Scrap Beat

January/Febraury 2009

Scrap Beat

Glass Recycling Shines in 2007
The U.S. glass container recycling rate jumped to 28 percent in 2007, up from 25 percent in 2006, according to data from the U.S. EPA (Washington, D.C.). The nation recovered about 3.2 million tons of glass, compared with 2.9 million tons in 2006—the first significant increase since about 2000.

The recycling rate for glass beer and soft drink bottles rose to 35 percent from 31 percent in 2006, with wine and liquor bottle recycling rates holding at 15 percent.

Joe Cattaneo, president of the Glass Packaging Institute (Alexandria, Va.), attributes the rise to initiatives at bars, restaurants, and wineries to encourage recycling as well as to states such as California that have container deposit programs. California's glass bottle recycling rate rose to 79 percent for the six-month period ending June 2008, up from 71 percent for the same period in 2007.

Visit www.gpi.org or www.epa.gov.

New Permit Regulates Stormwater Discharge
The U.S. EPA (Washington, D.C.) has released a new Multi-Sector General Permit, which regulates the discharge of stormwater in 29 industrial sectors and replaces the MSGP 2000, which expired in October.

The MSGP 2008 applies to Arkansas, Idaho, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Washington, D.C., and U.S. territories. It requires industrial facilities to implement and maintain site-specific stormwater control measures and to develop stormwater pollution prevention plans. Authorization to discharge under MSGP 2008 starts 30 days after a facility files a notice of intent.

Visit www.epa.gov.

AAR Finalizes Open-Top Railcar Rules
The Association of American Railroads (Washington, D.C.), through its open-top loading rules committee, has finalized and implemented its new restrictions on shippers who use open-top railcars, effective immediately. AAR amended its Part 87, Section 2 rules to prohibit the loading of loose commodities, including scrap, in mounds above the top chord of any open-top railcar.

Based on AAR's calculations, the volume reduction of "leveling off" an 18-inch mounded load of scrap would require one extra car for every 10 to 12 railcar loads.

Visit www.aar.org.

Alcoa Cuts Aluminum Production 15 Percent
Alcoa (Pittsburgh) announced in November it would immediately cut an additional 350,000 mt per year of aluminum production. In October, the company cut production at its 265,000 mt-a-year smelter in Rockdale, Texas.

The combined cuts total 15 percent of Alcoa's annual output, or 615,000 mt a year. The company cited lower end-market demand and global economic softness for the moves.

The firm will spread the production cuts across its global system to minimize the costs associated with wholesale plant shutdowns and restarts and the impact on plant communities.

The company will immediately phase in the reductions and its new annual smelting production rate of about 3.5 million mt a year and make adjustments to its alumina refining production accordingly.

Visit www.alcoa.com.

BIR Brings Attention to Contract Breaches
The Bureau of International Recycling (Brussels) sent a letter of concern in November to Gunter Verheugen, European Union commissioner of enterprise and industry, and Catherine Ashton, commissioner of trade, regarding buyers of secondary raw materials in the EU and other countries who are failing to honor contracts. Buyers are not paying for shipments, reneging on open contracts, or seeking extraordinary discounts from contracted prices even after the goods reach their destination, BIR reports. The letter asks for an official response from the commission, and the organization plans to discuss the matter with the World Trade Organization (Geneva).

Visit www.bir.org.

NDA Organizes Its First C&D Recycling Symposium
The National Demolition Association (Doylestown, Pa.) plans to hold its first international symposium on construction and demolition recycling this fall in Chicago. The association will partner with the U.S. EPA, the National Federation of Demolition Contractors (Middlesex, England), the European Demolition Association (Copenhagen, Denmark), and other recycling and construction organizations.

Event organizers plan to bring together federal, state, and local regulators and companies involved in demolition and recycling to develop environmentally sound and economically viable ways to recycle C&D debris. Sessions will include current generation and recycling rates, market development, new technology, administrative barriers, and economic disincentives to successful recycling.

