27.10.2020 − AEB Amsterdam, operator of the largest waste to energy (wte) plant in the Netherlands, recently completed a scheduled major revision "on time and on budget". The works took place on two incineration lines in the older...» more

14.10.2020 − The Scottish energy utility SSE plc is withdrawing from the waste incineration sector. The company will sell its 50 per cent stakes in both Ferrybridge multifuel power plants as well as its half of the planned Skelton...» more

09.10.2020 − Veolia's planned purchase of a major stake in competitor Suez is on ice, at least for the moment. On Friday afternoon the judicial court of Paris issued a temporary injunction, ordering the suspension of the...» more

06.10.2020 − The die is cast: Engie will sell a large part of its stake in Suez to Veolia. The French utility's board of directors decided last night to accept the offer of around €3.4bn for 29.9 per cent of Suez's shares. With the...» more

01.10.2020 − There has been a new twist in the ongoing drama around Veolia's attempt to take over its environmental services competitor Suez. The private investment company Ardian has notified Engie of its interest in the...» more

30.09.2020 − Engie has welcomed the improved offer Veolia presented for a 30 per cent stake in Suez. The offer was "in line with its expectations in terms of price and social guarantees," the French utility said in a statement...» more

18.09.2020 − The French utility Engie has rejected Veolia's initial offer for a nearly 30 per cent stake in rival Suez. Veolia had planned to pay around €3bn for the shares in the first stage of a two-step plan to acquire full...» more

16.09.2020 − The waste management company Prezero, a sister company to Lidl within the Schwarz Group, is to take over Suez's waste management operations in in Germany, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Poland. In separate statements...» more

09.09.2020 − The British waste management company Biffa has seen its business improving month for month since the height of the Covid-19 outbreak and anticipates that it will be able to end staff furloughs by the end of September....» more

02.09.2020 − A day after its initial, tersely worded response to the news that Veolia was mounting a takeover bid, the French group Suez issued a second statement. The environmental services company reported that its board of...» more

31.08.2020 − The French environmental services giant Veolia has launched a takeover bid for competitor Suez, having made an offer for nearly 30 per cent of Suez's shares owned by the French utility concern Engie (formerly GDF Suez).» more

25.08.2020 − The British government plans to impose a tax on plastic packaging containing less than 30 per cent recycled material beginning in April 2022. In order to supply enough recycled plastic to meet that 30 per cent content...» more

21.08.2020 − The plant operator EEW Energy from Waste has put forward the best bid for a facility located in Pirmasens in Germany's southwest. » more

18.08.2020 − US-Australian recycler Sims saw both sales revenue and earnings contract significantly in the financial year ended 30 June. "The rapid collapse in ferrous scrap prices in September 2019, combined with historically low...» more

06.08.2020 − Spain’s FCC group will sell a 49 per cent stake in a fleet of five fully-owned waste to energy (wte) plants in the UK to the financial investor Icon Infrastructure Partners. The agreement is worth £198m, FCC announced...» more

30.07.2020 − The effects of the coronavirus crisis are clearly visible in the latest earnings figures released by the French environmental services concern Veolia. Revenues from its waste activities came in at around €2.2bn in the...» more

29.07.2020 − The Swiss commodities trader Glencore is the only remaining party interested in taking over of the primary and secondary lead producer Weser-Metall and its smelter located in Nordenham, Lower Saxony.» more

16.07.2020 − The Belgian waste company Indaver reports that it has achieved stable growth despite the challenging economic circumstances of the past three years.» more

08.07.2020 − The global investment firm KKR has completed the acquisition of British waste management company Viridor. KKR, which manages businesses in a variety of asset classes including energy, infrastructure and real estate,...» more

03.07.2020 − AEB Amsterdam has reached a refinancing agreement with banks and the city of Amsterdam, which owns the waste treatment plant operator. AEB announced on Thursday that the city would be prepared to make €36m available in...» more

02.07.2020 − The French environmental services group Suez is the latest business to report being heavily affected by the coronavirus crisis. In its Recycling & Recovery segment, the group expects revenues for the first half of 2020...» more

17.06.2020 − Recent sharp drops in prices and demand for recycled plastics threaten the economic viability of many plastics recyclers across Europe.» more

10.06.2020 − The German ferrous scrap recycler Scholz intends to expand its activities to the Chinese market. Together with China Hongqiao, one of the world's largest aluminium producers, Scholz intends to develop and operate a...» more

03.06.2020 − Recycling industry insiders expect that China will play a key role in markets for secondary raw materials in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. But perhaps it will be a different role than before as multinational...» more

27.05.2020 − The French group Derichebourg expects its ferrous and non-ferrous metals recycling business to recover by autumn, at the earliest. Activity levels have made good progress since bottoming out at the beginning of April....» more

22.05.2020 − The future of the financially strapped Franco-German metal group Recylex is tightly linked to the fate of the German subsidiary Weser-Metall GmbH and its lead smelter in Nordenham, Germany. "Recylex S.A.'s capacity to...» more

18.05.2020 − Recycling must be included among the sectors supported in the recovery plans being drafted by the EU and its member states, says Plastics Recyclers Europe. » more

14.05.2020 − The Recylex Group has applied for creditor protection under German law for its subsidiaries Weser-Metall GmbH, Harz-Metall GmbH, Norzinco GmbH and PPM Pure Metals GmbH. » more

12.05.2020 − Austria’s Alpla group started up a second PET regranulation line in Poland at the beginning of May. The new line doubles capacity at the subsidiary PET Recycling Team in Radomsko from 15,000 to 30,000 tonnes a year of...» more

12.05.2020 − The European Commission's Competition Directorate-General sees no obstacles to the sale of the British waste company Viridor to the private equity firm KKR.» more