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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According to a report, a Germany-based company named Strautmann Umwelttechnik presented two beverage bottle recycling machines - LiquiDrainer and BrikPress at the BrauBeviale trade fair in Nuremberg, Germany, in mid-November. As told by the company, the machinery offers reliability and innovation...
According to data from China's General Administration of Customs, China’s October aluminium scrap imports fell to their lowest since February 2016. China's aluminium scrap imports declined 10 per cent month on month in October 2018. Aluminium scrap imports stood at 90,000 tonnes last month. China’s...
Tallahassee, the state capital of Florida, has started a can for cash campaign to encourage recycling. The city will pay for every can a resident deposits as a part of its an annual recycling effort. On last Saturday, November 17, the City of Tallahassee in collaboration with Keep Tallahassee...
Metals and plastics recycling company Schupan & Sons Incorporated is planning to invest $10.1 million at two locations in Kalamazoo with support from the Michigan Strategic Fund, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation said. The company is adding 40,000 square feet and 50 employees to its...
The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has urged the Government to include drink cans and bottles in deposit return scheme (DRS). CPRE said its volunteers in the Green Clean collected a total of 11,212 cans and bottles of all shapes, sizes and materials. Of these, 35% were plastic, 50% were...
According to an update from Shanghai Metals Market, Dazhou town in Henan province required all secondary aluminium producers to suspend their operations for installing environmental equipment. There are about 50 secondary aluminium producers in the town and most produce nonstandard products with a...
Packaging solutions company Tetra Pak has entered into partnership with global resource management company Veolia to recycle all used beverage cartons components collected within the European Union to be recycled by 2025. The average beverage carton comprises around 75% paperboard, 20% plastic and...
Poland imported US$230.5 billion worth of goods from all over the world in 2017, out which aluminium accounted for 5.7 per cent of the total imports of the country. However, aluminium scrap imports by Poland in terms of volume decreased year-on-year in 2017, although the cost stood higher....
Shred-Tech, headquartered in Cambridge, Ontario Canada has announced its Exclusive North American strategic partnership with Camec©, Cittadella, Italy. Shred-Tech said in its press release it will be the exclusive distributor for Camec©’s GL, GR, GS and GRR-Line of Single Shaft Shredders and the...
The Advisory Committee on Packaging (ACP) in the UK has urged the competition regulators to investigate the possibility of illegal restrictive practices in the responsibility scheme for aluminium packaging recycling. The Committee expresses concern over the current price for packaging recovery...
Germany, a major aluminium market in Europe and home to the world’s largest automakers, contributes 25% of total aluminium consumption in Europe is one of the leading scrap exporters in the world. German aluminium processors produce about 300,000 tonnes of recycled aluminium. The country's...
Emirates Global Aluminium has signed a deal with Abu-Dhabi based construction and building materials company Arkan to supply them with spent pot lining from its smelting operations. Arkan will use these waste materials to manufacture cement. However, it is not clear yet that how much or how often...
After a sweeping rise last year, Mexico’s aluminium scrap import is likely to see a plunge in 2018 from 317,561 tonnes to 266,558 tonnes, found the global export-import data. This marks a drop by around 16 per cent year-on-year. In contrast to this, Mexico’s aluminium scrap import had increased by...
PyroGenesis Canada has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with one of the largest Japanese trading houses, which outlines the understanding of how the Parties will move forward towards a potential joint venture partnership for the purpose of developing DROSRITE™ tolling services globally. A...
According to the latest update by Shanghai Metals Market, short supplies of invoiced domestic resources and limited inflows of seaborne resources are together contributing to the balanced market of aluminium scrap in China. Moreover, sluggish downstream automobile consumption is also attributing to...
Five global container port operators together have reportedly undertaken a week-long initiative of mass recycling in order to promote sustainable resource usage in their respective port and facility networks. During the fifth annual Go Green Initiative, a total number of 8,332 employees of DP...
Germany’s automotive industry generates a large amount of aluminium scrap. Every year, the country exports around 1 million tonnes of scrap and it tends to grow year on year. According to the global export-import data, Germany had exported 1.05 million tonnes of aluminium scrap in 2016, which...
According to the latest Mineral Industry Survey report from US Geological Survey, the U.S. exports of aluminium scrap, which is not included in the government’s consumption statistics, stood at 148,000 tonnes in August 2018, up 11.2 per cent from August 2017 total of 133,000 tonnes. Month on month,...
