The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) Non-Ferrous Metals Division has announced three guest speakers who will address “the main parameters that are currently determining the market dynamics for nonferrous metal scrap” at the BIR’s World Recycling Convention in Berlin on May 31, 2016.
The Non-Ferrous Division meeting will feature presentations from the three speakers followed by “an open exchange [discussion] that promises to touch on some key issues affecting the recycling industry,” according to the BIR.
The three guest speakers are:
• Oscar Wehtje, head of product development at the London Metal Exchange (LME), whose presentation will offer a look at “current parameters for demand and supply of copper and aluminium,” says BIR;
• Eugen Weinberg, managing director - head of commodity research at Germany’s Commerzbank AG, whose presentation will cover the “paradigm shifts on the metals markets”; and
• Holger Ellmann, a founding partner of Germany-based Argentum Metal Management, who will look back at a 30-year career in the international aluminium and metals industries and whose address is titled “Global aluminium market outlook 2016 - Start of rebalancing or is the worst still to come?”
The panel discussion will be moderated by Peter Dahmen of Germany’s Metallhandelsgesellschaft Schoof & Haslacher, according to BIR Nonferrous Division President David Chiao, of United States-based Uni-All Group Ltd.
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