Recycling Today articles from January 2004

Recycling Today archives from January 2004

Collective wisdom.(Editor's Focus)
January 1, 2004... After years of coping with poor returns on collected recyclables, many municipal governments are pulling the plug on recycling programs just as commodity markets have heated up. Many of these cities (such as New York, Cincinnati and...

201 is deep-sixed.(Scrap Industry News)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... The Bush Administration has ended the Section 201 steel tariffs 16 months earlier than planned, primarily to avert a looming trade war with the European Union and other nations. In public statements, the administration said the tariffs had...

China rolls along.(Scrap Industry News)
January 1, 2004... China's industrial output grew 17.9 percent in November compared with figures for November of 2002, according to that nation's National Bureau of Statistics. In a statement summarized by the China News Daily of Beijing, the iron and steel...

Equity firm buys Tube City.(Scrap Industry News)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... A private equity firm based in Cleveland has purchased a majority interest in scrap processing and steel mill services company Tube City LLC, King of Prussia, Pa. Blue Point Capital Partners, with offices in Cleveland, Seattle and...

Delaware offers recycling grants.(Municipal Recycling)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC), in cooperation with the Recycling Public Advisory Council (RPAC), is accepting applications for the Recycling Assistance Grant Program for fiscal year 2004. ...

Recycling rate dips in Washington State.(Municipal Recycling)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... According to data collected by the Washington State Department of Ecology, the state's official recycling rate, as it is currently defined, fell to 35 percent, down 2 percent from 2001. The "official" rate does not take all materials into...

Order taking.(Ferrous)
January 1, 2004... In most businesses, order taking is considered a negative, implying passivity on the part of employees. But lately, ferrous scrap traders have barely been able to keep up with orders for scrap on the selling side and, in many cases, have had to...

Busy signals.(Nonferrous)
January 1, 2004... Earlier in 2003, when forecasters at events such as the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI) Commodity Roundtables, were predicting upcoming supply deficits for metals, it would have been difficult for manufacturers in North...

A tale of two markets.(Paper)
January 1, 2004... The paper stock market appears to be breaking out into two different markets: the domestic market, which has remained stubbornly flat, and the export market, which has boosted the overall condition for many paper stock grades. For paperstock...

Pet markets considered.(Plastics)
January 1, 2004... Speakers at the BIR Plastics Roundtable, which was held in Vienna in late October, said PET bottle recycling is a modern-day success story but still faces threats. Jan Snellenburg of Texplast GmbH, The Netherlands, said the impact of...

CCA wood remains hot topic.(C & D News)(chromated copper arsenate )
January 1, 2004... The fate of scrap wood treated with chromated copper arsenate (CCA) in Florida is being debated by the state's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). The agency is currently asking the recycling and solid waste industries to suggest best...

New home for winkle.(Equipment Report)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Winkle Industries/Winkle Magnetics has moved into a new corporate office and fabrication facility in Alliance, Ohio. The maker of lifting magnets and auxiliary equipment will operate from an 80,000-square-foot building that includes...

Genesis adds excavator packages.(Equipment Report)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Genesis Equipment & Manufacturing Inc., Superior, Wis., is now offering to procure excavators outfitted with one of its attachments for customers in the demolition and scrap markets. "We actively seek out the best excavator values available...

Reaching the peak: North America paper and building products companies aim high to close the paper recycling loop.(Top 20)
January 1, 2004... For centuries, the notion that paper was made from trees (or if you go back to ancient Egypt, from papyrus plants) was an indisputable observation similar to saying the sky was blue. But increasingly during the past few decades, the paper...

Filtering through: while oil filters are a valuable source of scrap steel, their recycling rate is hampered by a variety of obstacles.(Oil Filter Recycling)
January 1, 2004... The oil filter recycling industry was still learning to crawl in the Inid-1990s as it struggled to establish a reliable infrastructure. In the years since, the infrastructure has matured somewhat. According to several sources, the industry...

Shaking off the rust.
January 1, 2004... When our office took delivery of a new postage-metering machine, there were probably several worthwhile differences to note about the new machine compared to its predecessor. For someone thinking about basic materials consumption, however,...

Level best: the abrupt ending of Section 201 tariffs has put steelmakers in the U.S. back into a competitive but possibly healthier global market.
January 1, 2004... Not long after they took effect in March of 2002, the opposition to the Bush Administration's Section 201 tariffs for foreign-made steel came fast mad furious from overseas steel companies. Most foreign governments (some of which have an...

Analyze this: one scrap processor takes a step toward improving the occasionally contentious relationship between the scrap and steel industries with a new analyzer.
January 1, 2004... The scrap and steel industries are inexorably linked. Steelmakers rely on scrap suppliers for consistent, quality streams of ferrous scrap, and scrap dealers rely on the steady consumption of steel mills. The relationship can be turbulent, but...

Tight squeeze: secondary aluminum smelters struggle with tight scrap supply and higher pricing brought on by foreign competition.(related article on recycling industry in Lithuania )
January 1, 2004... It's difficult to be a secondary aluminum smelter in the U.S. Their margins are dwindling in light of foreign demand for obsolete aluminum scrap, which has served to escalate prices and constrict supply of this vital raw material. However,...

Ferrous scrap flow map.(Directory)
January 1, 2004... CANADIAN MILLS Altasteel Ltd. Edmonton, Alberta 375,000 T/yr. Gerdau AmeriSteel Whitby, Ont 960,000 T/yr. Gerdau Courtice Steel Cambridge, Ont. 360,000 T/yr. Gerdau MRM Steel Selkirk, Manitoba 385,000 T/yr. IPSCO Inc....

