The company recently formed a wholly owned subsidiary in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Torxx Kinetic Pulverizer Ltd., headquartered in Vaughan, Ontario, has announced that it is increasing its commitment to the U.S. market through Torxx Kinetic Inc., its recently formed and wholly owned subsidiary based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

“Pandemic-related travel restrictions hindered growth, with our North American headquarters in Canada and most of our customers and new opportunities in the states,” says Torxx Vice President of Sales and Business Development Terri Ward. “We’re maintaining a presence in Toronto, with engineering and service resources. However, key personnel and new hires are now in the U.S., making it much easier to collaborate and respond to customer needs."

She adds, “We were attracted to the ‘Scenic City’ because of its favorable manufacturing and transportation resources, proximity to our customers, and its appeal to our valued employees.”

The Torxx Kinetic Pulverizer is a patented size-reduction technology that relies on aerodynamics and matter-on-matter collisions to achieve fine sizing of materials. Feedstock is agitated in the machine by the formation of vortices, which create enough force for material to shatter against itself. Brittle material is reduced to finer particles, while ductile material remains larger. This size differential facilitates the liberation and mechanical separation of contaminants, allowing landfill diversion and recovery.

According to a news release from Torxx Kinetic Pulverizer Ltd., the unit maximizes value by transforming off-spec compost, material recovery facility fines, municipal solid waste fines, C&D fines, mixed glass, asphalt shingles, gypsum wallboard and other complex materials into usable end products.

The Competition Bureau says the deal is likely to result in increased prices and reduced service quality, but GFL notes the deal closed following the customary statutory waiting period.

The Competition Bureau, an independent Canadian law enforcement agency that ensures that markets operate in a competitive manner, announced Dec. 1 that it was challenging Ontario-based GFL Environmental’s recent acquisition of Terrapure Environmental “to protect competition for customers of industrial waste services (IWS) and oil recycling services (ORS) in western Canada.”

GFL announced Aug. 17 that it had closed the acquisition of the solid waste and environmental solutions business of Ontario-based Terrapure Environmental Ltd. and its subsidiaries. Earlier in the year, GFL reported the price of the deal at $743.8 million.

In a news release, the Competition Bureau states, “Prior to the transaction, Terrapure was GFL's closest competitor in many IWS and ORS markets in western Canada. A bureau review found that the elimination of this rivalry is likely to result in increased prices and reduced service quality for customers.

“The bureau concluded that the transaction has likely substantially lessened competition in the collection and processing of industrial waste on Vancouver Island, in the British Columbia Interior and in Central Alberta.

“The bureau also determined that the transaction is likely to cause a substantial lessening of competition in the provision of ORS in eight regions across British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan."

The Competition Bureau concludes, “As such, on Nov. 30, 2021, the bureau filed an application with the Competition Tribunal for a court order requiring GFL to sell any assets necessary to remedy the likely substantial lessening of competition resulting from the acquisition.”

In response to the Competition Bureau’s challenge, GFL issued a statement acknowledging that it was aware of the action.

GFL also notes in its statement that the bureau’s challenge was specific to seven locations in Canada that generate annual revenue of approximately $30 million and that “the acquisition closed on Aug. 17, 2021, following the expiration of the statutory waiting period under the Competition Act (Canada).”

GFL says it intends to work in cooperation with the bureau to resolve the matter.

E.L. Harvey & Sons’ Jerry Sjogren joins ISRI with more than 30 years of industry experience.

The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), Washington, has appointed Jerry Sjogren as its senior director of safety.

According to ISRI, Sjogren has more than 30 years of industry environmental, health and safety (EHS) and transportation experience. Prior to joining ISRI, he worked for Westborough, Massachusetts-based E.L. Harvey & Sons, managing the development and administration of the company’s safety program and environmental issues, including compliance with government regulations. E.L. Harvey & Sons was acquired by Waste Connections in September.

