Nine Dragons Adds U.S. Recycled Fiber Capacity
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ND Paper, the U.S. division of Chinese paper giant Nine Dragons, announced plans to install recycled fiber pulping capacity at its Old Town, Maine mill.The facility, which ND Paper purchased in 2018, has until now served as a 100 per- cent virgin fiber mill. The pulping line will produce roughly 200 metric tons per day of unbleached recycled pulp, which will equate to between 70,000 and 75,000 tons per year. “Using patent-pending, proprietary technology, the line will consume regionally sourced recovered paper, primarily old corrugated containers, as its primary feedstock; this in- cremental demand for scrap paper is anticipated to improve local recycling and ultimately reduce disposal alternatives like landfilling,” the company stated. The Old Town pulp line represents Nine Dragons’ latest move into the U.S. recycling sector.After serving as a major Chinese end market for U.S.material for years,Nine Dragons entered the U.S.with its 2018 purchase of the OldTown mill along with mills in Biron, Wisconsin; Rumford, Maine, and Fairmont,West Virginia. The Fairmont mill was already a recycled pulp mill prior to the purchase, but ND Paper has since added recycling capacity at the Rumford and Biron mills,both of which were previously 100 percent virgin mills.With the Old Town an- nouncement, all of ND Paper’s U.S. facilities either have plans to or are now consuming recovered fiber. The company’s current annual recycled fiber capacity in the United States totals 569,000 tons per year, which in- cludes 256,000 tons per year of recycled packaging capac- ity and 313,000 tons per year of recycled pulp production. Compology Announces Clean, Green City Grants Initiative Compology, a company devoted to sustainability through waste metering, announced its Clean and Green grants ini- tiative.The grants will be offered to 25 municipalities of any size throughout the United States and provide cities with Compology’s technology enabling them to reportedly take control of their landfill waste, improve recycling rates, lower carbon emissions, and save money. Decades of disinvestment in green technology leaves many recycling facilities unable to properly sort materials, divert- ing 30 percent of recyclable materials directly into landfills, according to the company. Compology’s smart camera and AI-powered waste metering technology mitigates this prob- lem ensuring containments are identified and removed pri- or to entering a recycling facility, stated the company. Compology will provide each grantee with up to ten of its military-grade smart cameras, which will be installed on commercial municipal waste and recycling dumpsters throughout the city. Using its secure artificial intelligence software, Compolo- gy will then provide each municipality with data to reduce unnecessary and costly waste pickups, enhance recycling rates, and highlight reduced carbon emissions.
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