Europe’s recycled aluminium industry is an important component of the global secondary aluminium supply chain, with Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom (UK) representing key national markets. Production across the European region stood at nearly 6 million tonnes in 2023, supported by established scrap recovery systems, industrial recycling capacity and demand for recycled metal. Russia also contributes to the regional landscape through secondary aluminium production units concentrated in several industrial centres. According to AL Circle’s analysis in its report, “ World Recycled ALuminium Market Analysis Industry Forecast ”, the four countries present different market structures, from Germany’s substantial recycling capacity and Italy’s scrap-based production to the UK’s organised...
According to SMM survey statistics, the operating rate of the secondary aluminium alloy industry in September was 35.0 per cent, up 3.1 percentage points M-o-M but down 6.7 percentage points Y-o-Y. Industry production continued its recovery trend, but the overall operating level remained below the same period last year. On the demand side, September marked the traditional peak consumption season, with downstream orders recovering from August. End-use demand from automobiles and other sectors improved marginally, but the peak season effect has yet to fully materialise. According to CAAM data, automobile production in September was 2.99 million units, up 11.4 per cent M-o-M but down 8.7 per cent Y-o-Y. NEV production was 1.814 million units, up 12.2 per cent Y-o-Y. CAAM noted that China's...
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Germany’s Scholz Group has continued the process of streamlining its portfolio by selling its aluminium recycling business ScholzAlu Stockach GmbH, which is based at Stockach on Lake Constance. All of the shares have been purchased by investors advised by Orlando Management AG. Employing 160 people, ScholzAlu Stockach produces cast and wrought alloys from scrap aluminium and treats salt slag from secondary aluminium production. ‘The parties to the completed transaction have agreed to keep the financial details confidential,’ it has been announced in a statement. With offices in Munich, Zurich and Stockholm, Orlando Management AG advises institutional and private investors on investments in enterprises.
Alro, the largest aluminium producer in Continental Europe (excluding Russia and Scandinavia) has an investment program of over USD 53 million, for 2016, focused on increasing energy and equipment efficiency and on expanding portfolio, increasing competitiveness and product quality. The general manager of Alro, Gheorghe Dobra, said: “Alro has a constant strategy for reducing energy consumption, in order to preserve the operational efficiency on a highly competitive international market.” “The investments we have made, both in equipment and in research and development have enabled us to achieve one of the highest levels of energy efficiency in the aluminium industry.” The investment program for 2016 includes the increase of scrap processing capacity of Eco Cast House, such as to reach a...
Luton Borough Council in the UK is encouraging residents to recycle more of the estimated 94 million aluminium cans, aerosols, aluminium foil trays and wrapping foil used in Luton every year. The ‘Make your Metals Matter’ campaign, jointly funded by MetalMatters, an industry partnership comprising the UK’s leading producers, users and recyclers of metal packaging, and Luton Borough Council, will run throughout June and highlight how used metal packaging such as aluminium cans or tin cans, aluminium foils, can be transformed into new, valuable items when collected with recycling. According to the campaign, if all the metal packaging used in Luton each year was collected for recycling, it would save around 2,548 tonnes of carbon dioxide – equivalent to taking over 542 cars off local streets...
Indian Railways is finally going green. Giving a major boost to PM Narendra Modi’s ‘Swachh Bharat’ scheme, Indian Railways has put up a ‘Swachh Bharat Recycle Machine’, which is a bottle/aluminium can recycling machine at the Churchgate railway station in Mumbai. With this initiative used plastic water bottles and aluminium beverage cans on tracks may become a thing of the past. “The first machine, which is as big as a refrigerator, was set up at the Churchgate station on World Environment Day on June 5. We plan to put such machines at 10 stations namely Mumbai Central, Dadar, Bandra (local), Bandra terminus, Santacruz, Andheri, Goregaon, Borivali and Bhayandar,” Mukul Jain, Western Railways Divisional Railway Manager told FE Online. The Recycle Machine will only accept bottles/aluminium...
MetalX LLC, Waterloo, Indiana, has announced that auto and aluminium industry veteran Kevin Moore has joined the company, effective immediately. As a senior marketing executive, Moore will be focused on managing aluminium trading activities for scrap and refined products, hedging and risk management, scrap agency and industrial management programs and corporate strategic planning. Moore also will continue to provide a full range of consulting services to companies in the metals and mining sector, as his All Raw Material Consulting business will also become a part of the MetalX portfolio of services, according to the firm. Moore’s background includes having spent 30 years at General Motors (GM). His career was originally focused on aluminium casting operations and procurement and at GM...