European Paper Recycling Nears 2010 Goal
Europe's paper and paperboard recycling rate reached 64.5 percent in 2007equaling 60 million mt and just 1.5 percent short of its 2010 goal, according to a European Recovered Paper Council (Brussels) 2007 review. Recovery has grown by 7.6 million mt, or 14.5 percent, since 2004. The voluntary target is part of the council's European Declaration on Paper Recycling, which covers 29 countries. To reach the goal, countries work to prevent waste, improve the recyclability of paper and paperboard products, and improve the quality of recovered paper for recycling.

Fiberglass Producer Increases Recycled Content
Owens Corning (Toledo, Ohio) has increased the certified recycled content in its Fiberglas insulation to a minimum of 40 percent, the company says, a 5 percent increase, maintaining its status as the fiberglass insulation with the highest level of certified recycled content in North America.

Association Aims for 75 Percent UBC Recycling
The Aluminum Association (Arlington, Va.) has launched an industrywide effort to increase the recycling rate of used aluminum beverage containers to 75 percent by 2015, up from its current rate of 54 percent. The association reports the higher rate would prevent nearly 9 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions. To meet that goal, the association will encourage state and local governments to grow and strengthen voluntary recycling programs, consider deposit laws, and look into the role of mandatory recycling and landfill bans.

Visit www.aluminum.org.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Great Lakes Recycling (Roseville, Mich.) has acquired Frontier Fibers (North Tonawanda, N.Y.) to form GLR Recycling Solutions. The acquisition will expand the company's residential and commercial recycling services to the Buffalo, N.Y., area.

GLR has retained Frontier owner/operator Howard Wiseman and facility manager Josh Quant. The firm will process paper, metal, electronics, plastic, and foam at its facility, which employs 16 workers.

Visit www.go-glr.com.

Gerdau Ameristeel Corp. (Tampa, Fla.) has acquired Metro Recycling (Guelph, Ontario), a scrap processor with two locations in Guelph and one in Mississauga, Ontario.

American Securities (New York) has acquired Liberty Tire Services (Pittsburgh), which recycles about 25 percent of the scrap tires in the United States, the company says. Liberty operates 14 facilities in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

Visit www.american-securities.com and www.libertytire.com.

Re:Think Recycling Group (Chicago) has acquired PureTech Plastics (East Farmingdale, N.Y.), which has two nonobjection letters from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to use postconsumer PET in food and beverage packaging. Chuck Jones of Advanced Plastics Systems will help expand the business, and PureTech's management team will remain.

Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.) has acquired RenGen Technologies (Springfield, Mo.), a remanufacturing company, which it will rename John Deere Reman. Deere had owned 50 percent of the business, which will focus on growing Deere's remanufacturing business globally.

Mayfran International (Cleveland) has acquired Press Room Techniques (Lindsay, Ontario), the developer and manufacturer of patented products that manage scrap in stamping operations.

Visit www.mayfran.com or www.pressroomtechniques.com.

Nestlé Aims to Double PET Recycling
Nestlé Waters North America (Greenwich, Conn.) wants to double the nation's recycling rate for PET beverage containers to 60 percent by 2018 through partnerships, coalition-building, consumer education, curbside recycling programs, and policy initiatives. The goal is one of several the company outlines in its first corporate citizenship report, The Shape of Corporate Citizenship. It also plans to develop and produce a "next-generation bottle" by 2010 made entirely of recycled materials or renewable resources.

Openings and Expansions

The David J. Joseph Co. (Cincinnati) has opened an office in Hong Kong to serve Asian customers, focusing on ferrous, nonferrous, and ferroalloy scrap. Ryan Eckert will oversee ferrous scrap sourcing and sales, and Steve Bolhuis will handle the nonferrous side. The office address is 18th Floor, Sang Woo Building, No. 227-228 Gloucester Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong SAR; the phone number is 852/2838-7991.

Visit www.djj.com.

Great Lakes Recycling (Roseville, Mich.) has opened a facility in Flint, Mich., that will employ 10 workers by summer 2009 to process OCC and paper from waste haulers, recyclers, and shredding companies. The company plans to expand the site's capabilities to accept additional materials from the public in the future.

