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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Since the announcement of the new Alreco aluminum processing plant, Tom Harned, the executive director for the Logan Economic Alliance for Development (LEAD) has heard all kinds of positive comments about the county’s newest industry. “People have been very enthusiastic about it,” Harned said....
A SCRAP Metal dealers pressure group has called for an independent audit to determine the price of scrap metal in the country to facilitate fair trade between them and manufacturers. Pressure group chairperson Fabian Chisulo said a committee was instituted recently to look into the price mechanism...
Third graders at Macks Creek Elementary helped reduce the volume of trash in landfills and will have a pizza party to celebrate their award-winning recycling efforts. The third grade classes won a recycling drive against some of their older peers by collecting more than 3,000 lbs. of paper and...
Japanese major secondary aluminium alloy makers including Daiki Aluminium Industry and Nikkei MC Aluminium try to keep the alloy selling price unchanged for December after the shipment from the previous month. The alloy users are likely to offer the price cut by 5 yen per kilogram or more....
You can help the environment by recycling your aluminum cans and help a local Habitat for Humanity chapter at the same time in Lexington. Wise Recycling is donating a portion of its proceeds from each recycled aluminum can to the local Habitat for Humanity chapter. The company wants to raise...
The 11th China Metal Recycling International Forum was hosted in Guangdong recently. Chairman of China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association Chen Quanxun, deputy general manager of Chinalco Ren Xundong attended the meeting. More than 1900 representatives from over 30 countries and 56 enterprises...
JMB reported that aluminum scrap dealers agreed with secondary alloyed aluminum makers for aluminum scrap price for second half of December around Tokyo. The price is flat as the first half and decreases by JPY 2to JPY 3 per kilogram for some items. The scrap price and shipment remains slow toward...
• Steady-state operations in Geelong, with salt slag recycling plant operating to specification and AL80 plant in final commissioning phase • 24-hour operations to commence in January • Significant progress for completion of AL80 customs paperwork, delays unrelated to product performance • US site...
Aluminum used beverage can (UBC) recycling rates reversed course in November, posting a decline after logging slight gains in October. However, the year-to-date total stands at 1.37 billion pounds, up 3.2 percent from the 2010 year-to-date total of 1.33 billion pounds.
Rather than recycling more, Defra is proposing to change the rules covering the recycling of aluminium so that it looks as if it is achieving better performance targets. It is also proposing very modest or no increases in recycling rates on some materials, and floats, then appears to dismiss, the...
Aluminium recyclers have welcomed new tougher packaging recycling targets published by the government last week, and praised plans to reclassify composite packaging containing aluminium in line with other European countries. On Friday, environment secretary Caroline Spelman announced the proposed...
Collection of metals from bottom ash at waste-to-energy plants can make an important contribution to a more resource-efficient Europe. The Packaging Group of the European Aluminium Association (EAA) and the Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants (CEWEP) estimate that, for Europe as a...
An Australian company expects that its planned Logan County facility will reclaim about 25 percent of U.S. aluminum manufacturing waste that’s now going to landfills. Simon Wells, executive director of MHM Metals, which will do business under the name Alreco, said production at the old ITW building...
Building materials such as DecoWood timber look aluminium products, available from Decorative Imaging are highly sustainable, according to findings from a recent global research by the International Aluminium Institute. The research into the sustainability of aluminium reveals that while the life...
The US-headquartered Aluminum Association has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Aluminium Association of India which aims to boost recycling of the metal. The associations agreed to cooperate to improve recycling by exchanging information on reuse programmes in transportation,...
IF you are offering to invest millions of dollars and provide some jobs in the US at the moment, the Americans are happy to roll out the red carpet. Which is why Aussie company MHM Metals managed to get a standing ovation from Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear and a brace of officials this week after...
Global: With China, Brazil and India becoming growth centres for aluminium-based products, the demand for primary aluminium is set to reach 75 million tonnes by 2020, according the International Aluminium Institute. Production of primary aluminium reached 40 million tonnes last year; around 10...
MHM Metals has chosen to locate its new manufacturing operation in Russellville, company officials, community leaders, Governor Steve Beshear said today. The company, which will do business under the name Alreco, plans to purchase the former ITW building, which will result in 30 new jobs and a more...
