| As the demand for plastic sorting solutions continues to soar, Buhler Sortex and US-based National Recovery Technologies (NRT) are entering a strategic commercial agreement to offer plastics recyclers a complete solution for plastic bottle and flake sorting.

| Film edge trimmings occur during the production of HDPE- and LDPE film which, in extruded form, can be directly reintroduced into the production cycle. The Pallmann Recycling Extruder ECO 70 is mainly used for processing this type of waste. The film material can be fed into the machine either as endless edge trimmings, as bales or as tangled film.

| Revenues were up 7% compared to the third quarter last year, reflecting solid growth across the business groups.

| Coupled with its X-TRACT, Tomra Sorting will launch its LIBS technology, at ALUMINIUM 2016, in Düsseldorf, Germany, between 29 November and 01 December, 2016.

| According to preliminary ICSG data, the refined copper market for July 2016 showed an apparent production surplus of around 133,000 metric tonnes (t) mainly due to weaker Chinese apparent refined copper demand.

| World crude steel production for the 66 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (Worldsteel) was 132.9 million tonnes (Mt) in September 2016, 2.0% up on September 2015.

| The paper recycling rate in Europe reached 71.5% as announced by the European Recovered Paper Council (ERPC) in their final monitoring report for 2015. Compared to 2010, collection and recycling has increased by almost one million tonnes of paper.

| The two systems will capture recyclables and produce refuse derived fuel.

| ICM AG has distributed the program for its Electronics & Cars Recycling conference, taking place from November 15 – 18, 2016 at the Sheraton Grand Macao Hotel.

| Aluminium plays a key role in mobility, but up to 50% of the material used in the stamping processes common in mass production operations was wasted because there was no way of separating the production waste for recycling. The Steinert LSS (Laser Sorting System) enables alloys to be cleanly separated from one another.

| After the first plastics recycling line in 2014, Starlinger Recycling Technology supplied a second line to Candi Plastic Recycling in Sollenau, Lower Austria, last year. In July 2016, the third Starlinger line took up production at the company’s subsidiary Calex in Romania.

| The UK Household Plastics Collection Survey outlines the collection of household plastics in the UK.

| After a long period of negative news, William Schmiedel, President of the BIR Ferrous Division, finally sees signals of better times ahead.

| The Board of Directors of the World Steel Association (Worldsteel) has elected a new chairman,new vice chairmen and a new treasurer for a one-year period.

| The World Steel Association (Worldsteel) forecasts that global steel demand will increase by 0.2% to 1,501 Mt in 2016, following a contraction of -3.0% in 2015. In 2017, it is forecast that global steel demand will grow by 0.5% and will reach 1,510 Mt.