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Lindner continues expanding its global market presence with the foundation of Lindner LATAM. Working with local partners, the company is driving recycling solutions for waste processing and strengthening its customer service.

Inducore has signed an agreement to acquire Presona AB. The Inducore Group already includes several specialized operational businesses that provide system solutions, products, components, logistics solutions, and contract manufacturing.

Eurostat estimates that in 2024, EU countries invested about €76 billion in assets essential for providing environmental protection services. These services include wastewater treatment plants, vehicles for transporting waste, acquisitions of land to create natural reserves, and cleaner equipment for production.

European Plastics Converters (EuPC) has announced the appointment of Federica Gallicchio as new Managing Director.

The importance of having hard, data-driven facts in your armoury when advocating on behalf of the industry was double-underlined at the latest meeting of BIR’s International Environment Council (IEC).

The last two years had been “truly exceptional” for BIR, with particularly notable progress in strengthening the world organisation’s resources and structure, in expanding its educational footprint, in growing its targeted communications output and in creating the right conditions to grow its acclaimed twice-yearly Conventions.

Against a background of global concerns about trade tariffs put in place and planned by the US administration, the BIR World Recycling Convention in Valencia has heard that eventually a 10% tariff level might prevail.

BIR has made “impressive and encouraging” progress across finance, membership, advocacy, communications and global engagement since its previous gathering in Singapore last October, President Susie Burrage OBE informed the world recycling association’s latest Convention, staged for the first time ever in the Spanish city of Valencia.

Protecting workers should be the top priority for any employer, especially those on the front line of materials processing. Beyond the substantial financial consequences of a workplace injury or fatality, the impacts are felt profoundly by an employee’s family, their coworkers, and the wider community.

Fujifilm has announced the introduction of an electric boiler system at the facilities of Fujifilm Manufacturing Europe B.V in the Netherlands, which primarily engages in the production of photographic materials and cell culture media. Installing the electric boiler system and establishing a hybrid system in combination with a natural gas boiler significantly contribute to reducing CO2 emissions (Scope 1) generated from fuel that are technically challenging to decarbonize.

In the fourth quarter of 2024, the EU economy greenhouse gas emissions were estimated at 897 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq), a 2.2% increase compared with the same quarter of 2023 (878 million tonnes of CO2-eq). The EU’s gross domestic product (GDP) registered a 1.5% increase in the fourth quarter of 2024, compared with the same quarter of 2023.