciousness the requirement for suitable technology rises, too. Competition grows, on one side are the recycling companies that have existed since the beginning and on the other side are new companies. Arjes position in the market is strengthened through innovation that offers a high degree of technical and economic efficiency. Arjes top priority is to offer the clients the best products with
best performance and minimal service costs. Currently Arjes GmbH has eight different machine types. Fox example the shredder VZ 750 fascinates as a machine of many talents. It is suited for green waste, wood, industrial waste, domestic waste, scrap metal and much more. Three different material sizes offer the Arjes Biomaster, that shreds and screens in one step. The Arjes Biomaster was developed as an all-in-one-solution for different customers. The shredder VZ 850 and shredder VZ 950 offer higher throughputs with stronger engines for processing even the toughest material. The company’s large product palette allows customer specific variations and makes Arjes machinery even more attractive for customers looking for innovative and reliable recycling equipment, as per the company.
Recently, the Welsh scrap and demolition service provider has been successfully using a new Sennebogen 830 M with Vario Tool, according to Sennebogen. With scrap metal shears or multi-shell grab, the machine is the equipment of choice at the scrapyard and for demolition. The family-run company, Phoenix Metal founded in 1994 processes approximately 250 t of scrap every week at the Gwynedd location in Wales. Material from industrial and commercial operations, as well as from the surrounding households is delivered here daily. The machine is equipped with the Sennebogen Vario Tool, the fully hydraulic, multi-functional changing system that enables use of scrap metal shears and grapples on one machine. The advantages are evident for operator Elwyn Davies, Phoenix Metal. “We use the new Sennebogen 830 as multi-functional demolition machine. For the first time, with just one machine we can safely demolish industrial structures and structural steelwork on site with the attached scrap metal shears, and then also immediately load the material. As the operator, I can change the attachments on my own with the aid of the automatic coupling - this saves time and money.” The large 4.4 t Genesis XP 400 R scrap metal shears are particularly advantageous. The 830 M breaks down the material into easy-to-handle parts in preparation for subsequent further processing. The decision for an additional Sennebogen machine was not difficult for owner Alwyn Davies, due to the good experiences with the predecessor model. In particular, the functional Vario Tool, a reliable concept without complicated electronics with easy handling and maintenance,
convinced the responsible parties. “With the new Sennebogen 830 M E-Series, thanks to the Vario Tool system we have a multi-functional machine for demolition and scrap implementation. Whether on site at the implementation location, or at our scrapyard, the 830 M is always ideally equipped,” explains Elwyn Davies.The machine is equipped with a fuel-saving 164 kW diesel engine and the 13 m VT boom. From a height of 5.60 m, the comfortable, elevating Maxcab offers the operator an ideal overview of the work environment and the highest level of safety. Moreover, with optimized motor settings, Eco Mode, and idle stop automation, the 830 machine of the current E-series is decidedly fuel-efficient.
Innovative solutions from Arjes GmbH
Sennebogen 830 with Vario Tool at scrapyard
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