Stena Nordic Recycling opens recycling center in Sweden

Stena Recycling, headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, has opened its newest scrap recycling facility in Halmstad, Sweden. The 433,000-square-metre Stena Nordic Recycling Center will be able to process 110,000 short tons of recyclables per year, according to the company.

“Halmstad is well-situated in many ways," says Kristofer Sundsgård, managing director of Stena Recycling AB, of the city that serves as the home to its newest recycling center. "We use the railway and the port to relieve pressure on road transport and the location allows us to also process material from the rest of the Nordic region. We are also accumulating unique expertise regarding recycling of the future and for our future development."

Stena says the facility is one of the most modern in Europe and has been developed in collaboration with customers and partners, including those from the automotive industry. The plant has been designed to use new processes that will allow the company to process more usable raw materials. Because of the equipment installed, Stena says the plant will be able to recycle 95 percent of the cars delivered, which meets the European Union’s requirements for recycling automobiles.

“The investment in the Stena Nordic Recycling Center represents brand new opportunities for us and our customers,” says Sundsgård. “We are combining proven technology with new innovations, which, for example, means a higher degree of recycling of vehicles at the end of their useful life; something that benefits producers, owners and us as recyclers.”

In addition to processing automobiles, the recycling center will be able to handle obsolete electronics.

“The automated process is ultramodern with the optimum combination of new innovations and proven technology. TV sets, computers and other electronics are ground down and the material is broken up at high speed. The capacity is 110,000 [short] tons per year,” says Rasmus Bergström, managing director of Stena Technoworld, which is responsible for recycling electronics.

Stena Technoworld operates 17 facilities in six European countries. In addition to electronics, the company recycles cooling appliances on a large scale.

Stena says the new process to recover precious metals from electronics at the facility will be the largest operation of its kind in Europe.

The company says it expects to employ 200 employees at Stena Nordic Recycling Center.

Stena Recycling and Stena Technoworld are a part of Stena Metall Group.