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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China issued the 10th batch of quotas for restricted metal scrap imports for 2019. The batch allows 306,930 tonnes of aluminium scrap imports for companies mostly from Guangdong, Jiangsu and Liaoning, according to the list released by the Solid Waste and Chemical Management Centre under the...
The supermarket giant Sainsbury’s at its Braehead store in Glasgow is reportedly carrying out trials for its reverse vending recycling scheme, which allows customers to deposit plastic bottles of any size up to 3 litres and aluminium drink cans in a machine in exchange for a coupon worth £5 per...
CRU and FRH Aluminum will jointly organize the inaugural Aluminum Recycling Technical Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The one-and-a-half-day conference will take place at the Radisson Nashville Airport on October 15- 16 2019. CRU has collaborated with long-time industry expert Bob Hubbard...
According to the latest report from US Geological Survey, total aluminium recovered from scrap came in at 288,000 tonnes in March, the same as the revised amount in March. That was 6 per cent less than the amount in both April 2018 and April 2017. Of this, 161,000 tonnes of aluminium was recovered...
The U.S. exports of aluminium scrap registered 170,000 tonnes in April 2019, according to the latest report from US Geological Survey. The export volume increased 14.09 per cent from 149,000 tonnes exported in April 2018. On a month-on-month comparison, exports increased 4.29 per cent from March’s...
Denmark aluminium scrap exports have grown steadily in the last three years. The upward trend is expected to continue in 2019. The top export destinations of aluminium scrap in 2018 were Germany (48053 tonnes), Sweden (34733 tonnes), Luxembourg (13381 tonnes), Belgium (7624 tonnes), and Hungary...
According to Shanghai Metals Market, China’s aluminium scrap import increased 15.81 per cent month-on-month and 57.8 per cent year-on-year in May to come in at 177,200 tonnes. Importers’ rush to move the seaborne scrap metal into domestic markets before import restrictions on July 1 resulted in...
Viridor has won a contract worth £20 million from East Sussex County Council to process around 50,000 tonnes of dry mixed recyclables per annum. Viridor will receive the county’s kerbside recyclables, including paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays, aluminium cans, steel cans and...
Al Bustan Centre & Residence, the popular hotel-apartment among tourists and businessmen in the heart of Dubai, has reportedly participated in ‘Can Collection Drive’ organised by Emirates Environmental Group (EEG). As per the rule of the campaign, the employees of the hotel apartment vowed to...
G. Pivaudran, a French company specialising in metal processing to make stoppers, caps and coverings for perfumes, cosmetics and spirits packaging, demonstrated surface treatment tests made on recycled aluminium during the Édition Spéciale by Luxe Pack show in Paris. The tests show promising...
Malaysia’s imports of aluminium scrap from the US stood at 39,100 tonnes in the first three months of 2019, 93.56 per cent higher than the corresponding period of 2018, according to the latest Mineral Industry Survey report from US Geological Survey. In March, aluminium scrap imports from the US...
The Lexington Recycle Centre has resumed its operations and once again processing recyclable materials, city officials said on Wednesday, June 12. A mechanical problem had halted the facility’s operations for several days. Some officials reported last week that a machine that separates aluminium...
Pennsylvania lawmakers are aiming to pass a bill to start a bottle and can deposit program in Pennsylvania. State Rep. Wendy Ullman initiated it as a part of a larger legislation called “Zero Waste Pa.” According to Ullman, this program will help cleaning up the streets and waterways as beverage...
The UK aluminium drink can recycling rate continued to increase to 75% in 2018, the highest ever level, according to the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro). Data also showed that 95% of aluminium packaging collected in the UK is recycled within Europe. The overall aluminium...
According to Shanghai Metals Market, operating rates across Chinese secondary aluminium producers stood at 53.73% in May, down 4.6 percentage points from April, and 4.2 percentage points from May 2018. Car inventory clearance ahead of the new emission standards kept demand for secondary aluminium...
The newly implemented restrictions on scrap aluminium imports from July are likely to raise cost for Chinese secondary aluminium smelters, which in turn may raise the export price of Chinese aluminium alloys, a Platts report says. From July, only companies with licenses from the Ministry of...
Showa Denko Group companies and their associates successfully continued their aluminium can recycling activities in FY 2018 ended March 2019. They collected about 4.79 million UBC for recycling or recovered about 75 tons of aluminium when converted at the rate of 15.7 grams of aluminium per can....
Cummins will host its ninth annual one-day recycle event this Thursday, June 13, inside the Central Avenue entrance to the Columbus Engine Plant, in a bid to honour its environmental commitment. In the event, more than 1000 people are expected to drop off household recyclables, appliances,...
