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3rd March 2010
UK waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) recycler environCom has opened the UK’s largest processing facility with the capacity to treat over 100,000 tonnes each year.
17th February 2010
The first institutional round of funding by US-based ecoATM, which provides automated systems for recycling consumer electronics, resulted in Coinstar founder Jens Molbak joining the company as a board member and investor.
14th January 2010
Houston, US-based recycling company Greenstar North America has appointed Michael Simmons as CEO.
3rd December 2009
M&A deal volumes in the UK waste sector fell by over 50 per cent in Q3 2009, according to financial and business adviser Grant Thornton UK’s latest quarterly update on waste sector M&A activity.
Deal volumes in Q3 2009 declined to only five deals when compared with the volumes seen in each of the first two quarters of 2009 where 13 transactions in Q1 and 11 deals in Q2 2009 were seen. Additionally, deal volumes in Q3 were down by 64 per cent compared to those that took place in the same period in 2008 where 14 transactions took place.
17th November 2009
Cleantech Invest, a Berne and Frankfurt stock exchange listed venture capital fund focusing on cleantech investments in the German-speaking region, has increased its stake in SiC Processing.
3rd November 2009
US recycling company RecycleBank has raised $28.25m in venture capital, according to peHUB.
10th September 2009
UK water utility Severn Trent Water’s Derby Sewage Treatment Works in Derby, UK has become the first plant in Europe to demonstrate an innovative technology that recovers phosphorus and other nutrients from wastewater and recycles them into a commercial fertiliser.
24th August 2009
Industrial waste-to-energy solution provider China Recycling Energy has released improved financial results for the second quarter of 2009, identifying high sales of their energy recycling systems as the main factor.
20th August 2009
Scotland will unveil a new plan on how it is to achieve a zero waste society, which in turn will create a wealth of jobs, reduce waste and improve facilities.
20th August 2009
Vivek Tandon discusses the importance of strong management, why he feels the recycling sector is underveloped, and the opportunities for investment in Asia.
‘Whereas previously our model was taking a lot of European companies into Asia and expanding in that way, in the future I see it going the other way. Great technology developed in Asia and companies doing very well in Asia will acquire European companies and expand into Europe, even if there is a global slowdown.’
18th August 2009
Sancon Resources Recovery, an environmental services and waste recycling company with operations in both China and Australia, generated strong 2009 second quarter revenue.
22nd July 2009
Hans-Joerg Hinkel and Martin Fahey of Mitsubishi Electric discuss why CSR practices make good business sense, which countries are waking up to the idea and what the future holds for big corporates.
‘We are a company with the technologies and R&D to become a talking point in the industry. We pre-empted a real debate and have hopefully helped to shape the way other companies address their challenges.’
9th July 2009
Sterecycle, a UK waste recycling technology company, has been granted planning permission to build and operate a new recycling plant near Cardiff in Wales that will divert refuse from landfill.
2nd July 2009
Every Can Counts and ASDA have launched a drinks can recycling programme, to run across 49 of their stores in the North West of England. The initiative will be introduced first in Lancashire and then rolled out to all of ASDA’s 360 stores nationwide after an initial trial period.
1st July 2009
Foresight Group, a UK alternative asset manager, has completed a £4m investment in tyre recycling company Crumb Rubber.
30th June 2009
Dedicated alternative energy and cleantech focused investment bank Greentech Capital Advisors has launched, offering a singular focus on alternative energy and cleantech companies.
23rd June 2009
Triodos Bank has launched the Triodos EIS Green Fund, targeting small and growing green businesses in the UK.
23rd June 2009
London-based cleantech investor Frog Capital has doubled its stake in German recycling company SiC Processing through the purchase of holdings from other shareholders.
22nd June 2009
Saxlund, the recently acquired subsidiary of Opcon, the energy and environmental technology group, has been given responsibility for delivery of wood biomass at the expansion of Vattenfall’s combined heat and power plant in Jordbro, Sweden. The order is worth around SEK30m (€2.7m).
19th June 2009
The San Jose City Council has executed a memorandum of understanding to develop guidelines and potential lease terms for the development of an organics‐to‐energy biogas facility on a 40‐acre site near the San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant
15th June 2009
New Earth Solutions Group, the Dorset, UK-based waste treatment and renewable energy company, has been awarded a waste management contract by the West of England Partnership, a partnership of four local authorities, to handle a substantial part of the sub-region’s waste.
15th June 2009
UK waste recycling technology company Sterecycle has announced a £200m expansion programme. As part of the programme, the company is raising £50m in new equity capital from institutional investors.
12th June 2009
Waste water technology company Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies has opened the first waste water treatment facility in the US to incorporate its technology on a commercial scale. The company is backed by Frog Capital, the London-based private equity firm that invests growth capital in cleantech and ICT businesses.
11th June 2009
Global private equity firm Warburg Pincus is to invest AUS$65m ($53m) in troubled waste management services company Transpacific as part of a recapitalisation.
11th June 2009
PDM Group has joined forces with European food-chain recycling businesses, SARIA Bio-Industries, to introduce its anaerobic digestion operation to the UK, operating under the name ReFood UK.
10th June 2009
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has launched a major initiative to convert London’s food waste into biofuel to cut landfill rates and carbon emissions.
9th June 2009
Recycling company EarthRenew Organics has commenced marketing of an equity private placement to raise proceeds of between $50m and $75m. The company intends to use the net proceeds of this offering to fund the equity component of its construction of seven facilities, largely in California.
