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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The year 2020 saw significant expansions in the recycling plant. Many leading companies announced huge investments in increasing the aluminium recycling capacity. Industry data showed improved aluminium packaging recycling rates globally. According to the International Aluminium Institute,...
According to the US Geological Survey data, the United States aluminium scrap imports from Mexico stood at 11,700 tonnes in September 2020. In the previous month, the United States imported 10,800 tonnes of aluminium scrap from Mexico, meaning the imports in September edged 8.33 per cent higher...
The United States aluminium scrap exports to Indonesia stood at 8,780 tonnes in September 2020, recording a downfall of 34.96 per cent month-on-month, according to the US Geological Survey. In August 2020, the United States exported 13,500 tonnes, which stood up by 33.66 per cent from 10,100 tonnes...
One of India’s fastest-growing manufacturing start-ups, Runaya, made public on 21 st December that it has been conferred with the Global WasteMet Award by the Energy and Environment Foundation. The company own the award under the prestigious ‘Platinum’ category for its success in setting up an...
The recycling rate for aluminium beverage cans in the European Union, Switzerland, Norway, and Iceland increased by more than 2 per cent from 74.5 per cent in 2017 to 76.1 per cent in 2018, showed the latest data from European Aluminium and Metal Packaging Europe. The total amount of aluminium...
Rio Tinto, the industry leader in responsible aluminium production, with operations in Canada which runs on 100% renewable hydropower, is investing US $8.4 million to expand the recycling capacity of its aluminium operations in Saguenay- Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec, to offer rolled product customers in...
The United States aluminium scrap exports to the Republic of Korea increased marginally in September 2020 by 400 tonnes month-on-month to stand at 24,200 tonnes, found the US Geological data. In August, the United States aluminium scrap exports to Korea were at 23,800 tonnes dwindling by 800 tonnes...
ALUMIL, one of the largest industries in the extrusion of aluminium in Greece, considers that the environmental protection is not just a side project on the annual plan, but it is at the core of organisation’s strategy for the next decade. For more than 30 years, the aluminium company has developed...
Iceland is considered as a stable democracy with an active consumer economy. The pillars of the Icelandic economy are aluminium smelting, fishing, and tourism and the major material exports are aluminium products and fish products, and main service exports are tourism-related services. The Nordic...
The UK-based aluminium packaging recycling company Alupro has reportedly launched a digital campaign for the upcoming Christmas holiday season aiming at changing human behaviour and increasing awareness towards aluminium packaging recycling. The campaign named ‘The Santa Story’ is an animated...
The United States aluminium scrap exports to Malaysia extended decline in the third month (September) of Q3 2020 to 37,600 tonnes, found the US Geological Survey data. Month-on-month, the export declined 3,700 tonnes or 8.96 per cent from 41,300 tonnes. In August, the United States aluminium scrap...
The economy of Costa Rica is expected to shrink 5% by end of this year, as the country is hit hard by COVID-19 outbreak and the central bank stated it as the steepest decline since 1982 for the Central American nation. Costa Rica’s export of aluminium scrap during 2018-19 has been recorded at...
The flag carrier airline of Iceland, Icelandair has for the first time started the work of dismantling a Boeing 757, locally in Iceland. It is TF-FIJ, Boeing 757-200 that will slowly but surely be dismantled. The work is part of reducing the fleet by older 757 and it will be carried out by the...
At Shanghai Metals Market’s 2020 Nonferrous Metals Industry Chain Annual Conference in Suzhou, Leo Yi, senior analyst at SMM, explained the challenges that new solid waste law posed to China’s aluminium scrap supply and operations at secondary aluminium producers. Yi said the new solid waste law...
Naivedya Agarwal, son of Navin Agarwal, Chairman of Vedanta Limited, India’s leading producer of aluminium, founded Runaya in 2017 to seize the market of aluminium dross, which now pulls in around INR 150 crore turnovers. The second most used metal in the world is aluminium, which has an annual...
India’s imports of aluminium scrap from the US came in at 35,500 tonnes in September 2020, with a month-on-month increase of 31%. India had imported 27,000 tonnes in August 2020. On a yearly, basis, imports dropped by 67% from 21,000 tonnes in September 2019, as updated by the US Census Bureau. In...
On Tuesday, December 1, the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) announced that it hired Cheryl Coleman as vice president of sustainability. Coleman will be responsible to look after the development and execution of an integrated strategy addressing the priorities of the segments of the...
Sipful Drinks has collaborated with Every Can Counts to encourage people to recycle empty drink cans. The company will carry the Every Can Counts logo on its canned products. Sipful founder Darius Darwell comments: “Reducing waste and increasing recycling are two very clear objectives for us....
