Recycling Today articles from May 2004

Recycling Today archives from May 2004

A case of bad timing.(Editor's Focus)(recycling industry)
May 1, 2004... Criticisms of some municipal recycling programs have been building for years, as taxpayers have looked at their collection costs versus the income generated for collected commodities. Defenders counter that avoided landfill costs must also...

Steel mills trim prices.(Scrap Industry News)(Nucor Corp., Steel Dynamics Inc. to reduce raw material surcharges)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... According to published reports, both Nucor and Steel Dynamics Inc. are reducing raw material surcharges they have been putting in place as a way to pass high scrap costs on to customers. The cuts were set to take effect in early May. Nucor...

Schnitzer issues bright report.(Scrap Industry News)(sales and earnings of Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc., Portland, Ore., has reported both revenue and net income figures are up significantly from the same quarter of last year. For the quarter ending March 31, 2004 (the second quarter of Schnitzer's fiscal 2004...

Minneapolis awards recycling contract.(Municipal Recycling)
May 1, 2004... Minneapolis has selected BFI to handle its curbside recycling program. The company had been collecting recyclables for the city under a contract that expired at the end of April. The April 2 decision ended months of deliberations as the...

San Diego awards contract to ARCA.(Municipal Recycling)(Appliance Recycling Centers of America Inc.)(San Diego Gas & Electric Co.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... San Diego Gas & Electric has awarded Appliance Recycling Centers of America Inc. (ARCA), headquartered in Minneapolis, a contract to handle its appliance recycling program this year. ARCA expects to recycle 7,000 appliances under the contract....

NYC resumes glass recycling.(Municipal Recycling,)(New York City)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... New York City's residential recyclables collection program was expanded to once again include glass beginning April 1. Additionally, New York City's Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty announced the resumption of weekly recycling...

At the summit.(prices and rates of Ferrous scrap)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Scrap dealers throughout North America are reporting that by the end of March, mill buyers were unanimously making lower offers for ferrous deliveries. The consensus seems to be that a ceiling was reached in early March after a nine-month...

Global warming.(forecasts and trends of Nonferrous scrap metal industry)
May 1, 2004... News, statistics and orders placed from East Asia continue to point to strong demand for nonferrous metals. A reviving North American manufacturing sector may also be in the cards, as positive jobs data and strong corporate earnings reports...

Ingram leaves IMCO.(Nonferrous)(Don Ingram resigned, Richard Kerr and John Balkcom appointed)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Don Ingram, CEO of Imco Recycling Inc., Irving, Texas, has left the aluminum and zinc scrap-consuming company. In a mid-April, Imco announced that Richard Kerr, executive vice president and president of Imco's Aluminum Operations, has been...

Indian copper smelter reopens.(Nonferrous)(SWIL Ltd.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... After a six-year hiatus, a large copper smelter in Ahmedabad, India, has reportedly re-opened. Reuters reports that the SWIL Ltd. smelter has resumed production of LME Grade 'A' copper cathodes. According to the Rueter's report, the...

More, please.(supply and demand of scrap paper in U.S.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... North American consumers of scrap paper may finally be entering a phase of increased demand. A positive indicator of such a development came in the form of March summary statistics released by the Fibre Box Association, Rolling Meadows,...

Cascades acquires tissue mill.(Cascades Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Cascades Inc., Kingsey Falls, Quebec, has announced the acquisition of a tissue mill located in Memphis, Tenn. The idled assets purchased include a paper machine, converting lines and a de-inking pulp mill. The de-inking pulp mill was...

OCC forecast available.(Paper)(old corrugated containers)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... A multi-client report prepared by Moore & Associates, Atlanta, offers a forecast for old corrugated containers (OCC) prices between now and 2008. The ForeSight report looks at industry fundamentals affecting the supply of and the demand...

SPE acknowledges EREMA.(Plastics)(Society of Plastics Engineers)(EREMA GmbH)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... The Plastics Environmental Division of The Society of Plastics Engineers, Brookfield, Conn., has recognized EREMA Vacurema technology with its "Enabling Technologies in Processes & Procedures" award. The award was presented at the Marriott...

Petcore announces study results.(test on recyclable barrier technology)
May 1, 2004... Petcore, a European non-profit trade association fostering the economic collection, recovery and recycling of post-consumer PET containers in Europe, has released the results of its test on recyclable barrier technology. Last year Petcore...

AERT files year-end report.(Plastics)(Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies Inc., Springdale, Ark., has announced financial results for the year ended Dec. 31, 2003. Net sales were $43.5 million compared to $41.4 million in 2002--an increase of 5.1 percent. Net loss before...

Intel, national semiconductor to get the lead out.(Electronics Recycling)(Intel Corp., National Semiconductor Corp. to offer the lead-free technology)
May 1, 2004... Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif., has announced that it will begin eliminating approximately 95 percent of the lead it uses in its processors and chipsets later this year. Additionally, National Semiconductor, also headquartered in Santa Clara,...

Metech introduces recycling program.(Electronics Recycling)
May 1, 2004... Metech International, Mapleville, R.I., has introduced Recycle-A-PC (www.RecycleAPC.com), a program that aims to keep as much computer scrap out of the waste stream as possible. Metech says it has established a system of Accountable...