26th May 2009
Officials of Will County and Waste Management of Illinois will build a landfill gas-to-energy plant at the Prairie View Recycling and Disposal Facility.
26th May 2009
Richard Ellis talks about the challenges Alliance Boots faces in incorporating corporate social responsibility into its pharmaceutical activities and whether we can really meet the government’s 2020 renewable energy targets.
29th April 2009
UK engineering business Enpure Limited has been awarded a £60m contract by Costain as part of the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority’s PFI ‘Waste and Recycling Contract.’
14th April 2009
James McNaught-Davis discusses cleantech investments in Europe, the importance of energy storage and participating in an industrial revolution for the 21st century.
‘Humanity’s consumption of natural resources including clean air and water has ignored the fact that they are finite and therefore unsustainable. The world has a very large problem that technology can, and is, helping to solve.’
14th April 2009
Sancon Resources Recovery, an environmental services and waste recycling company with operations in China and Australia, showed a growth in revenue of 166 per cent in 2008, taking the sum to $12.7m from $4.78m in 2007, the company announced.
7th April 2009
In this presentation from from Adrian Jones, financial director at New Earth Solutions, he looks at funding strategies for the sector and the opportunities available for investors.
6th April 2009
UK waste energy company BioGen Power has received planning permission to build a clean energy recovery facility at Newport Docks in Monmouthshire, South Wales. The company has also chosen to enter a technology partnership with Energos on the project.
1st April 2009
In this presentation from Nigel Taunt of Impax Asset Management, he looks at the growing markets of waste technologies and resource management and discusses why waste offers an attractive investment opportunity.
27th March 2009
New Earth Solutions Group, a UK waste treatment and resource recovery company, has launched the New Earth Recycling and Renewable Energy Sub-Fund as part of The Eclipse Investment Fund Protected Cell Company.
27th March 2009
Chinook Sciences, a UK-based manufacturer of gasification technology, and European Metal Recycling have formed a joint venture to convert automobile shredder residue into renewable electricity and recycle metal in the process.
20th March 2009
EcoSystem Corporation has submitted a grant application to the US Department of Energy’s Biomass Research and Development Initiative, for the company’s proprietary bioconversion technology.
16th March 2009
Matt Taylor discusses the environmental infrastructure sector, the strategy behind a succesful biomass investment and why he tends to steer clear of some of the newer crop of technologies.
‘We are pretty sceptical about a lot of the technology plays. Because there is a lot of existing commitment behind change in certain areas, such as getting this new infrastructure in place, while there will be technological improvements, a lot of the developments in this space will be about using what we already know, and the refinement of existing technologies, rather than a radical introduction of completely new technologies. I prefer to focus on what is good now, rather than what could be good somewhere down the line.’
13th March 2009
The Scottish government has launched a £5m tender for plastic recycling facilities from its Mixed Plastics Capital Grant Programme.
10th March 2009
Nityen Lal discusses what the financial downturn spells for clean technology, why subsidies must be viewed with caution and which areas will see the most growth going forward.
‘I think we are at the tip of the iceberg of innovation in this sector; there is so much more yet to happen. In fact, the traditional technologies you see, such as solar, wind and biomass are just first generation technologies and there are many more generations to come, so we will see a great deal of investment going forward.’
5th March 2009
UK alternative asset manager Foresight Group has invested £5m in food waste recycling company Vertal.
2nd March 2009
Andrea Davi discusses opportunities in the water sector, his preference for building businesses from the ground up, and what he looks for in a clean energy company.
‘We look for the best technical performers in the space and we like to pick a strong team that has an in-depth knowledge and can work against the clock’
27th February 2009
Extravagant packaging, wasted water, lights turned on all night - all could be under threat by the Recycling Economy Promotion Law, which came into effect earlier this year, according to Melinda Xie and Chang Liu of law firm Eversheds.
11th February 2009
Two of Britain’s bottled water brands Volvic and Evian are participating in a ‘closed loop’ plastics recycling initiative, backed by the Waste & Resources Action Programme.
10th February 2009
The UK waste and recycling business New Earth Solutions has acquired an additional £4m equity investment from Impax Asset Management, an environmental investment company.
5th February 2009
A fund advised by HSBC Private Equity (Asia) has completed the sale of Modern Asia Environmental Holdings Inc. to Dowa Eco-system Co.
5th February 2009
The Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority, in conjunction with the Frederick County Division of Utilities and Solid Waste Management and Carroll Country Department of Public Works, has selected Wheelabrator Technologies to construct and operate a new, waste-to-energy facility.
3rd February 2009
Schnitzer Steel Industries has acquired Ponce Resources, a Puerto Rican company specialising in scrap metal recycling. Financial terms were not disclosed.
19th January 2009
UK asset manager Foresight Group has completed a £5m investment in London-based recycling company 2K Manufacturing.
James Hall-Smith of HSBC discusses the drivers behind the growth of the European renewable energy scene and the opportunities this affords to infrastructure investors and project financiers alike.
‘I think there is an increased interest from a corporate governance and sustainability perspective. This makes many institutions focus on this area. There is also a recognition of the drivers behind environmental infrastructure, from the fundamentals of creating the best opportunity to tackling climate change, whilst also looking to gain energy security and satisfy the social and political drivers.'--- 1 Comment
