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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Aluminum scrap buyers are still encountering resistance from scrap dealers in securing material, with many sellers now believed to be waiting for London Metal Exchange prices to move closer to $2,200 per tonne. Buyers have reported over the past few months that many dealers have held on to swathes...
Novelis, the overseas subsidiary of aluminium maker Hindalco, is betting big and moving fast on recycled content. The company is targeting to reach 50% of its production through recycled aluminium material, or scrap, by 2015. This will help the company in taking advantage of the price arbitrage...
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has selected rolled aluminium producer, Novelis, as its sole supplier of automotive aluminium sheet products in a multi-year agreement. As part of the company’s sustainable growth strategy, JLR has chosen Novelis to recover all aluminium scrap and create a tight recycling...
Nestlé Nespresso SA, the pioneer and reference of the premium portioned coffee segment, today announced two important developments in its commitment to aluminium sustainability. Firstly the company has reached its 75% capsule recycling capacity objective one year ahead of plan. In addition,...
Shaw Recycling in Bauxite was temporarily shut down by local authorities on Monday and owner Bobby Shaw was issued multiple citations for failing to maintain records of scrap metal sales. The incident is part of an effort to deter criminal activities with scrap metal theft, specifically theft of...
The Global Business and Biodiversity Programme of IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) today presented to its members at the World Conservation Congress, the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) - a unique aluminium value chain initiative that will create the first Responsible...
Aluminum producer Aleris has named Shannon Bennett vice president of communications. Bennett will have responsibility for all internal and external global communications strategy, including brand and reputation management. Shannon was most recently vice president, corporate communications and...
A warehouse worker was injured when he was struck by a fork lift truck carrying aluminium cans. The 43 year old man – who has not been named – was at work for recycling firm Novelis UK Ltd in November 2010. He was walking through a warehouse at the company’s premises in Latchford, Warrington, when...
Bermco Aluminum has idled production capacity at its secondary aluminum smelter, while Imperial Alloys Corp. is coming off a reduced production schedule. Both companies cited tight profit margins caused by a decoupling of scrap purchasing prices and alloy sales tags for their decisions. Birmingham,...
Aluminum producer Alcoa has bought beverage can recycling company Evermore Recycling, which it describes as the world’s biggest purchaser of recycled cans. Alcoa and Novelis previously were partners in the recycling company, but Alcoa took control of Evermore at the end of August. Alcoa’s Evermore...
Japan is increasing exports of scrap aluminum to China as it gets higher prices overseas, market sources said Wednesday. The country exported 47,645 mt of scrap aluminum to China over January to July, up from 39,878 mt a year ago, customs data released last week showed. Japan's total scrap aluminum...
Aluminium can recycler Novelis is to resume purchasing cans from the spot market within weeks, once additional shredding capacity is installed at the front end of its Warrington facility. The 130,000 tonne per annum capacity aluminium can recycling plant is currently only accepting material from...
Coca-Cola revealed today that 10.5 million plastic bottles collected during the Olympics have already been recycled and returned to retail shelves. The 10.5 million bottles collected during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games are now dispersed between 42 million new bottles each containing...
Bahrain-based Taha International Corporation has been awarded a health and safety certification from TUV Nord Middle East. "This important industry certification recognises Taha's commitment to excellence in the GCC region as the new benchmark in aluminium dross management," said managing director...
Novelis Inc., the global leader in rolled aluminum products and aluminum recycling, today announced that President and Chief Executive Officer Phil Martens has been named one of the Top 25 CEOs in the World by the Best Practice Institute. "Phil Martens was chosen as one of the top 25 CEOs in the...
Alcoa and its charitable branch, the Alcoa Foundation, is to invest a sum of US$ 2 million in the new US Action to Accelerate Recycling (AAR) initiative to improve the domestic recycling rate. If landfill diversion targets are achieved, this would result in the avoidance of 850 metric tons of...
Tom Walpole, President of Novelis North America, one of the owners of Logan Aluminum, has announced that Novelis will be holding its Can Recycling Challenge in 2012. Collection of aluminum drinking cans has been going on since October of last year, however, September is the month Logan Aluminum is...
Atlanta-based Novelis, a world-leader in rolled aluminium products, has today announced that it has moved a step closer to achieving its goal of using 80% recycled metals in its production processes. The company's second annual sustainability report shows an increase in the recycled content of its...