Visit www.go-glr.com.

Steel Etc. (Great Falls, Mont.) is moving its 4-acre salvage and steel business to a 16-acre site in North Park, Mont. The company expects the move to occur in the spring.

Schau Towing and Salvage (Ida Grove, Iowa) is constructing a metal recycling facility in Denison, Iowa, it expects to open for business in March. The Schau Recycling facility will process ferrous and nonferrous metals, including end-of-life vehicles and appliances, and will employ six full-time and several part-time employees.

Horsehead Corp., a subsidiary of Horsehead Holding Corp. (Pittsburgh), has broken ground on a zinc recycling facility in Barnwell County, S.C. The facility will process electric-arc furnace dust, a zinc-containing byproduct of minimill steel production. It expects to have a fully installed capacity of 180,000 tons a year. Startup of the first of two units is slated for mid-2009.

Allied Waste Services (Phoenix) is upgrading its Buffalo, N.Y., facility from dual-stream processing to single-stream processing. After the $2 million upgrade, the company expects the facility to process more than 350 tons of recyclable material daily and capture more plastics and glass.

Sennebogen Group (Straubing, Germany) has opened a new $48 million, 1.3 million-square-foot production facility near its headquarters to produce large-scale material-handling machines. Phase 1 of the facility includes a new 140,000-square-foot equipment assembly hall, which allows the production, erection, and testing of machines with operating weights up to 300 tons.

Bejac Corp. (Placentia, Calif.), a dealer of LBX Co./Link-Belt excavators and demolition and material-handling equipment, has opened a new branch, which will cover Northern California through Fresno. The new facility's address is 3241 Fitzgerald Road, Rancho Cordova, CA 95742; its phone number is 888/655-3077; and its fax is 916/852-1569.

Visit www.bejac.com.

Caterpillar dealer Dean Machinery Co. (Kansas City, Mo.) has opened a state-of-the-art, 25-acre headquarters at 87th Street and Interstate 435 in south Kansas City. Two buildings, totaling 182,000 square feet, can service up to 25 midsized machines at once, it reports.

Visit www.deancat.com.

RecycleBank (New York) plans to expand its recycling rewards program into Southern, Midwestern, and Western states to increase U.S. household recycling rates. It has launched new programs in Montgomery, Ohio; Sioux Falls, S.D.; Eden Prairie and Maple Grove, Minn.; Carrollton and Plano, Texas; North Miami, Fla.; Wichita, Kan.; Albuquerque, N.M.; and Knoxville, Tenn.

RecycleBank partners with waste haulers, material recovery facilities, and municipalities to reward residents for recycling. The program measures how much each home recycles and converts the amount into RecycleBank points to use at local and national rewards partners.

Milestones and Achievements

Golden Metals Trading (Littleton, Colo.) has received the 2008 Best of Littleton award in the merchandise brokers category from the U.S. Local Business Association (Washington, D.C.). Each year the association recognizes companies it believes have achieved exceptional marketing success in their community and business category.

The Grayslake, Ill., facility of Waste Management Recycle America (Houston) has qualified for OSHA's Voluntary Protection Program, becoming the first material recovery facility in the nation to qualify, the company says. The plant achieved merit status in the program.

To participate, the Grayslake plant passed a rigorous OSHA review that assessed management and employee involvement in safety programs, prevention and control programs, and comprehensive safety and health training for employees. The company says it intends to enter all its MRFs into the program.

The Knoxville, Memphis, and Nashville, Tenn., locations of Pull-A-Part (Atlanta) have received a solid waste management award and achievement certificates for contributions to air and water quality, hazardous waste management, and environmental excellence from the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce & Industry (Nashville).

It was the third consecutive year the company received recognition in all five categories. A committee of Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation members selected the winners according to criteria such as past performance, innovation, and compliance.

American Pulverizer Co. (St. Louis) celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2008. The family-owned business makes reduction equipment, including equipment for reducing ferrous and nonferrous scrap, paper, plastic, glass, tires, electronic scrap, and other recyclables.

