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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Metal recycling and aluminium, in particular, is gaining a significant importance attributed to increasing industrialization and urbanization, rising income, and spending capability of people in developing economies such as China, Brazil, and India. According to the Global Recycled Aluminium Market...
BAGR Berliner Aluminiumwerk GmbH has purchased the remaining 50% shares of Stockach Aluminium GmbH from SSVP III, a press release from the company confirms. Founded in 1997 to take over an older location of the aluminium industry in Berlin, BAGR is a part of the Metalcorp Group. Both the companies...
In June 2018, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) announced China will expand environmental inspections to more cities and regions from June till April next year, as a part of a three-year anti-pollution plan. Two hundred teams with a total of some 18,000 inspectors and support staff...
The international export-import data shows that the total volume of aluminium scrap imported to Belgium has been rising over the past few years. In 2016, Belgium had imported about 2, 75, 996 tonnes of aluminium scrap in total, while in 2017, the import volume increased 6.4 per cent to 2, 95, 076...
Hindalco, one of the largest aluminium producers in India, has urged the government to cap the quantity of imports of low-cost semis, wire rods, scrap from China, southeast Asia, and the United States, fearing the rising share of inbound shipments in the domestic market. “We have asked the...
Norway-based Tomra Sorting Recycling has announced it will showcase its sensor-based sorting technologies at Aluminium 2018, the world trade fair and conference in Düsseldorf, Germany, Oct. 9-11. Tomra’s exhibition stand will spotlight the company’s X-tractT machine and laser-induced breakdown...
According to the latest Mineral Industry Survey report from US Geological Survey, Domestic primary aluminium production in May 2018 was 73,000 tonnes. The average daily production in May was 2,360 t, unchanged from that in April 2018, and 14% more than that in May 2017. The U.S. aluminum industry...
Indonesia has become one of the most significant downstream aluminium product manufacturing hubs in south-east Asia, mostly catering to the automotive industry and thus, has increased the procurement of aluminium scrap for the use in the downstream industry. Countries like Australia, the USA, and...
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been boasting over the years as one of the major exporters in the aluminium scrap industry while generating a significant amount of revenue. Both its export volume and revenue have been witnessing a year-on-year growth, and 2018 is estimated to be no exception, as...
The Aluminum Association, in cooperation with the Aluminium Association of Canada, reported primary aluminium production in North America (U.S. and Canada) was at an annual rate of 3,683,641 tonnes during June 2018, declining 90,024 tpy (-2.4%) from the May 2018 rate of 3,773,664 tonnes....
Aludium, an integrated, midstream aluminium manufacturer with casting, hot mill, cold mill and finishing capabilities, has recently announced to resume its casthouse at Alicante mill in Spain, which was mothballed for past 10 years. It is now going through an update and expected to come online from...
According to the data found by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, India’s aluminium scrap import grew year on year, while the country’s scrap export, although smaller in volume, stood the same over the past four financial years. In FY2014-15, a total amount of aluminium scrap imported by India...
Metalcorp, one of Europe's leading independent producers of secondary aluminium slabs (recycled aluminium) based at Amsterdam has announced their plan to shift its Amsterdam headquarters to Luxembourg. The company expects to save up to €1 million through the relocation. The move comes as an...
French retailer Leclerc has announced it will be relaunching its cookware recycling programme for the sixth consecutive year. The group says that the initiative has allowed for the recycling of more than 200 tonnes of aluminium since its inception. Each year, more than 6,000 tonnes of cookware are...
China’s aluminium scrap import in June remained at a lower level given the sweeping tariffs and restrictions Chinese aluminium scrap imports. Shanghai Metals Market believes that this downtrend is likely to stay even in the month of July on continued trade disputes between China and the United...
Secondary aluminium industry body Metal Research Association of India (MRAI) urged the Indian government today, July 18, to completely eradicate the 2.5 per cent customs duty on aluminium scrap import. Earlier, MRAI also opposed the Aluminium Association of India’s proposal to levy 10 per cent duty...
Shanghai Metals Market studied that multiple hindrances relating to environmental problems, additional tariffs on aluminium scrap exports to the US, and stern limitations on impurities in scrap imports inevitably led to a drop in Chinese secondary aluminium operation rate for the month of June. The...
Aluminium scrap import by Belgium has increased over the last two years. The trend is expected to continue through 2018.The top exporters of aluminium scrap to Belgium in 2017 were France (76084 tonnes), the Netherlands (61068 tonnes), Germany (53721 tonnes) and UK (44569 tonnes). According to the...
