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Kerry Chen, CEO of ATRenew, talks about the market for second-hand electronics in China, technologies for preparing for reuse und future challenges for the industry.

The Advanced Recycling Conference (ARC), November 14–15, Cologne, Germany (hybrid event), covers all aspects of cutting-edge recycling techniques and recyclable building blocks, monomers, and polymers. 

Up until 2016 RE-Glass, with head office in Orosháza and other yards located in Budapest and Mezőörs, processed 7-8 thousand tons of flat glass per year, while bottle glass – because of the lack of mode rn technology – was only 1-3 tons per year.

The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRIBoard of Directors has announced its position on chemical recycling at its July meeting.

Together with its partner Melchers Taiwan, Weltec Biopower is building a biogas plant in the southwest of the island state.

As a recycling company specialising in styrene-based thermoplastics, Sysplast uses and develops pioneering technologies. For this, the company uses melt filters from Ettlinger, whose operation enables high production efficiency and consistent product quality.

With the assistance of IVACE, the Plastics Technology Centre is adding more than 2,000 m2 to its facilities, which will be used for R&D&I in polymer synthesis, medicine, and the circular economy.

World crude steel production for the 64 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (Worldsteel) was 158.1 million tonnes (Mt) in June 2022, a 5.9% decrease compared to June 2021.

Mohinani Group, a third-generation family business group, ordered two Starlinger recoSTAR PET 165 HC iV+ PET bottle-to-bottle recycling lines for its new plants in Ghana and Nigeria.

Grandblue Bioenvironment Co., Ltd. has successfully started up two Andritz ADuro QZ1600-BIO shredders at its mills in Jinjiang City, Fujian Province, and Xiaogan City, Hubei Province, China.

The Colombian company Plásticos Ojara is located in the idyllic south of the city of Medellin. The company is well known in the region as one of the leading manufacturers of plastic clothes hangers.