Tag: recycle
Sandvik & Stamicarbon initiate a buy-back concept
An exciting project has been initiated by Sandvik and strategic business partner Stamicarbon. The project concept is to recycle high alloy steel by offering fertilizer customers a special buy-back solution when replacing equipment at their plants.
EcoTitanium recycle Titanium
80% recycled is the percentage of titanium turnings and chips used to produce EcoTitanium ingots. This plant is the first in Europe to manufacture aerospace quality titanium alloys from recycled material.
Energy recycling: how wind power helps to keep the traffic moving
Until recently, green revolution in energy was held up by lack of storage, which meant that efficient electricity production depended on an impossibility; namely uninterrupted wind and sunshine. Conversely, the excess energy produced during strong wind or sunshine could not be stored for later use. Now a revolution in energy storage is occurring, and it is possible not only to store green energy but to convert it to other uses, in other words to recycle it.
Sea change: as costs subside, the world relies more on desalination...
In the last few years the world has been increasingly relying on desalination for its drinking and industrial water. The stick is the danger that any already critical water shortage caused by drought and global warming will get worse. The carrot is the provision of more water in parched areas thanks to significant progress towards making desalination more cost-effective and environmentally friendly.