In addition to various EHS certifications, Sjogren has training in employee relations and government compliance subjects. He also has served in various volunteer leadership positions, including as New England Chapter president on the ISRI board of directors from 2018 to 2020, past vice chair of the ISRI Safe Operations Committee, past chair of the ISRI Safety and Environmental Council and past chair of the ISRI Circle of Safety Excellence Steering Committee.

DTG Recycle adds its 10th MRF through the transaction and increases its container fleet to over 2,300 dumpsters.

DTG Recycle, a Mill Creek, Washington-based recycler of commercial, industrial, construction and demolition waste in the Pacific Northwest, has announced the acquisition of “substantially all assets” from Maltby Container and Recycling.

Maltby Container, based in Maltby, Washington, operates a fleet of recycling containers and a construction and demolition (C&D) material recovery facility (MRF) and is a demolition contractor. The transaction includes the sale of real estate assets Maltby Container operates on.

With this acquisition, DTG Recycle will increase its container division to over 2,300 dumpsters and a fleet of over 150 trucks. The acquisition also adds another King County designated C&D processing facility to its portfolio, consolidating its position as the operator of six out of eight facilities approved to receive mixed C&D material generated in King County and the city of Seattle.

This is DTG Recycle’s 10th MRF in the region. With the addition of Maltby Container, DTG Recycle says the company will further strengthen its position as the dominant C&D recycler in the Pacific Northwest.

“Tony McAuliffe [founder of Maltby Container] is a pioneer in the recycling industry and has built a strong business with loyal customers and even more loyal employees, and we are excited to be able to integrate this amazing business that Tony has built into the juggernaut that DTG Recycle has become in the Pacific Northwest,” says Dan Guimont, founder of DTG Recycle.

DTG Recycle will retain more than 30 Maltby Container employees following the acquisition, according to a release.

Domtar is in the process of converting a printing and writing mill into a recycled-content containerboard mill in Kingsport, Tennessee.

The Paper Excellence Group, a manufacturer of pulp and specialty printing, writing and packaging papers with headquarters in Richmond, British Columbia, has completed its acquisition of Domtar, a provider of fiber-based products based in Fort Mill, South Carolina. Paper Excellence Group produces more than 7 million tons of pulp and specialty, printing and writing and packaging papers per year with a workforce of more than 10,000 people at nearly 40 locations across the Americas and Europe.

The company initially announced the acquisition, representing a value of about $3 billion, in May. According to a news release from Paper Excellence Group, the acquisition will broaden the company’s reach and expand its product range to include air-laid nonwovens and containerboard in addition to increased pulp and paper production. Paper Excellence also owns pulp and paper mills that had been operated by the former Catalyst Paper.

Currently, Domtar is in the process of converting a printing and writing mill into a containerboard mill in Kingsport, Tennessee. The company announced in August 2020 it intended to invest between $300 million and $350 million in that facility, which will produce 600,000 tons per year of recycled-content linerboard and medium. The company says that mill will consume about 700,000 tons of recovered fiber per year to produce that containerboard. That project is expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2023.

Domtar will operate as a stand-alone business entity within the Paper Excellence Group. Domtar’s President and CEO John Williams as well as its management team also will remain the same, according to Paper Excellence Group.

“We are excited to welcome Domtar and its impressive team to the Paper Excellence family,” says Joe Ragan, global chief financial officer of Paper Excellence. “Under John Williams’ and Domtar’s capable management, we look forward to Domtar’s continued success across its manufacturing network in the U.S. and Canada.”

Williams adds, “We will continue to earn the right to be the supplier of choice to our customers with sustainable paper, pulp and packaging products.”

Barclays served as the exclusive financial advisor to Paper Excellence and Latham & Watkins LLP, McMillan LLP, Miller Titerle + Co. and Mehigan LLP served as legal advisors to the Paper Excellence Group. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC served as the exclusive financial advisor to Domtar and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP served as its legal advisors.

Under terms of the agreement, Domtar stockholders received $55.50 for each share of Domtar common stock. Domtar common stock will no longer be listed on the New York Stock Exchange or the Toronto Stock Exchange.