
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 Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) has released the Non-Ferrous World Mirror for the month of March this year. India reduced the Special Additional Duty on imports of copper , brass and aluminium from 4% to 2%. The announcement was made during the budget presented in Parliament recently....

Indian containerized shredded scrap import prices advanced during last week, while Indian aluminium scrap prices remained flat. According to The Steel Index, containerized shredded scrap prices for Indian imports rose by $4 last week to $290 a ton CFR Nhava Sheva. The modest price rise can be...

Novelis, the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, today announced the first product in a new portfolio of certified high-recycled content aluminum for specialty applications called evercycle™. This new material will enable customers to produce infinitely-recyclable products with a lower...

Hulamin, a South Africa based aluminium products manufacturer has recently announced its plans to build an aluminium recycling plant that would use beverage cans as raw materials and ready to invest ZAR 300 million (US$ 25.4 million) for the same. The Pietermaritzburg-based company has disclosed...

The UK's recycling targets for steel and aluminium packaging have been based on incorrect data, says a new report from the country's Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) and compliance expert Valpak. The study was meant to test the 2012 and 2013 put-on-market figures for the aluminium and...

The U.S. aluminum industry purchased1 an estimated 759 million pounds of aluminum scrap during December 2014, according to aluminum recycling statistics published by the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of Interior, up 7.7 percent over the December 2013 total of 705 million. USGS estimates that...

United Nations Environment Programme states that the average amount of e-waste generated globally amounts to almost 50 million tons and is expected to grow by a whopping 500 percent over the next decade. Surprisingly, only 15-20 percent of the waste is recycled and as a result a lot of it goes to...

Pakistan’s engineering firms have urged the federal tax authority to repeal of the five percent regulatory duty paid on the import of aluminium waste and scrap as it is adversely affecting the local industrial production. In a letter to the Chairman Federal Board of Revenue, Tariq Bajwa, the...

Enval set to start trial runs for the pioneering technology for recycling flexible aluminium laminate packaging to assess the feasibility of the process. Defra (Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs will be funding the trial that will cover 260 households for nine months starting 16...

The recycling targets for steel and aluminium packaging have been based on flawed data according to a report commissioned by Wrap. The report, in conjunction with Valpak, aimed to reassess the accuracy of the 2012 and 2013 aluminium and steel packaging quantity figures placed on the market (POM)....

The overall recycling rate for aluminium beverage cans in the EU 27 + EFTA countries increased by 1.5 percent points to a new record level of 69.5 percent (70 percent) in 2012. When considering the collection of cans in the remaining European countries and Turkey, the result is that the metal of...

The overall recycling rate for aluminium beverage cans in the EU 27 + EFTA countries increased by 1.5% points to a new record level of 69.5% (70%) in 2012. When considering the collection of cans in the remaining European countries and Turkey, the result is that the metal of more than 27.5 billion...

Researchers at Australia's Deakin University have developed a technology 'that should open the way to recycling the bulk of the 200 000 aircraft currently traversing the airways'. The university calculates this breakthrough would see around 6 million tonnes and billions of dollars’ worth of...

The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) today announced that the ordering period opens on Monday, March 16, for the Superfund Recycling Equity Act (SREA) Reasonable Care Compliance Program Reports. Beginning March 16 and running through April 30, ISRI members have an exclusive...

The aviation industry is constantly evolving so that it can design lighter aircraft, reduce consumption and emissions and put in place more efficient recycling systems that allow the valuable materials used to build aircraft to be reused. This is the research context in which the European SENTRY...

The U.S. aluminum industry purchased an estimated 759 million pounds of aluminum scrap during December 2014, according to aluminum recycling statistics published by the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of Interior, up 7.7 percent over the December 2013 total of 705 million. USGS estimates that...

The seaport city of Vancouver in Canada is the chosen city for the ISRI Convention and Expo 2015, by the US Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI). A variety of topics will be covered under the convention offering informative general sessions and workshops on topics like: ferrous,...

Australians demonstrated some clever innovations at the Australian International Airshow conducted last week which included a new way of recycling aluminium. Australia’s boffins demonstrated this country could still lead the way when it comes to aviation research. Deakin University metallurgist...