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Prices have remained firm for the final product, and the natural aggregate industry is trying to get a price hike going, which will only help recycled aggregates, says Sisson. For , he expects the continued strong construction market will keep things looking rosy. Recovermat Mid-Atlantic, Halethorpe, Md. Hence, tipping fees were up in , the best since Also helping are higher scrap steel prices. He is not overly optimistic that will be better, although he notes that nobody is backing off their construction plans for next year.

Most materials, except recycled asphalt, are not easily accepted," he says. Recycled aggregate "remains a late bloomer," he adds. By July we had our total average amount for the whole year. Roadwork in North Carolina has been steady, he says, and prices for recycled concrete did not drop in , but asphalt did. That is because of increased competition. He hopes will be better because it appears a lot of work will be contracted.

And by Virginia is supposed to have a lot of projects going on. Florida is at the end of a 6- to 8-year, up-to-down cycle that it is hoped will start rising again, Tom Roberts, J. Capital, Deerfield Beach, Fla. The reasons are a slow economy and not enough end markets for the products. More are especially sought for wood, aggregate and plastic. For Roberts expects end markets to be up 6 percent to 12 percent, with tipping fees up 10 percent to12 percent.

Roberts is also president of the Construction Materials Recycling Association. The concrete recycling market in this area was largely flat when comparing to In the Chicago area, state work is still going on, or recyclers would be hurting. Still more crushers enter the business every year, so it gets more competitive.

He can see a slowdown coming in the future, but it will not be immediate. In the meantime, prices for finished product rose slightly, while statewide they stayed flat. State spending is down, plus the five-year, multi-billion dollar reconstruction of I is sucking a lot of money away from other projects. There still is a glut of office space on the market in the Denver area, he adds, which slows that sector, although residential work is starting to pick up. Material is still coming in, creating an overabundance of asphalt, with some stockpiles getting pretty big.

Wachal says those piles might diminish in , "based on the inquiries we have received so far, it should start turning around. Some projects that have only been on drawing boards look like they could move ahead. Also, borrowing remains cheap and that helped get some projects going. We certainly have the capacity here to handle the upswing. In Salt Lake City, Utah, Boe Bland of Bland Recycling says recycled concrete production ranged from flat to up 10 percent compared to , with the same range for end product prices.

However, to keep material coming in, some operators have had to reduce tipping fees. In Las Vegas, Nev. That generation rate "is at a very high level, because housing remains booming in the area," Dorinson says, which is keeping his roll-off fleet very busy. Wood end markets are up and down, the same for carpet. OCC and metals remain solid markets, and concrete can still be tipped at a recycler at a reduced rate. Dave Whitley of Nuprecon, Redmond, Wash. We ran into a problem with biofuel markets due to the stockpiles accrued at energy plants because we had a mild winter and warm summer.

We currently serve over commercial construction sites in the region. This activity was achieved at a price disadvantage, as the response from the solid waste haulers was to aggressively slash pricing from their usual rates.

There seemed to be no bottom to what some of the oligopoly members will do when their market is threatened, and we can't go down the rabbit hole on pricing like they can! However, looking at the regional development backlog, this will trend upwards again in CDL fees have gone down superficially due to the predatory price practices that some solid waste players have been practicing.

This reduction is not sustainable, as they are often hauling the material to landfills, and tipping fee reductions are not supported by greater value of the material output. Where else can one concrete recycler proclaim the markets did well while another calls it "awful? California is a big state, and location did seem to matter.

Most areas did poorly. Prices for crushing are down a third from a year ago, and the situation will only get worse when the huge El Toro military base in Orange County is dismantled and the material from that site is dumped on the market. However, there are a lot of competitors around, and the natural aggregate companies still sell material very cheaply, he adds. In he says the markets were stable and the state has outlets for many of materials, including fines.

Wood, concrete and OCC are no problem. Even plastics are being recycled by being sent overseas," Ware says. He has to lure businesses back to the state. Boiler fuel remains a low-priced commodity, and, even though his customer plants are local, he feels pressure from competitors as far away as Los Angeles.

Kroeker has four jobs lined up for his crushing spread. Getting raw product into his concrete recycling yard can be a challenge, he says, and he has dropped his tipping fee to zero, while a competitor is paying for waste concrete now.

For those reasons, his company expects no change in that market scenario for at least another year or two. He agrees the state is in chaos, and says "government at all levels is broke. In the Sacramento area, Anne Channell of California Concrete Crushing says the markets did well in , but only because the company did not sell into government highway projects. You can participate in our survey of paper stock dealers by clicking on the following link.

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