waste management
24 May 2013
Waste management business Shanks has been selected as preferred bidder for the £560m 25-year residual waste treatment contract by the North West Regional Waste Management Group.
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17 May 2013
Green Energy Renewable Solutions has merged with renewable energy development company Cirque Energy II as it moves from planning to operations.
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16 May 2013
Waste management business Shanks has recorded a pre-tax loss of £35.3m for the year ended 31 March 2013 with an industry source telling NewNet the sector as a whole still faces severe headwinds.
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15 May 2013
Clothing retailer Patagonia said its recently-established $20m corporate venturing arm will be a way for it to use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.
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14 May 2013
South East Asian private equity firm Navis Capital Partners has invested in Singapore electronic waste company TES-Envirocorp.
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13 May 2013
Glasgow Airport will deploy Shanks technology to reduce waste by 75 per cent as it takes a more active approach to waste management.
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9 May 2013
MaRS, one of Ontario’s Region Innovation Centres, is now just $5m short of the $30m target it has set for its cleantech fund Tom Rand, managing partner, told NewNet with the team hoping to close it off before the end of the year.
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8 May 2013
Clothing retailer Patagonia has launched a corporate venturing arm to invest in start-ups across the energy, water and waste sectors.
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7 May 2013
Chicago, Illinois-based renewable energy group Vieste Energy has selected Abengoa to build a $110m waste-to-energy plant in Arizona.
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2 May 2013
SJF Ventures has closed its third growth equity fund on $90m, surpassing its target of $75m, as its strategy of combining an impact fund with a ‘better cleantech’ approach attracted a multitude of investors, NewNet has learned.
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2 May 2013
A consortium led by SITA UK has been selected as the preferred bidder for a £900m waste-to-energy plant with the West London Waste Authority.
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1 May 2013
Toxfree Solutions will buy two Eastern Australian waste management businesses in Queensland and Tasmania for A$85m ($88m).
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1 May 2013
A cleantech-focused M&A specialist in the US has secured initial commitments towards a $5m equity opened in April.
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30 April 2013
Singapore-based green investor Armstrong Asset Management has expanded its investment team and told NewNet it has now received $20m in backing from the International Finance Corp with plans to hold a final close on $150m by August.
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25 April 2013
Indian waste management group Ramky Enviro Engineers has delayed its planned $200m initial public offering due to the still-suppressed market conditions.
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25 April 2013
Carlyle’s debt-ridden portfolio company waste recycler Synagro Technologies is planning to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to restructure its borrowing, according to reports.
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22 April 2013
Houston, Texas-based Waste Management Inc has defied the downward trend of US recycling stocks by vastly increasing its valuation since the start of the year.
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19 April 2013
PPP Canada, which has a mandate to improve and increase the delivery of public Infrastructure, said waste treatments are in focus for round five of its P3 Canada Fund.
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19 April 2013
Private equity firm Clairvest Group has invested a combined $15m Virginia-based waste-collection company County Waste through a number of investment vehicles.
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11 April 2013
Waste management logistics company Enevo has received €2m from Finnish Industry Investment and Lifeline Ventures.
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