
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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European aluminium scrap prices fell on Friday March 7, as producers continued to source their requirements with little difficulty, despite increased demand for secondary aluminium ingots for the second quarter. "Scrap prices are resistant to falls, but scrap dealers have to sell eventually so...

New can stock (class) scrap receipts totaled 59.9 million pounds during January 2014, a decrease of 14.3 percent from the January 2013 total of 69.9 million pounds. Compared to the previous month, class scrap receipts rose 7.0 percent over the December 2013 total of 55.9 million pounds. Class scrap...

The city of Chicago’s Zoning Board of Appeals has voted in favor of a special-use permit that will allow Pure Metal Recycling to go forward with the installation of an auto shredder in the Pilsen area of the city. The board approved the permit in a unanimous 3-0 vote. The board has five members,...

Owego, N.Y based Upstate Shredding, has announced the acquisition of Brant Auto Parts’ assets. Brant Auto Parts, located in Irving, N.Y. was founded in the year 2003, has been serving Hamburg, Buffalo and Dunkirk, N.Y. and also the surrounding areas for a period of more than ten years. The company...

There’s much more to the use of aluminium in the latest Jaguar Range Rover than just minimising body-in-white mass. And, of course, it shouldn’t be forgotten that Jaguar Land Rover pioneered the use of aluminium as far back as 1948 with the original Defender built from aluminium recycled from war...

UAE’s parks, private institutions, public organizations, schools, municipalities, and families were working hard on the morning of the 27th of February as residents from all over the nation took part in this movement of depositing their aluminum cans in a joint, symbolic effort to give back to our...

The PRN ( Packaging Recovery Note ) system for aluminium is “malfunctioning”, the industry’s packaging body has said. Provisional packaging data for 2013 showed the sector met its target by recovering 70,788 tonnes of aluminium, up 7,928 tonnes on 2012, the Aluminium Packaging Recycling...

Following Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, “Recycling Electronics: A Common Sense Solution for Enhancing Government Efficiency and Protecting Our Environment”, the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) praised Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-DE) and the...

The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) today cautioned against unintended consequences limiting the recycling and refurbishment of cell phones if the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act (H.R. 1123), passed last night in the House of Representatives, becomes law. While...

Kaiser Aluminum Corporation and Boeing announced they have formed a closed-loop scrap recycling program that is expected to involve approximately 22 million pounds of aluminum during the 2014-2015 production period. "The recycling agreement illustrates our collaborative relationship with Boeing,"...

Novelis, the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, was honored today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a winner of its Climate Leadership Award for exemplary leadership in reducing carbon pollution and addressing climate change. Presented by the EPA, in collaboration...

Hulamin said the turnover of the group was helped by the improved performance from extrusions and depreciation of the rand. But the group faced potential supply ructions after BHP Billiton began consultations with their employees in its Aluminium SA business in January on halting of aluminium...

The close down of the last aluminium recycling plant in NSW is a great blow for sustainability and jobs, as the plant has the capacity to save 95% of the total energy used for manufacturing aluminium, the environmental experts says. Alcoa has announced the closure of the aluminium plant in Yennora,...

The North American Aluminum scrap prices rebounded on ScrapMonster Price Index as on February 18th , Tuesday. 1100 Scrap prices moved higher by $0.01 per Lb. The prices of 3003 Scrap too increased $0.01 per Lb. An up move of $0.01 per Lb was witnessed in 356 Aluminum Wheels, 5052 Scrap, 6061...

Last year saw a sharp drop in aluminium recycling on Curaçao but a significant improvement for plastics, according to the island’s recycling and environmental organisation Green Force. Only 266 175 aluminium cans were collected compared to 390 000 in 2012 whereas more than 44 tonnes of plastics was...

Students and faculty at Wilcox Elementary are turning aluminum into gold. Throughout the year the school collects aluminum beverage cans for “The Great American Can Roundup,” a national recycling competition sponsored by the Can Manufacturer’s Institute. Not only does the competition build friendly...

During 2011-2012, the European Aluminium Association (EAA) was actively involved in a significant study at two different Italian incinerators to better understand the behaviour of several aluminum packaging items as they move through the incinerator. These tests were initiated by the Italian...

Metal Bulletin’s UK secondary aluminium ingot prices fell sharply on Wednesday February 12, after spot business was reported substantially lower than the contract deals to which activity has been mostly confined this year. LM24 pressure diecasting ingot fell to £1,420-1,480 ($2,333-2,432) per tonne...