Aluminium scrap: This week, China's aluminium scrap market price centre edged up alongside primary aluminium. As of September 10, SMM A00 aluminium prices closed at RMB 24,560 per tonne, up RMB 210 per tonne from RMB 24,350 per tonne last Thursday. Domestic aluminium scrap prices followed with...
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...
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The economy of Croatia is a developing high-income service-based economy and with the tertiary sector accounting for 60% of total gross domestic product (GDP). The Croatian economy is one of the strongest economies in Southeast Europe. COVID-19 Pandemic has caused more than 400.000 workers to file...
Thailand’s imports of aluminium scrap from the US stood at 5,880 tonnes in March, an increase of 569.7% from 878 tonnes in March 2019. On a month-on-month basis, imports registered a rise of 11.36% from 5,280 tonnes in February, as updated by the US Census Bureau. In the first quarter of 2020,...
India’s imports of aluminium scrap from the US stood at 34,100 tonnes in March, with a month-on-month increase of 3.65%. India had imported 32,900 tonnes in February 2020. On a yearly basis, imports increased by 31% from 26,100 tonnes in March 2019, as updated by the US Census Bureau. In the first...
According to Shanghai Metals Market, operating rates across China’s secondary aluminium industry increased 1.6 percentage points month-on-month to stand at 48.69 per cent in May. In April, China’s secondary aluminium industry’s operating rates were 47.08 per cent, lowering 0.22 percentage point...
Shanghai Metals Market reveals that China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment has issued the eighth batch of copper and aluminium scrap quotas for 2020 on Tuesday, June 16. The authorities confirmed that the eighth batch of metal scrap quotas would allow additional 5,840 tonnes of high-grade...
The United Kingdom-based waste management company Viridor has once again bagged the contract, worth £10 million, to process Ealing Council’s dry mixed recycling, with effect from June 6. As per the contract, Viridor is accountable for processing around 24,000 tonnes of dry recycling annually...
The German-based Scholz Recycling Group and Shandong Weiqiao Pioneering Group Co. have signed a memorandum of understanding to build a recycling industrial park in the Chinese City of Binzhou. Scholz Recycling Group plans to expand its recycling business in China. Rafael Suchan, Chief Executive...
The Environment Agency reported that 17,066 tonnes of aluminium packaging were collected for recycling in the UK in May. Recycling rates was up 48% year-on-year. Aupro executive director Rick Hindley said: “The UK’s PRN data for May shows a dramatic increase, both month-on-month and year-on-year,...
The economy of Lebanon is classified as a developing, upper-middle-income economy. The nominal GDP was estimated $54.1 billion in 2018, with a per capita GDP amounting to $12,000. Government spending amounted to $15.9 billion in 2018 or 23% of GDP. The major industries of the country are banking,...
At China Aluminium Processing Industry Summit 2020, Racket Hu, Vice President of SMM, said the usage of recycled aluminium in place of primary metal would continue in the long term, given the advantages of recycling in terms of cost and environment-friendliness. Speaking at the summit in Yantai, Hu...
A start-up renewable energy company has invented a low-cost, zero-emissions solution to the problems that occur while the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. In contraction, the more the world grabs clean energy like solar and wind, the more it must support something remarkably...
European aluminium scrap suppliers need to expand their customer base to maintain healthy business levels as manufacturing industries slow against recessionary forces driven by the COVID-19 epidemic. However, it will be a difficult venture with so many consumers facing uncertain futures. Murat...
Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro) has reportedly signed a deal with Resource Efficient Data to have access to the Cardiff-based data start-up’s UK waste data platform. The platform houses open source data from Waste Data Flow, which is a web-based system for municipal waste data...
Taiwan’s imports of aluminium scrap from the US stood at 3,480 tonnes in February, with a month-on-month decrease of 1.97%. Taiwan had imported 3,550 tonnes in January 2020. On a yearly basis, imports reduced by 47.7% from 6,650 tonnes in February 2019, as updated by the US Census Bureau. In the...
As the United States Geological Survey found, Canada’s aluminium scrap imports from the US extended growth in February by 4.03 per cent month-on-month. In January 2020, Canada imported 6,950 tonnes of aluminium scrap from the US, which in February increased to 7,230 tonnes, according to the data...
Switzerland, a country that espouses neutrality, is a prosperous and modern market economy with low unemployment, a highly skilled labour force, and a per capita GDP among the highest in the world. The economy of Switzerland is one of the world's most advanced free-market economies. The service...
Tasmania will be hosting the southern hemisphere's first production of lucrative aluminium fluoride. The project can crop up the possibilities to deliver an annual revenue stream of about $20 million, and that too before its potential expansion. The initiatives for a production facility at Bell Bay...
South Korea's imports of aluminium scrap from the US stood at 23,700 tonnes in February, with a month-on-month increase of 6.28%. South Korea had imported 22,300 tonnes in January 2020. On a yearly basis, imports increased by 0.42% from 23,600 tonnes in February 2019, as updated by the US Census...
