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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Gershow Recycling, one of the leading scrap recyclers has opened its Medford facility to local FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Long Island robotics teams for last eight years. The programme allows coaches, students and their parents, to collect aluminium scrap metal. The 2017 FIRST Robotics Competition kicked-off in January 7, 2017 at Stony Brook University and total 15 teams participated in Gershow’s Scrap Metal Day donation event. Each of the teams will construct a 120 pound robot within 6 weeks and prepare themselves for the upcoming competition, presented by School Business Partnerships of Long Island, Inc. The annual Long Island Regional FIRST Robotics Competition has entered its 18th season. More than 50 teams from Long Island, Brazil and the New...
R Collard, the United Kingdom-based demolition and waste management company, is set to start a new metal recycling facility in Wokingham in the south of England. The company said this new recycling facility will help the company to expand its existing recycling capabilities. The recycling facility will recycle ferrous and non-ferrous metals including all types of aluminium and copper through a metals shredder and a baler for compressing and materials reprocessing. Robert Collard, founder and managing director, commented: “This is our first step into the world of metal recycling. It is a fantastic opportunity which complements the waste infrastructure and demolition requirements for the group”. With the help of this facility, R Collard will recycle metal from its own in-house demolition...
Effective from January 1 2017, BAGR Berliner Aluminiumwerk GmbH acquired 50% of the shares of Stockach Aluminium GmbH from SSVP III, a Private Equity Fund that is advised by Orlando Management AG. Both companies produce rolling slabs made from secondary aluminium. With locations in Berlin and Stockach, the companies do not only complement each other from a geographical point of view but also with regards to their product portfolio. Stockach Aluminium went through comprehensive restructuring activities over the last six months. Going forward, the shareholders plan to execute selective investments in order to increase the plant’s capacity from today’s 50,000 tons to an annual capacity of approximately 90,000 tons. With a total slab casting capacity of then 180,000 tons per year, the...
China's output of secondary aluminium faced a significant slowdown in the recent past impacted on by global economic downturn and shrinking demand. However, demand for the secondary metal produced from scrap aluminium has been on a rise in China driven by strong automotive industry demand. While Building and Costruction still remains the largest secondary aluminium end user sector, auto parts manufacturing has grown in a big way to represent a strong correlation with secondary aluminium consumption in the country. This rising domestic demand for the metal is essentially met through import of scrap, which increased 27.28 per cent year-on-year to total at 171,255 tonnes in January 2017, revealed data released by the General Administration of Customs, China on February 24....
According to the recent aluminum recycling statistics by the U.S. Geological Survey and Department of Interior published by the Aluminum Association, the U.S. aluminium industry purchased an estimated 370500 tons of aluminium scrap during December 2016, which registers a 9.0 per cent increase over the December 2015 total of 340000 tons . USGS estimates that U.S. aluminium industry recovered 317000 tons of aluminium and aluminium alloys in December 2016, an increase of 10.1 per cent YOY. According to the preliminary data for 2016 full year, recovery of aluminium from scrap totalled an estimated 3.9 million tons, up 7.0 per cent over the 2015 total of 3.7 million tons. U.S. exports of scrap which accounts for about 50 per cent of total export and is not included in the government’s...
A team of innovators from Delhi University started an initiative named “We-Convert” to promote sustainable future and help people to save the environment from being polluted through landfills. “We-Convert” aims at recycling aluminium cans, glass scraps and plastic bottles by dumping them into a vending machine. “We-Convert” ask people to drop their aluminium cans, glass scraps and plastic bottles into technologically smart e-collectors and in turn reward them with free vouchers for online shopping, free recharge for phone etc. Ashutosh Srivastava, Co-founder of We-Convert, said, “Through We-Convert, we aim to empower the user to recycle plastic/PET bottles, aluminium cans, and glass scraps. The process is fairly simple, all one need to do is drop in the trash and follow few simple...
