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• Radioactivity : BIR members are advised to ensure their radiation detection equipment is in good working order
  Radioactivity : BIR members are advised to ensure their radiation detection equipment is in good working orderBIR has been made aware that a significant number of Cobalt 60 (Co60) radioactive sources from scrapped medical devices from Nigeria have fallen out of the country's regulatory control and are now appearing in scrap metal exported for recycling. BIR members’ operating radiation detection equipment in importing countries have found a small number of those radiation sources. The efforts...
• BIR World Mirror on Non-Ferrous Metals - April 2011
  BIR World Mirror on Non-Ferrous Metals - April 2011 Copper - The New Gold? I’ve attended many copper conferences in my career, and all too often after the proceedings I’m left with the “well what does that mean to the copper scrap side of the industry” feeling. Secondary copper and brass play a vital role in the supply chain, but because it’s an industry that is so dynamic and opaque, less is reported on it than on its primary counterpart. That’s about to change. On the morning of Tu...
• General Assembly: Excellent Convention attendance despite economic downturn
    PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, 4 June 2009BIR World Recycling Convention25-27 May 2009, DubaiPress Releases on Commodity SessionsGeneral Assembly:Excellent Convention attendance despiteeconomic downturnThe impact of theglobal downturn on the recycling industry has been “brutal” but“our businesses will be in the vanguard of the economic upswing”.That was the positive message delivered by BIR World PresidentDominique Maguin to the organisation’s latest General Assembly in...
• Special BIR Symposium "Copper .... the new Gold?
  Special BIR Symposium Tuesday, 24 May 2011, 9.30 am Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore "Copper .... the new Gold? Which metal offers excellent resistance to corrosion and outstanding qualities as conductor of electricity? Which metal is put to a diversified industrial use including electronics? Which metal is characterised by considerable price volatility and is linked to the worries and expectations of the global economy? The spontaneous answer to this would be GOLD. But in fact, these statements equa...
• East African Scrap Metal Ban: BIR officially contacts respective governments to express concern
  East African Scrap Metal Ban: BIR officially contacts respective governments to express concern Following the recent announcement that the East African Community (EAC) intends to ban scrap metal exports in order to support their own metals industries, the Bureau of International Recycling has addressed an official letter to the headquarters of the East African Community in Tanzania, the government of Kenya and the Kenyan embassy in the UK. The same letter will also be sent to government official...
• Barcelona Convention - Ferrous Division: Prices impacted by Turkey’s economic problems
  BIR World Recycling Convention & Exhibition in Barcelona (27 - 30 May 2018) Ferrous Division: Prices impacted by Turkey’s economic problems The Chinese government’s decision to suspend the issuing of inspection certificates for the month up to June 4 will cost US exporters an estimated US$ 400 million as well as a further US$ 100 million associated with market value and shipment diversions to other destinations such as India and South Korea, the latest BIR Ferrous Division meeting was to...
• China to impose a tariff on 333 categories of US products on 23rd August 2018
  China to impose a tariff on 333 categories of US products on 23rd August 2018 The Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced yesterday that China will impose an import tariff of 25% on commodities imported from the United States, including chemicals, crude oil, diesel, bikes and cars, medical equipment, energy products and all wastes/scraps listed in the annexed “List of tariff items for the United States” : Other wastes (No.3,4,44,45,98,99,106,107,108,109,326)Scrap Plastic (No.92,93,94,95)Scra...
• Stainless Steel & Special Alloys Committee: Market in oversupply
    PRESS RELEASE Brussels, 11thJune 2008 2008World Recycling Convention & BIR’s60thAnniversary Celebration MonteCarlo, 2-4 June 2008 StainlessSteel & Special Alloys Committee: Marketin oversupply The stainless steel market has swung into oversupply and is lacking a“feel-good factor”, the BIR Stainless Steel & Special AlloysCommittee meeting in Monte-Carlo was told by familiar guest speakerMarkus Moll, Senior Market Analyst at Austria-based Steel &Metals Market Research. H...
• Paper Division: BIR ‘Papyrus Award’ for French company Emin Leydier
  PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEBrussels,6 November 2008BIRAutumn Round-Table SessionsDüsseldorf,30-31 October 2008PaperDivision:BIR‘Papyrus Award’ for French company Emin LeydierRecentweeks have been “some of the most challenging in our lifetimes”,the BIR Paper Division meeting in Düsseldorf was told by itsPresident, Ranjit Baxi of J & H Sales International in the UK.Priceshave weakened sharply, trade has slowed dramatically, lines of credithave tightened and some buyers have be...