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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

• Clean air is our business: may 2007
• Panel Automotive car show 2002

Sampling & Assaying

• Exploring Sampling and Assaying

Environment

• Plant & Community (previously Environment Report) 2009, Hoboken (only available in Dutch)
• Plant & Community (previously Environment Report) 2008, Hoboken (only available in Dutch)
• 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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Articles by Umicore

General

• "Recovering special metals", Kris Van den Broeck (Materials Magazine), July 2009
• "Wir brauchen eine globale Recyclingwirtschaft", Christian Hagelüken (Germanwatch), January 2009
• "Wereldleider in de recycling van edele metalen", Henk Meinen (Recycling Magazine 8), December 2008
• ""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

• Umicore to promote sustainable e-waste recycling in India
• "Edelmetalle auf dem Weg ins Nirwana", Christian Hagelüken (Umweltmagazin), June 2009
• "Urban Mining ist wichtiger Beitrag zum Klimaschutz", Christian Hagelüken (Dow Jones), March 2009
• "Green recycling of EEE", Christina Meskers, Christian Hagelüken and Ghislain Van Damme (The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society), February 2009
• "Closed loop WEEE recycling", Christina Meskers and Christian Hagelüken (The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society), February 2009
• "E-scrap metals too precious to ignore", Perrine Chancerel, Christina Meskers, Christian Hagelüken and Susanne Rotter (Recycling International), November 2008
• "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
• "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

2008

• September 2008, "Verlorene Schätze", Petra Hannen (Sekundär Rohstoffe)
• June 2008, "Trashed", Ellen Rupell Shell (Audubon Magzine)
• May 2008, "Perle in der Muschel" (Sekundär Rohstoffe)
• January 2008, "High-tech trash", Chris Carroll (National Geographic magazine)
• January 2008, "The afterlife of cellphones", Jon Mooallem (The New York Times)

2006

• October 2006, "Hello green moto", Katrina C. Destrée (Ethical Corporation)
• March 2006, "E-Schrott-Verwertung im globalen Markt" (Recycling Magazin)
• February 2006, "High precious metals losses during shredding of e-scrap" (EUWID)

2005

• February 2005, "Where are WEEE going" (Sekundär Rohstoffe)

2004

• December 2004, "Jäger des verlorenen Schatzes" (Sekundär Rohstoffe)
• October 2004, "Umicore tests metal containing E&E plastics in integrated Smelter"
• June 2004, "Hohes Potenzial" (Sekundär Rohstoffe)
• May 2004, "Fehlende Proffesionalität hemmt Recycling der Platingruppenmetalle" (EUWID)

2002

• December 2002, "Autokatalysatoren - vorläufige Befunde" (Sekundär Rohstoffe)
• October 2002, "Bei über der Hälfte aller Altautokats sind die Entsorgungswege unklar" (EUWID)
   

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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

"Rohstoff- und Umweltrelevanz de Eschrott-Recyclings", Christian Hagelüken (DECHEMA), February 2009
"Recycling experience and practice in Germany", Christian Hagelüken. (IFAT), September 2008
"The mine above ground - Opportunities & challenges to recover scarce and valuable metals from EOL electronic devices", Christian Hagelüken and Matthias Buchert (IERC), January 2008
"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
• "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, IERC, January 2004
• "Coping with challengens in WEEE recycling by using state-of-the-art smelting and refining services" by Christian Hagelüken & Thierry Van Kerckhoven, IERC, January 2006
• "Recovering Metals from mobile phones" by Christian Hagelüken, IAER, October 2006
• "Maximising returns from e-scrap recycling, IAER electronics recycling education program" by Christian Hagelüken, IAER, May 2006
• "Metal Recovery from circuit board scrap" by Christian Hagelüken, IAER, May 2004
• "Material database for EEE from an end-of-life perspective" by Christian Hagelüken, Fraunhofer Institute IZM, 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

• "The magic money carousel", Christian Hagelüken (IPMI), June 2008
• "Edelmetalle im Katalysator", Christian Hagelüken (VDI Wissensforum), December 2007
• "The PGM-markets and their interdependencies with the autocatalyst", by Christian Hagelüken, CTI forum materials in exhaust gas technology, November 2007
• "Will the ELV Directive have any 'Precious' impact" by Christian Hagelüken & Philippe Van Maele, IARC, March 2005
• "Precious Metals Recycling from end-of-life cars: chances and challenges", by Christian Hagelüken & Thorsten Rieke, HDT München, October 2006
• "State-of-the-art recycling of precious metal catalysts - market environment and future challenges", by Christian Hagelüken, DECHEMA, February 2006

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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 Umicore, 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

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