Maxus and Calgary partner for electronic roundup.(Electronics Recycling)(Maxus Technology)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Maxus Technology Inc., a Medinex Systems Inc. subsidiary, will partner with the city of Calgary for its 2004 eCycle Day Roundup. The event will take place later this year and will mark the second year in which Maxus will play an instrumental...

High capacity baling of recyclables.(Sierra high-capacity horizontal baler)
May 1, 2004... Evergreen Paper Recycling located in Fort Worth, Texas, was using a typical two-ram baler to bale approximately 5,000 to 6,000 tons per month of recyclable paper. This process required six days a week using two shifts. In an effort to be more...

NADC name change approved.(C & D News)(National Association of Demolition Contractors to National Demolition Association)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... The Board of Directors of the National Association of Demolition Contractors (NADC) has voted 14-3 to change the name of the group to the National Demolition Association. The March 28 vote reflects the results of a survey asking the...

Boralex hungry for scrap wood.(C & D News)(Boralex Inc.'s demand for clean demolition wood to run its biomass plants )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Wood fuel derived from demolition scrap will continue to find a home in New England if the Boralex subsidiary of Cascades, Kingsey Falls, Quebec, Canada, has anything to say about it. Eric Dumont of Boralex told attendees of the Maine...

All flights lead to Berlin.(BIR News)(Bureau of International Recycling to conduct 2004 BIR Spring Convention in Berlin )
May 1, 2004... The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) has reached record pre-registration for its 2004 BIR Spring Convention May 24-26 in Berlin at the Maritim proArte hotel. As of early April, more than 450 delegates from throughout the world have...

Wendt offers Stainless Separator.(Equipment Report)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... A 120-inch-wide Stainless Steel Separator manufactured in the U.S. is now available from Wendt/SSE. The equipment is designed to recover metals that may currently be heading to the landfill in the post-shredder stream, including stainless...

Mervis installs Metso shear.(Equipment Report)(Mervis Industries Inc.)(Metso Lindemann )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Mervis Industries Inc. of Danville, III., has purchased a Metso Lindemann EC 1034-10 Scrap Shear. The new shear will deliver 1,250 tons of cutting force to be employed in Mervis' scrap metal recycling operations. "We chose the Metso...

Hagglunds launches new valve program.(Hagglunds Drives)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Hagglunds Drives, Columbus, Ohio, has launched a newly designed line of valves. To match compact motors' ability to withstand tough environments, the new valves are compact, robust, corrosion-resistant and completely sealed, Hagglunds...

Sonic echo: after a sustained boom, ferrous scrap prices finally slope downward.(Commodity Focus)
May 1, 2004... For once, that first-quarter boom heard out in the recycling yard was not the sound of crashing prices. Rather, it was tile sound of ferrous scrap going through the roof. However, a thud appears to be echoing in the second quarter as tile...

Trading places: while some of Canada's scrap consumers struggle, recyclers shift to serving export markets.(Canadian Market Report)
May 1, 2004... Despite the Canadian equivalent of Chapter 11 claiming a couple of companies, and steelmaker Stelco considering selling off some of its assets, 2003 was a good, solid year for the Canadian metal recycling industry, says Len Shaw, executive...

going in reverse: obtaining efficient backhauling services presents a number of challenges, but the cost savings are worth the effort.(Transportation Focus)
May 1, 2004... A cross multiple industries, transportation is one of the most significant costs of recycling. Because the transportation cost for recyclable goods tends to be high relative to their value, recyclers must keep a keen eye out for the best rates,...

Out of sorts: nonferrous buying patterns from Asia are changing sorting habits for North American scrap procesors.(Sorting Equipment Focus)
May 1, 2004... Throughout their careers, many scrap processors have spent critical planning and purchasing power devoted to how to best sort metals to provide the cleanest, most segregated grades possible. Certainly, their scrap-consuming customers in North...

See 'n' sort: optical sorting equipment helps recyclers to sort diverse materials into relatively homogenous commodity streams.(Sorting Equipment Focus)
May 1, 2004... Whether dealing in metals, plastics, glass or paper, recyclers seek to produce consistent, quality secondary commodities that meet the specifications of each of their consumers. This is not a simple task. The job is further complicated in that...

Clean-up crew: scrap tire processors look to equipment advances to produce cleaner end products.(Sorting Equipment Focus)
May 1, 2004... Finding end markets for scrap tires has always been a key issue. Mountains of scrap tires still dot the countryside in some states. Recycling both these stockpiles and newly-generated tires maintains the need for new end markets for shredded,...

Market data: the key to selecting the correct screening system lies in end market demand.(Sorting Equipment Focus)
May 1, 2004... Designing an appropriate screening system for a C&D recycling operation hinges on a number of factors, such as the type of material to be processed, the amount of throughput you hope to achieve and your mobility requirements. However, the...

