
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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Global trading house Trafigura AG/Nems (USA) Inc. is considering an entry into the U.S. secondary aluminum market, market sources said. To date, Trafigura’s only known involvement has been as a trader of the London Metal Exchange's North American special aluminum alloy contract (Nasaac), a...

Mill-grade aluminum scrap prices strengthened on May 30, in step with an increase in primary metal on the London Metal Exchange. Prices for 5052 segregated low-copper alloy clips rose to 88 to 90 cents per pound from 87 to 89 cents, 3105 clips increased to 80 to 82 cents per pound from 79 to 81...

Danieli Centro Recycling, based in Buttrio, Italy, a division of Danieli Group, has announced several recent recycling equipment projects. In the recent development, the company announced that it has been awarded a contract to supply three DCR 1822 aluminum shredding recycling lines with downstream...

Novelis Inc., is expanding its Korean operations to meet growing industrial demand for a variety of aluminum sheets. Using its success here as a springboard, it has made inroads into China and Southeast Asia to become an industry leader in rapidly growing areas. Novelis, which is based in Atlanta,...

Some grades of secondary smelters’ aluminum scrap fell on May 28, as market participants said that scrap supply continued to loosen over the past week. Prices for old sheet, which serves as a primary feedstock for the production of aluminum alloy A380.1, fell a penny to 67 to 69 cents per pound...

Indian foundry units are facing a severe threat of losing USD 1.95 billion of exports business to competing countries like China and Taiwan due to the recent levy of import duty on metal scrap - the only raw material for producing critical equipment for the heavy-engineering sector. Effective May...

Intensive use of aluminum in vehicles is growing more than 25% a year, signalling "a gigantic and permanent change" in the automotive industry, spurred on by new regulations on fuel economy and carbon emissions, the chief executive officer of a major aluminum sheet producer said. While aluminum...

Novelis Inc. is adapting its plant in Goettingen, Germany, to meet growing demand for recyclable aluminum automotive sheet. The Goettingen plant will produce 20,000 tonnes of automotive sheet per year following the first phase of its expansion and double that capacity in a planned second phase....

Metal recycling specialist Novelis has completed a £1.7m upgradation of its can recycling plant in Warrington. The global group says the investment will double the facility’s capacity to process contaminated drinks cans, enabling it to meet the growing demand for recycled aluminium. The new...

Alcoa announced that its $21 million Alcoa Wheel and Transportation Products casthouse expansion at its Barberton, Ohio plant is expected to cut in half the total amount of energy used to recycle aluminum for forged wheels, reducing greenhouse gases and increasing the overall efficiency and...

Anheuser-Busch is providing 51,744 cans of emergency drinking water for use by relief workers and residents affected by the tornado in Oklahoma City and its surrounding suburbs. Anheuser-Busch is working with the American Red Cross to get the water where it's most needed. Additionally, the company...

Increased recycling could be the long term solution to managing some of the Cayman Islands’ waste management problems. While many politicians have focused on how to deal with the George Town dump, less has been said about how Mount Trashmore got so big in the first place. The Cayman Islands lags...

Aluminium rolling and recycling company Novelis has announced the opening of a new aluminium recycling and continuous casting line at its Pieve Emanuele facility in Milan, Italy. The €12 million (£10.1 million) expansion marks the company’s ‘largest single investment in Italy in the past decade’...

Novelis Inc, the world's largest producer of rolled aluminum products, reported a quarterly profit on Tuesday, versus a year-earlier loss, boosted by stronger demand and better cost controls. The company, a unit of India's HindalCo Industries Ltd , said it was able to push through unexpected...

The government has imposed 2.5 per cent import duty on aluminium scraps. The measures were taken through two different notifications issued on Wednesday by the Finance Ministry. It did not give reasons for making changes except saying that it is in public interest. "In exercise of the powers...

Novelis Inc. plans to boost research and development staff by 40 percent as the biggest supplier of flat-rolled aluminum products to global carmakers seeks to increase recycled content in products used in cans and vehicles. Personnel including scientists and engineers at its research and...

Repairs from one fire may have led to another at a Chesterfield plant. For the second time in little over a week, fire crews spent hours at the Aleris Aluminum Recycling Plant just south of Willis road near I-95. Nearly 30 people inside got out safely Friday morning. A worker called in the fire...

International recycler Novelis has launched what it has said is the first independently certified, “high-recycled content” aluminium production. The firms can product, aluminium can body sheets guaranteed to contain at least 90% recycled content, is being offered to European and North American...