On Friday, 20th January the participants may choose one of the following technical visits: Visit to Norddeutsche Affinerie AG, Hamburg 09.00 Departure by bus to Norddeutsche Affinerie 09.30 Arrival at Norddeutsche Affinerie 09.30 - 13.00 Visit of the copper smelter and electronics recycling plant 14.00 Arrival at Hamburg Airport 14.30 Arrival at the CCH Congress Centre Hamburg The NA Group is the largest integrated copper producer in Europe and as well the largest copper recycler worldwide. The core business is the production of copper cathodes from copper concentrates, copper scrap and recycling materials. These are then processed into continuous cast wire rod and shapes, rolled products and copper alloys. Precious metals are likewise an important product sector, as well as the recycling of precious metal containing raw materials. More information at: www.na-ag.com Visit to Behrendt Recycling, Neumünster 09.00 Departure by bus to Behrendt Recycling 10.30 Arrival at Behrendt Recycling 10.30 - 12.30 Visit of the electronics recycling plant 14.00 Arrival at Hamburg Airport 14.30 Arrival at the CCH Congress Centre Hamburg Behrendt Recycling is one of the leading electronics recycling plants in the north of Germany, located about 80km in the north of Hamburg in a city called Neumünster. Behrendt recycles electronic and electric equipment using the most advanced shredding and sorting technologies. More information at: www.electronic-recycling.de Visit to UNI-CYC, Bremerhaven 09.00 Departure by bus to UNI-CYC 11.00 Arrival at UNI-CYC 11.00 - 13.00 Visit of the battery sorting plant 15.30 Arrival at Hamburg Airport 16.00 Arrival at the CCH Congress Centre Hamburg Battery mixtures from municipal collection systems contain several battery types with a considerable amount of heavy metals. Therefore a direct treatment of the mixture in recycling facilities is very difficult and expensive. By means of a very fast (30 batteries per second!) automatic sorting system like the High-Speed X-Ray SORBAREC plant of UNI-CYC in Bremerhaven it is possible to separate the mixture into more than 10 different battery fractions with a purity of better than 99%. This is the absolute prerequisite for any further treatment in metallurgical plants. The sorting process itself consists of several steps as large/button cell separation and sorting, handpicking of normal waste and special types of batteries, a multi-stage sieving unit and finally an X-ray sensor, which takes a picture of every single battery to detect the electrochemical type. Up to now UNI-CYC has sorted more than 18.000 tons of batteries. More information at: www.grs-batterien.de/english/index.htm