ITA visits Spanish tin stakeholders
ITA recently visited various tin industry stakeholders in Spain in order to gain insight into developments in the country. Spain represents a microcosm of the tin industry, with all parts of the value chain represented – from tin mining up to tin use. Recycling is a...Tin from e-waste: ITA meets with bioleaching R&D team
More than a third of all tin is used in electronics every year. Although around of a third of all tin is recycled, more could be done to recover the metal from waste circuit boards. The Bioremediation Group, part of the Bioscience and Biotechnology Engineering...Aurubis to invest in more efficient tin extraction
Aurubis has announced that it will build a state-of-the-art recycling plant at its Beerse site – previously Metallo – in Belgium. The new plant will process copper anode sludge using a hydrometallurgical process to rapidly extract a variety of metals...E-waste tin recovery success for EnviroLeach
Canadian e-waste recycler EnviroLeach have released new results showing that their environmentally friendly, cost-efficient process consistently recovers over four fifths of tin contained in circuit boards. The processed concentrate from crushed boards had an average...Bacteria recover tin from e-waste
A team at Coventry University, UK have demonstrated the potential to recover tin from e-waste using bacteria. The team’s initial results demonstrate that tin recovery from a printed circuit board (PCB) sample can reach 100%. E-waste is the fastest growing waste...EnviroLeach recovers tin from e-waste
EnviroLeach is a Vancouver based company that recover metals from e-waste using a water-based solution. This month, the company announced a new technological advancement that allows cost-effective extraction of tin from end-of-life printed circuit board assemblies...Aurubis seals approval for Metallo acquisition
The EU has approved a deal for Aurubis, the world’s largest copper recycler, to acquire Metallo Group. The deal was initially announced in May 2019, but in November, the EU antitrust regulators stepped in to potentially block the deal. The resulting business...EnviroLeach prove viability of PCB tin recycling
Canadian-based start-up EnviroLeach has completed testing of its process to recycle tin from electronic waste. The company recovered 90% of the contained metal in lab-scale tests. Solders make up nearly half of all tin use, a significant proportion of which end up on...Tinplate: most recycled packaging in Germany
Gesellschaft für Verpackungsmarktforschung (GVM) in its recently published annual recycling report states that 90.4% of tinplate packaging used in Germany was recycled in 2018. The recycling rate from private end use sources was as high as 92.2%, making tinplate the...
