
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 U.S. aluminum industry purchased an estimated 714 million pounds of aluminum scrap during February 2014, according to aluminum recycling statistics published by the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of Interior, down eight-tenths of one percent from the February 2013 total of 719 million. USGS...

During its 2014 convention and exposition, the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) elected four new national officers, three directors-at-large, and one associate director to its board, all of whom will serve two-year terms ending in 2016. Among those elected is Doug Kramer of Kramer...

Sims Recycling Solutions (SRS), an electronics reuse and recycling firm with Americas headquarters in West Chicago, Ill., has confirmed the expansion of its contract with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Disposition Services department. In North America SRS, which is owned by Sims Metal...

Hydro will build a new, integrated recycling line for used aluminium beverage cans at its Neuss plant in Germany. The line will be completed by end 2015, and increase the plant's existing annual recycling capacity of 50,000 tonnes to more than 100,000 tonnes. In addition to more than doubling the...

Ye Chiu Metal Recycling (China) Ltd.’s total profit fell 45.24% in the year 2013 from the last year as the prices of lower aluminium cut its gross margins. The largest producer of secondary aluminium in Asia made a total profit of 89.96 mn yuan ($15 million) per share in 2012, the company said...

US-based aluminium rolled and extruded product giant Aleris is 'formally evaluating the potential sale of its recycling and specification alloys businesses'. Chairman and ceo Steve Demetriou comments in a statement: 'While the businesses remain steady and profitable with excellent long-term growth...

Cans for Kids are inviting the public to join them celebrate Earth Day with snacks, fun and recycling on Saturday, April 26. Proceeds of the sold recycled cans will help purchase medical equipment for Makarios III Children’s Hospital. The general public are invited to collect their aluminium cans...

Kandiyohi County Recycling Center has recently started operation on the newly installed massive aluminum can baler. Weighing nearly 800 pounds, each bale was made up about 26,400 crushed aluminum cans that had been brought to the recycling center in Willmar. During Earth Day celebration— and...

Antrim Borough Council, as part of the arc21 waste management group, has made it even easier for you to recycle as you no longer have to remove caps and lids before taking glass to any of the recycling points throughout the Borough. The metal caps and lids on glass bottles and jars are 100%...

British aluminum recycler Alutrade is suing Aleris International for allegedly failing to pay for more than 2.3 million lbs of used beverage containers (UBCs), bottle tops and whole cans early last year, according to documents filed on April 15 in a US District Court in Ohio. Alutrade is seeking...

UK aluminium scrap prices rose among the pure grades on Wednesday April 16, as scrap markets started to tighten and the recent increase in London Metal Exchange aluminium prices found support. "The LME has gone up and is holding, so we'll see what happens to prices now," a secondary aluminium ingot...

Beachwood-based aluminum product maker Aleris Corp. said it is “formally evaluating the potential sale” of its Recycling and Specification Alloys businesses. "While the businesses remain steady and profitable with excellent long-term growth potential, we are always reviewing our operations to...

The industry-funded MetalMatters recycling communications campaign has received backing from Environment Secretary Owen Paterson. As it launched new campaigns in Lewisham, Shropshire and Glasgow, Owen Paterson, who is also MP for North Shropshire, gave his support to the launch of the campaign in...

When Ford announced earlier this year that its new F-150 would employ aluminum for the majority of it’s construction, speculation that insurance, repair, and manufacturing costs would increase began to circulate almost immediately. We investigated the first two concerns at the time, finding them to...

Novelis, the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, today announced at the 2014 Craft Brewers Conference in Denver that Red Hare Brewing Company will launch the world's first commercial use of evercan™, the company's independently certified high-recycled content aluminum sheet for beverage...

The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI) and JASON Learning today presented awards to students in a nationwide contest to spread the word about cell phone recycling. Students in grades K-12 were asked to either design a poster or make a video to raise people’s awareness that cell...

The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), the Voice of the Recycling Industry™, will host its 2014 Convention and Exposition April 6-10 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. This annual event has become the largest convention of its kind, bringing together nearly 6,000 scrap...

According to an SMM report, the North American aluminum scrap prices saw decent upward move across the board on 2nd April, Wednesday.( ScrapMonster Price Index) 1100 Scrap prices increased by $0.01 per Lb. The prices of 3003 Scrap too saw a hike of $0.01 per Lb. An increase of $0.01 per Lb was...