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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Americans generate about 254 million tons of trash and recycle and compost about 87 million tons of this material, which adds up to a 34.3 percent national recycling rate. Recycling and composting prevented the release of approximately 186 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2013, according to...
With the demand for automotive aluminum accelerating in the U.S., Linde LLC is focusing its global expertise in oxyfuel technology on improving both the casthouse processing and heat treating of aluminum and aluminum alloy products. At the Aluminum Show 2015 in Detroit, November 11 and 12, Linde...
The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) Annual Autumn Round-Tables Conference held recently in Prague noted that non-ferrous industry had a very tough year in 2015. The confidence level among industry participants hit lowest level during the year. The industry suffered large due to thin margins...
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) announced Friday last week that it has added iScrap App to its list of affinity programs. This opens the door for ISRI members to access expert advice on marketing their business, profiles on the iScrap App directory, and a discount for its premium...
UC RUSAL, a leading global aluminium producer, has conducted the initial tests of new equipment within the project for melting furnace installation in the casthouse at Sayanogorsk smelter (RUSAL Sayanogorsk). The project investment will total up to USD 10 million. The project, scheduled to be...
New data released by EAFA, the European Aluminium Foil Association, confirms that recycling rates in Europe for alufoil trays and semi-rigid containers in 2013 reached about 55%. The previous reporting period (2010) saw that figure rise above 50% following concerted efforts by the industry to...
The North American aluminum scrap prices declined on ScrapMonster Price Index as on October 28th, Wednesday. 1100 Scrap prices declined by $0.01 per Lb. The prices of 3003 Scrap too fell $0.01 per Lb. A down move of $0.01 per Lb was witnessed in 356 Aluminum Wheels and 6061 Extrusions. Meantime,...
Metalface, an Internet and mobile communication network designed for metals recyclers, says it will go online in late October 2015. Sepp Hermelink of the Netherlands-based company describes Metalface as an “all-in-one business network [that] will enable metal recyclers to find, connect, communicate...
China produces more aluminum than any other country. Secondary production, or producing metal from recycled scrap metal, is the primary opportunity to reduce the country's energy intensity for both of these industries, because secondary production uses significantly less energy than primary...
Although the number of end of life vehicles (ELVs) needing recycling is growing, due to processing limitations aluminium recycling rates are being hindered. A European-funded project - ShredderSort - aims to contribute to new solutions to the aluminium recycling industry. More than 10 million tons...
Roland Scharf-Bergmann, Head of Recycling in Hydro's Primary Metal business, has been elected chairman of the Recycling Division of European Aluminium by the organization’s General Assembly. European Aluminium represents the interests of the entire value chain of the aluminium industry in Europe....
Packaging waste recovery data for the third quarter of 2015 shows that reported aluminium packaging recycling has recorded its highest ever quarterly performance at 23,330 tonnes, according to figures released by the Environment Agency. According to the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation...
India major aluminium scrap commodities prices stayed flat on Thursday, October 16, while aluminium futures prices at India's Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) settled down weighed by large stocks and a surge in Chinese exports this year. The major aluminium scrap commodities dropped on Scrap Register...
Morristown, New Jersey-based Covanta has started up its new metal recycling processing operation in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania. The new facility cleans and sorts metals recovered from a number of Covanta’s energy-from-waste (EfW) facilities in the Northeast. "We are very pleased to get this new...
The North American aluminum scrap prices ended marginally higher on ScrapMonster Price Index as on Monday, October 12th, 2015. 1100 Scrap prices moved higher by $0.03 per Lb. The prices of 3003 Scrap too increased $0.03 per Lb. An up move of $0.03 per Lb was witnessed in 356 Aluminum Wheels....
The Chinese Aluminum scrap prices declined marginally on the Scrap Monster Price Index on October 13th, Tuesday. 6063 Extrusions witnessed a price decline of CNY 100 per MT over the previous day. Aluminum Ingots and Transformers prices declined by CNY 100 per MT each. E.C Aluminum Wire prices...
In the recently ended World Packaging Congress in Mumbai, Marek Kura, managing director of Can-Pack, said the use of RVM i.e. Reverse Vending Machine, currently used by many countries for recycling of metal cans, is yet to take off in India. Can-Pack India is the country’s leading aluminium...
Constellium announced the launch of “Going full circle – The life-cycle of aluminium”- a publication, where it has presented three essentials to make infinite recycling a reality. Constellium believes that players, within and outside the aluminium industry, through better collaboration can foster...
