Black Country engineering business teams up with academics
Black Country SME Alphadrive Engineering Services is working with Aston Business School to help customers embrace the sustainability agenda.

Black Country SME Alphadrive Engineering Services is working with Aston Business School to help customers embrace the sustainability agenda.

While the worldwide lockdowns caused by the Covid-19 pandemic may have positively influenced a reduction in air pollutants, before the outbreak there were seven million deaths each year due to pollution.

Coordinated by Aimplas, the European ELIOT project, with the participation of the Dutch research centre TNO, is developing at large scale the most promising recycling methods for biocomposites, which are now being used in the aeronautics industry.

Toyochem Co., Ltd., a member company of the Toyo Ink Group, has developed a new pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) with a high bio-based content for use in packaging, labels and tapes.

From electric vehicles to solar panels, energy storage products are Europe's way out of fossil fuels.

Andritz has received an order from Papierfabrik Palm to supply two Aduro P shredders, type 2000 - an improved version of the FRX shredder - to its paper mill in Wörth, Germany.

The quality of plastic flakes and regrind is crucial in determining whether plastic processors and manufacturers can profitably use and sell plastic recyclate.
EU Member States measures, which aim to cut the number of plastic bags used nationally, are granting too many exemptions, warned the Rethink Plastic alliance on the 11th International Plastic Bag Free Day.
ICBR 2020, the 25th International Congress for Battery Recycling is holding its 25th anniversary edition in Salzburg, Austria, from 16 - 18 September 2020.

The British Metals Recycling Association (BMRA) has elected Susie Burrage for a third term as President.