Construction & Demolition Recycling

The practice of recycling old and unwanted materials has been around for a long time, almost as long as people have existed. The Recycling Today Media Group (RTMG) may not have been around that long, but our dedication to the recycling sector began in 1963 with the launch of Recycling Today, originally known as Secondary Raw Materials magazine. Since then, we have expanded our offerings from a single trade magazine to a wide range of publications and resources that support the industry.

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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.
Hanover Co. sets up fund to buy vacant buildings

1 week ago | cdrecycler.com | Brian Taylor

Houston-based real estate development and property management firm Hanover Co. says it has closed its Hanover Opportunities Fund (HOF) at $125 million in capital commitments and already has started acquiring land and underutilized commercial properties—such as vacant and distressed office buildings and—for redevelopment into multifamily or industrial projects.
Kadant equipment sales include wood recycling aspects

1 week ago | cdrecycler.com | Brian Taylor

Westford, Massachusetts-based Kadant Inc. says it has received orders with a combined value of $18 million from three lumber producers in North America and Europe this month. The equipment and technologies to be supplied will be used to debark, strand, chip and batch feed whole logs and scrap wood or lumber to produce oriented strand board (OSB) and dimensional lumber.
Tomra X-Tract model targets wood sorting

1 week ago | cdrecycler.com | Brian Taylor

The Tomra Recycling business unit of Norway-based Tomra ASA says the latest generation of its X-Tract sorting device has harnessed the power of X-ray transmission (XRT) technology based on identifying atomic density to detect and separate recyclable wood from impurities, including inert materials (rocks and concrete), metals, rigid plastic and glass.
Architectural billings remain subdued

1 week ago | cdrecycler.com | Brian Taylor

The Architecture Billings Index (ABI) organized by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and Virginia-based information services firm Deltek declined to 43.2 based on April 2025 survey results. According to the Washington-based AIA, billings have declined for 28 of the last 31 months, maintaining a trend into negative territory “following the post-pandemic boom.” As the index in calculated, any score under 50 indicates architectural firm billings are lower than they were the previous month.
RMDAS tracking shows $40 ferrous price drops in May

2 weeks ago | cdrecycler.com | Brian Taylor

Recycled steel mill purchasing transaction figures collected by the Raw Material Data Aggregation Service (RMDAS) of Pittsburgh-based MSA Inc. spell out the loss in value the secondary commodity has experienced this month. In the buying period from this April 21 to May 20, three benchmark recycled steel grades in the three RMDAS geographic regions sold from $30 to $50 per ton less compared with the previous 30-day period.
Starting from scratch

3 weeks ago | cdrecycler.com | Haley Rischar

The story of Edward C. Levy Co., a construction materials supplier based in Detroit, begins during the Rust Belt’s rapid industrialization, which ushered in a booming automotive industry that set the stage for the company’s success. Amid the city’s rampant growth, Edward Levy Sr. founded his namesake company in 1918 with only two trucks and a handful of city contracts.
Optimizing plant operations

3 weeks ago | cdrecycler.com | Shelley Mann

What is one piece of equipment veteran construction and demolition (C&D) recyclers wish they had implemented from the start? At a C&D World 2025 session on optimizing plant operations, the answers ranged from presizers to electric feeding machines to fire detection systems.
Attract & retain

3 weeks ago | cdrecycler.com | Shelley Mann

Metals can be valuable end products for construction and demolition (C&D) recyclers who tailor their separation systems to pull magnetic ferrous metals such as high-carbon steel from high-value nonferrous materials such as aluminum and copper, and a magnet separation system often serves as the backbone for metals recovery.