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• articles by Umicore
• articles on Umicore
• books
• brochures / leaflets 
• ISO certificate
• legislation
• other related documents
• presentations 
• technical data sheets
• latest publication = NEW

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BROCHURES / LEAFLETS

• Umicore Precious Metals Refining
  • Exploring Umicore Precious Metals Refining
• Electronic Scrap
  • Amazing what we can recover from your electronic scrap
• Auto catalysts
  • Spent catalytic convertors
  • Clean air is our business: may 2007
  • Panel Automotive car show 2002
• Sampling & Assaying
  • Exploring Sampling and Assaying
• Environment
• Plant & Community (previously Environment Report) 2007, Hoboken 
• Environmental Report Umicore Precious Metals Refining 2006, Hoboken
• Environmental Report Umicore Precious Metals Refining 2005, Hoboken
• Environmental Report Umicore Precious Metals Refining 2004, Hoboken
• Environmental Report Umicore Precious Metals Refining 2003, Hoboken
• Metals Management
• Precious Metals Quarterly Reports: please visit this page

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TECHNICAL DATA SHEETS

• Precious Metals

  • Gold
  • Palladium
  • Platinum
  • Rhodium
  • Ruthenium
  • Silver
  • Silvernitrate
  • Silveroxide

• Base Metals

  • Lead
    
• Special Metals
• Indium
• Indium Foil
• Selenium Crude Wet
• Selenium High Purity 5N
• Selenium High Purity 5N+
• Selenium Special Grade 4N5
• Selenium Technical Grade 2N5
• Selenium Technical Grade 3N
• Tellurium High Purity
• Tellurium Technical Grade
• Chemicals & derivated products
  • Sodium antimonate
    Sodium Nitrate
  • Betogrind 4 - 32 mm
  • Betozand 0- 4 mm
  • Conformiteitsfiche
  • Umirock by Umicore
    

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ARTICLES BY UMICORE

• General
• ""Extreme makeover":UPMR's Hoboken plant", by Francis Vanbellen and Mathias Chintinne, 2007.
  
  "The challenge of open cycles - barriers to a closed loop economy for consumers electronics and cars", by Christian Hagelüken, September 2007.
  
  Sustainable development - The Story of Umicore" by Guy Ethier in World of Metallurgy – ERZMETALL 60 (2007) No. 3.
  
  Recycling of Platinum Group Metals, Status quo and future challenges" by Christian Hagelüken in The Newsletter of the International Platinum Association, May 2005
  .Die Märkte der Katalysatormetalle Platin, Palladium und Rhodium" by by Christian Hagelüken in Expert Verlag 2005.
  
  "Umicore streamlines precious recovery" in Metal Bulletin by Patrick Weerts, February 2002.
  
  "Material flows of Platinum Group Metals - system analysis and measures for a sustainable optimisation" by Christian Hagelüken, IPMI june 2003.
  "Umicore Precious Metals Refining, the power of integration" by Christian Hagelüken in Precious Metals Market Report, June 2004.
  
  "Markets for the catalyst metals platinum, palladium and rhodium" by Christian Hagelüken in Metall, February 2006.

 

• Electronic scrap

"Mining our Computers - Opportunities and Challenges to Recover Scarce and Valuable Metals from End-of-Life Electronic Devices" by Christian Hagelüken and Christina Meskers, Electronics Goes Green, 2008     NEW

"Optimal recycling for printed wiring boards PWB's in India", by David Rochat, Christian Hagelüken, Miriam Keller and Rolf Widmer, 2007

"Recycling of e-scrap in a global environment: opportunities and challenges" by Christian Hagelüken and Steven Art, Tackling e-waste, 2007

Recycling of Electronic Scrap at Umicore's integrated metals smelter and refinery" by Christian Hagelüken, Erzmetall 59, 2006 

"Improving Metal Returns and eco-efficiency in electronics recylcing" by Christian Hagelüken in IEEE 2006-05

"Electronic scrap: a growing resource" in Metal Bulletin by Dirk Boghe, June 2001

"Eco-efficient optimization of pre-processing & metal smelting" by Umicore & Delft University, workshop Electronics Goes Green, September 2004

"An Eco-efficient Solution for Plastics-Metals-Mixtures from Electronic Waste" by Johan Brusselaers, April 2005



 

• Industrial catalysts
• "Precious Metals Process Catalysts - material flows and recycling" by Christian Hagelüken, in Chemistry Today 2006
• "Processing complex spent catalysts" in World Oil & Gas Technologies by Philippe Van Maele, June 2002
• "Processing complex spent metal bearing catalysts" in Petroleum Technology Quarterly Catalysis by Philippe Van Maele, February 2003
• "Precious Metals recovery" in Hydrocarbon Engineering by Michel Verhelst, May 2003
• "Recycling of precious metal catalyst" in Petroleum Technology Quarterly by Christian Hagelüken & Michel Verhelst, February 2004
• "Responsible care, precious results" in Hydrocarbon Engineering by Jan Kegels & Christian Hagelüken, March 2004

• Automotive catalysts
  
  

  • "Closing the loop - Recycling of automotive catalysts" by Christian Hagelüken, Metall, 1-2/2007
  • "Rollende Platinmine mit Strukturdefiziten" by Christian Hagelüken, Umweltmagazine, January-February 2007
  • "Der Kreislauf der Platinmetalle - Recycling von Katalysatoren" by Christian Hagelüken, in Expert Verlag 2005
  • "Substantial outflows of Platinum Group Metals indentified" by Christian Hagelüken, Matthias Buchert & Hartmut Stahl, September 2003

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ARTICLES ON UMICORE

• Audubon Magazine 

"Trashed" WEEE article in Audubon Magzine, New York, May June 2008.

