He has solid experience of phosphorus recovery – and is passionate about implementation of the circular economy. Christian Kabbe is CEO of Ragn-Sells´ innovation company EasyMining in Germany and thus plays an important role for phosphorus recovery from incinerated sewage sludge in the country, for which the company has a unique patented technology.
The world’s largest online climate conference successfully took place last week, but the work to reduce our carbon emissions has just begun. During the conference, Ragn-Sells Sustainability Director Pär Larshans was present to speak about the work and initiatives of the company, which were mentioned as good examples in several cases.
It started with a mistake which in actual fact turned out to be a completely new way of recovering phosphorus from ash and sewage sludge.
Environmental company Ragn-Sells has begun construction of a new facility for extracting valuable resources from fly ash from waste incineration. This Tuesday, the first sod was dug for the new plant. The new business supports Sweden’s official ambition to become the world’s first fossil free welfare nation, according to Minister for Enterprise Ibrahim Baylan.
Environmental company Ragn-Sells has begun construction of a new facility for extracting valuable resources from fly ash from waste incineration, an investment of over EUR 55 million in circular industry. The new business supports Sweden’s official ambition to become the world’s first fossil free welfare nation, according to Minister for Enterprise Ibrahim Baylan.
As the global population stands at nearly 8 billion and rapidly increases, it is an existential challenge to create a sustainable food system within the planetary boundaries. Newly founded Food Planet Prize rewards initiatives that promote a viable living environment and at the same time feed the world. Ragn-Sells and their innovation company EasyMining are among the Editors' Pick as nominees.
Dr John Cherry receives the Stockholm Water Prize 2020. His work has raised awareness of how groundwater contamination is growing across the world and has led to new, more efficient methods to tackle the problem. Ragn-Sells, one of the founders of the award, congratulates him and are looking forward to the award ceremony which takes place on August 26 during the Water Week in Stockholm.
The environmental company Ragn-Sells invests 50 million EUR in a new plant for the treatment of fly ash from waste incineration using its patented technology Ash2Salt. The new method extracts potassium and other valuable substances from the ash, while large amounts of environmental toxins are removed from the material cycle. The investment is one of the largest ever in Swedish material recycling.
Ragn-Sells' innovation company EasyMining has been named “Innovator of the Year 2019” at the Recycling Gala in Stockholm. The jury was impressed with EasyMining's process for extracting nitrogen from wastewater, which in the future may play a major role in utilizing this valuable resource from this common type of waste stream.
Trust Across America-Trust Around the World (TAA-TAW), annually honour global leaders in organisational trust with their award Top Thought Leaders in Trust. The award programme celebrates professionals who are transforming the way organisations incorporate trust as an intentional business strategy. One of the winners of this year’s award is Pär Larshans at the environmental company Ragn-Sells.
The Swedish Chemical Engineers Nat. Assn. (SKR) chemical engineering award 2019 will be awarded to Yariv Cohen, Development Manager at EasyMining. He receives the prize for his efforts to develop chemical processes for the extraction of nutrients and metals from waste. His processes can solve important problems in society and help create a working circular economy in real life, not just in theory.
The innovation company Chromafora's technology for selectively extracting heavy metals from water from landfills has for the first time been used at full scale at the environmental company Ragn-Sells's facility in Fagerliden in Robertsfors municipality. By capturing the heavy metals at the molecular level, the water is purified from pollutants.