A remarkable journey.It's increasingly difficult to find a recycler who has not shipped a load of material to China. Whether it's ferrous ferrous (fĕr`əs), iron in the +2 valence state. Containing or having to do with iron. The difference between ferrous and ferric is the number of valence electrons they contain (ferrous contains two and ferric contains three), which or nonferrous metal or paper and plastic, Chinese buyers are some of the most active in the market. Even if you are one of the few who has not yet made such a shipment, China's tremendous thirst for raw materials affects your markets. As the leading business magazine covering the world's recycling industry, we take the responsibility of providing our readers with insightful and reliable market information and analysis seriously. As a result, several of us have traveled to China during the past year or so. To gain a more complete picture, however, we wanted to craft an experience that would expose us to all aspects of the industry. Brian Taylor Brian Taylor (born April 10, 1962), is a former Australian rules footballer and now AFL commentator. Playing career The moustachioued Taylor, known as "Barge", "Bristle" or "BT", began his VFL career with Richmond in 1980, and had the misfortune of being a full-forward at and I have just returned from a 14-day trip through China that we believe did just that. Our trip began in Beijing, where we attended the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR BIR British Institute of Radiology BIR Bureau of Internal Revenue BIR Bureau of International Recycling BIR Baculovirus IAP Repeat BIR Biomedical Imaging Resource BIR Bureau of Intelligence and Research (US State Department) ) Spring World Recycling Conference. From there we visited Shanghai and the Yangtze River Yangtze River Chinese Chang Jiang or Ch'ang Chiang River, China. Rising in the Tanggula Mountains in west-central China, it flows southeast before turning northeast and then generally east across south-central and east-central China to the East China market region. Our journey next took us to Guangzhou and the Pearl River Delta The Pearl River Delta Region (PRD) in China occupies the low-lying areas alongside the Pearl River estuary where the Pearl river flows into the South China Sea. Since the "Open Door Policy" was adopted by the Communist Party of China in the late 1970s, the portion of the delta in before concluding in Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. . We toured a vast array of facilities, from local recovery operations Operations conducted to search for, locate, identify, rescue, and return personnel, sensitive equipment, or items critical to national security. to ingot ingot Mass of metal cast into a size and shape such as a bar, plate, or sheet convenient to store, transport, and work into a semifinished or finished product. The term also refers to a mold in which metal is so cast. makers to scrap importers to paper mills. What we saw was fascinating, and much of it you'll read about throughout the coming months. We'll begin that coverage this month with a profile of Shanghai Sigma Metals and the showcase facility Tony Huang has built there. We had the unique opportunity to meet with buyers and brokers in the recycling business, as well as with business people from other industries. Conversations pointed to a culture and economy interested in growth, but also in environmental concerns and copyright protections. We found the Chinese to be wonderful and gracious hosts. We were welcomed into many businesses of varying sizes and scopes and we also experienced world-class service and hospitality everywhere we went. Sure, it was nerve racking at times and the language barrier is tremendous, but with proper planning you can get around that. Stay tuned to the pages of Recycling Today in the coming months. We'll provide valuable insight on this developing economy and market as well as introduce opportunities for those most interested in China. I'd like to thank the businesses that opened their doors to us and helped us in planning the trip: Lee & Man Paper, Shanghai Sigma Metals, Tung Tai Group, Global Metals Co., Weyerhaeuser, Nine Dragons Paper, Fook Woo Group and several others (who prefer to remain anonymous). |
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