Boyne Smelters Limited has reviewed its can recycling program and is proud to be able to say 'yes, we can' continue to be Australia's largest aluminium can recycling facility. Following the 2014 closure of Australia's main aluminium recycling plant in Yennora, New South Wales, most of the country's aluminium cans were being sent overseas for processing. BSL's people saw an opportunity to add value to Australian resources in Gladstone so commenced the trial of processing cans at BSL, which led to the smelter recycling around 13 million aluminium cans a month. Aside from the benefits of reducing landfill waste, recycling aluminium uses only around 5% of the energy of primary aluminium production. This means less greenhouse gas emissions are produced and aluminium is made much more...
A new report released today by the Aluminum Association and the Can Manufacturers Institute finds that aluminum beverage cans remain the best choice for environmentally-minded consumers. According to the new report -- “The Aluminum Can Advantage: Key Sustainability Performance Indicators 2016” -- consumers recycle aluminum beverage cans at rates 13 – 24 points higher than glass or plastic (PET) bottles. The high value of recycled aluminum material effectively subsidizes municipal recycling programs nationwide. “Everyday, millions of Americans enjoy beverages out of lightweight, portable and highly recyclable aluminum cans,” said Heidi Brock, President & CEO of the Aluminum Association. “When it comes to sustainability, only one beverage container delivers unrivaled benefit—the aluminum...
Hydro’s aluminium recycling plant in Luxembourg hosted royalty, government officials, and business leaders on June 1 when it unveiled an extensive upgrade with production and environmental benefits. (Plant manager Ludovic Dardinier (right) explains the different scrap sources. EVP and head of Primary Metal, Hilde Merete Aasheim (left) and head of Hydro’s remelters, Roland Scharf-Bergmann). Hilde Merete Aasheim, Head of Primary Metal, Roland Scharf-Bergmann, Head of Recycling, and Clervaux Managing Director Ludovic Dardinier hosted the ceremony. His Royal Highness le Grand-Duc Héritier of Luxembourg and Prime Minister Xavier Bettel were invited. The €15 million upgrade has two key features: it allows the plant to take in more post-consumed aluminium scrap and increase output to more than...
The current “Own Your Rubbish” art exhibition at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in the capital attests to the astonishing work evolving from degenerated objects. A number of artifacts were displayed using remelted aluminium scrap. An exquisite “Symbolic Installation Walkway” which is a brainchild of Laurie Macpherson representing the main rubbish categories at home and globally stands tall and peacefully in the main entrance of the Gallery with an aluminium frame, elegant suspended decorations of cut-offs from bottoms of plastic bottles of your soft drinks, several wine bottles of colour rising to the dome in an arc constructional section, beautiful colourful ceiling decorated with full sized soft drink plastic bottles and VHS video cassette ribbons, cut and flattened soda cans and...
The North American Aluminum scrap prices remained unchanged on ScrapMonster Price Index as on May 30th, Monday. 1100 Scrap prices remained flat over the day. The prices of 3003 Scrap too were flat at $0.59 per Lb. The prices of 356 Aluminum Wheels and 6063 Extrusions/Fe too were unchanged. The prices of 6063 Extrusions held steady over the day. Meantime, prices of 5052 Scrap and 6061 Extrusions remained flat at $0.55 per Lb and $0.54 per Lb respectively. The prices of Al/Cu Radiators and Al/Cu Radiators/Fe remained flat. Aluminum Radiators and Aluminum Radiators/Fe prices held steady. Aluminum Transformers and Breakage 50% Recovery prices remained unchanged on 30th May. Chrome Wheels and E.C Aluminum Wire prices remained flat over the day. Litho Sheets and MLC Clips remained flat at $0.58...
The Aluminum Association publishes the most recent release of the U.S. Geological Survey‘s Aluminum Mineral Industry Survey. Data provided below was included in the May 4th release (February data): New can stock (class) scrap receipts totalled 54.8 million pounds during April 2016, a rise of four-tenths of one percent over the April 2015 total of 54.6 million pounds. Compared to the previous month, class scrap receipts decreased 10.9 percent from the March 2016 total of 61.6 million pounds. Year-to-date class scrap receipts through April 2016 totalled 227.1 million pounds, up 2.7 percent over the 2015 year-to-date total of 221.2 million pounds. Secondary Aluminium Recovery Up 0.9 percent YTD in February 2016 The U.S. aluminium industry purchased an estimated 746 million pounds of...