Partnership to Quantify Auto Recycling Benefits
United Recyclers Group (Centennial, Colo.), a partnership of more than 330 auto dismantlers, is working with the University of Colorado and Al Lacy, an automotive recycling industry consultant, to quantify the environmental benefits of automotive recycling.

The project will estimate the environmental and financial benefits of reusing and repairing used auto parts, recycling more parts from each vehicle recycled, recycling the vehicle bodies, and properly disposing of vehicle fluids. It also will investigate potential markets for carbon offsets or carbon credits that might benefit insurers and recyclers.

Visit www.u-r-g.com.

New Ventures

Tube City IMS (Glassport, Pa.) has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Sinosteel Corp. (Beijing). The companies will work together to develop markets for products and services worldwide.

Novelis Corp. (Atlanta) has launched miniMRF, a joint venture with PRFection Engineering. MiniMRF technology is positioned downstream of other separation equipment. It helps landfills and transfer stations divert up to 15 percent of municipal solid waste into the recycling stream, Novelis says.

The technology currently targets aluminum cans, steel, and other materials. Future upgrades to recover PET plastics and other recyclables could increase recovery rates to up to 40 percent, the company says.

Harsco Corp. (Camp Hill, Pa.) has received a six-year contract valued at more than $17 million with Ascometal's Fos sur Mer facility in France to provide steel upgrading and finishing services. The endeavor adds bar handling and grinding services to the existing contract, with a projected volume of 100,000 bars per year.

Visit www.harsco.com.

Equipment Sales and Installations
Mid-State Recycling Co. (Glasgow, Ky.) has added a heavy-duty infeed conveyor and downstream equipment package to its automobile shredder. The new equipment, produced by U.S. Shredder and Castings Group (Trussville, Ala.), is designed to meet the recycler's current needs and incorporates features to allow easy upgradessuch as an air systemin the future.

Water Tectonics (Everett, Wash.) has installed a Wave Ionic stormwater treatment system at Metro Metals Northwest in Portland, Ore., to handle potential contaminants including lead, zinc, copper, and mercury.

Electronics Recycling Roundup

The U.S. EPA (Washington, D.C.) has developed Responsible Recycling Practices for Use in Accredited Certification Programs for Electronics Recyclers (R2) to promote better environmental, worker safety, and public health practices for electronics recyclers. Representatives of federal and state governments, electronics manufacturers and recyclers, and trade associations including ReMA worked to develop the guidelines. The group will now work on a process for certifying responsible recyclers.

Visit www.epa.gov.

The Electronics Manufacturers Recycling Management Co. (Minneapolis), a joint venture of Panasonic Corp. of North America, Sharp Electronics Corp., and Toshiba America Consumer Products, is creating a nationwide program to help electronics manufacturers collect and recycle used electronics. In its first year, MRM began managing recycling services in Minnesota and Texas for 25 electronics manufacturers. The first phase of the nationwide program kicked off in November and includes more than 160 collection sites in California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin for products of its three founding members. MRM plans to expand the service to all 50 states over the next three years.

MRM will use CRT Processing (Janesville, Wis.) and ECO-International (Vestal, N.Y.) during the first phase. In Oregon, Goodwill Industries of the Columbia Willamette (Portland, Ore.) is partnering with CRT Processing to accept electronics free of charge and transport the products to CRT's Clackamas location.

Visit www.mrmrecycling.com, www.crtprocessing.com, or www.ecointernational.com.

In related news, Panasonic (Secaucus, N.J.) has created a recycling office to oversee its nationwide electronics take-back program, which MRM will manage.

Cascade Asset Management (Madison, Wis.) has opened technical facilities in Delaware, Florida, Texas, Colorado, and Washington. The new facilities should reduce freight and transportation costs and increase supply-chain security, the company states. The company also has processing centers in Wisconsin and Indiana.

