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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Aluminium scrap imports by China, the world’s biggest aluminium producer, kept surging through the first month of 2018 as the country continues to step up its secondary aluminium production alongside smelter close-downs to check pollution. The figures spiralled up by 11 per cent year-on-year...
Emirates Environmental Group (EEG) which has been playing a significant role in creating environmental and sustainability awareness among local citizens and groups has collected 4,000kg of aluminium cans for recycling. The organisation has set a target of 28,000kg of can collection for 2018....
Mexico’s exports of aluminium scrap, a significant resource to be used as raw material to produce secondary aluminium, represent 1.4% of the total exports. Following an increase in 2016, exports of aluminium scrap from Mexico decreased in 2017. The country is estimated to witness a decrease in...
The Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organization, Alupro-organized Every Can Counts programme has once again come forward to support a cause, which has values similar to its own. The programme has partnered with the female UK-based Trek-Drops professional women’s cycling team for the ongoing 2018...
India transport ministry is close to finalizing the policy to scrap 15 plus-year old vehicles. The policy aimed to curb vehicular pollution in the country will make raw materials for vehicles like aluminium, copper, plastic, and rubber cheaper as secondary aluminium and other materials generated...
Aluminum and magnesium recycling company and secondary aluminium producer Real Alloy closes its Wisconsin facility as part of continuing efforts to improve efficiencies and a follow up of its bankruptcy filing in November 2017. On November 17, 2017, Real Industry and its U.S. subsidiaries have...
Aluminium dross going to landfills or salt cake formed as a byproduct of aluminium recovery from dross and discarded thereafter continues to pose a serious threat to the environment. Although sealed to prevent leaching, potential for salt cake leaching still exists and can harm the environment in...
Derbyshire-based waste management company Ward announced £1 million investment in environmental improvements at its recycling facility in Chesterfield. The company recycles ferrous and non-ferrous metals such as steel, cast iron, cars, stainless steel, aluminium, copper, zinc and lead. The new...
Industrial Magnetics Inc. (IMI), Boyne City, Michigan that designs, engineers and manufactures industrial magnets has published a new tool on its website which is designed to help plant managers calculate potential revenue loss from their existing used beverage can (UBC) recovery lines. The user...
According to aluminium recycling statistics published by the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of Interior; the U.S. aluminium industry purchased an estimated 315,000 tonnes of aluminium scrap during November 2017. This registers a drop of 3.9% from the November 2016 total of 328,000 tonnes. USGS...
India is set to witness a surge in aluminium scrap recovery as Delhi prepares to scrap all old vehicles by the end of 2018. Delhi became the fifth largest passenger vehicle market in 2016, and since then PV sales in the state has been rising sharply. After the recent pollution alert in the capital,...
Aluminium dross, a byproduct of the aluminium smelting process and an unavowed mixture of metallic aluminium, aluminium-oxide and oxides of numerous alloying elements, have been finding its way to landfills for years. It is only recently that the aluminium industry came to realize its significance...
European Aluminium, the voice of the entire aluminium value chain, welcomed two new members this month after adding five new members to its ranks in 2017. In total, the Brussels-based industry association now represents over 85 companies and associations covering more than 600 plants across 30...
China imported 2.17 million tonnes of aluminium scrap in 2017, an increase of 13.27 per cent YoY. The country’s import of aluminium scrap rose 13.73 per cent YoY to 202,374 tonnes in December. Last month, the USA and Thailand were the top exporters of aluminium scrap to China. The USA and Thailand...
According to a HuffPost UK a number of major coffee capsule brands in UK have set up their green agenda to recycle the plastic and aluminium coffee capsules. If not recycled, aluminium coffee pods reportedly take between 150 to 500 years to decompose. That is the reason the major coffee capsule...
Resource recovery firm Axion announced that it is undertaking further research into increasing recycled aluminium content in new vehicles as part of REALITY project led by Jaguar Land Rover. The company will develop techniques for sorting and separating specialist alloys from aluminium derived from...
AlCircle’s new sector focus report- “Aluminium Dross Processing: A global Review” is generating overwhelming response. From leading aluminium smelters, rolled aluminium product manufacturers and recycling companies to market research firms and technical infrastructure providers- everyone is showing...
According to an SMM analysis, aluminium scrap supply will be tight in China in 2018, as the domestic aluminium scrap market continues to be plagued by tight supplies since December 2017. As updated by SMM, average prices for aluminium Zorba scrap stands unchanged at USD 1550 per tonne today. The...
