
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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The Co-operators has announced extended support for funding the Arctic Co-operatives Limited aluminum recycling program in Nunavut. The additional contribution of $26,000 will allow Arctic Co-operatives to expand and improve the program, which operates in 23 communities in the territory. The new...

Nestlé, Walmart Chile, Coca-Cola Chile, PepsiCo, and Unilever have signed a partnership to reduce waste and support a new recycling network in Chile. The companies have backed the Collective Recycling Project, which aims to recycle about 1,200 metric tons of waste per year through the installation...

Manufacturing plants are getting brighter and cleaner. A Japanese-based company is adding to this trend with aluminum frames for workstations and factory shelving. SUS Corp. has designed workstations and assembly shelving that is light, clean, and, ultimately, recyclable. The GreenFrame structural...

Prices for most grades of secondary aluminium smelters’ scrap fell on December 2, precipitated by lower demand from mills and weakening terminal markets, according to industry sources. Several sellers said they had seen reduced demand from most domestic consumers over the past week. “What I am...

Greg Stromberg, Founder of Toobee International, an all American toy manufacturer, has a mission and is counting on this Cyber Monday sale to help him save even more children’s lives in developing countries. The all-American Manufactured Made all aluminum 100% recyclable green toy called the...

It is found just about everywhere and is commonly found in items that we as consumers use on a daily basis. We're talking about aluminium. Its strength, flexibility and exceptional lightness make it the perfect material for use in manufacturing of items where these features are necessary and of...

China’s secondary aluminum producers have seen falling profitability this year given slipping prices and rising production costs, as well as fiercer competition. China’s secondary aluminum output dropped 3% year-on-year to about 3.5 million tonnes during the first three quarters, latest data...

ALCOHOL and soft-drink companies have been aggressively lobbying state MPs against a cash-for-cans scheme as NSW and Victoria consider joining forces to introduce their own joint recycling project. NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell and other MPs confirmed the beverage industry – including Lion, Carlton &...

The South African government has clarified how it calculates the price preference on aluminium scrap to the local market under a newly-implemented scrap export policy in an amendment notice, published in the Government Gazette, on November 15. The notice stated that the calculation of the price...

Students using the libraries at LaBrae schools will have more new technology to use due to a fundraising effort that helped the district win 25 free iPads. Bascom Elementary Principal Wally Carpenter said at a recent assembly for grades kindergarten to fifth that because the school district...

The building-efficiency focus often gets put on office buildings. Hey, it makes sense: This green push comes with lots of dazzling design work that’s fun to look at. But industrial plants also represent an opportunity to reap energy savings, and the Obama administration is highlighting progress...

Recycling of used Norwegian drink cans will soon be even more environmentally friendly. The recycling process is moving from France to Hydro in Holmestrand. Norwegians are world champions in returning cans for recycling, and close to half a billion beer and soda cans will be collected and recycled...

Heritage Federal Credit Union awarded cheques to the 2013 CANS for CASH contest winners at the Keep Evansville Beautiful headquarters on Friday, November 15th, 2013. The CANS for CASH program (sponsored by Heritage Federal Credit Union, Alcoa Warrick Operations, and Keep Evansville Beautiful) ran...

With its water jets that cleanly restore aluminum signs that would otherwise require a lot of carbon to reuse, Prineville’s Northwest Sign Recycling has become one of Oregon’s most innovative companies. Northwest Sign Recycling hydrostrips aluminum road signs, using jets of water — some 37,000...

UK aluminium scrap prices fell on Wednesday November 20, as much of the market seemed to shut up shop ahead of the year-end, and aluminium ingot business remains confined to previously contracted deals. “It’s as if people have written off the rest of the year,” one ingot producer said. “There are...

The Great American Can RoundUp Industry Challenge, sponsored by the Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI), has named Rexam Beverage Can North America as the 2012-2013 competition winner. This year, the aluminium can industry collected and recycled 178,000 pounds of beverage cans, raising more than...

Novelis, a global producer of rolled aluminum and recycler of beverage cans, has been implementing a wide range of corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs over the years to promote the importance of recycling. Each year, the company organizes a summer camp for elementary school students to...

Covanta Tartech, a joint venture between Covanta Energy Corporation and Germany-based Tartech eco industries, has started up its metals recovery and recycling system at an ash monofill in Massachusetts, USA. The Peabody facility is expected to recover 'thousands of tonnes of metal' deposited in the...