The environmental company Ragn-Sells and Kemira, global leader in sustainable chemical solutions for water intensive industries, are starting a collaboration to recycle phosphorus from sewage sludge in Helsingborg. The project was recently awarded SEK 51 million in support from Klimatklivet, Sweden's state investment aid supporting technology that reduces climate emissions.
In May, Ragn-Sells Estonia met with the Energy Commissioner of the European Commission, Ms. Kadri Simson to introduce a solution for the over 600 million tonnes of oil shale ash that are deposited in Eastern Estonia.
Ragn-Sells innovation company EasyMining has signed a partner agreement with Alfa Laval, a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling, to develop new processes and technologies to extract commercially valuable products from waste materials and enable circular solutions.
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The environmental company Ragn-Sells partner up with WeDontHaveTime.org – the world’s largest social network for climate action – to help accelerate the transition to a sustainable, circular economy.
In March this year, Ragn-Sells acquired the Estonian company Pandipakendi Automatiseeritud Käitlussüsteem OÜ (P.A.K.), with a business portfolio adding to and expanding the Ragn-Sells service offering in Estonia. The acquisition also makes it possible for Ragn-Sells to close one more loop.
In April Ragn-Sells Estonia sent 4 tonnes of oil shale ash to a Finnish laboratory, where industrial tests of calcium carbonate production technology now will start. This is the last pre-phase of the scientific research before the design of the plant and the start of the production scheduled for 2025 according to the current timetable.
The environmental company Ragn-Sells’ Sustainability Report for 2020 is now published. The report summarises the Ragn-Sells Group’s sustainability achievements and sustainability work in 2020.
OPINION PIECE | It is more crucial than ever to retrieve high-value raw materials from waste – or rather, from what is considered waste with current regulations and legislation.
The environmental company Ragn-Sells is looking forward to sharing our knowledge with all 56 nations at UNECE's 69th Commissions meeting, on April 21, 2021. "In order to transform into a circular economy, we will need collaboration between society, policy makers and business"
This quote is taken from the memoirs of Ragnar Sellberg, the founder of the Swedish environmental company Ragn-Sells. These words also frame the introduction to a new short film about his legacy, Ragn-Sells current mission and our promise to the world.
The environmental company Ragn-Sells' project to extract phosphorus from sewage sludge has been granted 51 MSEK from the Swedish EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), a grant program initiated by the Swedish government to support technology that reduces climate emissions and environmental actions.
Today, Sandra Postel is awarded the Stockholm Water Prize 2021 for her long and outstanding work to make sense of complex water-related issues. Ragn-Sells, one of the founders of the award, congratulates Postel and is looking forward to the award ceremony which takes place on August 25 during the Water Week in Stockholm.
Items that come to Ragn-Sells for recycling are often made in a way that makes it difficult to make use of all the materials, or they are full of harmful substances that definitely must not go back into the loop.
Here's a short summary from Ragn-Sells side session (at EAT´s digital event, EAT@Home) that involved members of the European Parliament, scientists, retailers and solution providers doing a deep dive into the problem and how to enable the use of circular and detoxified nutrients.
In January, a new project was started to test the precipitated calcium phosphate (PCP) recovered from Ragn-Sells innovation company EasyMining's Ash2Phos technology. The project is a collaboration between EasyMining, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and Lantmännen.
Meet Anders Edensvärd! He is working as a Senior Process Control Engineer at Ragn-Sells innovation company EasyMining in Gothenburg.
Nine months after construction began, and despite the corona pandemic, the construction of a new Ash2Salt-plant is proceeding well and according to plan.
Estonia is mining 15 million tons of this brown rock per year and is left with 7 million tons of ash annually after burning it for obtaining energy. Less than a year after the Oil Shale Ash project started, the team has already filed two patent applications on how oil shale ash can be upcycled, instead of piling it as waste.
The innovation company Chromafora is developing a method for leaching and separating gold from primary ore and electronic waste. The main difference from conventional cyanide leaching is that the direct danger to the working environment and the actual environment is reduced. In addition, the permit process is simplified with the new technology, which opens up for establishing new facilities.
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Gelsenwasser and Ragn-Sells innovation company EasyMining have together developed a concept for operating the Ash2Phos-process, and will now start working on the first Ash2Phos recovery plant in Germany.
