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...
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The international export-import data shows the aluminium scrap export from France to Italy is on a steady rise since a sweeping growth of around 139 per cent from 43,822 tonnes in 2016 to 104,718 tonnes in 2017. In 2018, the country’s export amount to Italy was at 111,456 tonnes after growing by...
According to the data from China Customs, in the month of August, China's imports of aluminium scrap rose 7.4% YoY and stayed almost flat month on month to stand at 141,000 tonnes. This is the first month after the implementation of import quota on high-grade aluminium scrap in China. Imports were...
The Chinese government issued a new scrap metal import quota on 23rd September that approved a total of about 70,000 tonnes of copper, aluminium and ferrous scrap arrivals for Q4 2019. As reported by Argus Media, China Solid Waste and Chemicals Management approved a combined 66,368 tonnes of...
Brazil imported 10,900 tonnes of aluminium scrap from the US in the first six months of 2019, from 6,700 tonnes imported in the first six months of 2018. This records an increase of 4,200 tonnes or 62.69% year-on-year, according to the latest Mineral Industry Survey report from the US Geological...
Mexico’s aluminium scrap exports to the US in June 2019 outperformed the imports by about 5 per cent, found the United States Geological Survey. While the exports in the said duration pegged at 14,500 tonnes, the imports came in at 13,800 tonnes. {newsStudioGallery} Nonetheless, Mexico’s total...
A proposed aluminium recycling plant in Wisconsin Rapids is likely to start construction soon after securing all the necessary permits. Matalco’s US$80 million aluminium recycling plant in Wisconsin Rapids got the preliminary approval for the land and the project from the city's Finance and...
The Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari reportedly said that he cleared a cabinet note on the proposed vehicle scrapping policy, while the finance ministry approved it. So, a final call should be taken on the policy soon, said the Union Minister, adding that it will be applicable on...
According to a new study conducted by John Dunham and Associates for the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) recycling industry continues to drive the American economy. Other than contributing environmental benefits, the sector provides 531,500 jobs and an overall economic impact of...
Shanghai Metals Market found secondary aluminium producers continued to increase their operations in August as downstream plants in north China restocked in advance on worries about environmental curbs before the Nation Day on October 1. Data shows that the operating rates in August increased to...
A report from the Aluminium Association and the Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) showed early last week that aluminium cans outperformed other competitive packaging types and materials based on several sustainability metrics. The report - “The Aluminium Can Advantage: Key Sustainability...
Tomra Sorting Recycling, a Norwegian company that designs and supplies equipment for recycling, will launch its new X-TRACT X6 Fines machinery for high-purity sorting of mixed non-ferrous metal scraps, including aluminium during Aluminum USA. The new technology is capable of sorting smaller...
According to the data shared by US Geological survey, the United States’ aluminium scrap imports in the first six months of 2019 came in at 313,000 tonnes, down 10.31 per cent from 349,000 tonnes in the same period last year. Let us here analyse the monthly trend of the United States’ aluminium...
Florida-based Alliance Metals, which applied for the permit for an aluminium recycling plant in a farming town in Wenden, Arizona in April 2019, faced with oppositions from local communities. In a public hearing, residents urged environmental regulators not to sign off on the project. Homeowners...
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s waste and recycling team is reportedly launching the MetalMatters campaign on Thursday, September 5. The aim of the campaign, managed by Alupro, is to encourage residents to place the metal packaging items in blue bins so that they can be recycled. The items that...
Domestic aluminium producers are working together with planning think-tank Niti Aayog and Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) to determine standards for scrap usage. This was done at the background of exponentially growing aluminium scrap imports and random applications of scrap. Aluminium scrap...
After rising incessantly in the last three years, Saudi Arabia’s aluminium scrap export is estimated to reduce in 2019 by about 17 per cent to 142,128 tonnes, compared to 171,488 tonnes in 2018, found the global export-import data. The data also shows that Saudi Arabia’s aluminium scrap export to...
Birmingham City Council has revealed that it sent over half of its aluminium abroad to be recycled last year. As per the report, 280 tonnes out of 529 tonnes of aluminium were sent to Germany, while the remaining 249 tonnes were sent to facilities within the United Kingdom. Glass, plastics and...
In early August, rePlanet suddenly closed all 284 of its recycling centers and terminated 750 employees. The company blamed reduced payments, depressed pricing for scrap aluminium and PET plastic, and higher operating costs as the factors leading to their closure. Currently, about 19% of all...
