From October 6 to 8, 2026, STEINERT will provide a comprehensive insight into the future of aluminium sorting. Closing the aluminium loop requires both high throughput and melt-ready quality. As demand for high-grade recycled aluminium continues to grow, STEINERT is advancing its sorting systems on...
BAMA is bringing together the aerosol industry to develop a more consistent recycling message and strengthen consumer understanding of aerosol sustainability. The British Aerosol Manufacturers’ Association (BAMA) is calling for industry-wide collaboration to improve how aerosol recycling is...
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In October’20, the Central Bank of Chile stated that its economic activity dipped 1.2% in October from a year ago, as the economy moved closer to growth after months of contraction caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The bank’s IMACEC economic activity index encompasses about 90% of the economy...
According to the latest data shown by the US Geological Survey, India’s aluminium scrap imports from the United States dropped in November 2020 after five consecutive months of growth during June-October 2020. Data shows India imported 30,300 tonnes of aluminium scrap from the United States in...
On Thursday, February 4, Constellium, a global aluminium rolled and extruded products manufacturer, announced its plans to invest in expanding aluminium recycling capacity by 60,000 tonnes per annum in Europe. This project will focus on using recycled material for manufacturing aluminium slabs...
The economy of Honduras is highly impacted with the combined strike of COVID-19 pandemic, weak healthcare, endemic corruption, damage and property loss caused by Hurricane Eta and limitation of scope for a post-pandemic recovery in 2021. The Central American nation’s export of aluminium scrap...
Hydrovolt has commenced the construction of Norway's first plant for recycling electric vehicle batteries, located in the town of Fredrikstad. The facility, which is planned start operations in late 2021, will have the capacity to process more than 8,000 tonnes of modules from car batteries each...
The British Aluminium recycling specialist firm Alwin has stated that a financing deal for new machinery has supported the organization to secure its future. The aluminium recycling firm said: “Close Brothers Asset Finance funded the purchase of a truck, forklift and crane through a Coronavirus...
The all-new 2021 Rogue, the first global SUV model of Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer, is built using ‘closed-loop’ recycling systems for aluminium parts. The system helps reduction of CO2 emissions when compared with using parts made with primary alloys from raw materials. It also...
The Brunel Centre for Advanced Solidification Technology (BCAST), an academic research centre focusing on both fundamental and applied research on advanced solidification processes for metallic materials has joined a significant new multi-million-pound project to help design new light-weight...
According to Shanghai Metals Market data, secondary aluminium producers operating rates in China increased slightly by 0.23 percentage point month-on-month to stand at 62.65 per cent in December 2020. This marks the second consecutive month of rising in secondary aluminium operating rates as they...
In the English landlocked county, Leicestershire, across the region litter pickers have grouped to collect five million aluminium cans to build a helipad for the Leicester Royal Infirmary. South Leicestershire litter womble Geoff Walker, from Braunstone, and the founder of the charity Helipads for...
Aluminium packaging collected for recycling in the UK recorded its highest in 2020, according to Preliminary figures by the Environment Agency. Data showed that 145,035 tonnes of aluminium packaging was collected for recycling last year. The data from the National Packaging Waste Database (NPWD)...
South Korea's imports of aluminium scrap from the US stood at 28,500 tonnes in October 2020, with a year-on-year increase of 18.75%. South Korea had imported 24,000 tonnes in October 2019. On a monthly basis, imports rose by 17.77% from 24,200 tonnes in September 2020, as updated by the US Census...
The United States aluminium scrap exports to Malaysia stood at 44,800 tonnes in October 2020, recording an increase of 7,200 tonnes or 19.15 per cent M-o-M after two consecutive months of decline. In September, the United States exported 37,600 tonnes of scrap to Malaysia, down by 8.96 per cent...
The US Geological Survey found the United States aluminium scrap exports to India continued to rise in October 2020 as well. From 35,500 tonnes in September, the exports grew to 38,700 tonnes, an increase of 9 per cent month-on-month. On a year-on-year calculation, the exports in October soared by...
The economy of Australia's grew by 3.3% in the third quarter, recovering from its first recession in nearly three decades as it recovered from pandemic-related shocks, according to report released at the beginning of December’20. Josh Frydenberg, MP and Treasurer commented that the country still...
According to the Shanghai Metals Market, China’s secondary aluminium producers operating rates gained 4.9 percentage points month-on-month in November 2020, following a decline in October. The operating rates came in at 62.4 per cent, down 0.1 percentage point year-on-year, showed the data. The...
According to the US Geological Survey, the United States aluminium scrap exports to Canada stood 4.94 per cent lower month-on-month to 6,740 tonnes in September 2020. In August, the US exported 7,090 tonnes of scrap to Canada compared with 5,540 tonnes in July 2020. This represents a hike of 28 per...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Bolivia appeared amid an economic and political crisis as a result of the failed presidential elections of October 2019. Although timely measures were adopted to face the pandemic at the beginning of the outbreak and that, in effect, it did slow down the initial increase of...
