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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The Tibet Autonomous Region located in south-west China is preparing for its first resource recycling facility, which is due to start up at the end of June in the capital Lhasa. An estimated US$ 4.1 million in total is being invested in the project to process around 200 000 tons per annum of...
InventHelp, America’s largest invention submission company, announces that one of its clients, an inventor from Indiana, has designed an air-powered tool that could flatten aluminum or metal cans. This invention is patented. “Aluminum or Metal Can Smasher” would compact cans so that they would take...
Vice President for Environment, Health and Safety Charles Johnson testified before the House of Representative's Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy. The Association's testimony was related to the discussion draft bill entitled "The Increasing Manufacturing...
Gulf Extrusions, one of the largest aluminum extrusion plants in the Gulf region, has announced that it has recently been awarded a contract by an institution in Saudi Arabia to supply 800 tons of X-ECO recycled aluminium alloys. The company has become the first extrusions firm in the GCC region to...
Novelis, a producer of rolled aluminium and the largest recycler of aluminium beverage cans, has opened its new Global Research & Technology Center outside of Atlanta, Georgia. The company said that the 160,000 square foot (14,860 square metre) facility serves as the global hub its research and...
Alumisel, a metals recovery company, is in the process of constructing what it calls ‘the biggest and most modern metal recycling plant’ in the Galicia region of Spain. The new $US7M plant, which opens in September, adjoins the company’s existing facilities at O Porrino and will contain some of the...
Landsvirkjun and Geothermal Metal Recycling (GMR) announced on Monday June 25 that the two companies have agreed on terms for a new power purchase agreement (PPA). Under this new contract, Landsvirkjun will provide clean, renewable energy to power a steel and scrap metal recycling plant at the...
MHM Metals has inked its fourth U.S. contract for the supply of feedstock to the company’s planned salt cake and black dross recycling facility in Russellville, Kentucky. The supply contract is an important milestone and a precursor to completing financing of the company’s first U.S. aluminium...
Working in partnership with Sefton Borough Council, Palm Recycling joined forces with Alupro's 'MetalMatters' Campaign - an industry-funded recycling programme aimed at helping local authorities and their waste management partners to boost recycling rates by encouraging more households to recycle...
According to the CEO of aluminium giant Novelis, Phil Martens, the company is preparing to start production of a line of fully-recycled aluminium cans in roughly the next two years. The 100%-recycled beverage can will be manufactured with a single-alloy design rather than with separate alloys for...
Alupro has also confirmed that the country achieved 2011 recycling rate of 60% for drinks cans, which represents an increase of more than 6% compared to 2010, which is despite continued growth in drinks can sale and an increase in the amount of aluminium packaging on the market. Alupro executive...
Spanish metals recovery company Alumisel is building a €5.5M metal recycling plant in Galicia, Spain. It said the new facility is the first of its kind in Spain and includes an authomatised line for metal classification. The new plant will be located in O Porriño, an extension of the company’s...
Aluminum recycling continues to expand as it saves so much energy and money. But a new MIT analysis finds that this expansion could run into problems unless measures are taken to reduce impurities that can build up as aluminum is recycled over and over again: everything from paint and labels on...
Aluminium packaging recycling rates rose by more than 4% last year, the biggest increase reported so far. According to the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro), the overall recycling rates for aluminium packaging and drinks cans in 2011 was 45%. The figures are based on PRN data from...
Novelis, the world's leading producer of rolled aluminum and largest recycler of aluminum beverage cans, today officially opened its new Global Research & Technology Center outside of Atlanta, Ga. The 160,000-square-foot facility serves as the global hub of the company's extensive research and...
Garey Rittenhouse, PSC Metals’ VP of Non-Ferrous Trading has put up a presentation on aluminum scrap prices at the Harbor Aluminum Outlook conference. “Dependency between ferrous and non-ferrous scrap is very real,” Rittenhouse said, pointing out that when ferrous scrap markets see price...
Bloomberg quoted Mr Gerardo Solorio an analyst at Harbor Intelligence said China demand for scrap aluminum will continue to outpace domestic supply, keeping the global market for the metal tight and supporting prices. He said that supply tightness is being exacerbated by growth in the North...
The winners of the 2012 Cans for Cash(TM) City Recycling Challenge were announced yesterday by the United States Conference of Mayors and Novelis Inc., the global leader in rolled aluminum products and aluminum can recycling. Established in 2004, Cans for Cash(TM) is a national contest that rewards...
