The European Commission has delayed its planned measures on aluminium scrap exports, replacing the earlier proposal for export duties with restrictions on waste shipments to non-OECD countries. European Aluminium said the change has added to discomfort across the aluminium industry, which has been...
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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New research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has shown that while aluminium has long been the poster child of recycling, problems may arise unless measures are taken to reduce impurities that can build up as aluminium is recycled over and over again. According to the Institute,...
In a national recycling campaign, school children across Norway have collected 11 million used tea light cups made of aluminium. The campaign has been started by WWF in collaboration with IKEA and Hydro and they invited first to fourth grade students from throughout the country to collect the...
Allentown is among several cities across the country competing in a contest for recycling aluminum can beverages. The winning city could receive up to $50,000 from the U.S. Conference of Mayors through the Cans for Cash Challenge, according to the city. "We have a fantastic recycling program in the...
"Most of our ingots are destined to the export trade: The German automotive companies buy aluminium and use it for their auto components. Recycling is an industrial and manufacturing process both downstream - recovery, sorting and processing at the foundries where new material is produced - and...
WWF and IKEA, in cooperation with Hydro, invited students from first to fourth grade across the country to gather the greatest number of the aluminium tea light cups. The campaign started in October 2011 and ends Saturday, March 31. The results are impressive. "The level of environmental engagement...
Novelis bills itself as the world's largest producer of rolled aluminum and the leader in beverage can recycling. It employs 11,000 people in 11 countries, and its customers include big names such as Coca-Cola and Anheuser-Busch. But here in Atlanta, where it is headquartered, the company is...
A recent analysis by the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) in the USA warns that the recycling of aluminium could become a stumbling block for the industry if no steps are taken to reduce impurities that build up as it is repeatedly recycled. Aluminium engine blocks, in particular, are...
Numerous projects across the globe have attempted to recycle and refine impure aluminium but have not been very successful. For over a decade, scientists at SINTEF have been working on their new apparatus to recycle and refine impure aluminium. They will however know the results by this May 2012. A...
RESOURCES giant Rio Tinto's decision to scrap plans for a $US2 billion ($A1.92 billion) aluminium smelter in Malaysia has been blamed in part on China over-supplying the market. While Rio blamed the move on problems with agreeing on power supply terms, analysts also cited China's policy of...
Rio Tinto , the world's largest miner and Cahya Mata Sarawak have scrapped plans for a $2 billion aluminium smelter project in Malaysia's Borneo island as power supply terms could not be finalised, CMS said in on Tuesday. CMS, a financial and construction conglomerate based in Malaysia's Borneo...
Downtown Akron is getting a new recycling program, and an Akron youth group will be collecting aluminum cans in a national contest in the month of April. Those were the two green or environmentally friendly announcements made by Akron Mayor Don Plusquellic on Monday. The city is working with the...
UC RUSAL announced that the development of a new red mud recycling prototype facility is included to the Russian Ministry of Education and Science's Russian Science and Technology Complex Priority Research and Development Areas 2007 to 2013 program. The Ministry will invest RUB 150 million for the...
When it opened officially in June 2008, Molten Aluminum Producer Canada (MAPCAN) was to be on the environmental vanguard, a "state-of-the-art, energy efficient 'Green' molten aluminum facility" utilizing "100 per cent recycled aluminum." At the time it was described as "the first Honda supplier in...
Lexington is participating in the 2012 Cans for Cash City Recycling Challenge, a nationwide contest that challenges U.S. cities to recycle the most aluminum beverage cans through March 31. To participate, recycle cans by: using the blue residential Rosie recycling carts (to request a Rosie if city...
When you drink a cold beverage from an aluminum can, you don't just satisfy your thirst. You also hold the potential and the challenge of recycling right there in your hand. Nearly 60 percent of aluminum beverage cans get recycled, more than double the recycling rate for any other beverage...
Garmco plans to triple output and build region’s largest recycling plant Bahrain-based aluminium producer Gulf Aluminium Rolling Company (Garmco) plans to triple its production capacity over the next 10 years and build the Middle East’s largest aluminium recycling plant. Garmco is targeting a...
Aluminum has long been the poster child of recycling. About half of all aluminum used in the United States is now recycled, and this recycling has clear and dramatic benefits: Pound for pound, it takes anywhere from nine to 18 times as much energy to produce aluminum from raw ore as from recycled...
Japan's rolling mills are considering the possibility of using non-Good Western grade aluminum to cut purchase costs, local market sources said Tuesday. The suggestion to diversify aluminum supply sources to non-Good Western grades, including brands not registered on the London Metal Exchange, came...