Maarten Labberton, the director for the Packaging Group at European Aluminium, a member of the Executive Committee of Metal Packaging Europe and a member of the European Steering Committee of Every Can Counts makes his statement on Circular Economy in Europe. He says that ambitious yet realistic targets for all packaging materials can build a true circular economy in Europe. The Circular Economy Package designed by the European Commission aims at recycling 75% of all aluminium packaging by 2025, and of 85% by 2030. Maarten considers it to be a balanced and constructive approach if it covers all collection, sorting and recycling options. The Members of European Parliament (MEPs) further increased the original targets for aluminium and a few other materials – to 80% by 2025 and 90% by 2030....
The Emirates Environmental Group (EEG) is launching the 2017 edition of its Can Collection Campaign for the collection of aluminium cans for recycling purpose. This year, the overall target is to collect 28,000kg of aluminium cans. The first event 2017 of Can Collection Campaign is scheduled to be on February 23. This year the campaign sub-projects include: Can Collection Day, which will be held on Thursday, February 23; and, Can Collection Drive on Saturday, October 28.The Can Collection Campaign will be held simultaneously across the seven Emirates. EEG chairperson Habiba Al Marashi said, “The Can Collection Campaign aims to bring people from all segments of society together to fulfil their duties to the environment of this country by giving back to nature in the Year of Giving declared...
We are all aware of the infinite recycling properties of aluminium. Recycling aluminium requires about 95% less energy than the production of primary aluminium Aluminium scrap remains a significant resource to be used as raw material to produce secondary aluminum and subsequently new aluminum products. Aluminium scrap can be both “new” and “old” scrap. New scrap is generated from aluminum wrought and cast products as the metal is processed by fabricators into consumer or industrial products. Old scrap is retrieved from end-of-life products or discarded products of all types. Another relatively less important source of secondary aluminum raw material source is dross. The highest recycling percentages can be seen in the construction and transport sector of up to 95% but packaging sector is...
India's major aluminium scrap commodities prices climbed on Wednesday in line with aluminium futures prices at Multi Commodity Exchange as support seen after a draft policy document suggested China will constrict production next winter to help improve air quality. The major aluminium scrap commodities on the Scrap Register Price Index climbed on Wednesday. India's major aluminium scrap commodities like aluminium rod company, aluminium rod local, aluminium sheet cutting and aluminium wire scrap traded higher on Wednesday. The most active February aluminium contract on Multi Commodity Exchange gained by 1.15 percent to INR 127.35 per kilogram on Wednesday from previous close of INR125.90 per kilogram. The MXC aluminium prices touched an intra-day high of INR127.45 per kilogram and an...
Metalcorp Group B.V., one of the leading manufacturers of secondary aluminium ingots in Europe, posted impressive growth across all consolidated earnings figures for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2016. The company's profit margin remains constant in back-to-back transactions requiring no stock-keeping as it keeps adhering to its risk-averse business model. Metalcorp, headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, specializes in the global physical trade of steel and non-ferrous metals such as aluminium. Along with its subsidiary BAGR Berliner Aluminiumwerk GmbH it produces high-quality aluminium cast blocks based on secondary aluminium for the European market. Based on an increased business volume, Metalcorp’s EBITDA improved significantly by 20.8 per cent from EUR 16.3 million to EUR 19.7...
The North American Aluminum scrap prices remained unchanged on ScrapMonster Price Index as on February 15th, Wednesday. 1100 Scrap prices remained flat over the day. The prices of 3003 Scrap too were flat at $0.64 per Lb. The prices of 356 Aluminum Wheels and 6063 Extrusions/Fe too were unchanged. The prices of 6063 Extrusions held steady over the day. Meantime, prices of 5052 Scrap and 6061 Extrusions remained flat at $0.61 per Lb and $0.59 per Lb respectively. The prices of Al/Cu Radiators and Al/Cu Radiators/Fe remained flat. Aluminum Radiators and Aluminum Radiators/Fe prices held steady. Aluminum Transformers and Breakage 50% Recovery prices remained unchanged on 15th February, 2017. Chrome Wheels and E.C Aluminum Wire prices remained flat over the day. Litho Sheets and MLC Clips...
