Austria-based equipment and technology provider says its Polaris 2800 helps Loacker Recycling recover copper and plastic from wire and cable scrap. Loacker Recycling says it recovers up to 45 metric ...

France-based wire and cable provider Nexans will invest to boost its collection and processing of European wire scrap. Nexans says its cable sorting and recovery process is partly carried out through ...

MONTREAL — In an industrial suburb of Montreal, sheets of copper move along a conveyor belt suspended four stories above the floor of a foundry — a metals plant — until they drop into a lava-hot ...

Italian and Japanese researchers have developed a novel method to free copper wire from its PVC coating, by treating electric cables with microwaves. The technique could go a long way towards helping ...

Copper has a long history of use. It was first used to make coins and ornaments around 8000 BC By 5500 BC copper tools were invented, and by 3000 BC copper was alloyed with tin to produce bronze, ...