• Spark of Innovation – Tetronics featured in Recycling Today

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  15th May 2012 in What's been happening

  There is growing realization around the world that electronic scrap is a vitally important source of many strategic and valuable metals. Increasingly stringent regulations and high commodity prices mean ‘urban mining’ of electronic scrap is becoming an ever more attractive option for raw material supply. Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), which consists of discarded [...]

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• Putting innovation into practise ~ Dr Tim Johnson writes opinion piece for Letsrecycle.com

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  24th April 2012 in What's been happening

  Dr Tim Johnson, technical director at high temperature plasma arc technology manufacturer Tetronics, argues that plasma technology can be seen as a viable option for waste management. We are often told by politicians and think-tank consultants that it is innovation that drives growth in jobs and in the economy. It is of course very easy [...]

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• Tetronics Shortlisted for National Recycling Award

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  10th April 2012 in Latest News, What's been happening

  Tetronics have been Shortlisted for a National Recycling Award under the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Recycler of the Year category, in recognition for their plasma treatment of electrical wastes.

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• Thermal Technologies – overcoming the variability of waste by Dr Tim Johnson

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  28th February 2012 in What's been happening

  One of the most difficult aspects of waste treatment is that ‘waste’ is a highly variable thing.  By its very nature, waste comes from an almost unlimited number of sources and in a huge range of compositions and forms.  Unfortunately, this inherent variability makes it harder to select the right waste treatment process for each [...]

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• The Forgotten Earth ~ Tetronics featured in The Chemical Engineer

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  19th January 2012 in What's been happening

  The forgotten earth:  Demand for raw minerals is on the increase, matched by spectacular rates of pricing in recent times. It’s no wonder then that the mining industry is increasingly looking to new technologies to provide alternative sources of those materials in the waste it normally discards. Tim Johnson explains how plasma technology is making it [...]

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• Precious Metal Recovery from WEEE by Dr Tim Johnson

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  19th December 2011 in What's been happening

  Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) consists of discarded electrical or electronic devices from domestic, commercial and industrial sources.  Before the introduction of the WEEE Directive by the EU in January 2007, the disposal of electronics waste was largely unregulated.  Not only did this permit a rather informal attitude to the process­ing of electronic waste, [...]

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• Harsco Metals Forms Strategic Alliance with Tetronics

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  16th December 2011 in Latest News, Press Release, What's been happening

  The alliance will see Harsco Metals expanding its technical portfolio by offering the Tetronics DC plasma arc technology through an extended service offering.

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• Securing secondary commodities from waste by Dr Tim Johnson

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  10th November 2011 in What's been happening

  These days it’s difficult to avoid noticing inflation.  Every time you pull up at the pump or buy food at the supermarket, every time you pay for your heating or you buy yourself some new clothes it’s right there – prices have gone up.  Now I know it might seem a difficult argument to make [...]

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• Material Scarcity – Protecting Primary Sources by Recovering Materials from Waste by Dr Tim Johnson

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  20th May 2011 in What's been happening

  Entry by Dr Tim Johnson, Technical Director at Tetronics Every once in a while a certain materials-related topic seems to come to the forefront, not just in specialist journals but also in the mainstream news.  The most recent example of this is the scarcity of key raw materials, which has been thrown into the public [...]

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• Webinar: Predict, control and reduce your future hazardous waste costs

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  15th April 2011 in Events

  Environmental website, edie.net, and leading plasma technology provider Tetronics have teamed up to deliver “Predict, control and reduce your future hazardous waste costs” webinar. This webinar will be free.

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