American Retroworks (Middlebury, Vt.) has purchased a 50,000-square-foot facility in Middlebury. Operating as Good Point Recycling, the facility will allow the company to add fluorescent lamp recycling, OEM takeback programs, secure data destruction, plastic recycling, and other processes to its repertoire. The company is also expanding its services in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. In 2009, it plans to offer complete teardown, rebuilding, and reassembly of CRTs at its Sonora plant for re-export or end-of-life recycling.

The Basel Action Network (Seattle) and the Electronics TakeBack Coalition (San Francisco) are launching the e-Steward certification program to independently audit and certify companies that follow certain specified electronics recycling practices.

The program prohibits exporting electronic scrap to developing countries, disposing of the material in landfills and incinerators, using prison labor, and releasing private data in discarded computers without authorization. At the time of its launch, 32 electronics recyclers had joined the program. Materials Processing Corp. (Minneapolis) and Metech International (Gilroy, Calif.) have announced their participation.

Metech International (Gilroy, Calif.) has established a new 30,000-square-foot recycling facility for demanufacturing, certified destruction, and material recovery from electronic scrap in Durham, N.C. The new facility will help Metech better serve customers in the South and Southeast, the firm says.

RadioShack Corp. (Fort Worth, Texas) has launched an online electronics trade-in program for customers to exchange selected used portable electronics for a RadioShack gift card. Acceptable items include GPS devices, MP3 players, cell phones, digital camcorders, car audio head units, digital cameras, notebook computers, game media, and game consoles.

The Electronics TakeBack Coalition (San Francisco) has released its TV Recycling Report Card, which grades the major TV manufacturers on efforts to establish national programs to recycle their old televisions. More than half of the 17 companies ranked received an F because they do not have a takeback program. Sony Electronics received the highest scorea B-minuswith other companies receiving Cs and Ds. The coalition based grades on companies' commitment to responsible recycling, the volume and visibility of their programs, and their support for public policy encouraging responsible recycling.

The Consumer Electronics Association (Arlington, Va.) has released its first industrywide consumer electronics sustainability report, Environmental Sustainability and Innovation in the Consumer Electronics Industry. The report assesses industry progress in adopting sustainable policies, practices, and programs and highlights specific environmental accomplishments. Of the 64 companies surveyed for the report, 69 percent say they are recycling products and components, and 38 percent report reusing the electronic products they make or use. The actions jointly helped to recycle nearly 800,000 tons of used electronics, according to the study.

Visit www.ce.org.

The U.S. Forest Service (Washington, D.C.) and the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corp. (Atlanta) have partnered to provide collection boxes for rechargeable batteries in about 500 USFS offices nationwide through RBRC's Call2Recycle, a national rechargeable battery and cell phone recycling program.

Powerscreen Names New England Dealer
Terex Corp. subsidiary Powerscreen (Tyrone, Northern Ireland) has named Chadwick-BaRoss (Chelmsford, Mass.) its dealer for Maine, New Hampshire, and eastern Massachusetts. Chadwick-BaRoss operates full sales and service branches in Westbrook, Caribou, and Bangor, Maine; Concord, N.H.; and Chelmsford.

Visit www.powerscreen.co.uk or www.chadwick-baross.com.

Resources

Anheuser-Busch Recycling (St. Louis) has created a Web site for visitors to learn more about recycling and how to create recycling programs in their communities. The company also is distributing thousands of recycling bins to Anheuser-Busch wholesalers nationwide for local recycling projects in honor of the recycling division's 30th anniversary.

The U.S. Department of Commerce's Basic Guide to Exporting covers topics including how to identify the best overseas markets, financing options, and how to create a Web site for selling goods internationally. Case studies in the book focus on small companies' stories of successful international sales. The book is available online or in bookstores.

Visit www.export.gov/basicguide.

The Aluminum Association (Arlington, Va.) has released its Aluminum Statistical Review for 2007, which includes information on every cycle of the aluminum production process, from primary aluminum to markets for finished goods to the recovery of aluminum scrap. The edition contains an 11-year summary as well as historical statistics on the aluminum industry.

Visit www.aluminum.org/bookstore.

