Europe’s recycled aluminium industry is an important component of the global secondary aluminium supply chain, with Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom (UK) representing key national markets. Production across the European region stood at nearly 6 million tonnes in 2023, supported by established scrap recovery systems, industrial recycling capacity and demand for recycled metal. Russia also contributes to the regional landscape through secondary aluminium production units concentrated in several industrial centres. According to AL Circle’s analysis in its report, “ World Recycled ALuminium Market Analysis Industry Forecast ”, the four countries present different market structures, from Germany’s substantial recycling capacity and Italy’s scrap-based production to the UK’s organised...
According to SMM survey statistics, the operating rate of the secondary aluminium alloy industry in September was 35.0 per cent, up 3.1 percentage points M-o-M but down 6.7 percentage points Y-o-Y. Industry production continued its recovery trend, but the overall operating level remained below the same period last year. On the demand side, September marked the traditional peak consumption season, with downstream orders recovering from August. End-use demand from automobiles and other sectors improved marginally, but the peak season effect has yet to fully materialise. According to CAAM data, automobile production in September was 2.99 million units, up 11.4 per cent M-o-M but down 8.7 per cent Y-o-Y. NEV production was 1.814 million units, up 12.2 per cent Y-o-Y. CAAM noted that China's...
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As a business option, dealing in scrap metal might sound like a drab and a relatively unglamorous enterprise. But not when one considers how close this sector has come to redefining the future of manufacturing the world over. Around 60% of the metal produced in the United States comes from recycled scrap. India, one of the leading importers of scrap, buys 30 lakh tonnes a year from the international market every year. And this figure is set to go up further, according to scrap industry experts, who have gathered for the first time in Gurgaon for the Global Metal and Steel Scrap Summit 2012. Two hundred industry representatives from the UK, the US and the Gulf countries are participating in the two-day event, which was inaugurated here on Monday. "India is a major global market for metal...
One Penn State alumnus has started something quite revolutionary — a company that manufactures and sells bikes made from 100 percent recyclable materials. Bryce Edmonds, a 1990 graduate in English Literature, started the Los Angeles based company “ReCycle” last summer, which uses eco-friendly aluminum to make the bicycles completely in America. “Our brand was born from the realization that it’s possible to make remarkably green rides in what is already the most environmental of transportation options,” said Edmonds. “And then, unlike 99% of the bikes sold here, we chose the harder path and kept our manufacturing at home, rather than the cheaper options abroad.” ReCycle currently has three models: mBula, a cruiser made for beach or city; Mudmaste, an all-terrain ride ready for road or...
Higher recycling targets for plastics, aluminium and steel packaging will be set for January 2013, following an agreement in Parliament to amend packaging waste regulations. The regulations will replace existing packaging recycling legislation, which expires at the end of this year, and set recycling and recovery targets through to 2017. The Draft Producer Responsibility Obligations Regulations 2012 will increase the target for plastic recycling from 32% in 2012 to 57% by 2017. Aluminium's target will increase to 55% in 2017 from 40% in 2012, while that for steel will rise from 71% to 76% by 2017. Glass will have a split target: 63% must come from remelt in 2013, rising to 64% by 2017, with the rest being used in aggregates, to give an overall 81% target. Targets for wood and paper/card...
Austin Resource Recovery in Austin announced that curbside customers can now add the following metal items: • Aluminum baking tins (clean/free of food residue) • Aluminum trays, pie plates (clean/free of food residue) • Clean balled aluminum foil (2 inches or longer) The expanded service comes at no extra cost. The expansion of the city's recycling services comes in pursuit of an ambitious goal: to redirect 90 percent of waste from Austin-area landfills by year 2040. “The contracts that we have recently started up with the Balcones and TDS have allowed us to add a new recyclable item every year. This is our new recyclable item for this year,” said Bob Gedert, Austin Resource Recovery Director. It's believed more people don't recycle because they're unsure of what can and cannot be reused....
The all American Manufactured Made all aluminum 100% recyclable green toy called the Toobee, better known as an annular airfoil was developed by 2 aeronautical engineers over 40 years ago and believe it or not, it is still flying. This product is made from a virgin aluminum beverage can and end with the same precision engineering as a Boeing 737, accept it cost a lot less, weighs a mere 7 grams and is much smaller. It does fly with the same aerodynamic (Bernoulli’s) principle. Greg Stromberg the owner of the Patented and copyrighted Toobee with its own (TAF) Toobee AirForce jokes about this as being the “longest going unknown fad in the world”. He says it has literally been flying under the radar. People who played with these toys 40 years ago are coming back and asking if they can still...
