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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Already at a high level, the recycling of aluminium packaging in Germany reached a new peak in 2012, according to a study from the CVM Society for Packaging Market Research. A total of 83 500 tonnes of the 93 800 tonnes used, or 89%, was recycled in that year. 'The high rates of recycling show that...
China’s aluminium scrap imports stood at 2.5 million tonnes in 2013 and their value was $3.92bn, according to the customs figures. Compared to the 2012 totals of 2.59 million tonnes worth $4.13bn, this is a 3 per cent reduction in the amount of foreign scrap. Imports of aluminium and aluminium...
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) today released its second annual ISRI Scrap Yearbook, providing the most comprehensive information and statistical look at U.S. scrap recycling, as well as more in-depth information about the industry as a whole, how it has evolved and operates and...
The Norwegian project "Modelling-assisted Innovation for the Aluminium DC Casting Process" (MINAC), has developed modelling tools that show the impact of even minute adjustments to the casting process on casthouse products. The aluminium industry is facing three challenges in particular:...
Pennex Aluminum Co. has announced its plans to undergo a $33 million expansion project of Leetonia, Ohio, aluminum extrusion facility. Headquartered in Wellsville, this industrial aluminum scrap recycling company plans to start this project that includes installation of construction of specialized...
The death has been announced of Larry Sax, a familiar presence in international recycling circles over many decades. He was 80. He began his scrap processing and trading career with family business J. Sax & Co. of Chelsea in Massachusetts, USA, and went on to work for several other companies,...
North Lincolnshire Council and Leeds City Council have become the latest local authorities to launch Alupro’s “Leave Your Cap On” recycling communications campaign which encourages recyclers to screw the aluminium caps back on glass bottles before recycling. The new campaigns have seen ‘Leave your...
A book about aluminum recycling and recovery by Dr. Mark E. Schlesinger, professor of metallurgical engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, was recently published by CRC Press. Aluminum Recycling (2nd Ed.) was published in December 2013. The new edition contains updated and...
Girl Scouts of the USA is proud to announce the results of Girl Scouts Forever Green (GSFG), its signature 100th anniversary "Take Action" project targeting waste reduction, energy conservation, and rain gardens. Alcoa Foundation provided a two-year, $1.5 million grant to expand the program...
The U.S. continued its decade-long upward trend of aluminum can recycling in 2012 with a rate of 67 percent, according to data released by the Aluminum Association, Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) and Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI). This is the highest recycling rate since the...
A coalition of businesses in Michigan is driving a major overhaul of the state’s Nonferrous Metal Regulatory Act to make the sale of stolen scrap metal harder to get away with. The major change in the existing law is to expand it to include ferrous metals — iron and steel — in addition to...
A £6,000 aluminium tiger that was part of a Christmas display in the French port of Calais was stolen by thieves and discovered 150 miles away at a Roma gypsy camp in Paris. Weighing 440lb and 8ft long, the tiger was among exotic animals in a display for children. It was taken after only two days...
The aluminum beverage can industry raised $133,695 for local charities by recycling 178,099 lbs. of cans, which equates to more than 5.7 million beverage cans, for the Can Manufacturers Institute’s (CMI) Great American Can RoundUp Industry Challenge. Ball Corporation scored first place in the...
You would have to collect about 3,200 empty aluminum cans to hit California’s new limits on aluminum recycling that kick in on Wednesday. That works out to 100 pounds, give or take a Bud Lite or three. The new limit is a fraction of the old one of 500 pounds of aluminum, glass and plastic per...
The festive period is traditionally the season for giving, but it’s also an opportunity to give something back. Milton Keynes Christian Foundation is helping people recycle aluminium foil packaging and aluminium drinks cans left over from the new year party. Not only will you be helping this...
Worldwide, nearly a thousand major aircraft are due for disposal each year and yet the industry is 'short of procedural methods' for recycling them, according to Prof. Dr Joerg Woidasky of Pforzheim University in Germany. However, 'the field of aircraft recycling is developing very fast at the...
It is said that about 1 tonne of untreated waste and 500 cubic metres of wastewater were discharged daily into the Nam Thanh Commune's Binh Yen Village. Over the past five years, some 269 of 570 households in the village have been engaged into the process of recycling aluminum, mainly from beer...
The 325 tons of aluminium alloy, including part of the fuselage, cannot be moved until all investigations have been concluded. The twisted remains of Pan Am flight 103 lie in a forgotten heap – 25 years after a terrorist bomb sent it crashing into Lockerbie. The 325 tons of aluminium alloy,...
