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• BIR to set sail towards new horizons
  BIR to set sail towards new horizons The Bureau of International Recycling steps into a new era of its over 65 year-long history with the departure of long-serving Director General Francis Veys and the takeover of his functions by Alexandre Delacoux. Mr Delacoux is ready to guide the organisation towards new horizons and is intent on giving fresh impetus to key activities such as convention organisation and membership acquisition. At the recent World Recycling Convention & Exhibition in Shan...
• Warsaw Convention: Marriott Hotel fully booked!
  Warsaw Convention: Marriott Hotel fully booked! Due to a strong affluence of registrations, the Warsaw Marriott Hotel is now fully booked. However, the supporting hotels Polonia Palace and Intercontinental offer first-class accommodation within walking distance of the Convention hotel and the conference organiser Mazurkas Travel will help you with finding suitable rooms. Currently, the programmes of the different commodity round-table sessions are being put together to offer attending delegates...
• BIR World Mirror on Stainless Steel & Special Alloys - January 2014
  BIR World Mirror on Stainless Steel & Special Alloys - January 2014 Dear colleagues, 2013 is behind us and many of us will be glad that is the case. It was a very challenging year for the stainless steel industry, with some significant casualties along the way. The global economy in general gave us little in the way of good news as most countries struggled to post significant growth figures. Across the world, there was little talk of expansion in industry but more discussion about contractio...
• Chinese import ban for solid waste: new contaminants thresholds confirmed
  Chinese import ban for solid waste: new contaminants thresholds confirmed Today, BIR has been informed that China has officially notified the WTO of its intent to adopt the GB 16487 Environmental Protection Control standards for a certain number of wastes. The following percentages were communicated as the applicable thresholds for impurities: Smelt slag 0.5%, wood 0.5%,  paper 0.5%, ferrous 0.5%, non-ferrous 1%, waste electric motors 0.5%, wires and cables 0.5%, metal and appliance scrap 0.5%,...
• BIR launches Spanish and Chinese version of website
  BIR launches Spanish and Chinese version of website The Bureau of International Recycling is pleased to announce that its website’s static pages have been translated into Spanish and Chinese. As BIR membership is expanding and will continue to grow in the coming years, and in preparation of the 2014 World Recycling Convention & Exhibition in Miami, a large portion of the BIR website was translated into Spanish to reach out to Latin American countries. In the same line of thought, a transla...
• Warsaw Convention: LME’s Martin Abbott to be honoured by BIR
  BIR World Recycling Convention in Warsaw (Autumn Round-Table Sessions), 27-29 Oct. 2013 Non-Ferrous Metals Division: Tuesday, 29 October 2013 at 11.00: LME’s Martin Abbott to be honoured by BIR BIR’s upcoming World Recycling Convention in Warsaw will be the backdrop for a special presentation that the Non-Ferrous Metals Division under the presidency of Robert Stein (Alter Trading, USA) will make to Martin Abbott, departing CEO of the London Metal Exchange. Mr Abbott will be honoured for his...
• BIR World Mirror on Ferrous Metals-October 2013
  BIR World Mirror on Ferrous Metals - October 2013 PRESIDENT'S OPENING REMARKSby Christian Rubach, TSR Recycling  Dear friends and colleagues,It is less than four weeks to the start of our Autumn Convention in Warsaw. The economic environment in most markets seems to have bottomed out and business sentiment appears to have improved - or at least, not got any worse.In the first half of 2013, the Polish steel sector was shaken by the EU economic crisis; crude steel production fell 12.6% while stee...
• BIR publishes new statistics brochure "Recovered Paper Market in 2011
  Recovered Paper Market in 2011 For several years, BIR has been publishing global figures on recovered paper, which were compiled and commented by Giampiero Magnaghi, Past President of the BIR Paper Division.For the first time, these figures have recently been published in the BIR statistics series “BIR Global Facts & Figures”, which already contains statistical information on ferrous metals and in the coming months on non-ferrous metals. Compared to previous editions, the format is now a...
• BIR offers new tool to promote the recycling industry
  BIR offers new tool to promote the recycling industry BIR has developed a short video about the importance of the recycling industry at global level. The new video explains, in a simple and timely manner, the contribution of the recycling industry to the global economy, the protection of environment and development of sustainable solutions. The video also puts forward the issue of free and fair trade of recycled materials. The video will be made available on the homepage of BIR (www.bir.org) on...
• Warsaw Convention - Ferrous Division: Trade barriers for steel scrap – a global trend?
  BIR World Recycling Convention in Warsawb (Autumn Round-Table Sessions) 27-29 Oct. 2013    Ferrous Division: Trade barriers for steel scrap – a global trend? At BIR’s upcoming World Recycling Convention in Warsaw, the BIR Ferrous Division under the presidency of Christian Rubach, TSR (Germany) will address the looming trend for barriers in the international steel scrap trade using the example of the EU and other countries. Two guest speakers will take the floor to give their views on the...