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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Metalcorp Group B.V., one of the leading manufacturers of secondary aluminium ingots in Europe, has planned to make investments in a second continuous casting line and a homogenisation plant at BAGR Berliner Aluminiumwerk GmbH. BAGR Berliner Aluminiumwerk GmbH specializes in producing rolling slabs...
Japan, a major exporter of aluminium scrap and automotive grade aluminium alloy scrap to the entire of South East Asia, exports considerable amount of aluminium scrap every year. Aluminium scrap export from Japan to South Korea increased in 2017. Aluminium scrap export from Japan to South Korea...
The recycling rate for aluminium drinks cans continues to increase year on year, hitting 72% in 2017 (up from 70% in 2016), whilst the national recycling rate for all aluminium packaging reached 51% (up from 50% in 2016). According to packaging waste recovery data, recently released by the...
Saudi Arabia’s export of aluminium scrap has been on an uptrend from past several years. The country emerged as the major market for scrap metal recycling. Aluminium scrap represents 6.1 per cent of the total exports of Saudi Arabia. Most of the aluminium scraps generated in Saudi Arabia are from...
According to a recently published report by AlCircle on Aluminium Dross Processing , the aluminium industry comprising primary, recycled and downstream sectors generated approximately 3 million tonnes of dross in 2017. Near 50% of the total dross generated still finds its way to land fill. The Asia...
On April 2, the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China issued a announcing that the 25 per cent tariff on aluminium scrap imported from the United States would take effect immediately. China immediately imposed tariffs on all 128 products, citing public comments expressing support...
As a retaliatory move to the US tariffs on imported aluminium and steel, China has revived its aluminium scrap policy and imposed 25 per cent tariffs on imported aluminium scraps. This has already created mayhem among the countries who export aluminium scraps to China, including the United Kingdom....
As a retaliatory move against the US aluminium and steel imports tariffs, China has taken the US aluminium scrap industry on storm and created mayhem by officially slapping a blanket of 25 per cent tariff on aluminium scraps imported from the Unites States, effective on and from Monday April 2,...
The cross-European drinks can recycling awareness programme Every Can Counts has been diligently promoting aluminium can recycling in collaboration with major events around Europe. Next they will be present in the Amstel Gold Race on 13 April in Valkenburg, the Netherlands to promote ‘Recycle Race’...
According to aluminium recycling statistics published by the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of Interior; the U.S. aluminium industry purchased an estimated 318,875 tonnes of aluminium scrap during January 2018, up from the December 2017 total of 315,280 tonnes while down 2.8 per cent from the...
Aluminium scrap imports by China, the world’s biggest aluminium producer, dropped YoY through the first two months of 2018 as the secondary aluminium production took a back sit due to environmental restrictions during winter heating season. As per recent export-import data released by General...
Malaysians will soon be the first to earn gold by recycling their plastic bottles and aluminium cans. Southeast Asian fintech firm HelloGold and Malaysia’s reverse-vending machine (RVM) company KLEAN are implementing a recycling scheme that offers Malaysians 0.00059 grams of investment-grade gold...
China has started retaliating against the tariffs imposed by the U.S. on Chinese steel and aluminium products. The China’s Ministry of Commerce has proposed to levy a 25% tariff on aluminium scrap imports from the US in order to offset the losses brought by the newly announced US tariffs. 30% of...
The Goods and Services Tax (GST), even after being introduced eight months ago, is still stirring a storm among businessmen from all industries, including aluminium. A high rate of the tax, with no provision for refund, has been persistently threatening to demote the aluminium recycling industry, a...
Emirates Global Aluminium, the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside oil and gas, today announced that it recycled over 96 thousand tonnes of waste in 2017, up from over 77 thousand tonnes in 2016. Today is the first Global Recycling Day, which is being marked worldwide to...
The demand for secondary aluminium is increasing significantly due to the growing requirements of lighter vehicles. The demand for this product will continue to grow in the coming years. Italy exports substantial amount of aluminium scrap every year. Looking at the previous year, the country’s...
Recycled aluminium alloy producers from across the United States formed the Aluminum Recyclers Council (ARC) in January 2018, a press release from the newly formed organization confirms. The Council was formed in order to have a unified voice for these key industry participants in dramatically...
According to aluminium recycling statistics published by the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of Interior, the U.S. aluminium industry purchased an estimated 315,280 tonnes of aluminium scrap during December 2017, essentially unchanged from the December 2016 total. USGS estimates that recovery of...
