Business

• Sims Metal Management closes first half of financial year with significant loss
• Derichebourg posts fall in first-quarter revenues
• Saubermacher pushes 2011 turnover beyond €300m mark
• Montanwerke Brixlegg sold to Swiss metals trader Umcor
• Umicore‘s recycling division records strong growth
• German scrap recycler Scholz AG issues bond
• Recylex books lower turnover in fourth quarter
• EU industries call for reducing secondary raw materials exports
• German recycling industry displeased with new law
• Suez Environnement‘s waste unit benefits from higher volumes

Markets

• Recovered paper in Germany
• Primary plastics in the UK
• British recovered paper exports on the rise in 2011
• Recovered paper in the UK
• Eurofer scrap price indices
• Steel scrap in Germany
• NF scrap metals in Germany
• New record in crude steel output
• Stainless steel production up
• LME and Comex prices

Policy

• EP draft calls for ambitious targets for waste legislation
• JRC publishes criteria for end of waste status for glass
• Flanders defines reuse criteria for WEEE
• German completes revision of national waste law

Events

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