Rare earths - Inside January 2014
22.01.2014/2014/XNUMX Düsseldorf, Institute for Rare Earths and Metals - As expected, the hot topics at the beginning of XNUMX in the field of rare earths and metals are the announcement of China's export quotas, China's fight against smog, and China's first steps in the field of recycling and the very critical shortage of germanium. Export quotas for rare [...]
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Seminar by Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Services Germany GmbH
In 2014, Take-e-way and Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Services Germany GmbH are offering joint seminars on “Legal Requirements for Electrical & Electronic Products”. The focus is on ElektroG (WEEE), Battery Act and RoHS. The seminar provides the basics, definitions and obligations of the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act (WEEE) and the Battery Act. In addition, the scope, substances and limit values, exceptions and obligations to provide evidence and the [...]
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First private storage program for rare earths was launched
Press release of the German Institute for Rare Earths and Strategic Metals from November 26.11.2013th, 26.11.2013 November XNUMXth, XNUMX Düsseldorf - The British company First European Minerals, headquartered in London, has launched a storage program for rare earths and strategic metals in cooperation with German companies. Both private and institutional interested parties have the opportunity to use these rare elements [...]
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Coveted Metals
Sought-after metals The researchers set up their workplaces. Photo: Monika Müller Source: FR In the Wolfgang Industrial Park in Hanau, a new Fraunhofer project group is researching how valuable materials such as rare earths can be replaced or better recycled. Bacteria can get the most out of old cell phones. Microbiologist Stefan Ratering treats - already dismantled - disused mobile phones with microorganisms in order to [...]
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Company from Fährbrücke gets valuable raw materials from waste
Company from Fährbrücke gets valuable raw materials from waste 07.03.2013/XNUMX/XNUMX - Company develops recycling processes to save raw materials from garbage and recycle them. The management duo of the Loser-Chemie company - Wolfram Palitzsch and Ulrich Loser - will present a process on Thursday at the international recycling conference in Rome with which the company is able to recycle photovoltaic scrap. [...]
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The difficult search for the rare earths
At a meeting in Hamburg, 200 waste experts discussed how the coveted metals can be recycled. Pilot plant planned for 2014. Hamburg / Berlin. Cer, lanthanum, neodymium, ytterbium - hardly anyone was interested in rare earth metals until the 1950s. The last substance from this group, promethium, was not discovered until 1947. Only the electronic age made the [...]
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Rare earth lands in the trash
They are found in mobile devices and wind turbines: 17 chemical elements, the rare earths. World market leader China has restricted exports and pushed up prices. Now the recycling of the valuable raw materials is to be promoted. Real treasures are stored in Germany's households. 80 million old cell phones alone are forgotten in drawers or basements, as are countless computers, monitors, televisions and others
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Rare earths: Breakthrough in recycling?
By Axel Rose Until now, rare earths could not be economically recycled. But at the end of 2012 the world's first recycling plant went into operation in France. German companies are also looking for solutions to overcome raw material shortages. Is this the breakthrough in rare earth recycling? The French company Rhodia has the world's first recycling plant for rare earths in La Rochelle in [...]
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Recycling of rare earths started
Rare earth recycling started 02.01.2013/01/2013 - The French company Rhodia opened the world's first factory in La Rochelle to recycle rare earths on a large scale. This is what Technology Review reports in its current issue 17/XNUMX. For a long time the recycling of the XNUMX elements - from lanthanum for batteries to europium for fluorescent tubes to [...]
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Too bad for the barrel
Too good for the bin Discarded cell phones often end up in drawers. Rather than letting the old devices gather dust, it would be better to recycle them. For this to pay off, more people have to hand over their devices. Smartphones are becoming increasingly popular. The old key cell phone has had its day - and many people put them in a drawer. Is the device [...]
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