Our Metals (London) is offering two new reports, Aluminum Scrap and the Scrap-Based Products Market Research in Russia and Steel Scrap Market Research in Russia. Both reports include forecasts of market development and are available online for purchase.

Visit www.ourmetals.com. •

January/Febraury 2009

Scrap Beat

The recycling rate for glass beer and soft drink bottles rose to 35 percent from 31 percent in 2006, with wine and liquor bottle recycling rates holding at 15 percent.

Visit www.gpi.org or www.epa.gov.

Visit www.epa.gov.

Based on AAR's calculations, the volume reduction of "leveling off" an 18-inch mounded load of scrap would require one extra car for every 10 to 12 railcar loads.

Visit www.aar.org.

The combined cuts total 15 percent of Alcoa's annual output, or 615,000 mt a year. The company cited lower end-market demand and global economic softness for the moves.

The firm will spread the production cuts across its global system to minimize the costs associated with wholesale plant shutdowns and restarts and the impact on plant communities.

The company will immediately phase in the reductions and its new annual smelting production rate of about 3.5 million mt a year and make adjustments to its alumina refining production accordingly.

Visit www.alcoa.com.

Visit www.bir.org.

Visit www.aluminum.org.

Mergers and Acquisitions

GLR has retained Frontier owner/operator Howard Wiseman and facility manager Josh Quant. The firm will process paper, metal, electronics, plastic, and foam at its facility, which employs 16 workers.

Visit www.go-glr.com.

Gerdau Ameristeel Corp. (Tampa, Fla.) has acquired Metro Recycling (Guelph, Ontario), a scrap processor with two locations in Guelph and one in Mississauga, Ontario.

Visit www.american-securities.com and www.libertytire.com.

Mayfran International (Cleveland) has acquired Press Room Techniques (Lindsay, Ontario), the developer and manufacturer of patented products that manage scrap in stamping operations.

Visit www.mayfran.com or www.pressroomtechniques.com.

Openings and Expansions

Visit www.djj.com.

Visit www.go-glr.com.

Steel Etc. (Great Falls, Mont.) is moving its 4-acre salvage and steel business to a 16-acre site in North Park, Mont. The company expects the move to occur in the spring.

Visit www.bejac.com.

Visit www.deancat.com.

Milestones and Achievements

Visit www.u-r-g.com.

New Ventures

Visit www.harsco.com.

Electronics Recycling Roundup

Visit www.epa.gov.

Visit www.mrmrecycling.com, www.crtprocessing.com, or www.ecointernational.com.

In related news, Panasonic (Secaucus, N.J.) has created a recycling office to oversee its nationwide electronics take-back program, which MRM will manage.

Visit www.ce.org.

Visit www.powerscreen.co.uk or www.chadwick-baross.com.

Resources

Visit www.export.gov/basicguide.

Visit www.aluminum.org/bookstore.

Visit www.ourmetals.com. •

January/Febraury 2009

Scrap Beat

The recycling rate for glass beer and soft drink bottles rose to 35 percent from 31 percent in 2006, with wine and liquor bottle recycling rates holding at 15 percent.

Visit www.gpi.org or www.epa.gov.

Visit www.epa.gov.

Based on AAR's calculations, the volume reduction of "leveling off" an 18-inch mounded load of scrap would require one extra car for every 10 to 12 railcar loads.

Visit www.aar.org.

The combined cuts total 15 percent of Alcoa's annual output, or 615,000 mt a year. The company cited lower end-market demand and global economic softness for the moves.

The firm will spread the production cuts across its global system to minimize the costs associated with wholesale plant shutdowns and restarts and the impact on plant communities.

The company will immediately phase in the reductions and its new annual smelting production rate of about 3.5 million mt a year and make adjustments to its alumina refining production accordingly.

Visit www.alcoa.com.

Visit www.bir.org.

Visit www.aluminum.org.

Mergers and Acquisitions

GLR has retained Frontier owner/operator Howard Wiseman and facility manager Josh Quant. The firm will process paper, metal, electronics, plastic, and foam at its facility, which employs 16 workers.

