
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...
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The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders announce the 2015 schedule of its free scrap metal recycling events. A wide variety of metal goods, from household appliances to gutters and sheds, are included in the program. "This countywide program helps to fill a service gap in some Union County...

The following article is based on the latest Non-Ferrous Metals World Mirror produced by the BIR world recycling organisation for the benefit of its members. US secondary aluminium prices have slid a further US$ 20-40 per ton as secondaries appear to be holding sufficient scrap and ‘are waiting to...

The city of Barstow will soon receive the promised aluminium remelt and casting house although in a much smaller scale, a city official revealed last week. Last March a megaproject was approved by the City Council, with a manufacturing complex of 3 million square-feet, costing $1.5 billion and the...

To further strengthen its activities in aluminium recycling, Hydro have acquired WMR Recycling GmbH (WMR) in Dormagen, Germany, from Kural GmbH and Kurth Grundstücksverwaltungs UG. Following the transaction, Hydro will own the most advanced aluminium scrap sorting technology in the world. The...

Aleris announced today that it has completed the sale of its Recycling and Specification Alloys businesses to an affiliate of Signature Group Holdings for an aggregate of $500 million in cash and $25 million in Signature preferred stock. The sale, which was announced in October, includes 18...

Over 5,000kg of aluminium cans were collected on Thursday at the yearly nation-wide can collection drive organised by the Emirates Environmental Group (EEG). Participants included more than 200 entities from across the UAE. Government entities, private corporations, academic institutions,...

Aluminium futures edged higher by 0.23% to INR 111 per kg today after speculators enlarged positions amid pick-up in demand at spot markets. Furthermore, a firming trend in metal at the London Metal Exchange (LME) on fall in its inventories supported the upside. At the Multi Commodity Exchange,...

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the United States throws 14.8 million tons of scrap metal into landfills every year. One of the main reasons is the difficulty of large-scale separation of non-ferrous metals. Scientists at the University of Utah now say they have solved that...

On the occasion of the 13th International Aluminium Recycling Congress, the European aluminium industry reaffirmed its ambition for a long-lasting circular economy, expressing high expectations for a new and improved waste proposal from the European Commission later this year. Speaking at the...

HULAMIN based in South Africa’s Pietermaritzburg announced on Monday that they are planning to invest R300 million to construct an aluminium recycling plant that will convert aluminium beverage cans and convert them into raw materials for reuse. Considering that recycling aluminium scarp takes a...

Starting with customs duties paid for inbound scrap, metals recyclers and producers in India say their industry cannot gain momentum or even operate profitably until the government reconsiders its policies. Throughout two days of programming at the 2015 Metal Recycling Association of India (MRAI)...

The Dutch firm ARN Auto Recycling has been awarded the ISO 9001 certification following an audit conducted by the Dutch certifying body KIWA. ARN notes that complying with the internationally recognized standard demonstrates that it has its internal processes and the quality of its management...

A Los Angeles-area recycling business will pay $1.8 million in restitution to the state’s Beverage Container Recycling Program as part of a settlement agreement resulting from illegal claims for refunds on out-of-state bottles and cans. As part of the agreement with the Department of Resources...

When it comes to keeping Cheltenham tidy and helping to save the planet, a group of green-minded enthusiasts say there is a lot you Cando. One of the town’s environmental groups, Vision 21, has collected and recycled a staggering 100kg worth of aluminium cans in the past 12 months. On the basis...

The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) has released an educational video entitled The Shredder Story: A Revolution in Recycling. This thirteen-and-a-half-minute video shows viewers how industrial shredders work and details the impact they have made in the recycling industry. “Scrap...

Each year more vehicles pop up on roads in India and a growing number of them are produced domestically. This trend provided a reason for optimism within the Indian nonferrous metals sector, according to presenters at the 2015 Metal Recycling Association of India (MRAI) International Conference,...

The head of magnetic separation and detection firm Eriez is to deliver a paper at the 15th International Automobile Recycling Congress. President and chief executive Tim Shuttleworth will present Profitability Clearing the Chinese ‘Green Fence’ at the event in Germany. It will focus on Eriez’...

It would seem foolish to predict anything but a fall in Indian scrap prices in line with the global trend in February. According to TSI, market participants are predicting a downward movement of around $10-15 a ton in the immediate future as the scrap industry cannot continue to play second fiddle...