Lindemann Metal Recycling charts industry direction at Customer Advisory Board
The event drew together some of the leading names and brands in metal recycling to discuss the opportunities, challenges and future direction of the global industry.
Held at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England – the scene, in 1905, where Mr Rolls met Mr Royce and decided to start a car company – Lindemann Metal Recycling held its inaugural Customer Advisory Board (CAB), attracting senior executives from leading names in the recycling sector to chart the future of the industry.
The event was led by Lindemann CEO Carl Gustaf Göransson, who highlighted the company’s new strategy – saying: “We are the leading supplier of metal recycling solutions – but essentially, we exist to transform the metal circular economy for a better tomorrow. Forging closer relationships with customers is an important part of reaching that goal – and the inspiration behind holding the CAB.”
The metal recycling industry was green long before it was fashionable
The keynote speaker was Tom Bird, past President of Bureau of International Recycling. He said that metal recycling industry was ‘green long before it was fashionable – but that it needs to get better at marketing that fact’. He highlighted how metal recycling makes an important contribution to lowering the steel industry’s carbon footprint, and predicted demand for recycled metals will continue to increase. He also said new technology and improved processing would enhance both finished quality and recovery rates. “The outlook for recycled metals is extremely positive”, he concluded.
New technologies were discussed that boost the productivity and efficiency of metal recycling equipment, and the need for processed scrap to be purer, denser and easier to manage for steel producers.
A second keynote speech was given by Dr. Christian Fröhling, EVP of metallurgy at SMG Group. He said “Scrap metal will determine how we will decarbonise the metals industry.” He talked about scrap metal’s role in the production of ‘green steel’, and of the steel industry’s need to ‘know what is in the scrap’. He also said that the metals industry wants a ‘smooth process’, and for that to happen they need scrap that in general is denser, higher in purity and as low as possible in copper.
Delegates ended the CAB with a visit to S Norton’s recycling facility in Manchester. The site features a new state-of-the-art Lindeman EtaRip 250 Max pre-shredder and ZZ 250x260 Power Zerdirator shredder, the latter featuring the world’s first installation of the revolutionary variable frequency drive (VFD) technology.
