
Commodity price volatility continues to create a significant commercial challenge for aluminium recyclers, affecting inventory valuation, purchase decisions, sales commitments and margins. As businesses navigate increasingly dynamic metal markets, understanding how to identify and manage price...
A WBCSD study says advanced sorting technology is available, but stronger demand for grade-specific secondary aluminium is needed to unlock investment. Technology for sorting mixed aluminium scrap has advanced significantly, but weak domestic markets for some recovered grades are limiting...
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Futures: SHFE aluminium 2601 night session closed at RMB 22,120 per tonne, down 0.11per cent, fluctuating rangebound overall. MA5 (22,117) and MA10 (22,113.50) formed short-term support, with the price currently above the moving average system; however, MACD (DIF 2.1396, DEA 1.3982) red bars...

According to SMM survey statistics, the operating rate of the secondary aluminium industry in November 2025 rose 2.3 percentage points M-o-M to 46.3per cent, up 2.7 percentage points Y-o-Y. The drivers for the increase in the operating rate in November included: 1. Seasonal production recovery: The...

Futures: SHFE aluminium 2601 closed at RMB 22,165 per tonne in the night session, down 0.23 per cent. Technically, moving averages formed a bullish alignment but flattened in the short term, with MA5 (22,165) and MA10 (22,163) converging above MA30 (22,158.67) and MA60 (22,154.25), indicating...

Hydro has received prominent recognition at the Dezeen Awards in London, securing both “Material Innovation of the Year” and “Sustainability Project of the Year” for its progress in aluminium recycling. Hydro’s Hydro CIRCAL 100R, made solely from post-consumer aluminium through advanced recycling,...

While the newly published Economic Security Doctrine and the RESourceEU Action Plan confirm the central role of recycling and secondary raw materials in securing Europe’s industrial future, BIR cautions that several measures risk undermining the very resilience and competitiveness the EU seeks to...

Futures: The most-traded cast aluminium alloy 2602 contract opened higher overnight, hitting a high of RMB 21,200 per tonne before pulling back, then fluctuated upward and closed at RMB 21,175 per tonne, up 0.5per cent from the previous close. It has shown an upward trend with fluctuations...

The European Aluminium Foil Association (EAFA) is joining hands with Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE) to set up a European alliance aimed at one particular objective. This objective is to boost the recycling efficiency for small aluminium packaging, like coffee capsules. With this partnership and...

Futures: During the night session on December 3, the most-traded SHFE aluminium contract 2601 opened at RMB 21,935 per tonne, reached a high of RMB 22,055 per tonne, touched a low of RMB 21,930 per tonne, and finally closed at RMB 22,010 per tonne, up RMB 70 per tonne or 0.32 per cent from the...

Fed rate cut expectations boost global prices. Year-end holidays are expected to slow trade down. India's imported aluminium scrap prices saw an uptrend w-o-w, following an increase in the London Metal Exchange (LME) price levels. BigMint assessed UAE-origin Tense scrap at USD1,925 per tonne, up by...

RUSAL, a global leader in aluminium production, has advanced to the second phase in the production of a batch of rolling slabs with a record-low carbon footprint. The figure came to less than 3t CO2/t of aluminium (Full Scope), which is the company’s lowest ever recorded within its ongoing...

Alused company has received the approval for building an enterprise in Nevinnomyssk, a city located in Stavropol Territory, Southern Russia. The aluminium recycling plant built with a capacity of 2 thousand tonnes of processing per annum, would be specially focusing on the aluminium recycling....

Nation’s largest non-ferrous scrap recycler processes 600,000 tonnes of scrap annually and boosts value, purity and sustainability with STEINERT technology . CMR Green, India’s largest non-ferrous scrap recycler, strengthens its role as a global premium supplier by combining large-scale recycling...

Aluminium scrap has quietly become one of the most protected raw materials in the world specially in United States and the European Union — not through restrictions, but through deliberate exemptions. Washington has carved scrap out of Section 232 tariffs even as it tightened duties on primary...

Futures: During the night session on December 1, the most-traded SHFE aluminium 2601 contract opened at RMB 21,870 per tonne, reached a highest price of RMB 21,940 per tonne, a lowest price of RMB 21,820 per tonne, and finally closed at RMB 21,885 per tonne, up 0.09 per cent. From a technical...

Instead of recycling, millions of worn-out coffee capsules and other minuscule aluminium items are deemed to pose crucial environmental challenges. Loss of these aluminium items mainly happens when they undergo the conventional sorting systems, which then ends up in the waste. For this, a new...

A refreshed version of the T7, with the Portable SSD T7 Resurrected, as introduced by Samsung, widens the firm’s sustainable approach whilst maintaining the same performance as the previous model. The body of the new drive is made of 100 per cent recycled aluminium, which is certified by TUV...

Futures: On Friday night, the most-traded cast aluminium alloy 2601 contract opened at RMB 20,615 per tonne, fluctuated between RMB 20,535-20,865 per tonne, and finally closed at RMB 20,715 per tonne, up RMB 120 per tonne or 0.58 per cent from the previous trading day. In the KDJ indicator, the...

ABx Group’s subsidiary ALCORE has secured full funding to go ahead with its hydrogen fluoride pilot plant in Tasmania. The plant, planned for the ALCORE Technology Centre beside Rio Tinto’s aluminium smelter in Bell Bay, will demonstrate a process to extract hydrogen fluoride from the by-products...