Impact Air Systems has been providing the ultimate solution for glass recovery operations around the world with installations across the USA, UK, Japan and Australia. A resource recovery plant in Boston, USA is now seeing the benefits from the innovative system. Impact Air Systems was approached for a solution to …
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S Norton & Co Ltd, at the forefront of British metal recycling for 50 years, is being restructured so that the owners John, Charlie and Matt Norton can devote more time to strategy and longer-term direction of the business and ensure its future success. Founded in 1960, the family-run scrap …
Read More »A rapidly growing number of the UK’s 10,500 fish and chip shops are opting for higher quality and sustainable corrugated takeaway containers as their primary choice of packaging to meet the demands of today’s modern lifestyles. The alternative takeaway packaging being spearheaded by the Corrugated Industry is new fish and …
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Recofloor, the UK’s award-winning vinyl flooring recycling scheme founded by Polyflor and Altro, will be recognising its members’ achievements at the fifth annual awards event to be held on March 3rd 2016 at Old Trafford, the Home of Manchester United. The event will be hosted by Matt Le Tissier, the …
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On paper, the concept of automating vertical tray packing sounds relatively straightforward. However, even if the packs are presented uniformly to a robot with a vacuum end-effector, the shortcoming will always be ‘how do you get the last pack into the tray?’ The Shingle Tray Loader (STL) designed by Pacepacker …
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Thinking beforehand about afterwards – Cabka-IPS creates products in accordance with the cradle-to-cradle principle. Cabka-IPS doesn’t see old plastic products as trash, but instead as an opportunity to create something new. This holds true for the company’s pallets, boxes, and products that are part of the Eco-Products brand for road …
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A proactive sales team at dealers T.C. Harrison JCB and quality machines have proved a winning combination for JCB as regional waste management company, Yorwaste, has recently invested in three new machines. The order includes two of the brand new JCB 457 Stage IV/Tier 4 Final Wastemaster Wheeled Loaders. The …
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A more practical and pragmatic approach from UK waste regulators is desperately needed to ensure the UK exceeds its waste targets at optimum cost to industry, according to leading resource efficiency specialist ecosurety. Many waste producers and recyclers feel they cannot win either commercially or environmentally when it comes to …
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Smart Vinyl for Our Cities is the theme for the fourth Vinyl Sustainability Forum, which will bring together representatives from the entire PVC industry value chain in Vienna, Austria on April 28th 2016. Organised by VinylPlus, the sustainable development programme of the European PVC industry, the 2016 Forum will examine …
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welcomed the Secretary of State’s decision to grant planning consent for the Ferrybridge Multifuel 2 (FM2) project in West Yorkshire. MEL is a 50:50 joint venture project between SSE and Wheelabrator Technologies Inc. MEL’s FM2 project will process up to 675,000 tonnes of waste derived fuels from various sources of …
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