Two Timeless Markets

When the Recycling Today Media Group launched its Paper Recycling Conference in 2000, a considerable amount of analysis was engaged in first to try to determine whether the event had the potential to attract attendees on a recurring basis.

Happily, the event got the green light. The conclusion of the 2010 version of the conference in downtown Chicago in June has demonstrated that for 11 straight years, it has been worthwhile to bring together several hundred collectors, processors, sellers and buyers of scrap paper.

The success of the event has proven transferrable to Europe, where the Recycling Today Media Group is part of a team that will co-host the sixth annual European Paper Recycling Conference this November.

The desire to bring together multiple layers of a market has spurred Construction & Demolition Recycling magazine to apply the same model to the C&D recycling industry in the form of the C&D Recycling Forum, which will take place in downtown Baltimore Oct. 3-5, 2010.

The C&D recycling process brings together several industry sectors: demolition and construction contractors, waste and recycling haulers, mixed C&D sorting specialists, secondary aggregates producers, scrap recyclers, buyers of scrap materials and even general contractors and architects striving to learn more about sustainable materials and practices.

Without question, several good industry events exist to serve all of these sectors—events that staff members of Construction & Demolition Recycling attend and exhibit at annually.

The C&D Recycling Forum (www.cdrecycler.com/forum) is being designed to supplement these events with additional, detailed programming and a chance for attendees to network with business owners (and potential allies) in related fields.

An event like the C&D Recycling Forum offers two assets that can never be over-supplied: knowledge and relationships.

Program sessions will offer details of new and existing techniques and updates on markets for end materials that can evolve rapidly. Before, after and in between sessions, a series of receptions and networking breaks will provide time for the important conversations that can result in new business relationships.

Even in a difficult economy (or perhaps especially in a difficult economy) business owners and managers who are open to new opportunities can benefit from an infusion of both commodities offered at the C&D Recycling Forum: knowledge and relationships.

Please consider setting aside the dates Oct. 3-5 to join us in Baltimore for the chance to gain market insight and make new industry contacts.