• The New York Times

"The Afterlife Of Cellphones" in The New York Times 13.01.2008

• Metal Bulletin

"Evaluating methods for treating WEEE" in Metal Bulletin Monthly, June 2006. The article is based on a presentation given by Christian Hagelüken at IEEE's conference in May 2006

• Ethical Corporation

"Hello green moto", by K.C.Destrée, in Ethical Corporation, October 2006

• EUWID

"Recycling der Platingruppenmetalle", May 2004

"High precious metals losses during shredding of e-scrap", February 2006

• Sekundär Rohstoffe

"Verlorene Schätze", VDI Nachrichten, September 08 NEW

 "Kreislaufwirtschaft bei Autokatalysatoren", May 2008

"Jäger des verlorenen Schatzes", December 2004

"Stoffströme der Platingruppenmetalle", June 2004

• Recycling Magazin

"E-Schrott-Verwertung im globalen Markt: Ringen um Standards", March 2006

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PRESENTATIONS

• General

  • "Ressourcenknappheit bei Edelmetallen und Sondermetallen" by Chirstian Hagelüken, November 2007
  • "The challenge of open cycles - barriers to a closed loop economy (consumer electronics and cars" by Chirstian Hagelüken, September 2007
  • "The precious art of metals recycling - Recycling metals from industrial waste" by Sybolt Brouwer, June 2007
  • "IPMI, Umicore Precious Metals" by Koen Demesmaeker, June 2002
  • "Risk Management: towards a more ethical behaviour in the Precious Metals Market" by Koen Demesmaeker, June 2003
  • "Sustainable materials and services for the automotive industry" by Koen Demesmaeker & Christian Hagelüken, March 2004
  • "Platinum for nothing and gold for free? About technological miracles and business obstacles" by Christian Hagelüken, June 2004
  • "Evolution and Trends in the Recycling of PGMs" by Christian Hagelüken, June 2005
  • "Material flows of PGMs in Germany" by Christian Hagelüken and Peter Ryan, June 2005
  • "PGM lifecycles and their impact on future PGM-supply" by Christian Hagelüken, 2006
• Electronic scrap
• "Metals recovery from e-scrap in a global environment" by Christian Hagelüken, OEWG Basel Convention, September 2007
• "Electronic scrap recycling at Umicore - opportunities for an international cooperation and division of labour" by Christian Hagelüken, March 2007 - Chinese version
• "Mobile Phone Recycling, Chances and Challenges from a recycler's view" by Christian Hagelüken, April 2006

 

• Workshop: Where are WEEE going?
• "Are WEEE perfect? - scope for optimisation" by Christian Hagelüken, October 2004
• "Improved metal recovery from WEEE at Umicore Hoboken" by Francis Vanbellen, October 2004
• "How can the recycling chain be optimised from a smelter's perspective" by Jan Kegels & Johan Brusselaers, October 2004

 

• International Electronics Recycling Congress (IERC)
• "The mine above ground - opportunities & challenges to recover scarce and valuable metals from EOL electronic devices." by Christian Hagelüken and Matthias Buchert, IERC Salzburg, January 2008.
• "EEExploring above ground mines" by Guy Ethier & Christian Hagelüken, January 2004
• "Coping with challengens in WEEE recycling by using state-of-the-art smelting and refining services" by Christian Hagelüken & Thierry Van Kerckhoven, January 2006

 

• International Association of Electronics Recyclers (IAER)
• "Recovering Metals from mobile phones", IERI by Christian Hagelüken, October 2006
• "Maximising returns from e-scrap recycling, IAER electronics recycling education program" by Christian Hagelüken, May 2006
• "Metal Recovery from circuit board scrap" by Christian Hagelüken, May 2004
• Fraunhofer Institute IZM

"Material database for EEE from an end-of-life perspective" by Christian Hagelüken, September 2004

• Fuel cells

  • "Recycling of precious metals from fuel cell components" by Umicore Fuel cells & Umicore Precious Metals Refining, 2004
  • "Emissionsfreies Verfahren zum Edelmetall - Recycling aus Brennstoffzellen" by Christian Hagelüken & Ralf Zuber, September 2004
• Automotive & Industrial Catalysts
• CTI forum materials in exhaust gas technology

"The PGM-markets and their interdependencies with the autocatalyst", by Christian Hagelüken, November 2007

• International Automobile Recycling Congress (IARC)

"Will the ELV Directive have any 'Precious' impact" by Christian Hagelüken & Philippe Van Maele, March 2005

• HDT München

"Precious Metals Recycling from end-of-life cars: chances and challenges", by Christian Hagelüken & Thorsten Rieke, October 2006

• Dechema

"State-of-the-art recycling of precious metal catalysts - market environment and future challenges", by Christian Hagelüken, February 2006

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ISO CERTIFICATE

• Integrated ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001
• UPMR recognised for excellence 5*EFQM

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LEGISLATION

• WEEE directive
  
  RoHS directive

 

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BOOKS

• "Stoffströme der Platingruppenmetalle" by Christian Hagelüken, Buchert, Stahl
  
  "Materials flow of platinum group metals" by Umiocre, Öko-Institut and GFMS
  
  "Autoabgaskatalysatoren" by Christian Hagelüken (order the book)

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OTHER RELATED DOCUMENTS

• "Neue Debatte um Ressourcen, Öko Institure", March 2007
  
  "Waste is like water, it flows to the lowest point" by Jaco Huisman, TU Delft, October 2004
  
  "Exporting harm - the High-Tech trashing of Asia" February 2002
• "E-waste dumping ground", October 2008     NEW
  

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