Visit www.go-glr.com.

Gerdau Ameristeel Corp. (Tampa, Fla.) has acquired Metro Recycling (Guelph, Ontario), a scrap processor with two locations in Guelph and one in Mississauga, Ontario.

Visit www.american-securities.com and www.libertytire.com.

Mayfran International (Cleveland) has acquired Press Room Techniques (Lindsay, Ontario), the developer and manufacturer of patented products that manage scrap in stamping operations.

Visit www.mayfran.com or www.pressroomtechniques.com.

Openings and Expansions

Visit www.djj.com.

Visit www.go-glr.com.

Steel Etc. (Great Falls, Mont.) is moving its 4-acre salvage and steel business to a 16-acre site in North Park, Mont. The company expects the move to occur in the spring.

Visit www.bejac.com.

Visit www.deancat.com.

Milestones and Achievements

Visit www.u-r-g.com.

New Ventures

Visit www.harsco.com.

Electronics Recycling Roundup

Visit www.epa.gov.

Visit www.mrmrecycling.com, www.crtprocessing.com, or www.ecointernational.com.

In related news, Panasonic (Secaucus, N.J.) has created a recycling office to oversee its nationwide electronics take-back program, which MRM will manage.

Visit www.ce.org.

Visit www.powerscreen.co.uk or www.chadwick-baross.com.

Resources

Visit www.export.gov/basicguide.

Visit www.aluminum.org/bookstore.

Visit www.ourmetals.com. •

January/Febraury 2009

Scrap Beat

The recycling rate for glass beer and soft drink bottles rose to 35 percent from 31 percent in 2006, with wine and liquor bottle recycling rates holding at 15 percent.

Visit www.gpi.org or www.epa.gov.

Visit www.epa.gov.

Based on AAR's calculations, the volume reduction of "leveling off" an 18-inch mounded load of scrap would require one extra car for every 10 to 12 railcar loads.

Visit www.aar.org.

The combined cuts total 15 percent of Alcoa's annual output, or 615,000 mt a year. The company cited lower end-market demand and global economic softness for the moves.

The firm will spread the production cuts across its global system to minimize the costs associated with wholesale plant shutdowns and restarts and the impact on plant communities.

The company will immediately phase in the reductions and its new annual smelting production rate of about 3.5 million mt a year and make adjustments to its alumina refining production accordingly.

Visit www.alcoa.com.

Visit www.bir.org.

Visit www.aluminum.org.

Mergers and Acquisitions

GLR has retained Frontier owner/operator Howard Wiseman and facility manager Josh Quant. The firm will process paper, metal, electronics, plastic, and foam at its facility, which employs 16 workers.

Visit www.go-glr.com.

Gerdau Ameristeel Corp. (Tampa, Fla.) has acquired Metro Recycling (Guelph, Ontario), a scrap processor with two locations in Guelph and one in Mississauga, Ontario.

Visit www.american-securities.com and www.libertytire.com.

Mayfran International (Cleveland) has acquired Press Room Techniques (Lindsay, Ontario), the developer and manufacturer of patented products that manage scrap in stamping operations.

Visit www.mayfran.com or www.pressroomtechniques.com.

Openings and Expansions

Visit www.djj.com.

Visit www.go-glr.com.

Steel Etc. (Great Falls, Mont.) is moving its 4-acre salvage and steel business to a 16-acre site in North Park, Mont. The company expects the move to occur in the spring.

Visit www.bejac.com.

Visit www.deancat.com.

Milestones and Achievements

Visit www.u-r-g.com.

New Ventures

Visit www.harsco.com.

Electronics Recycling Roundup

Visit www.epa.gov.

Visit www.mrmrecycling.com, www.crtprocessing.com, or www.ecointernational.com.

In related news, Panasonic (Secaucus, N.J.) has created a recycling office to oversee its nationwide electronics take-back program, which MRM will manage.

Visit www.ce.org.

Visit www.powerscreen.co.uk or www.chadwick-baross.com.

Resources