India's major aluminium scrap commodities prices stayed stable on Tuesday, while aluminium futures prices at Multi Commodity Exchange settled slightly higher mainly due the renewed concerns about potential closures of Chinese smelters to cut pollution. The major aluminium scrap commodities on the Scrap Register Price Index remained flat on Tuesday. India's major aluminium scrap commodities like aluminium accessories scrap, aluminium cable scrap , aluminium ingots, aluminium rod company, aluminium rod local, aluminium scrap 6063, aluminium scrap taint/tabor, aluminium sheet cutting, aluminium utensil scrap and aluminium wire scrap showed a flat trend on Tuesday. The most active February aluminium contract on Multi Commodity Exchange edged up by 0.68 percent to INR 125.90 per kilogram on...
The Chinese aluminium scrap prices increased marginally on the Scrap Monster Price Index on February 13th, Monday. 6063 Extrusions witnessed a rise of CNY 200 per MT over the previous day. Aluminium Radiators and Transformers prices were up by CNY 100 per MT each. E.C Aluminium Wire prices jumped higher by CNY 200 per MT to touch CNY 13,800 per MT. Old Cast prices increased by CNY 200 per MT. The prices of Old Sheet and Old Cast witnessed rise of CNY 200 per MT each. UBC and Zorba 90% INF prices too were up by CNY 200 per MT each. Meanwhile, Brass Radiator prices witnessed significant increase of CNY 350 per MT when matched with the day before. Red Brass and Yellow Brass prices too were up sharply by CNY 350 per MT each. Stainless steel scrap prices too were up on the Index. 201 SS prices...
USA is the world’s largest aluminium scrap exporter. Being a country with one of the highest GDPs, the country consumes significant amount of aluminium can and other aluminium foil packaging that generates large amount of scrap along with e-scraps. The category ranked No. 154 through December 2016 among the roughly 1,265 export commodity groupings in U.S. as classified by Census. {newsStudioGallery} According to the recent estimate, in 2015, the U.S. exported 1.3 million tons of aluminium scrap globally. The total value of the revenue amounts to about US$ 2.3 billion. Compared to 2015, in 2016, the U.S. is estimated to export an estimated 1.38 million tons of aluminium scrap globally. The total revenue from the export amounts to US$ 2.5 billion for the estimated amount. However, according...
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The On-Pack Recycling Label (OPRL) scheme, aims to deliver a simple, consistent and UK-wide recycling message, has changed its guidelines for aluminium foil, plastic pots, tubs and trays to show that the products are now widely recycled by councils at the Kerbside. As per OPRL’s new 2017 strategies, the local people can now easily put more packaging into kerbside recycling collections without seeking help from council .The new aluminium foil and other materials recycling guidelines are set by data from WRAP, RECOUP, ACE-UK and Alupro. The guidelines suggest aluminium foils as well as certain clear and non-black opaque plastic pots, tubs and trays can now be Widely Recycled in home collections. Alupro executive director Rick Hindley said: "As our data showed last year, aluminium foil...
India aluminium scrap prices remained fairly stable on Wednesday, February 8, while aluminium futures prices edged higher at Mumbai's Multi Commodity Exchange, reported Scrap Register. Aluminium futures gained on the back of ongoing scanning of smelters by the government agencies in China which saw worries building up over possible production cuts. The major aluminium scrap commodities like aluminium cable scrap, aluminium ingots, aluminium rod company, aluminium rod local, aluminium scrap 6063, aluminium scrap taint/tabor, aluminium sheet cutting, aluminium utensil scrap and aluminium wire scrap held steady on the Scrap Register Price Index. The most traded February aluminium contract on MCX stood at INR 123.20 per kilogram on Wednesday, inching higher by 0.37 per cent from the previous...
The 14th International Aluminium Recycling Congress that took place in Manchester on 7 and 8 February played host to over 150 delegates from across Europe. European Aluminium firmly reiterated its commitment towards the conference theme “Recycling at its best: the circular economy opportunity” during the conference. The Association opined that Europe should be more pro-active to cooperate closely on a global level to close the recycling loop. EU policymakers should ensure equivalent standards for treating exported EU scrap to set a global standard. Gerd Götz, Director General of European Aluminium stated during the conference: “Europe is creating the basis for the circular economy, but we need to close the loop on a global level.” …“We follow high environmental, health and safety...
