Europe’s recycled aluminium industry is an important component of the global secondary aluminium supply chain, with Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom (UK) representing key national markets. Production across the European region stood at nearly 6 million tonnes in 2023, supported by established scrap recovery systems, industrial recycling capacity and demand for recycled metal. Russia also contributes to the regional landscape through secondary aluminium production units concentrated in several industrial centres. According to AL Circle’s analysis in its report, “ World Recycled ALuminium Market Analysis Industry Forecast ”, the four countries present different market structures, from Germany’s substantial recycling capacity and Italy’s scrap-based production to the UK’s organised...
According to SMM survey statistics, the operating rate of the secondary aluminium alloy industry in September was 35.0 per cent, up 3.1 percentage points M-o-M but down 6.7 percentage points Y-o-Y. Industry production continued its recovery trend, but the overall operating level remained below the same period last year. On the demand side, September marked the traditional peak consumption season, with downstream orders recovering from August. End-use demand from automobiles and other sectors improved marginally, but the peak season effect has yet to fully materialise. According to CAAM data, automobile production in September was 2.99 million units, up 11.4 per cent M-o-M but down 8.7 per cent Y-o-Y. NEV production was 1.814 million units, up 12.2 per cent Y-o-Y. CAAM noted that China's...
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Metalcorp Group, a globally operating provider of procurement, logistics and trade services in the ferrous and non-ferrous sectors and one of Europe’s leading independent producers of secondary aluminium ingots, has announced that it has successfully completed its acquisition of the remaining 50 percent stake in Stockach Aluminium GmbH from its co-shareholder through its subsidiary, BAGR Berliner Aluminiumwerk GmbH. Last year, BAGR Berliner Aluminiumwerk GmbH acquired 50 percent of the shares of Stockach Aluminium GmbH from SSVP III. The acquisition will further expand the range of products and services offered by BAGR and Stockach Aluminium to their customer. “The company thus continues to expand its leading position in the production of alloyed aluminium slabs, which will have a...
The world’s first POAL recycling plant for producing Ecoallene will start in Italy in September 2018. POAL is a polyethylene + aluminium polycomposite recovered from food packaging. The plant will recover POAL and then turn it into a new recyclable material suitable for use in automotive, construction, giftware and other markets. Ecoallene is a new green material that is easy to recycle. It is also easy to colour, as well, and has a slight glittery look because of containing aluminium particles. This pioneering project, developed by an engineering company AMUT together with the Italian start-up Ecoplasteam, will be having an initial capacity of recycling 7000 tonnes of recovered POAL every year. Ecoplasteme carries out both technology for POAL treatment and washing the extrusion line to...
ASMA (Aluminium Secondary Manufacturers Association) representing about 3500 small and medium industrial units spread all over India, engaged in the manufacture of various downstream aluminium products, such as extrusion, flat rolled products, utensils, cable and conductors etc. has reacted strongly against the primary producers’ insistence on putting restrictions on Chinese aluminium import. Reacting a news story titled “Companies ask Government to restrict Chinese aluminium imports” circulated in media, the association claimed in a mail to AlCircle that facts in the story are far from reality and give a one sided story. According to Anil Agarwal, the spokesperson from the Aluminium Secondary Manufacturers Association, this represents the opinion of the big industrial houses like...
The global demand for recycled aluminium is expected to grow at a faster pace in the coming years. The global aluminium scrap recycling market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 7.59% during the period 2017-2021, according to Technavio’s analysts. Greece purchased US$56.7 billion worth of goods from around the world in 2017, an increase of 19.2% from 2016 Aluminium scrap import by Greece also increased 6% year on year in 2017. The country’s import of aluminium scrap increased in both volume and value in 2017 when compared to 2016 data. According to the international trade data, Greece imported 37905 tonnes of aluminium scrap in 2017, a 6% up from its 2016 imports totalling 35731 tonnes. In 2018, the country’s import of aluminium scrap is estimated to decline 8% from last year. Greece is...
The Recycling Partnership, the City of Denver and the Can Capture Group – a consortium of national can manufacturers: Anheuser-Busch; Ardagh Group; Ball Corporation and Crown Holdings, aluminium suppliers: Novelis and Tri-Arrows Aluminium, and the Can Manufacturers Institute – announced the expansion of Denver’s recycling education program to increase aluminium beverage cans recycling citywide. The city aims to raise its recycling and composting rate to 34% by 2020. Image Source: The Recycling Partnership Michael Hancock, Mayor of Denver, said: “Denver is proud to team up once again with The Recycling Partnership and the Can Capture Group and to be the first city in the country to run this challenge to recycle every aluminium we can in the metro area”. “We’re ready to take our recycling...
