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Text no.: 001 Issue RW15/2021 Publication date: 28.07.2021
Prezero buys Ferrovial’s waste management
activities in Spain and Portugal for €1.1bn
(EU) – Prezero continues to expand through acquisition. The waste management subsidiary of Germany’s Schwarz Group has reached an agreement with Ferrovial to purchase its environmental services operations in Spain and Portugal. The... more 
Text no.: 002 Issue RW15/2021 Publication date: 28.07.2021
Metso Outotec selling part of its recycling
technology business to Ahlström Capital
(FIN) – The Finnish technology provider Metso Outotec is divesting part of its recycling technology business in a transaction with Ahlström Capital, a family-owned investment firm. In a press release announcing the deal in mid-July,... more
Text no.: 003 Issue RW15/2021 Publication date: 28.07.2021
Takeover offer for Suez can
be officially opened soon
(F) – The French financial markets regulator (AMF) approved the draft public takeover offer planned by environmental services provider Veolia for its rival Suez last week. The tender offer will be officially opened in the next few days,... more
Text no.: 004 Issue RW15/2021 Publication date: 28.07.2021
EQT Infrastructure to acquire US-based
EfW plant operator Covanta for $5.3bn
(S, USA) – The Swedish investor EQT is re-entering the waste incineration market. The US energy from waste (EfW) plant operator Covanta announced on 14 July that it had signed a definitive takeover agreement with EQT. According to the... more
Text no.: 005 Issue RW15/2021 Publication date: 28.07.2021
European Metal Recycling cut jobs after
volumes fell amidst 2020’s "Covid crisis"
(UK) – British scrap metal recycler EMR was still feeling the effects of the pandemic downturn at the close of 2020, but had "managed to maintain solid profitability", the company said in its filing of accounts for last year... more
Text no.: 006 Issue RW15/2021 Publication date: 28.07.2021
Germany’s floods followed
by torrent of bulky waste
(D) – As residents of German towns hit by mid-July’s record floods dig out their homes and businesses, the region’s waste management companies are struggling to contend with a surge of bulky waste. The scale of the problem is... more
Text no.: 007 Issue RW15/2021 Publication date: 28.07.2021
ISRI: Indonesia to implement 2 per cent threshold
for impurities in secondary raw materials imports
(IND) – The Indonesian government will soon apply a threshold of 2 per cent for impurities in imports of secondary raw materials, "metals and paper, particularly". The US recycling industry association Institute of Scrap... more
Text no.: 008 Issue RW15/2021 Publication date: 28.07.2021
HZI awarded contract for Skelton Grange EfW plant in the UK
(UK) – The northern English industrial city of Leeds will see its waste treatment capacity expanded. The company Enfinium, recently formed from the merger of Wheelabrator UK and Multifuel Energy, is planning an energy-from-waste plant in... more
Text no.: 009 Issue RW15/2021 Publication date: 28.07.2021
OCC prices in the UK under pressure prior to
anticipated start of Malaysian inspections
(UK) – British recovered paper prices have increased again in July, climbing from what was already a pretty high level. However, there are signs of a slowdown in business in Asia, although it has not taken hold at least not in July.
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Text no.: 010 Issue RW15/2021 Publication date: 28.07.2021
Strong demand buoys French recovered paper prices
(F) – Prices continue to be high on the recovered paper market in France. While quotes for the ordinary grades remained stable rather than falling as some buyers had hoped, the deinking grades and some of the higher-quality grades even... more
