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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Aluminium is likely to stage a come back in demand as well as price only in the end of 2013. This outlook was conveyed during the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) World Recycling Convention, held in Shanghai in late May Aluminium markets are in the midst of significant upheaval. Aluminium is...
Japanese rolling mills and extruders are buying more primary aluminum ingot instead of scrap due to the fall in London Metal Exchange high-grade aluminum prices, market sources said Thursday. Sales prices of primary aluminum ingot in Japan were heard at around Yen 200 ($2.04)/kg ex-warehouse for...
Aluminium Association has come up with its future policies in response to US President’s recent climate change plan. The aluminum industry is aggressively working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. According to Mr. Heidi Biggs Brock, President of the Aluminum Association, “The Industry has...
SMM survey found that A356 alloy output at surveyed producers in June fell 2,000 mt from May due to mainly production cuts at some producers. The operating rate was also down 1.04% MoM to 55.70%. On the supply side, some aluminum smelters in Zhejiang and Henan cut production and some others...
Australia based metal recycling company Sims Metal Management has taken an initiative to collect aluminum cans to benefit this year’s American Cancer Society Relay for Life of Duneland. The company will collect aluminium cans through July 12. Sims will pay the prevailing rate for aluminum scrap and...
Alupro (Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation) has welcomed the opportunity to comment on Defra’s Review of Producer Responsibility Schemes, supporting in general its objectives. However, it has highlighted a number of areas of concern and seeks further discussion and clarification. In...
The price of Chinese aluminum scrap fell 2.8 percent on Friday, June 21, making it the day’s biggest mover. The price of Chinese aluminum billet dropped by 1.7 percent after holding steady. The cash price of Chinese aluminum weakened by 1.1 percent. The price of Chinese aluminum bar continues...
Operating profit has risen at Cheshire recycling company Novelis as the company completes a rationalisation program of its factories. Four years ago, Warrington-based Novelis UK announced a plan to shut its site in South Wales and in 2011 it agreed to deal with Discovery Foils to sell its base in...
Alcoa Inc. and Boeing Co.announced Wednesday at the Paris Air Show that they will be teaming up to form a closed-loop program aimed at significantly increasing the recycling of internal aluminum aerospace alloys used in the production of Boeing airplanes. Alcoa said the program will entail...
The fee buyers pay to obtain aluminum in the U.S. climbed to a record amid longer waits for warehouse supplies and reduced availability of scrap metal, Harbor Intelligence said. The so-called Midwest premium is 12 cents to 13 cents a pound, an all-time high, according to Harbor Intelligence, an...
Russian AK5M2 aluminum alloy offers were holding at $2,000-2,040/mt CFR Japan Friday, flat day on day, despite falling US scrap prices and lower London Metal Exchange aluminum prices, Japanese buyers said. AK5M2 alloy, or melted scrap aluminum, is used as feedstock for ADC12 secondary aluminum...
European secondary aluminium ingot notched up higher prices on Friday June 14, as producers secured higher prices even as London Metal Exchange aluminium prices faltered during the last week. Earlier, DIN226 pressure diecasting ingot prices increased to €1,740-1,780 ($2,778-2,838) per tonne from...
Government “meddling” in the form of bans and other restrictions on nonferrous scrap exports reflected the influence of consumers “who falsely believe that scrap processed within their borders by us is inherently theirs to consume, regardless of its origin,” BIR Nonferrous Metals Division President...
Novelis on Wednesday celebrated the roofing of its $250 million aluminum recycling and casting center at its plant in Nachterstedt, Germany, with building construction partner Köster GmbH. Located adjacent to the company’s existing aluminum rolling mill, the new center will produce up to 400,000...
Wells Fargo Capital Finance, part of Wells Fargo & Company, announced it acted as left lead arranger, book manager, and administrative agent on a $1 billion, multi-currency, senior secured revolving credit facility for Novelis, Inc. The credit facility refinanced Novelis’ existing credit facility,...
The German recycling company ALBA Group, based in Cologne, has agreed to expand its recycling business partnership with China’s Jiangsu Miracle Logistics System Engineering Co. Ltd. The expansion was commemorated with a signing ceremony meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the new...
Showa Denko K.K. and its Group companies continued to perform their aluminum can recycling activities in fiscal 2012, collecting approximately 5.69 million cans: equivalent to around 92 tons of aluminum when converted at the rate of 16.2 grams of aluminum per can. Showa Aluminum Can Corporation, a...
METEF organizes tenth edition of ITA – METEF/FOUNDEQ/METALRICICLO at Veronafiere, Italy, from 11 to 13 June 2014. The three day event is dedicated to the aluminium and innovative metals production chain. METEF will present opportunities for visibility and business at Veronafiere, one of the top...
