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Finland: Tana has celebrated the 50th anniversary of its founding in 1971. It marked the occasion by setting an ambitious growth target of Euro100m within the next ten years from Euro40.0m in 2020. It said that the ‘open-minded and innovative’ tradition which it has maintained over the past 50 years will continue in future. Tana is a producer of waste shredders.

Germany: Vecoplan has celebrated its 50th anniversary. It was originally founded in 1969 in Bad Marienberg in Westerwald where it maintains its headquarters. The company develops, produces and markets machinery and plants for shredding, conveying and processing primary and secondary raw materials gained in recycling processes.

UK: Bunting Magnetics is celebrating the 40th anniversary in October 2018 of the Master Magnets brand. The Birmingham-based magnetic separator and metal detector manufacturer produces equipment for the recycling, mining and mineral processing industrial sectors. Bunting Magnetics purchased the brand in early 2017.

Master Magnets was founded in 1978 by Geoff Worley, a qualified engineer with 15 years’ experience in the magnetics industry. The company grew in the 1980s and 1990s with an emphasis on the UK coal industry and global mineral processing projects. Later it built a reputation for building permanent overband magnets that are used for the continuous removal of tramp ferrous material from a product stream such as in recycling. The company then worked with recycling companies to develop a compact overband magnet that was better suited to this sector.

In 2003, Master Magnets acquired Integrated Recycling Systems and relocated to Redditch. Further acquisition took place in 2005 with the purchase of the metal detection business. This further expanded their manufacturing portfolio as customers were now able to purchase their metal separation and detection solution from one supplier.

Geoff Worley took partial retirement from the company and Adrian Coleman became general manager in 2008. Following the sale to Bunting Magnetics in 2017 Coleman stayed on as general manager.

Netherlands: Alternative fuels specialist N+P Recycling has celebrated its 25th anniversary and the opening of its new headquarters in Nieuw-Bergen, Limburg. Company chief executive officer (CEO) Karel Jennissen presided at the event and Manon Pelzer, the mayoress of Nieuw-Bergen, was also in attendance.

200 guests attended the opening that included a guided tour of the new premises. At a ceremony marking the anniversary Karel Jennissen, with his wife Karin, presented the history of the company. Their three sons Lars, Stijn and Jens then gave guests a personal insight into their own experiences with the firm. This was followed the next day by a general tour of the facility for the local community with around 1000 members of the public.

A full report will be published in the September 2017 edition of Global Cement Magazine, including a visit to the company’s 80,000t/yr Subcoal production facility in Farmsum.

Image 1: Karel Jennissen of N+P Recycling

Image 2: Karel Jennissen N+P Recycling with his sons Lars, Steijn and Jens