Brian Taylor

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Editor-in-Chief and Senior Editor at Recycling Today

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Cronimet cites low metal pricing for sales decline

4 days ago | recyclingtoday.com | Brian Taylor

Karlsruhe, Germany-based Cronimet Holding Group says it recorded 2.6 billion euros (nearly $3 billion) in sales in its 2024 fiscal year, which the stainless steel recycling firm says represents a decline by about 380 million euros, or 12.7 percent, compared with fiscal year 2023 sales. Cronimet cites what it calls the “weak economic situation, particularly in Europe, as well as the continuing high level of geopolitical uncertainty” as significant challenges for the family-owned company.
Case adds to excavator line

4 days ago | cdrecycler.com | Brian Taylor

Racine, Wisconsin–based Case Construction Equipment has announced the launch of its sizable new CX380E tracked excavator.
Heidelberg acquires Canadian concrete recycling firm

4 days ago | cdrecycler.com | Brian Taylor

Irving, Texas-based Heidelberg Materials North America has announced today it has acquired “certain assets” of Concrete Crushers Inc. (CCI), a concrete recycling firm based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The transaction includes a recycled aggregates yard in the city of Calgary and a contract crushing business with four mobile plants, according to Heidelberg.
EPEAT starts supplier engagement program

5 days ago | recyclingtoday.com | Brian Taylor

The Portland, Oregon-based Global Electronics Council (GEC) has announced the launch of a supplier engagement program (SEP) for its EPEAT registry and platform, which includes circularity and sustainable use of resources among its registry criteria.
Hybar rebar rolling mill commissioned in Arkansas

5 days ago | recyclingtoday.com | Brian Taylor

Osceola, Arkansas-based Hybar LLC and its CEO Dave Stickler have declared the company is ”open for business” after announcing the firm’s rolling mill is producing steel rebar from billets. The company says the rebar was produced 22 months after Hybar broke ground at its 1,300-acre greenfield site in Osceola.
Mitsubishi invests in electronics recycling technology

6 days ago | recyclingtoday.com | Brian Taylor

Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Corp. says it has agreed to acquire shares in DEScycle Ltd., a United Kingdom-based company that has developed technology designed to recover metal from obsolete electronics.
Nippon Steel to make EAF investments in Japan

6 days ago | recyclingtoday.com | Brian Taylor

Japan-based Nippon Steel Corp. (NSC) has announced it will receive about $1.75 billion in Japanese government funding to help it expand its recycled-content electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking capacity in that nation by 2.9 million tons per year. NSC says it has been selected as a “2025-2029 Energy and Manufacturing Process Transformation Support Business” tied to Japan’s Green Transformation (GX) Promotion Act.
APR adds Europe-based PCR auditor

1 week ago | recyclingtoday.com | Brian Taylor

The Washington-based Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) says Kiwa Netherlands has been added as the newest certification body to join the list of companies that meet criteria and comply with the APR PCR certification program. According to APR, Rijswijk, Netherlands-based Kiwa has a staff of 30 auditors “specific to recycling,” and the firm can perform audits in multiple languages and around the world.
Samta breaks ground on nonferrous ingot plant in Morocco

1 week ago | recyclingtoday.com | Brian Taylor

The Mumbai-based Samta Group and its Samta Metals & Alloys (SMA) business unit say they have broken ground on a $70 million recycled-content copper rod and aluminum ingot plant in Kenitra, Morocco. A late May post on the Samta Group LinkedIn page indicates calls it “Morocco’s first copper and aluminum recycling plant,” adding that it will be located in the Atlantic Free Zone in Kenitra.
GM to invest in Buffalo area engine plant

1 week ago | recyclingtoday.com | Brian Taylor

Detroit-based General Motors (GM) says it plans to invest $888 million in its Tonawanda Propulsion plant in that New York city, which is near Buffalo, saying the project will support the production of the sixth generation of GM’s V-8 engines, used in trucks and sport utility vehicles (SUVs). A description of the current GM L8T eight-cylinder engine for trucks and SUVs assembled in Tonawanda on the GM website describes it as consisting of a cast iron engine block and cast aluminum cylinder heads.

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