Suomen Uusioaines, the largest glass recycling organisation in Finland, is using new equipment to guarantee that its recycled cullet contains less than 10g per tonne of ceramics, less than 5 g/t of aluminium or iron and less than 5 g/t lead. The company, which recycles around 60,000 tpa of glass, is using new crushing and sorting machinery with the latest purification technology to produce flint, mixed (clear and green), brown and float glass cullet. Organic impurities are guaranteed not to exceed 500 g/t and humidity 2%. The firm claim to operate the most modern recycling facility in the Nordic countries. (whole item)
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Glass May/03 106
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