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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The city of Houston is resuming its curbside recycling program in November that was suspended more than two months. The city's Solid Waste Management Department announced the resumption will commence starting November 13. The recyclable materials include paper, cardboard, clean food cartons,...
According to a new study by Resource Recycling Systems (RRS) that was commissioned by the Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI), Beverage Can Makers Europe (BCME) and Abralatas in Brazil, aluminium beverage cans are the most recycled drinks package in the world. The study drew the conclusion using...
India is one of the world’s fastest growing secondary aluminium markets. With vehicle demand growth showing great potential, recycled aluminium consumption is pegged at 8-10 per cent per year. In the recently ended Bureau of International Recycling Non-Ferrous Metals Division convention in New...
ALTEK has successfully installed a large capacity salt slag recycling plant, ALUSALT, as a demonstration unit, in Northern Europe at an aluminium recycling operation, where it is currently in the final stages of commissioning and optimisation, a press release from the company has confirmed. The...
Recycling can be used as a way to tackle the environmental impact of waste, which is one of the main concerns today. The automotive industry is the biggest sources from where aluminium scrap is generated. The companies have been developing new technologies to increase the recycling rate for years....
According to a September report, Real Industry Inc., Sherman Oaks, California made an announcement that its subsidiary Real Alloy Holding Inc. would restart its used beverage container (UBC) recycling operation at its Morgantown, Kentucky, facility, which was idled since December 2015. However, the...
According to a Shanghai Metals Market report, 2018 onward, Chinese traders will lose their qualifications to purchase aluminium scrap from international market as import agents. Both the aluminium scrap recycler and the consignee must be the same as per domestic consignee certificate, and the...
Sweden, the 26th largest exporter in the world, exported $135 billion worth of goods in 2016. The country’s exports of aluminium scrap have increased during the last two years. Germany and China are the top importers of aluminium scrap from Sweden. China imported 9950 tonnes of aluminium scrap...
Casepak, one of the UK’s leading recycling and waste management companies, has secured a contract to process up to 64,000 tonnes per annum of dry mixed recyclables. The dry recycling stream includes paper, cardboard, plastic, glass, metal and aluminium cans and drinks cartons. The company will...
The government has plannned to introduce a deposit return scheme (DRS) for drinks bottles and aluminium cans in England. The report shows that the scheme would create savings for local government. Allison Ogden-Newton, chief executive of Keep Britain Tidy, one of the members of the consortium,...
According to aluminium recycling statistics published by the U.S. Geological Survey and Department of Interior, the U.S. aluminium industry purchased an estimated 732 million pounds of aluminium scrap during July 2017, slightly up from the July 2016 total of 725 million. USGS estimates that...
During this year's Global Sustainable Aviation Summit in Geneva on 3-4 October, participants in a panel on aircraft recycling highlighted the potential need for more decommissioning or recycling facilities to handle rising retirements of aircrafts. Tim Zemanovic, president of US recycling plant Jet...
Aluminium recycling company Novelis recently published its 2017 sustainability report. The report showed that the company has increased use of recycled-content inputs in FY17 from 53 per cent to 55 per cent year-over-year – two years ahead of target. The company also reduced water usage and...
Fortress Recycling and Resource Management on the Heathcote Industrial Estate, which recycles aluminium cans paper, cardboard and glass, has obtained a £100,000 grant in order to minimize carbon emissions. The company received investment from the Coventry and Warwickshire Green Business Programme...
Triandria Lodge is continuing the tradition of recycling aluminium cans at the Morgan Township garage. Triandria is currently looking for public donations toward the purchase of a generator and to maintain its aging facility which would require an estimated expense of $10,500. The Ashtabula County...
Hurricane Irma which has left behind heaps of twisted metal and busted appliances has indirectly caused an increase in aluminium scrap intake in the scrap yards in Lee County. Mountains of metal debris are pouring in every day in the local scrap yards. All Scrap Recycling is one of the few scrap...
The Philippines is the 39th largest export economy in the world. The country exported US$56.3 billion worth of goods in 2016. The top export destination of the Philippines is China. The Philippines exported 12,907 tonnes of aluminium scrap in August and 47,786 tonnes during the first eight months...
On the occasion of its annual aluminium packaging seminar held this year in Rotterdam (the Netherlands), European Aluminium calls for realistic but ambitious aluminium packaging recycling targets. Following the largely positive outcome of the vote of the European Parliament earlier this year and...
