A controversial Frisco recycling plant that must soon comply with new federal air quality standards is no closer to obtaining its building permits and faces hearings over its future.
The City Council approved a measure that sets the stage for public hearings over Exide Technologies Inc.'s compliance with current zoning laws.
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Gravita India Ltd has initiated steps to strengthen its global presence. The company has decided to set up a Used Car Battery Recycling plant in The Republic of Trinidad & Tobago.
Mr Brien Fontin has signed a MOU for the facilitation of Investment in Trinidad & Tobago. Gravita is operating three plants in India and seven plan....
The spent batteries Americans turn in for recycling are increasingly being sent to Mexico, where their lead is often extracted by crude methods that are illegal in the United States, exposing plant workers and local residents to dangerous levels of a toxic metal.
Automotive batteries inside a distribution center in Mexico Ci....
U.S. battery maker Johnson Controls says independent tests show that its factory in Shanghai was not the cause of severe lead poisoning cases discovered earlier this year but point instead to a nearby recycling facility.
The Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based company said Wednesday that an investigation by the China Electric Equipmen....
Toyota Motor Europe has signed a three-year agreement with a French firm for the European-wide take-back and sustainable recycling of nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) batteries used in electric vehicles (EVs).
The agreement with the Société Nouvelle d’Affinage des Métaux (SNAM) will run from 2011 to 2014.
Toyota has sold some 3....
India-focussed miner Vedanta Resources Plc (VED.L) Friday said mined metal production for the second quarter was 210,000 tonnes up 2% as compared with the corresponding prior year period, reflecting near normal production at Rampura Agucha following the maintenance shutdown in first quarter.
Second quarter refined zinc produc....
Teck Resources Ltd., based in Vancouver, B.C., has announced plans to invest $685 million at two of its operations in British Columbia.
The first investment, for $210 million, will be made at Teck Resource’s Trail, B.C., integrated zinc and lead smelting and refining operations. The investment will increase the company’s capa....
Lead-acid batteries commonly used in vehicles are listed as recyclable waste and can be made into a variety of plastic and lead products after they have been recycled, the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) said yesterday.
Recycling Fund Management Board executive secretary Ma Nien-ho (馬念和) sai....
A few researchers at the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge have developed a unique method for recycling lead acid batteries which has the potential to transform the whole battery recycling industry.
Vasant Kumar, an Indian origin scholar led the research team which developed this so called ....
Belgium-based Umicore has inaugurated its rechargeable battery recycling facility in Hoboken, Belgium. In late 2009 the company announced plans to invest €25 million (US$34.1 million) to build a battery recycling plant that would produce batteries for hybrid electric vehicles and mobile phone batteries.
In inaugurating the fa....
Yunnan Lead and Zing Mine
On 27 July 2010, CWH Resources Ltd announced that it entered into a contract to purchase a lead and zinc mining company called "Yunnan Lanping Jinding Lead and Zinc Mining Company", situated in Yunnan, China.
This contract has been terminated as the due diligent study has indicated that the risk o....
The global refined lead market is expected to be in surplus by 123,000 tonnes in 2011, the International Lead and Zinc Study Group, or ILZSG, said on Thursday. The forecast gap is larger than the 48,000-tonne surplus in 2010. Demand for refined lead is forecast to increase by 5.5 per cent to 10.04 million tonnes in 2011, while w....
We are pleased to announce that our Company, Gravita India Limited together with its subsidiary Company, Gravita Exim Limited have acquired 60% stake in M/s K.M. Udyog, Jammu. The installed Lead manufacturing and refining capacity of M/s K.M. Udyog, Jammu is 7200 MT per annum.
With this addition, the enhanced capacity of Gra....
Electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors has launched a program to recycle its battery packs throughout Europe. The packs will be recycled by Umicore at its facility in Belgium, with the expended pack material used to produce an alloy that will be further refined into cobalt, nickel and other metals.
After that, Umicore will tr....
Lead demand in India is expanding by 10 percent to 12 percent a year, about twice the global rate, on increased battery sales and infrastructure projects, according to recycler Gravita India Ltd.
“There is a good expansion in the automobile, telecom and power sector,” Navin Sharma, marketing vice president, said from Jaipur. ....