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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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...
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...
Harsco Corporation has acquired ALTEK Group, a manufacturer and installer of aluminium dross and scrap processing systems, for a purchase price of £45 million (approximately $60 million), plus an additional future consideration, to be paid subject to the future financial performance. Alan Peel,...
As reported by Reuters, China’s April scrap aluminium imports fell by 27.8% from March to 130,000 tonnes, after the country imposed 25% import tariff on aluminium scrap from the United States, its biggest scrap supplier, effective Apr. 2. Data from the General Administrations of Customs showed...
Japan’s leading manufacturer of chemical products and industrial materials, Showa Denko and its group companies and their cooperative companies continued to perform aluminium can recycling activity in fiscal 2017, ended on 31 st of March, 2018, by collecting approximately 4.81 million cans, which...
South Korea, one of the leading aluminium scrap importers in the world, imports aluminium scrap and recycles them for making aluminium alloys. The country’s automotive sector is a major consumer of aluminium products. South Korea imported about 736338 tonnes of aluminium scrap from the global...
After the Council of Ministers has voted for the amended Waste Directives of the Package, European Aluminium has said that Europe now has the proper framework to make the Circular Economy work in the true sense. The 28 EU Member States would now start delivering on reducing landfill of household...
With the growing focus on using sustainable resources and cutting down carbon footprints, recycling of resources have become imperative to the global manufacturing sector. Aluminium being one of the most energy intensive industries, demands more focused R&D on the recycling sector. AlCircle...
According to Shanghai Metal Market, secondary aluminium exports prices in China are likely to surge further in a short period of time as a resultant of month-long operation suspension of China Certification and Inspection Group (CCIC) at North America in May, which would significantly lower the...
Indonesia imported US$156.9 billion worth of goods from around the globe in 2017, an increase of 15.7 per cent year on year. Aluminium scrap import by Indonesia also increased over the last three years. The country is estimated to increase its aluminium scrap import this year. Indonesia’s import of...
According to latest figures from the US Census Bureau and US International Trade Commission, aluminium scrap exports by the U.S. rose in the first three months of this year. Total exports by the U.S. stood at 386, 910 tonnes in Q1 2018, up 9 per cent from the same period previous year. U.S. exports...
China’s domestic aluminium scrap prices are likely to stay high with a small upward room in the short term as supplies with invoices would be further tightened after the authority imposed broad-based inspections on all scrap materials imported from the US from May 4, SMM believes. China’s customs...
According to aluminium recycling statistics published by the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of Interior, the U.S. aluminium industry purchased an estimated 703 million pounds of aluminium scrap during February 2018, down 3.1 per cent from the February 2017 total. USGS estimates that recovery of...
Aluminum imports of ingot, scrap and mill products into the U.S. and Canada (excluding cross-border trade) totalled 362 thousand tonnes in February 2018, up 5 per cent over the February 2017 total of 344 thousand tonnes. U.S. exports of scrap, which is not included in the government’s consumption...
The ISRI 2018 Convention, held in Las Vegas in mid-April and hosted by the Washington-based Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), was attended by more than 5,100 people, mostly from North America, and the event hosted scrap buyers and sellers from around the world, despite global trade...
As per recent export-import data released by General Customs Administration of China, total aluminium scrap imports by the country dropped by 5.59 per cent YoY reaching 176,814 tonnes in March 2018. In January-March period, China’s import of aluminium scrap fell 7.58 per cent year-on year to...
France is one of the top aluminium scrap exporting countries in the world. The country’s aluminium consumption is driven by packaging, building and the automotive sector. These sectors generate substantial amount of scrap every year. France exports about 400,000 tonnes of aluminium scrap. Italy and...
According to Shanghai Metal Market report on April 23, 2018, the secondary aluminium industry is being hit hard by tight raw material supply and sluggish demand following the US-China trade war started in March 2018. Aluminium scrap prices have been staying high since then, due to the lack of...
