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Prezero Portugal has completed the acquisition of the company Tratris. With the transaction, the waste management subsidiary of Germany's Schwarz group is expanding its presence in central Portugal and strengthening its position in the industrial waste segment. The company did not disclose the financial terms of the...

A leadership change is underway at Swedish innovation company Easymining. Jonas Hagman will become chief executive on 1 October, parent group Ragn-Sells announced in Stockholm. He will succeed Jan Svärd, who has led the company since 2016 and will remain involved as a senior adviser. Mr Hagman joins the group from...

The Schwarz group has set itself an ambitious circularity target for its in-house waste streams. By 2030, the group intends to reuse, recycle, compost or anaerobically digest 95 per cent of all waste generated by its operations. The German retail group, which includes the Lidl and Kaufland grocery chains, announced the...

French environmental services company Suez has secured a 24-year contract to modernise and operate the waste-to-energy (wte) plant in Argenteuil, north-west of Paris. Valued at €830m before taxes, the deal was awarded by the inter-municipal waste management cooperation Azur following a competitive public tender, and...

French environmental services group Veolia is partnering with the technology company Mistral AI in a cooperation that will use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to optimise plant operations and processes in the water, waste and energy sectors. In addition to boosting efficiency, the cooperation is to...

The European Recycling Industries' Confederation (EuRIC) has added a focus area to its activities with the launch of its Ship Recycling Working Group (ESRG). The new working group is to address current barriers in ship recycling within the European Union, Euric explained. Although the 2018 EU Ship Recycling Regulation...

In a bid to create the first complete and scalable value chain for the reuse and recycling of electric vehicle batteries in Europe, Stena Recycling has announced plans to build a dedicated plant for EV battery recycling in collaboration with tech company EV HUB at Stena’s new Ausenfjellet site in Frogner, Norway,...

The French energy group Total Energies has announced the takeover of the Finnish firm Tecoil. Tecoil specialised in manufacturing re-refined base oils and had the most efficient used oil regeneration technology on the market, Total Energies reported. The company did not provide and further details about the...

The European Parliament adopted its position at first reading on the proposed Green Claims Directive in Strasbourg last week. A total of 467 MEPs voted in favour of the legislation and 65 against with 74 members abstaining. The text approved by the plenary sets out the Parliament's position on the Directive, which...

The French metals recycling group Derichebourg was the victim of a cyberattack earlier this month and is still dealing with the resulting operational problems. According to German subsidiary Derichebourg Umwelt, the attack targeted the company's server infrastructure, and both its technical systems and those of parent...