Multiple choice: a Pensacola, Fla., scrap recycler uses its Fuchs MHL 350 for a variety of tasks.(Southern Scrap Company Inc.)(Advertisement)
May 1, 2004... When Gene Rosenbaum, president of Southern Scrap Co. Inc., was shopping for a hydraulic scrap handler, he knew he would need a versatile machine. Rosenbaum is glad he selected a Terex Fuchs MHL 350, which has been able to do everything...

Crude attempts: although some re-refining is taking place, most collected used motor oil is heading to lower-grade fuel markets.(Oil Recycling Update)
May 1, 2004... According to the Web site of the American Petroleum Institute (www.recycleoil.org), Washington, some 240 to 260 million gallons of used motor oils are recycled annually, with a combination of quick lube shops, retailers and do-it-yourselfers...

Power boost: a hunger for new energy sources could revive the outlook for waste-to-energy plants.(Waste-To-Energy Update)
May 1, 2004... Incineration has traditionally been the EPA's least favored approach to dealing with solid waste because of the lost resources and the pollutants emitted out the stack. But incineration's cousin, the waste-to-energy (WTE) system, may be...

Willis Group Holdings Ltd.(Richard K. Donahue. Jr. appointed)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Willis Group Holdings Ltd., a global insurance broker, has announced the appointment of Richard K. Donahue, Jr. as claims specialist for the MountainGuard program in the company's Portsmouth, N.H., office. Donahue's responsibilities will...

Tube City LLC.(Perry VanRosendale appointed)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Perry VanRosendale has been named senior vice president--operations and business development of Tube City LLC, Glassport, Pa. Tube City President and COO Joseph Curtin says VanRosendale's responsibilities will include "bottom-line results...

AMG Resources.(Donald J. Forlani appointed)(AMG Resources Corp.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Donald J. Forlani has joined AMG Resources Corp., Pittsburgh, in a senior executive position. Forlani previously spent more than three decades with Luria Brothers and, after its purchase, with Philip Metals, eventually becoming president of...

Calendar.
May 1, 2004... MAY 18-21 Aluminum Extrusion Technology Seminar & Exposition, Orlando, Fla., Extrusion Technology Foundation, (847) 526-2010 MAY 19-21 NAID Convention, San Diego, National Assoc. for MAY...

Allegheny paper shredders security grinders.(Products)
May 1, 2004... * Five models to meet a range of destruction capacity and horsepower needs * Single-shaft rotary design allows one-pass destruction of confidential documents * Inter-changeable screens ensure secure, consistently sized output *...

Windshield and plate glass recovery system.(Products)
May 1, 2004... * From Glass Aggregate Systems * Crushes glass and separates the laminate from the glass, discarding the laminate into an independent conveyor or container in a single pass * Processes up to 10 tons per hour * Glass is processed...

RMS version 4.6 software.(Products)
May 1, 2004... * Recycling Management System software features a Point of-Sale Recycling Invoice module and Weight Tracker System * The Pick-Up Scheduler allows users to schedule container pick ups and to review drivers' workloads * Auto Wrecker...

Eriez wet drum separators.(Products)
May 1, 2004... * Featuring Erium 3000 Rare Earth magnets for maximum magnetic recovery * Capable of removing fine or weakly magnetic contaminants from dense material * Minimal maintenance required Visit www.eriez.com, e-mail eriez@eriez.com or...

SWB hammers.(Products)
May 1, 2004... * Manufactured by SWB Stahlfornguss in Germany, distributed by Global Partners Alliance LLC in Iowa * Heat treatment process produces softer pin bores for increased hammer pin life and a harder impact surface along the critical wear area...

Thermal dynamics Cutmaster 81.(Products)
May 1, 2004... * A new addition to the Cutmaster 1 Series air plasma cutting system * Equipped with the 1 Torch plasma torch and patent pending Advanced Torch Connector (ATC) disconnect * Operators can quicklyswitch between hand and machine torch...

ACS two-shaft shredder.(Products)
May 1, 2004... * Model F615 with low-speed, high-torque design * Features a 15 hp direct electric drive and a hexagonal shaft design for maximum cutting force * Ideal for plastic and rubber scrap, confidential documents and obsolete product...

Rockland transfer station bucket.(Products)
May 1, 2004... * Enables one machine to doze, load and separate material * Slotted spill guard, rubber or reversible steel bolt-on edges available * Designed for your loader * Wide shell design increases load capacity by 20 percent to 50 percent...

Town tries out street-side recycling.(Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, implemented a street-side recycling program)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, has implemented a street-side recycling program that differs from the curbside residential programs in the Niagara region. In March, Niagara-on-the-Lake began offering pedestrians the opportunity to...

Office Depot announces procurement policy.(Back Page)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Office Depot, headquartered in Delray Beach, Fla., has announced a five-year, $2.2 million environmental strategy that includes a provision for the store's paper products to contain an average of 30 percent post-consumer recycled content. ...

A good foundation.(Back Page)(Cans for Habitat program)(recycling of aluminum can )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... The Aluminum Association has awarded Newell Recycling of Atlanta, in conjunction with South Fulton County (Georgia) Habitat for Humanity, a nationwide $25,000 grant as part of the Cans for Habitat program. The Cans for Habitat program is a...