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A clothing-store mannequin and an award-winning recyclables bin, both made from UK-sourced household plastic packaging waste, served to highlight progress made by British firms in recycling challenging materials at an international conference on plastic waste recovery. Containing 50% recycled post-consumer flexible films, the plastic male torso was produced during a …

For the first time, low-cost titanium powders, developed by Metalysis, have been used to 3D print automotive parts. To date, the 3D printing ‘revolution’ has focused on the use of plastics – cheap printers’ feedstock and high throughput. So far, 3D printing with metal has been prohibitively expensive because titanium …

The impact of end of waste regulations, designed to divert waste materials from landfill, will be addressed at the End of Waste and Quality Protocols Conference. This specialist forum for businesses within the waste and recycling industry takes place on 30th January 2014, at 76 Portland Place, London. The event, …

Burdens has been presented with a supply chain award from Optimise JV for providing exceptional levels of service to one of the UK’s largest water and wastewater services provider, Thames Water. Optimise, one of Thames Water’s key contractors, maintains infrastructure delivering both clean and waste water across the Thames Valley …

Following the reintroduction of the TruckStops vehicle routing and scheduling optimization system by MapMechanics to the North American market this year, Next Generation Logistics, Inc., a leading supply chain consultancy and TMS software developer based in Chicago, has reaffirmed the essential role of TruckStops in its own product suite. TruckStops …

BYD, which showed a prototype range of forklifts at the LogiMAT show in February 2013, will be introducing a completely redesigned and European-friendly forklift range at the CeMAT show in Hannover, Germany in May, 2014. The forklifts will go on sale in Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium starting in June …

Peterborough based Bradshaw Electric Vehicles was named ‘Business of the Year’ at the 18th Peterborough Telegraph Business Awards 2013 on Friday (22 November). As the largest UK based manufacturer in this sector, providing handling solutions worldwide for over 30 years they were judged as demonstrating positive growth, increased profits and …

Incorporating ‘future-proof’ design concepts into the layout and operating principles of new Materials Recycling Facilities (MRFs) is vital if managers are to improve quality and maximise profits from their multi-million pound investments, conference delegates heard. Planning for expansion, predicting likely changes in feed composition and installing good management information systems …

Did you know that a quarter of manufacturers in London and the South East are now considering or planning to bring back production from overseas to the UK within the next year? This is the finding of the latest Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) Barometer survey. The MAS Quarterly Barometer Survey …

Schoeller Allibert, a world leader in plastic reusable transit packaging (RTP), has teamed up with LDF Supplier Finance to offer asset finance packages to its customers in the UK, enabling them to use its market-leading ranges of trays, containers, pallets and accessories – with no up-front capital investment. The savings …