Resource recovery specialist Axion Recycling has been purchased in full by Liverpool-based metal recycling firm S. Norton & Co. Axion recycles non-metallic waste from end-of-life vehicles and electronic goods and has been working with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) to help increase the recycled aluminium content for the new cars since the beginning of this year. On 20 th of June, 2018, S. Norton acquired Axion from the five individual private investors who have owned Axion since July 2006. Axion and its ancillary branches Axion Polymers and Axion Consulting will now operate as subsidiaries of S. Norton that collects and processes metal scrap at its four facilities in Manchester, Liverpool, London, and Southampton. On acquiring Axion, S. Norton’s Chairman John Norton said, “We are pleased to...
A report from the Aluminum Association ranks the state of Kentucky No. 1 nationally in per capita jobs creation in the aluminium sector. According to the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development, there are about 200 aluminium-related companies in Kentucky. About 100 new facilities or expansion projects in the recycling and downstream aluminium sector have been announced in Kentucky since the beginning of 2014. The state has facilitated more than $3 billion in corporate investment and created over 3,050 full-time jobs in the sector. With the curtailing of primary capacity in the US, many manufacturers shifted to recycled aluminium as their primary source material. This has driven the growth of a number of new recycling facilities and expansion of existing ones. They are primarily...
Trump administration’s tariff on the imported aluminium and steel and the counter tariff by China on scrap imported from the US are going to have an effect on US scrap recycling sector. Jeff Padnos, the CEO of Holland, Michigan-based scrap recycling firm Padnos points to China’s aluminium scrap tariff, among other aspects of trade disputes which is concerning scrap recyclers in the US. He pointed out several detrimental effects of the growing global trade dispute during an interview. In the interview with National Public Radio (NPR), Padnos pointed that China’s 25 per cent tariff on imported aluminium scrap and its sudden decision to halt inspections in the US has affected his family business. “We still have some material that we shipped that has not been able to clear through and get to...
Rio Tinto announced that it has extended the agreement with Scepter for an additional ten years. Rio has renewed the contract for the treatment of by-product from the aluminium smelting process known as "skims" in Quebec, Canada. Scepter, an internationally recognized leader in aluminium dross and scrap recycling, will invest approximately three million dollars to further improve the efficiency of its recycling process. Rio Tinto Aluminium Managing Director Atlantic Operations Gervais Jacques said: "This partnership demonstrates our commitment to responsible production and to realizing the full environmental benefits from aluminium as a recyclable material. Instead of going to landfill, the by-product from our smelting processes is being recycled and used by Scepter to deliver specialized...
Sweden’s exports of aluminium scrap increased in 2017. The country exported 142 thousand tonnes of this particular product to the global market. Sweden is estimated to witness a decrease in exports of aluminium scraps last year. The top destinations of Sweden aluminium scrap exports in 2017 were Germany (47085 tonnes), China (19972 tonnes), France (13552 tonnes), Norway (11309 tonnes) and Finland (9432 tonnes). The value of aluminium scrap export has risen year-on-year. The country total aluminium scraps export was valued at US$124 million in 2016, which increased to reach US$174 million in 2017. The value of export is estimated to increase to US$408 million in 2018. Data shows the total aluminium scrap export by Sweden stood at about 110 thousand tonnes in 2016. The amount increased...
As China and the United States continue to spar back and forth with new tariffs being imposed on key imports on goods from each country, the recycling industry has largely been spared. On Friday, the Trump Administration announced a final list of products from China that would be assessed a 25% import duty. Several equipment parts imported from China for use in recycling operations were included on a list of targets earlier this year, but removed after pressure from the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI). “We are in the midst of global uncertainty when it comes to trade policies impacting the recycling industry,” said Robin Wiener, president of ISRI. “One thing that is certain, however, is that as the Voice of the Recycling Industry, ISRI is working diligently to fight for its...
