Business

• Sims Metal Management looking to expand business into adjacent environmental markets
• Sims Metal Management seeks to enter the waste to energy market
• Schnitzer Steel’s earnings tumble in financial first half
• Competition authority plans to block takeover of DSD by Remondis
• WEEE recyclers face higher costs tied to fires ignited by Li batteries
• Equipment supplier Erema sets new annual sales record
• Stainless steel recycler ELG posts higher revenue and lower earnings
• Babcock & Wilcox fends off early April default
• CNIM in take-over talks with Cometal France
• FCC Environment and CIP to build wte at British Tata Chemicals site
• Major fire at Peute site
• Indaver and Suez planning EfW plant for waste wood
• Renewi makes impairments for Brexit and Derby plant delays
• EEW’s 2018 annual revenues rise by 6.6 per cent
• Turkey’s recovered paper imports increased to 725,000 tonnes
• Chinese RCP import licences below 7.8 million tonnes
• Wheelabrator seeks consent for large new waste to energy plant in Southern England

Markets

• EU steel scrap exports set new record in 2018
• Stainless steel production continued to grow in 2018
• Recovered paper in Germany
• Recovered paper in Poland
• Waste textiles in Germany
• NF scrap metals in Germany
• Upcoming EUWID market reports in the next issue
• LME and Comex prices

Policy

• EU members approve method of calculation for packaging recycling
• Indonesia postpones stricter regulations on RCP imports
• European Parliament urges member states to do more
• EU Commission approves state aid for wte plant in Poland
• China reasserts need to cut its recyclate imports at WTO

• News in brief: Stora Enso sorting interrupted due to pesticide find
• News in brief: FCC officially opens MRF in Houston
• Companies and institutions appearing in the current issue