
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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Residents living in South Carlsbad no longer will have to drive to the recycling center on Greene Street or to the convenience station on Lamont Street to drop off their recycling materials. The city has installed two large roll-off recycling containers on the south end of the Walmart parking lot....

European Commission criticism of Malta regarding waste management confirms that the recycling system is failing. If no real action is taken the result will be the construction of more incinerators across the country. The current system used by the private sector to collect waste generated through...

Novelis revealed they are working on a beverage can made of 100% recycled aluminium in their Q1 results conference call and described it as the “ultimate sustainable package.” Evercan is currently under development at their innovation centre which opened in June in Georgia. While discussing the Q1...

The share of aluminum containers that were recycled in the U.S. in 2011 reached the highest point in 14 years, as can makers sought to reduce costs, a group of trade organizations said Monday. Recycled aluminum represented a 65.1% share of reported U.S. shipments of aluminum beverage cans last...

Ireland is proving it really is green at heart with households recycling almost ten per cent more last year compared to 2010. Repak figures released yesterday show 208,000 tonnes of household waste was recovered while the total amount of packaging recycled was 652,000 tonnes — the equivalent of...

Free-market secondary aluminum alloy prices drifted down again Monday, with producers struggling to hold the line on higher quotes as mill-grade scrap tags dropped due to a sustained lull in London Metal Exchange pricing. A319.1 slipped to a range of $1.02 to $1.04 per pound from $1.03 to $1.04...

Aluminum deox producers said they expect spot prices to be largely sideways in September, even as steel mills try to push for prices as much as 3 cents per pound lower than July and August levels. Deox producers told AMM that September prices appeared unlikely to move from a range of 95 to 97 cents...

Guess what is the connection between Soccer World Cup 2014, Olympics 2016 and Hindalco? Well, it is the beer can. Keeping (also) in mind the two major global sporting events in Brazil, Hindalco’s wholly owned subsidiary, Novelis, is creating large capacities in the South American country, products...

The Arab International Aluminium Conference (ARABAL 2012), which will be held in Doha from November 20-22, will discuss the benefits of aluminium recycling, according to Qatalum, the host company. Qatalum said recycling is becoming one of the important industries in terms of global interest and...

Gizmoplans, a leader in do-it-yourself construction plans, has released a new set of blueprints to construct a DIY Can Crusher. Now people who cash in on aluminum cans can make the work of crushing those cans a lot easier by assembling their own electric can crusher. These new can crusher plans...

Global aluminium producer Novelis has reported lower earnings for the first quarter of its 2012/13 fiscal year due to decreased volumes and lower scrap benefits year-on-year. Its EBITDA was $259 million for the quarter up to 30 June down 15 per cent year on year from $306 million reported in the...

THE first company to occupy the enterprise zone at Alconbury Weald looks set to be at the cutting edge of recycling technology. Enval Limited, which was spun off from Cambridge University’s department of chemical engineering six years ago and is currently based in Luton, wants to expand the...

Stocks of aluminum alloy ingot stored at the London Metal Exchange warehouse in Guangyang of South Korea have dropped to 7,820 mt on August 9, down 39.6% from 12,960 mt on July 9, according to recent LME data. The stocks have dropped mainly due to Japanese buying, fueled by the LME aluminum alloy...

Aluminum alloy spot prices gained a further Eur10/mt ($12/mt) in Europe this week on tight summer supply and firm scrap prices. Secondary aluminum plants in France, Italy, Spain, parts of southern Germany and the UK are closed for summer turnarounds, making additional spot tonnes difficult to...

Mary Stumpp has met a lot of people driving "Carmella," a 1993 beat-up, caramel-colored Chevrolet pickup overflowing with garbage bags full of aluminum cans around Broad Ripple and other parts. On her drives, the 51-year-old introduces herself as "The Can Lady," often abruptly pulling to the side...

Following a 2.2 percent decline, Chinese aluminum billet finished as the week’s biggest mover on the weekly Aluminum Chinese aluminum scrap prices were off slightly, down roughly $40 per metric ton from a week ago. Following a 0.2 percent increase in the week prior, the cash price of Chinese...

Nespresso’s new Pixie coffee machine, the smallest of the company’s capsule brewers, is constructed from aluminium recovered from recycled coffee capsules. Nespresso has extensive recycling efforts in Europe for their capsules. In June 2011, Nespresso launched a new capsule recycling service where...

Japan's Nikkei MC Aluminium (NMA) today made an entry into India's Rs 7,500 crore aluminium alloy market in a joint venture with domestic major Century Metal Recycling (CMR). "We will form a joint venture for setting up a plant for manufacturing aluminium alloy, used in automotive sector, at Bawal...