U.S.-based rolled aluminium products group Novelis said on Monday it is building a 200 million euro ($259 million) aluminium recycling plant in Germany. Completion of the plant, in Nachterstedt in Saxony-Anhalt in east Germany is scheduled for 2014, it said. The plant will produce 400,000 tonnes of new aluminium ingots annually using scrap including drinks cans, cables, wires and industrial waste, said Tadeu Nardocci, head of Novelis' European unit. Some 200 new jobs will be created. The metal produced will largely go to the giant Alunorf rolling mill in Germany which produces 1.5 million tonnes of rolled aluminium annually and is jointly owned by Novelis and Hydro Aluminium, part of Norwegian group Norsk Hydro. Novelis remains confident that European aluminium demand will continue to...
Brazil topped all its previous aluminium can recycling efforts by accomplishing a ‘historic’ rate of over 98% in 2011, the Brazilian Aluminium Association (ABAL) and the Brazilian Association of Aluminium Cans of High Recyclability (ABRALATAS) have announced. Ranked number one in the world since 2001 in terms of aluminium can recycling, this latest milestone cements Brazil’s position as the global leader. The nation succeeded in recycling a total of 248 700 tonnes of beverage cans out of the 253 100 tonnes present on the market, the two trade associations have stated. ABAL and ABRALATAS also point to large investments throughout 2011 to keep up with the 7%-plus growth in consumption widely anticipated for 2012. With steady year-on-year demand increases forecast until at least 2025, the...
The Brazilian Aluminum Association and Associação Brasileira dos Fabricantes de Latas de Alta Reciclabilidade – ABRALATAS, the Brazilian Association of Cans of High Recyclability inform that the country has recycled 248.7 thousand tons of aluminum beverage cans of a total of 253.1 thousand tons available in the market in 2011. The aluminum beverage cans recycling rate, therefore, reached 98.3%, keeping Brazil ahead in the world leadership since 2001. According to data provided by both associations, last year 18.4 million packages were recycled and this means 50.4 million a day, or 2.1 million per hour. According to Renault de Freitas Castro, ABRALATAS CEO the beverage can manufacturing industry has been investing continuously to meet the demand: “the industry increased in 2012 its...
In late August, Alcoa Inc. took full control of Evermore Recycling LLC, a company formed nearly three years ago in a joint venture between Alcoa and fellow aluminum recycler Novelis Inc. The split, initiated by Novelis, came as a surprise to Alcoa. "We didn't know that this was going to take place, but as soon as we did we were like, 'Yes, we would love to take over Evermore. We would love to have it completely to ourselves,' " said Kevin Lowery, spokesman for Alcoa's global flat rolled products unit. "What it does is enables us to do things that you're not necessarily able to do together with a partner." More than a month into the split, Alcoa's Evermore was purchasing more used beverage containers (UBCs) at a lower price than it was before the split, Lowery said. He declined to go into...
Many items associated with Thanksgiving dinner, including aluminum products, are now recyclable in the municipalities served by the Morris County Municipal Utilities Authority (MCMUA). “We’re entering an aluminum-intensive season when many of us are doing lots of holiday cooking,” said Penny Jones, recycling education specialist with the MCMUA. “Now, along with aluminum cans, our curbside recycling program is able to accept other cooking-connected aluminum products as well.” These items include clean aluminum roasting pans, aluminum pie plates, aluminum trays and aluminum foil, Jones said. “The key word is clean,” Jones said. “These items must be free of any food residue and should be thoroughly cleaned in hot water with liquid dishwashing detergent so as not to contaminate the aluminum...
As the nation celebrated America Recycles Day, the aluminum beverage can industry announced it had collected and recycled more than 235,100 lbs. of cans, raising nearly $183,830 for local charities across the country, the Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) announced today. The Rexam North American beverage can headquarters office in Chicago won first place in the annual industry competition, with 70,775 lbs. of used aluminum cans (874 per capita), followed by Novelis in LaGrange, Ga., whose employees collected 3,517 lbs. of cans (352 per capita). In third place is Ball Corporation’s plant in Findlay, Ohio, collecting and recycling 36,611 lbs. (101 per capita). Winners are selected from the highest per-capita collection rates based on the number of pounds of aluminum collected per employee...