Economists in the US are deliberating on how Trump’s tariffs on imported steel and aluminium are expected to increase prices of aluminium and aluminium products including the finished products by end users. They see the possibility of a trade war between the US and its closest allies with the implementation of retaliatory tariffs by Canada, Japan, Mexico and other countries. They are of the view that the U.S. can slash imports of these metals by boosting the reuse and recycling of old metal products. The U.S. makes most of its steel and aluminium by recycling scrap metal from manufacturers and from discarded products such as demolished buildings, old cars and thrown away cans. The country has cut down its primary capacities to about 25% in last few years, unable to bear the cost pressure,...
Century Metal Recycling Ltd, a leading India based recycler of aluminium and zinc alloys, has filed its draft prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to float an Initial Public Offering. The IPO includes fresh shares worth INR 150 crore and a sale of 6.4 million shares by promoters and existing shareholders. According to sources, the total IPO size is estimated at INR 650-700 crore (around $97-104 million). Century Metals does not have a listing in Indian stock exchange and is offering the stocks on a public stock exchange for the first time. An IPO and market listing will make the New Delhi-based company the first in its space to go public. Gauri Shankar Agarwala, the chairman and executive director, has offered to sell 7.93 lakh shares while MD Mohan Agarwal...
The overall recycling rate for aluminium beverage cans in the European Union, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland increased by 0.7% to a new record level of 73.6% in 2015. This is well above the recently approved new EU 2025 recycling target of 65% for all packaging. On the whole European continent (including other East-European countries, Russia and Turkey) more than 32 billion cans have been recycled. This means that every second at least 1000 aluminium beverage cans are being recycled somewhere in Europe! Their metal stays in the European circular economy and remains available for the production of new aluminium products. Recycling aluminium takes 95% less energy than producing it from its raw materials. The recycling process also generates only 5% of the greenhouse gas emissions. This...
According to aluminium recycling statistics published by the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of Interior, the U.S. aluminium industry purchased an estimated 352,000 tonnes of aluminium scrap during March 2018, down about 6% from the March 2017 total. Total aluminium recovered from scrap in March 2018 was 304,000 tonnes, 6% more than the revised amount in February 2018, but 5% less than the revised amount in March 2017, indicating a drop year on year. The changing trade policies of the Trump administration are creating disruptions in the procurement of scrap. Mexico remains the top aluminium scrap supplier to the US in the first quarter of 2018. Of the total scrap recovery, 175,000 tonnes of aluminium was recovered from new scrap and 129,000 tonne was recovered from old scrap. Through...
Soft drinks giant Coca-Cola Myanmar has launched a nationwide recycling awareness campaign called “Tan Bo Shi Tal” to encourage public awareness on plastic and aluminium recycling. This initiative is based on a circular economy-focused study by Gone Adventurin, which argued that two areas that can have significant impacts on reducing plastic and aluminium bottles into the environment are through reducing littering in public places and boosting plastic bottle and aluminium can segregation at homes and businesses. “Tan Bo Shi Tal” literally means “it has value” and colloquially “it’s worth it” in Myanmar language. Coca-Cola said the company aims to raise awareness on the value of recycling and encourage people across the country to participate. The campaign highlights the importance of...
Germany exports more aluminium scrap than it imports every year. The automotive industry is the biggest sources from where aluminium scrap is generated. The country exports about 1 million tons of aluminium scrap. WMR Recycling, Harita Metals Co, ScholzAlu Stockach GmbH, TSR Recycling GmbH & Co. KG are some of the major scrap suppliers in Germany. As shown in data, Germany imported an estimated 787844 tonnes of aluminium scrap in 2017. The total cost of import was USD 1.1 billion. Compared to 2017, the country is estimated to import 760840 tonnes of aluminium scrap. The value of import is estimated to stand at USD 960 million by the end of the current year. Netherlands and Poland exported 154069 tonnes and 121651 tonnes of aluminium scrap in 2017. UK, France and Austria also export...
On the face of increasing aluminium demand across the world, rapid growth of aluminium recycling sector has become imperative to ensure adequate supplies of the metal with more sustainable use of resources. In 2017, the world production of recycled aluminium was estimated at around 20.9 million tonnes, against a production of primary aluminium at 63.4 million tonnes. The world stock of aluminium products, on the other hand, has also been put at some 950 million tonnes, since inception, assuring the long-term availability of aluminium scrap for recycling industry that uses only 5% of the energy when compared to producing aluminium from bauxite ore through smelting process. So, keeping the importance of aluminium recycling in mind and its future prospect, Al Circle, as a responsible...
