With corporate headquarters in New York City and Sydney, celebrated the official opening of its material recovery facility (MRF) in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, June 18, 2014. The event honored Sims and its partners for their work over the past 15 years to make the facility a reality, according to (VDRS), Stamford, Connecticut, a supplier of recycling equipment used at the facility. Tom Outerbridge, general manager of Sims Municipal Recycling, and Bob Kelman, president of Sims’ North America Metals business unit, spoke about the success of the facility. The MRF has the capacity to sort the curbside residential rigid plastics, metal, aluminum and glass collected from all five New York boroughs. Lecrae Rehab Songs Free Download.
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At the opening, guests toured the visitor’s center to see interactive displays and short videos about how each portion of the sorting system works. The MRF features a Bollegraaf sorting system supplied by VDRS that is capable of processing 1,000 tons per day of bottles and cans and incorporating 16 TITECH Autosort 4 optical sorters. The line of optical sorters was introduced in 2013 and are designed to eliminate the need for lamps used on Autosort 3 models. The new optical sorters feature the company’s “Flying Beam” technology and can reportedly identify and sort 12 different recyclables. Sims says the facility will assist in reaching the mayor’s goal of diverting 30 percent of the city’s waste from landfills.
Most of the recyclables will be delivered by barge to reduce truck traffic. All material is debagged and the plastic film and paper is taken out with ballistic separators and separated by optical sorters.
(DAK), a producer of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resins based in Argentina, has announced the acquisition of CabelmaPET S.A., a PET bottle recycling operation located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Terms and conditions of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition will be subject to post-closing review by Argentina's antitrust authorities. The acquired facility currently recycles more than 16,000 metric tons of PET bottles per year, which should significantly increase the sustainability of DAK's product line, as well as help customers streamline their processes, DAK reports.
About 100 employees associated with CabelmaPET, S.A. Recycling operations are part of the acquisition. Cabelma S.A., which manufactures plastic crates, is not included in the acquisition. DAK currently produces more than 190,000 metric tons per year of virgin PET resin at its Zarate, Argentina, facility. The company plans to integrate the post-consumer recycled material from the acquired facility into its manufacturing process upon completion of process upgrades. The new integrated product offerings will be marketed as a single-pellet solution under DAK's Laser+ brand of PET resins. 'This acquisition demonstrates DAK's commitment to finding and leveraging opportunities that best serve our customers, the economic health of Argentina and the environment,' says Hector Camberos, president, DAK Americas Argentina, S.A.
'The acquisition not only has tremendous impact in terms of product sustainability, but it will greatly improve our trade balance, allowing us to substitute imports by establishing a raw material stream directly from within Argentina.' DAK's ability to incorporate recycled PET material directly into its operations is expected to benefit customers in the bottling and packaging industries by supplying a single-pellet solution with a specified recycle content, eliminating the need for customers to establish duplicate feed processes and blending processes to accommodate recycled materials into their respective product lines. DAK Americas Argentina is wholly owned by Alpek, S.A.B. De C.V., based in Monterrey Mexico, and is part of the DAK Americas which comprises five business units: PET, Polyesters Staple Fibers, Monomers/ ingredients, Specialty Polymers and GreenPET. Singapore’s (NEA) has awarded a contract to (REMEX) of Germany to develop and operate a metal recovery facility that will recover ferrous and nonferrous metals from incineration bottom ash (IBA) generated by incineration plants in the country. The NEA says the metal recovery facility is part of its long-term strategy to manage solid waste in Singapore and part of the government’s plans to move towards a resource efficient society. Currently, ferrous metals between 10 millimeters (mm) to 300 mm in size are being recovered from the incinerator bottom ash using magnetic separators at the incineration plants, with the residual ash sent to the Semakau Landfill for final disposal.
In awarding the contract to REMEX, the NEA says that this conventional treatment system leaves the non-ferrous metals such as aluminum and copper, and the remaining smaller pieces of ferrous metals that are still of economic value, intact in the residual ash. “The setting up of REMEX’s metal recovery facility is part of NEA’s long-term plan to improve resource efficiency. NEA is currently studying the possibilities for ash reuse, which will help resource-scarce Singapore to further increase resource recovery, as well as extend the lifespan of Semakau Landfill,” says Ronnie Tay, NEA’s CEO. REMEX is expected to begin construction on the facility in October 2014 and have the facility operational by the middle of 2015. The project is expected to cost around $12 million. When fully operational the facility will be able to process 1,800 metric tons of incinerator bottom ash per year that are produced by the four incineration plants in the country.
At the facility metals will be recovered through the use of conveyors, magnetic separators and eddy current separators. REMEX expects to recover around 90 percent of the ferrous metal greater than 4 mm and a slightly lower proportion of nonferrous metals above the 2 mm threshold. The resulting IBA could be further treated so it could be used as materials for road construction and concrete applications. The remaining incinerator bottom ash will be landfilled. Set A Light 3d Studio Serial Killer. Following the extraction of the metal, REMEX will ship the material to Europe where the metal will be further separated and sold. However, the NEA says that the company is looking for local end markets for the material. REMEX operates similar facilities in the Netherlands and Germany.
To operate the Singapore facility the company has set up a local, wholly owned subsidiary known as REMEX Minerals Singapore Pte Ltd. China’s manufacturers consumed some 13.6 million metric tons of plastic scrap in 2013, marking a 14.5 percent decrease in volume compared to the 16 million metric tons consumed the year before. Jason Wang, general secretary of (CSPA), wrote to CSPA members in July 2014 to update them on a press conference held by China’s Ministry of Commerce as well as to review figures published in the China National Resources Recycling Association’s “The Renewable Resources Industry Development Report of China,” covering events in 2013. At the press event, Wang said Ministry of Commerce spokesman Shen Danyang “indicated that because of macroeconomic factors the recycling industry is under [an] adjustment period [and] the market has not fully recovered.” Wang says the China National Resources Recycling Association report indicates “there are over 100,000 institutions with 18 million employees involved in the recycling industry at China. The top eight recycled materials are scrap iron and steel, other scrap metals, plastic scrap, scrap tires, scrap paper, waste electrical and electronic products (WEEE), end-of-life vehicles and ships to be dismantled. These sectors accounts for 160 million tons in of material valued CN¥481.7 billion ($77.6 billion), adds Wang. Wang says plastic recycling enjoyed a fast-growing period that peaked in 2010 with an annual increase that year of 25.6 percent more plastic scrap consumed in China compared to the year before.
Without mentioning Operation Green Fence specifically, Wang says imports of plastic scrap into China in 2013 dropped just as dramatically as plastic scrap consumption. In 2013, China imported 7.89 million metric tons of plastic scrap compared to nearly 8.88 million metric tons the year before—an 11.2 percent drop. Wang also quotes Ministry of Commerce spokesman Shen as saying, “Overall, the new rural construction and urban development policy in China creates opportunities for the recycling industry in the long run, and the industry can hopefully turn around.”.