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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Vetroplas packaging, the makers of superior quality packaging solutions designed for the UK cosmetics and personal care markets, has delivered fully recyclable Aluminium bottles for Waken mouthwashes. Availability comes with 500 ml bottles – contemporary and stylish enough to be on full view in the...
400 million aluminium cans, foil trays and aerosols are estimated to be in use every year in Staffordshire. The ‘Make Your Metals Matter’ campaign wants people to recycle all the metal packaging found around their house, including aluminium food and drink cans, household aluminium wrapping foil,...
Alupro, aluminium recycling trade body, has reportedly asked for 2019 recycle aluminium market development assessments in lights of high PRN prices from the Packaging Recovery Note (PRN) system, even though the targets of the year were being met. According to the data, which is, however, to be...
After three years of back-to-back rise, the aluminium scrap exports from France are estimated to see a slight downfall in 2020, found the international trade data. From 533,972 tonnes in 2019, the export amount is likely to dip by 1.76 per cent to 524,574 tonnes. In 2018, France’s aluminium scrap...
The 2017 balance of the Italian aluminium industry must be placed within the global economic context, characterised during the past three years by an inversion in trend and by slow but continuous growth. Italy’s total volume of Aluminium scrap import from 2017-20 has been posted at 2,419,418...
The Environment Agency reports that 114,748 tonnes of aluminium packaging was collected for recycling in 2019, an increase of 15% from 2018. The data indicates that aluminium has exceeded the 2019 packaging recycling target of 112,200 tonnes (61%). Due to be finalised in March 2020, the data...
The Mission Estate in New Zealand is getting back to old school and environment-friendly in a way to support the clean-up efforts coming up Micheal Buble and Elton John concerts. In 2018 following the Phil Collins’ concert, citizens of New Zealand took to Facebook complaining about rubbish and...
The new standards for aluminium scrap metal have been published by China’s market regulator on 19 th Jan’20, elucidating on what materials will be permitted to import in the country from the second half of this year. China is focused to set a target of shrinking solid waste imports to the zero...
Audubon Metals LLC, located in Henderson, Kentucky, has reportedly selected the city of Corsicana in Texas for building its second aluminium scrap sorting and aluminium alloys production facility. This project is Audubon’s old plan. In 2016, the company had negotiated with Bexar County in Texas to...
Jupiter Aluminum Corporation has become the first facility in the United States to achieve Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) Performance Certification. The company’s Hammond, Indiana, USA facility has received Certification demonstrating its commitment to environmental, social and governance...
For reducing the dependence on the mining industry for recycling, Apple Inc. will reportedly use a new technology called Daisy robot that will disassemble iPhone parts to recover and reuse the minerals used in making products. Apple says the robot is part of the plan to make the manufacturing...
Singapore’s first recycling drive for contact lens blisters is EYE FOR EARTH On 3 rd January’20 Capitol Optical, Singapore’s eyewear chain launched its Eye for Earth initiative which encourages contact lens users to recycle the blister packs. Eye for Earth is Singapore’s first dedicated contact...
Good airplanes also get scrapped. In the recent past images have shown that an A380, the world’s biggest commercial airplane that has been sent to the scrapyard, generated significant emotional responses. The first A380 to die was when Singapore Airlines Company decided to retire its first A380 a...
China’s aluminium scrap imports from the US have been declining over the past few months this year and September was of no exception, as found by the United States Geological Survey. According to the survey data, China in September imported 19,600 tonnes, down by 26.03 per cent from 26,500 tonnes...
The year 2019 saw the announcement of new campaigns and initiatives to encourage and raise awareness for aluminium recycling among consumers. New schemes have been launched in an effort to meet sustainability targets. Showa Denko Group collected about 4.79 million UBC for recycling or recovered...
Reverse vending machines were set afloat in Vellore on 26 th December’19, which can control both plastic bottles and beverage cans. Mr. A. Shanmuga Sundaram, District collector of Vellore, Tamil Nadu, while launching the smart dustbins announced the number of steps the Vellore City Municipal...
Shanghai Metals Market predicts Chinese aluminium scrap prices to fall after resuming from the Chinese New Year Holiday in late January, as fresh import quotas are expected to ease supply shortages and ensure demand in the first quarter of 2020. On Monday, December 23, China’s environmental...
According to the United States Geological Survey, the aluminium scrap exports from the United States to South Korea in September 2019 remained flat at 23,600 tonnes, as compared to 23,200 tonnes in August. In July, the United States had exported 19,600 tonnes of aluminium scrap to South Korea,...