As part of America Recycles Day, Bud Light is encouraging football fans across the United States to always recycle, whether tailgating before a game or enjoying the action at home. In order to help raise awareness for this important message, the Bud Light Recycling Zone, an interactive traveling display featuring a 21-foot tall football goal post constructed of crushed aluminum cans, is making a special stop in Los Angeles today with TV and film star Damon Wayans, Jr. Wayans will be on-site at the Hollywood and Highland Center today, informing fans about the importance of recycling and challenging them to kick field goals through the aluminum uprights made from crushed cans at the Bud Light Recycling Zone. The goal post is constructed of 102 aluminum bricks weighing approximately 37...
Romanians are currently recycling only 3 percent of their aluminum waste, way below the European average of 70 percent, but the figure it set to increase via new recycling machines installed at large retailers. The country's Environment and Forestry Ministry recently launched a project aiming at improving the collection rate of aluminum cans and PETs. Romania's target for January 2014 is to collect 55 percent of its aluminum cans. Rubbish dumps currently receive 10 tonnes of aluminum cans a year, according to the Ministry. The Ministry has brought new recycling equipment to Romania, which will be located in large shopping centers. People who bring their aluminum cans and plastic bottles there will receive vouchers of 5 bani per item. The vouchers, issued by the retailers, can only be used...
All area residents and merchants: Please save and drop off your used aluminum beverage cans at the Bay Village Fire Department to benefit burned children. These aluminum cans really do a lot of good for fire safety education, and for children who are victims of severe burns. The drop-off bin is available for use 24 hours a day, every day of the year, and is in a brick-and-wood enclosure on the east side of the fire station driveway with a large red sign that reads ALUMINUM CAN RECYCLING. Cans are collected by Aluminum Cans for Burned Children of Northeast Ohio (ACBC), whose mission is to prevent burn injuries through fire education and to impact the physical and emotional rehabilitation of pediatric burn survivors. In 1986 the Northern Ohio Fire Fighters, the Northeast Ohio Fire Chiefs...
South Africa is to follow the global trend of replacing tin-plated steel beverage cans with aluminium-bodied cans, with the first locally produced all-aluminium cans set to hit the market mid-2013. South Africa’s beverage cans, both soft drinks and beer cans, are currently produced with a steel body and aluminium can-ends and tabs. JSE-listed Hulamin, which supplies the aluminium products for can-ends and tabs, last week signed a two-and-a-half year aluminium sheeting supply deal with South Africa’s sole beverage can manufacturer, Bevcan. The Nampak subsidiary is currently converting at least four of its more modern tin-plated steel can production lines to enable production of aluminium cans. Bevcan MD Erik Smuts told Engineering News Online that the conversion was expected to cost...
Brazil has reported its highest aluminium beverage can recycling rate in history with 98.3%. Associação Brasileira do Alumínio (ABAL), the Brazilian Aluminum Association and Associação Brasileira dos Fabricantes de Latas de Alta Reciclabilidade (ABRALATAS) the Brazilian Association of Cans of High Recyclability reported the figures based on 2011 data. The associations said the country has recycled 248.7 thousand tons of aluminium beverage cans out of a total of 253.1 thousand tons available in the market last year. Renault de Freitas Castro, ABRALATAS CEO said: “The industry increased in 2012 its productive capacity in 9.5% going from 21 billion to 23 billion units per year; an expectation of 7% growth in the consumption of cans”. Carlos Roberto de Morais, coordinator of ABAL Recycling...
Recycling rates for alufoil trays and semi-rigid containers across Europe rose above 50 per cent in 2010 (2008: 45 per cent) helped by the industry’s commitment to promote the benefits of resource efficient and sustainable packaging options. Aluminium is endlessly recyclable, which saves up to 95 per cent of energy use compared with its primary production. This message is increasingly recognised by the packaging supply chain, while consumers are showing greater willingness to play their part across Europe. Khosrow Tahmasebi, EAFA’s Container Group Chairman, said: “The alufoil industry actively promotes and shares best practice to support its customers to reduce the environmental footprint of its products. Our primary objective continues to be to increase recycling rates further and in so...
As most families know, this is a very busy time of the year. With Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s, most residents are having a lot of company with dinners and parties going on. With so many activities, in addition to day-to-day events, there will be a lot of drinking soft drinks and yes, even beer consumed. Some foods purchased at grocery stores, as well as dog and cat food, are packaged in aluminum cans which can easily be recycled to earn cash. Not all cans are aluminum, so be sure what you are saving for recycling. A refrigerator magnet will not stick to an aluminum can, so check to be sure. It is always a good idea to rinse the cans so there will be no bugs or insects attracted to the cans. When having a special gathering, another good idea is to provide a large...
