Andritz MeWa, a part of Austria-based Group Andritz, has received an order to supply equipment for a recycling plant operated by Cibao Metal Recycling CIMER Srl, a subsidiary of the YeYo Ochoa Group of the Dominican Republic.

The European equipment firm says the installation is scheduled to be complete in late 2018, and describes the plant as “the first multi-functional and comprehensive recycling plant for metals and metal compounds in the Caribbean and Latin American region.”

Equipment being installed will help process three different input materials: car and truck oil filters, automotive parts and electronic scrap. The equipment supplied consists of a Universal Rotary Shear UC 1300, a Universal Granulator UG 1000H, a Universal Cross-Flow Shredder QZ 1200, and accompanying materials handling and separation technology.

The plant is designed to process up to one ton per hour of oil filters, two tons per hour of electronic scrap and about five tons per hour of car parts and sheet metal. The oil filters are shredded down to a particle size of less than 30 mm and separated into three basic output materials: roughly 40 percent metals, 20 percent centrifuged motor oil and 40 percent rubber and paper.

Andritz MeWa indicates the plant is being designed so it can be extended at a later stage, if necessary.

Pictured above, from left: Chip Kovach and Michael Kovach in Washington
with the CMT lifting magnet they displayed on the White House lawn.

A lifting magnet made by Youngstown, Ohio-based City Machine Technologies Inc. (CMT) was among products on display at a late July press event hosted by the Trump administration on the White House lawn.

According to a blog post on the CMT website, one of the company’s lifting magnets was displayed at the second annual Made in America Product Showcase, held on the White House lawn Monday, July 23.

White House staffers approached companies throughout the United States so one company could be selected from each state to represent American-made goods at the event, according to CMT.

“It’s an honor and a privilege to be one of 50 companies both big and small showcasing what America can make when we roll up our sleeves and work hard,” says company founder Michael J. Kovach. “America was built on the manufacturing industry, and it’s great to see it’s alive and well today.”

Michael and Chip Kovach of CMT brought with them a 47-inch DASH (deep aluminum scrap handler) scrap magnet. In the magnet business since 1998, CMT currently makes and sells 47-inch, 57-inch and 67-inch DASH magnets. CMT also makes 58-inch and 68-inch deep copper ball handler (DCBH) models, which the company describes as “heavy copper-wound magnets used in the ferrous metal reclamation business.”

CMT says its magnets “can be found all over the United States” as well as in Egypt, Indonesia, Canada and Mexico.

In addition to rebuilding and manufacturing electromagnets for steel mills and scrap yards, CMT describes itself as an industrial service center providing electrical, mechanical, machining and repair and maintenance field services to industrial and commercial companies in the U.S.

Michael Kovach and his late wife Joan Kovach founded CMT with two employees in 1985. The company currently has about 60 employees and, according to Michael Kovach, intends to expand its workforce.

Target, Minneapolis, released its "2018 Corporate Responsibility" report July 18, which highlighted an array of growth areas the company is pursuing. The company’s initiatives were segmented into four key categories: Empower Teams, Serve Guests, Foster Communities and Design Tomorrow.

As part of its Design Tomorrow initiative, the company outlined a number of waste and recycling goals for the future, as well as targets that the company has already hit.    

Some of the highlights include:

• Target exceeded its 2020 goal to divert 70 percent of its retail waste from landfills through reuse or recycling ahead of deadline. The company has set a new goal to hit 75 percent diversion by the end of 2018.
• Target adopted The Consumer Goods Forum's Food Waste Resolution, committing to halve the company’s food waste within its operations by 2025.
• In 2017, Target launched an organics recycling program at 66 Target store locations. Building upon the learnings from those locations, the company plans to expand the program to 209 additional stores (including four distribution centers and one food distribution center) in 2018, totaling 307 Target locations. In addition, the company composts organic waste at its corporate headquarters. In 2017, Target composted 582,000 pounds of organic waste.
• In 2017, Target’s electronics recycling program recycled more than 4.2 million pounds of electronics.
• The company is working closely with its suppliers and other partners to eliminate expanded polystyrene—foam packaging that is difficult to recycle.
• As part of the company’s work with the Sustainable Packaging Coalition, Charlottesville, Virginia, Target is continuing to look for ways to add the How2Recycle label to its owned-brand product packages. The label is an industry standard that lets consumers know exactly how to recycle a piece of packaging.
• As the first retailer to join The Recycling Partnership, Falls Church, Virginia, Target says it is continuing to invest to increase access to curbside recycling in communities.
• The company has joined industry efforts to create more demand for recycled packaging. This includes the Materials Recovery for the Future Collaborative, a project working toward a vision that all flexible packaging can be recycled.

“This work is a journey—and while we have a long way to go, I’m proud of our progress,” Target CEO and Chairman Brian Cornell says of the report. “Every action we take that strengthens the health and vitality of the communities where we live and work is a step forward in building a better, brighter future for Target, the people we serve and the planet we all share.”

Dublin-based ResearchAndMarkets.com has added a report that examines the global electronics recycling sector.

The report, "Electronics Recycling - Global Strategic Business Report," provides separate comprehensive analytics for the U.S., Canada, Japan, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the rest of world. Annual estimates and forecasts are provided for the period 2015 through 2022. Also, a six-year historic analysis is provided for these markets.

The report profiles 194 companies, including many key and niche players such as:

• AERC Recycling Solutions (USA);
• American Retroworks Inc. (USA);
• Aurubis AG (Germany);
• Boliden Group (Sweden);
• Dlubak Glass Co. (USA);
• Enviro-Hub Holdings Ltd. (Singapore);
• Cimelia Resource Recovery Pte Ltd. (Singapore);
• Exitcom Recycling GmbH (Germany);
• Fortune Plastic & Metal Inc. (USA);
• MBA Polymers Inc. (USA);
• Sims Metal Management Ltd. (Australia);
• Stena Technoworld AB (Sweden);
• Ultromex Ltd. (U.K.);
• Umicore N.V. (Belgium);
• Universal Recycling Technologies LLC (USA); and
• Zak Enterprises (USA).

The report provides an industry overview as well as market trends, drivers and issues, including collaboration, reuse, wearables, government initiatives and data security. It also provides a regulatory overview, recent industry activity, a focus on select global players and a global market perspective. 

More information about this report is available at www.researchandmarkets.com/research/zfkgz3/global?w=4.