• 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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• 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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• Dr Tim Johnson from Tetronics speaking at the 11th International Electronics Recycling Congress (IERC) 2012

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  24th August 2011 in Events

  Dr Johnson’s speaker session will focus on the recovery of metals from electronics waste using DC plasma arc technology

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• Tetronics Partners with Solar Industries to Provide Plasma Plants for Electrical Waste Refining

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  4th July 2011 in Press Release, What's been happening

  The technology will extract valuable Precious Metals including; Gold, Silver and Platinum Group from Electrical Waste and Industrial Catalysts, thereby, generating significant value whilst preserving the supply of natural resources.

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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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