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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US aluminum sheet maker Novelis remains on track to reach 80% recycled content by 2020 despite a persistently tight scrap scenario, Marco Palmieri, president of Novelis North America, said in an interview late Wednesday. Palmieri, formerly president of Novelis South America, was named as head of...
Latest figures from industry recycling programme, MetalMatters, show that it has successfully delivered sustained increases in the volumes of metal packaging collected at the kerbside long after the initial communications campaign intervention period. Analysis of recycling collections by two of the...
Swansea Council has made £1 million from selling its recycling. An answer to a question put to cabinet members ahead of council meeting next week revealed that the authority recycled nearly 6,000 tonnes of glass, over 7,500 tonnes of paper, and more than 1,100 tonnes of scrap metal and aluminium...
European secondary aluminium ingot prices stayed flat on Friday October 18, with activity slowing ahead of negotiations over 2014 supply contracts. “It’s still a little early to sign 2014 contracts, but that will happen in the next two or three weeks,” a producer in north Europe said. DIN226...
Large scrap dealers in the UK have started offering material to customers that they had been holding back in the hope of pushing up prices, sources said on Wednesday October 16. “Some people have been sitting on scrap, and it’s slowly but surely hitting them that it will get worse before it gets...
Many secondary aluminium producers in China’s Hebei province have been ordered to shut after the government issued air pollution control initiatives scheme in September, Shanghai Metals Market has learned. Small-to-medium producers of cast aluminium alloy in Baoding city and Tianjin municipality,...
Aluminium remelters that have curtailed capacity due to razor-thin margins are on the brink of bringing that capacity back into operation, and whether they do so will have a strong impact on aluminium supply and premiums next year. “When we analyse the supply side, we see significant remelting...
Leading aluminum recycler, Novelis, is celebrating the opening of a $200-million auto finishing line expansion to its aluminum rolling operations in Oswego, N.Y. On October 24, 2013, the facility will open to meet a growing demand from the automotive industry for lighter, more sustainable...
Studio Swine puts waste aluminium to use in São Paulo with their project Can City. Alexander Groves, who set up Studio Swine with Azusa Murakami, says, “Can City was looking into the way waste is collected and recycled in São Paulo. It is the capital of aluminium, recycling more aluminium than...
German manufacturers Siemens, unveiled their concept for how the next tube in the future might look. The Inspiro train, which could potentially be manufactured in Britain, weighs a third less than most trains running in the UK today. Following on from the Inspiro that was launched two years ago for...
A number of new recycling boxes are to be put in place across London and the south east to help businesses recycle more aluminium and steel cans. It has been reported that the drinks can recycling programme, Every Can Counts, has teamed up with waste management company, Greenaway Waste Management,...
The European Non-Ferrous and Ferrous Metals industry is selected for developing and testing product environmental footprint category rules for metal sheets. The experts in life cycle assessment and sustainability from the aluminium, copper, lead, steel and mining sectors is now looking forward to...
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) joins in the nationwide celebration of National Manufacturing Day by highlighting the many positive economic contributions of the industry to the U.S. manufacturing landscape. Each year, more than 135 million metric tons of metal, paper, plastic,...
Aluminium scrap prices in Europe stayed flat on Friday October 4 even after falling in the UK market over the past two weeks, and secondary aluminium producer margins remain under pressure. “There have been some small reductions in scrap prices but nothing significant,” a producer said. UK scrap...
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) commended California Governor Jerry Brown for recognizing the need for more enforcement of the state’s current metals theft laws before additional laws that could harm the industry are added to the books. While vetoing California Assembly Bill 841,...
The European Aluminium Association (EAA) has appointed Magdalena Garczynska as the Director of its new Recycling Department. This new position will strengthen the expertise of EAA on an industry segment that is a cornerstone of the aluminium industry’s sustainability. ?“The appointment of Magdalena...
UK aluminium scrap prices are under significant downward pressure as unfavourable exchange rate movements have rendered most non-European export markets uncompetitive, while low London Metal Exchange prices continue to provide further impetus on the downside. “The LME continues to drift, and the...
Sue Knaup of One Street, a US bicycle advocacy org, has created a robust shift lever & is seeking $10,000 on Kickstarter Sue Knaup, executive director of bicycle advocacy organisation One Street of Arizona, is seeking crowdfunding support on Kickstarter.com for her robust, repairable shift lever. A...