The right price: global demand that has been draining supply has moved copper's price to the high end of its trading range.
January 1, 2004... Even during the technology boom of the 1990s, some wondered whether fiber-optics and wireless technology would keep a permanent lid on copper demand and pricing. After the tech bubble burst, additional doubts set in about whether sales of...

Taking off: nickel alloys are in demand, while aircraft orders could help titanium take off. It appears as if the atmosphere for specialty metals is improving.
January 1, 2004... The aerospace industry is the bull in the high-temp and titanium alloy markets. If aerospace is asleep, any bull market in specialty metals is dead to the world, too. But put a bit of spark into aircraft, and the bull starts shaking in the...

Freight pinch: soaring freight rates could continue for the foreseeable future. How are the escallating costs affecting scrap metal recyclers and how will they deal with them?
January 1, 2004... The booming export market is creating a situation where the cost to ship material offshore is becoming more expensive. Prices encountered to ship ferrous scrap in particular have climbed sharply during the past year, with some reports that...

No scrap zone: Eastern Europe could be a helpful source of supply for a red-hot scrap market, but restrictive export strategies have in effect closed its docks to exports.
January 1, 2004... During the past 12 months, strong demand has created a surging market for a host of scrap metal grades. As the U.S. scrap industry struggles to process enough to sate the demand from a voracious global metals industry, one of the sources that...

Glossary of scrap and metals industry terms.(Glossary)
January 1, 2004... ANODE--A 99 percent pure form of copper that is typically sent through an electro-refining process for further purification, ultimately emerging as copper cathode. AUTOMOBILE SHREDDER--A style shredder large enough to shred whole cars into...

A directory of metals industry trade associations.(Directory)
January 1, 2004... THE ALUMINUM ASSOCIATION 900 19th St. NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006 Ph: (202) 862-5100 Fax: (202) 862-5164 Web site: www.aluminum.org ALUMINUM EXTRUDERS COUNCIL 1000 N Rand Rd., Suite 214 Wauconda, IL 60084 ...

To be continued: demolition projects continue to yield recyclables materials for savvy contractors.(Demolition Recycling Trends)
January 1, 2004... Those not as familiar with current demolition practices probably conceive of demolished buildings as large piles of rubble and debris that will soon head to a landfill. Not that many years ago, this simplified summary may have been true...

Goettsch International Inc.(People)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Charles R. Goettsch has announced his retirement as CEO of Goettsch International Inc., Cincinnati. As part of a corporate succession plan, company ownership will now transfer to his brother, company President Eric J. Goettsch. Charles...

Fund established for Harris's Musselwhite.(People)(Obituary)
January 1, 2004... A memorial fund has been established for the family of Dwain Musselwhite, a long-time employee of Harris Waste Management Group Inc.'s Cordele, Ga., facility, who passed away in 2003 after a long bout against cancer. "Dwain was a very...

SWANA.(Solid Waste Association of North America)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Liz Garavaglia has been appointed as marketing and public relations coordinator for the Solid Waste Assoc. of North America (SWANA), Silver Spring, Md. In her new role, Garavaglia will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the...

Calendar.(Calendar)
January 1, 2004... JAN. 18-20 Platts Aluminum Symposium, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Platts Metals Group, (866) 242-6310 JAN. 25 Blueprint for Package Marketing and Recycling Success, Miami, Assoc. of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers,...

Thermo alloy pro.(Products)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... * Billed as the smallest, most ergonomic x-ray fluorescence portable analyzer * Quickly and non-destructively identifies metal alloys * Weighs 1.7 pounds and measures 8 inches by 1.5 inches * Display consists of an HP iPAQ Pocket...

American Baler MPAC.(Products)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... * A low-cost alternative for low- to medium-volume producers of recyclable trim waste and converting scrap * High-quality, lower-production version of the PAC 4029 baler * Ideal for printing, boxboard and document destruction operations...

Poly-Trux 50P-16 recycling container.(Products)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... * From Meese Orbitron Dunne Co. * Features a lockable lid that secures sensitive documents during collection and storage * Durable, sliding, hinged lid * Enables compliance with the Administrative Simplification provisions of the...

Komatsu skid steer.(Products)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Model SK1020-5 is touted as the largest skidsteer available to the North American market * Features Automatic Power Control (APC), HydrauMind[TM] hydraulics and the only standard two-speed transmission in the industry * Available with...

Linde 39X series hydrostatic drive truck.(Products)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... * Model H25D/T with 5,000-pound capacity * Hydrostatic wheel motors reduce energy loss from friction * Uses less available engine power than earlier models thanks to the VW Audi overhead cam engines * Linde Truck Control System...

Survivor[R] ATV portable scale.(Products)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... * From Rice Lake Weighing Systems * Designed for heavy-duty vehicle weighing in quarries, asphalt plants, timber operations and road construction * Employs the G-Force[TM] mounting system, reducing stress and wear on mount assemblies...

Oregon Congressman has sole.(Back Page)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Congressman Peter A. DeFazio's office came in first place in the inaugural Oregon-Congressional Nike Reuse-A-Shoe drive on Capitol Hill. The National Recycling Coalition (NRC) and Oregon-based Nike Inc. sponsored the drive in honor of America...

Too good to toss?(Back Page)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... What do construction companies do with surplus supplies? What do demolition contractors do with useful items they encounter in buildings scheduled for demolition? What can homeowners do about sofas or leftover decking cluttering their garages?...

From the tires to turf.(Back Page)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... The Take the Field organization has dedicated a $2,5 million athletic facility for Flushing High School made in part from recycled car tires thanks to the support and innovation of Ford Motor Company and Recovery Technologies Group Inc. (RTG),...