The Chinese Aluminium scrap prices increased marginally on the Scrap Monster Price Index on May 20th, Friday. 6063 Extrusions witnessed a rise of CNY 100 per MT over the previous day. Aluminium Radiators and Transformers prices too were up by CNY 50 per MT each over the previous day. E.C Aluminium Wire prices jumped higher by CNY 150 per MT to touch CNY 12,450 per MT. Old Cast prices increased by CNY 150 per MT. The prices of Aluminium Radiators and Old Sheet witnessed rise of CNY 50 per MT and CNY 150 per MT respectively. UBC and Zorba 90 per cent INF prices too were up by CNY 100 per MT each.
A range of free communication resources to help local authorities in the UK encourage residents to recycle aluminium packaging throughout the year has been further extended by Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro). The materials, which include advertisement templates, animated banners and press materials, are available permanently via the media library on the Alupro website. Alupro explained that the resources can be used to support seasonal campaigns reminding residents to recycle their Valentine’s Day chocolate and Easter egg wrappers, summer picnic packaging and Christmas party food. For the summer months new resources have been added linking recycling to major national and international events including the Euro 2016 football tournament and later in the summer, the...
Ready with a new scrapping policy that will provide incentives for surrendering old polluting vehicles, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari today said it will boost the automobile industry turnover over four-times to INR 20 lakh crore in the next five years. More so, the policy will also sow the seeds for a much-awaited, structured metal recycling industry in India, which will hopefully improve the metal recycling rate in this fast emerging economy. The draft of the much-awaited policy is ready and would be put in public domain within a week to seek views of the stakeholders and general public, the Road Transport and Highways Minister said. "We will put the vehicle scrapping policy on website within a week to seek suggestions and based on that we will seek Finance Ministry's approval. Once...
The material flow of recycled metal commodities in the United States has been documented in a series of reports published by the U.S. Geological Survey. USGS’s 2014 Minerals Yearbook for recycling lists the recycling statistics for selected metals in US. In 2014, the United States recycled 64.7 million metric tons (Mt) of selected metals, an amount equivalent to about 50 Percent of the apparent supply of those metals. By gross quantity, the United States exported 19.9 Mt of scrap metals and imported 6.28 Mt of these same metals. United States recycled 3.6 million metric tons (Mt) of aluminium in 2014. By gross quantity, the United States exported 1.7 Mt of aluminium scrap and imported 0.5 Mt of this same metal in 2014. According to USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2016, aluminium...
An initiative to encourage people to recycle will launch on June 6 in Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa. The project will be launched with the introduction of a recycling machine that rewards donors of recyclable bottles and aluminium cans. Mfundo Mkhize‚ project manager for Emvelo iRecycyle‚ said the first machine for collecting recyclyable aluminium cans and bottles will be unveiled at the Department of Environmental Affairs in Pretoria. Four other machines will be installed at the University of Pretoria‚ Wits University‚ Vaal University of Technology and University of Johannesburg. The machines are about the size of a vending machine and host a portal where an individual creates a personalised ID that needs to be entered when one deposits recyclable bottles or...
The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) Non-Ferrous Metals Division has announced three guest speakers who will address “the main parameters that are currently determining the market dynamics for nonferrous metal scrap” at the BIR’s World Recycling Convention in Berlin on May 31, 2016. The Non-Ferrous Division meeting will feature presentations from the three speakers followed by “an open exchange [discussion] that promises to touch on some key issues affecting the recycling industry,” according to the BIR. The three guest speakers are: • Oscar Wehtje, head of product development at the London Metal Exchange (LME), whose presentation will offer a look at “current parameters for demand and supply of copper and aluminium,” says BIR; • Eugen Weinberg, managing director - head of...
A campaign launched late last year to encourage children in the greater Dublin to seek out used tea lights for recycling and to let their creativity shine with a recycling-themed colouring competition was a huge success, according to organisers Alupro Ireland. The competition, which ran until the end of January 2016, in conjunction with IKEA, WEEE and co-financed by EAFA, the European Aluminium Foil Association, attracted 1,600 very colourful competition entries. Representatives from the winning school, Hedgestown National School in Lusk, plus the age category winners attended a special ceremony at IKEA in Dublin to collect their prizes. EAFA’s executive director Guido Aufdemkamp also attended to see the entries and congratulate the winners. Both Alupro Ireland manager Karen Mahon and...
