Simon Hartmann

The British company European Metal Recycling (EMR) commissioned its Hamburg battery recycling plant last week. Following extensive modifications at the site in the city's Billbrook quarter, the recycling plant is equipped to discharge and dismantle battery packs from electric vehicles (EVs). The 12,000 square metre...

Prices are headed higher again on the metal markets. After falling sharply through the middle of August, prices for a variety of metals increased significantly on the London Metal Exchange again at the end of the month....

In the new strategy Fortum launched in March, the Circular Solutions businesses were no longer included among the company's core activities. Circular Solutions is responsible for operating, maintaining and developing Fortum’s recycling and waste assets as well as its turbine and generator services and bio-based...

The Finnish energy company Fortum is planning to build a lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Arten, Germany.   Fortum intends to boost its recycling capacity for lithium-ion batteries to around 200,000 tonnes by the 2030, remarked Tero Holländer, Head of the Battery Business Line at Fortum Battery Recycling....

The scrap recycler European Metal Recycling (EMR) is planning to build a battery recycling plant in the Billbrook district of Hamburg. This facility is to have the capacity to process up to 10,000 tonnes of lithium-ion batteries each year, according to the Official Gazette of the Ministry of Justice and Consumer...

Finnish utility company Fortum has commissioned a recycling plant for lithium-ion batteries (LIB) in Kirchardt in the south of Germany. The new facility is designed to process around 3,000 tonnes of electric vehicle (EV) batteries per year, according to Frank Stumpf, Operations Director at Fortum’s battery recycling...

German automaker Mercedes-Benz laid the foundation stone for its planned battery recycling plant in the town of Kuppenheim in southwestern Germany. The pilot plant, where Mercedes intends to recycled end-of-life lithium-ion traction batteries, is to be operated by concern subsidiary Licular GmbH. The recycling...

The Canadian battery recycler Li-Cycle almost doubled its 2021 turnover last year. The company posted revenues of $13.4m (around €12.49m) for 2022, according to financial statements published at the end of January. The prior year's turnover figure had been more than $6m less. While achieving a dramatic increase in...

German plant operator EEW Energy from Waste has laid the foundation stone for a €220m major project near Hamburg on 9 November. The company is building a replacement for its Stapelfeld waste to energy (wte) plant as well as a sewage sludge mono-incineration facility. The project is being supported with nearly €8m from...

According to the international police organisation Interpol, criminals generated income of between €70bn and €210bn from environmental crime worldwide last year, including transporting waste illegally and operating illegal landfills. However, combating environmental crime is difficult. One major barrier to effective...