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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BHP Billiton has shelved plans to build an aluminium smelter that would have underpinned a hydropower plant known as Inga III in the Democratic Republic of Congo. “Following a review of the project’s economics, BHP Billiton has decided not to continue with its smelter project in the DRC, which was...
Russia: Russian aluminium giant UC RUSAL is aiming to launch a Euro 15 million alumina production waste recycling facility at its Urals Aluminium Smelter in October 2014. With only 10% of this waste currently recycled and the remainder stored in special disposal areas, this represents a major...
The state of California has surpassed its goal of 75 percent for the recycling and redemption of aluminum cans by a huge margin. During the period of Jan. - June 2011, a total of 4,021,390,132 aluminum cans were recycled out of 4,023,599,419 cans sold. That equals an all-time high of 100 percent...
Coalition proposals that aim to exclude composite packaging from data used to calculate obligations on aluminium packaging recycling could encourage much more to be used, stakeholders have warned. Last December, Defra launched its consultation on targets for new packaging recycling from 2013 to...
BUSINESSES including embattled aluminium giant Alcoa are pushing Ted Baillieu to scrap Victoria's pollution reduction target, saying it could undermine the federal carbon scheme and lead to higher costs. Less than two years after the former Brumby government introduced a statewide target to cut...
China's General Administration of Customs released preliminary trade data for January on Friday. According to the data, China’s aluminum scrap imports reached 140,000 tons in January, down by 49.64% compared with last month. This decrease was mainly caused by the Lunar New Year holiday. In 2011,...
International market price is surging for shredder mix metal which is majorly used by Chinese secondary aluminum alloy makers as one of the main materials. North American exporters currently offer CIF USD 1,830 per tonne to USD 1,860 per tonne against major importer of Chinese users which was...
International market price is surging for shredder mix metal which is majorly used by Chinese secondary aluminum alloy makers as one of the main materials. North American exporters currently offer CIF USD 1,830 per tonne to USD 1,860 per tonne against major importer of Chinese users which was...
Russian aluminum giant UC RUSAL plans to launch a 600 million ruble alumina production waste recycling facility at its Urals Aluminum Smelter in October 2014, RUSAL said Thursday. The facility is expected to process up to 200,000 tonnes of red mud annually. The recycling of alumina production waste...
Low metals prices, high costs and the strong Australian dollar are doing to the country's aluminum-smelting industry what a frat boy does to his empty beer can: crushing it. Australia is the world's fourth-largest producer of refined aluminum and the third-largest exporter, according to Deutsche...
Contract negotiations Sunday between Teamsters Local 371 and Nichols Aluminum in Davenport again failed to reach agreement. Negotiations got under way Saturday morning for the first time since a strike began Jan. 20. The 254 members of Local 371 went on strike last month after negotiations with...
Norco residents once again have a place to recycle aluminum cans while helping a good cause, after someone bought the Norco Lions Club a new trailer to replace one that was stolen in December. Proceeds from the recycling are dedicated to the Lions Club's "Cans for Sight" program, which provides eye...
Secondary alloyed aluminum makers around Tokyo agreed with aluminum scrap suppliers to increase the scrap purchase price for H1 of February which is the first increase in around a year. The price increases by averaged JPY 5 per kilogram for high grade scrap and by JPY 3 for lower grade scrap. The...
A Filipino in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) raises funds by recycling aluminum cans to send children in the Philippines to school. A report of the news site Gulf News on Friday said after work, Michael Del Moro Manlogon collects around 300 aluminum cans a day from a food court near...
According to Japan Aluminum Refiners Association, Japanese secondary aluminum and aluminum alloy production decreased by 7% to 759,491 tonnes in 2011 from 2010. The shipment decreased by 7.1% to 765,771 tonnes. The production and shipment decreased for the first time in 2 years when major users...
BIR: The following article is based on the latest Non-Ferrous Metals World Mirror produced by the BIR world recycling organisation for the benefit of its members. Despite on-going concerns over the outcome of the debt crisis in the Euro-zone and over the potential for any new economic setback to...
Alcoa AA +2.16% will be at Super Bowl XLVI this Sunday in Indianapolis, Ind., in more ways than one. The award-winning Lucas Oil Stadium, host site of the Super Bowl football game, features several products made by Alcoa's Kawneer architectural aluminum products business. Alcoa Foundation is also...
According to Japan Aluminum Alloy Refiners Association, Japanese secondary aluminum and aluminum alloy production decreased by 0.3% to 64,910 tonnes in December from a year earlier. The shipment increased by 0.6% to 66,717 tonnes. The production decreased for 2 months in a row but the shipment...
