Sustainability Direct: Recycling
Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) has announced an enhanced collaboration with Chinese plastics recycling company Ausell. Building on their previous partnership in recycling polycarbonate water barrels, this new collaboration aims to accelerate the recycling of plastics from end-of-life vehicles, contributing to the automotive industry's circularity by transforming waste into valuable materials for new automotive components.? MORE
Mercedes-Benz opened Europe's first battery recycling plant with an integrated mechanical-hydrometallurgical process making it the first car manufacturer worldwide to close the battery recycling loop with its own in-house facility. Unlike existing established processes, the expected recovery rate of the mechanical-hydrometallurgical recycling plant is more than 96%. Valuable and scarce raw materials such as lithium, nickel and cobalt can be recovered? in a way that makes them suitable for use in new batteries for future all-electric Mercedes-Benz vehicles. MORE
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Technip Energies (Paris, France), Alterra Energy (Akron, Ohio) and Neste Oyj (Espoo, Finland) have signed a collaboration agreement to advance the circularity of plastics by providing the industry a standardized technology solution for chemical recycling. The partners aim to globally offer a standardized modular solution, based on Alterra's proprietary liquefaction technology, to parties interested in building capacity for chemical recycling. This solution will come in the form of readily designed and engineered liquefaction plant modules, which will allow for lower pre-investment costs.? MORE
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Packaging and recycling specialist ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria; www.alpla.com) is opening a state-of-the-art polyethylene terephthalate (PET) recycling plant in Ballito, South Africa approximately one and a half years after the start of construction. The company has invested 60 million euros in the new plant in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. Starting in 2025, the ALPLA recycling division will produce up to 35,000 tons of recycled PET (rPET) per year. MORE
Hindalco Industries Ltd., a global aluminum and copper processor, and a flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group, has awarded Metso Corp. (Espoo, Finland) an order for the delivery of engineering and key equipment for a new precious metals refinery to be built in the State of Gujarat in India. The new state-of-the-art precious metals refinery plant will be associated with a new e-waste recycling plant. Commissioning is expected to take place within two years. The Metso scope of delivery consists of a Kaldo furnace with off-gas handling and silver refining equipment. Metso will also deliver basic engineering for the precious metals refinery. MORE
Following the announcement made at the inauguration of a semi-industrial demonstration unit at Kitakyushu in Japan in October 2023, Axens, IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN; both Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Jeplan, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan), partners in the project, announced the launch of the commercialization (licensing) by Axens of the Rewind PET process. This is a major step forward for the three partners, concluding a successful one-year test period within the demonstration unit, which qualifies the performance of the technology.? MORE
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