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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TEWKESBURY’S Learning Disabilities Service has appealed for local people to recycle all their aluminium foil and drinks cans this Christmas by dropping them in to the offices in Station Road. The service provides a range of activities for adults with learning disabilities to experience and the...
Atlanta-based Novelis Inc, part of the Aditya Birla group’s Hindalco Industries, Asia’s largest integrated aluminium and copper producer, has raised debt of $225 million (Rs 1,170 crore) to complete the purchase of its Korean subsidiary. It will pay $125 million (Rs 650 crore) cash to seal the...
For the first time, today's print edition of The National comes to you on recycled paper. As the UAE strives to improve its record in recycling, we are proud to make a move in the right direction. But this one step reveals the length of the journey the country is still only starting: the recycled...
Atlanta-based Novelis, the world's leading producer of rolled aluminum and the global leader in beverage can recycling, is teaming up with the Atlanta Falcons, Falcons fullback Pro Bowl Ovie Mughelli and the "Commissioner of Tailgating" to promote aluminum beverage can recycling. Falcon's fans are...
The Aluminium Association of India (AAI) and its US counterpart, The Aluminium Association (TAA), on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding for exchange of information on effective recycling programmes in the transportation, packaging and building and construction markets. The MoU will help...
Steve Solomon, Solomon Metals Corp. provides a commentary on the nonferrous scrap market in North America. The supply of copper scrap seems to be relatively consistent and buying metals is not as much a problem now. The markets have recovered from the large fall in September. Now that copper is...
Across Europe some 70 million tonnes of waste were incinerated in waste to energy facilities during 2009. Despite best efforts to process only residual waste and divert recyclables, large quantities of metals and minerals remain in the resulting 16 million tonnes of bottom ash. As commodity prices...
Aluminium alloy 226 prices stabilized in Europe this week in thin market conditions as consumers maintained minimum stocks in the run-up to the end of the year. First-quarter contract talks have continued this week and resulted in a number of buyers fixing prices at the prevailing spot levels. "It...
More than 243,000 aluminum cans were collected for recycling by students in Fayette County during this year’s Cans for Cash recycling contest. In terms of weight, students collected 7,618 pounds of aluminum beverage cans — 32 percent more than was collected in 2010. The contest challenges public...
Coca-Cola Recycling LLC opened a new consumer recycling center in Irving, Texas that accepts and processes aluminum cans and #1 PET plastic beverage bottles. The new center was created to offer free and convenient access to beverage container recycling. The Dallas-Fort Worth area was selected as...
Alusolutions 2013, the Global Forum on Sustainability in the Aluminium Industry, is the definitive event for industry executives. Alusolutions 2013, the Global Forum on Sustainability in the Aluminium Industry, is the definitive event for industry executives. Massive strides have been made by the...
The Cash for Cans campaign lived up to its billing by pumping nearly $4,000 back into the community while recycling more than 7,000 pounds of aluminum cans. Cash for Cans is sponsored by Alcoa and Keep Evansville Beautiful as a way to "get people to realize there is money in those aluminum cans...
British Metals Recycling Association (BMRA) represents the £5 billion UK metal recycling sector - a globally competitive industry supplying environmentally-friendly raw material to metals manufacturers. Our 300 members trade and process steel, aluminium, copper and most other ferrous and non...
Select aluminium declined in a restricted trade at the non-ferrous metal market here today on stockist selling as well as subdued industrial offtake following bearish London Metal Exchange (LME) trend. The industrial metal weakened after comments from European Central Bank about worsening eurozone...
LISBURN residents will soon be able to recycle even more of their waste by putting aluminium foil and trays in their green bins. The fortnightly green bin recycling scheme will now accept clean foil trays such as those used for takeaway food, pie and quiche cases and oven ready meals as well as...
Recycling is processing used materials (waste) into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution (from incineration) and water pollution (from land filling) by lessening the need for...
Secondary aluminum alloy smelters in Spain and Italy are seeking to sell spot cargoes to Japan, but buying interest has been limited so far due to differences in ingot size specifications, Japanese market sources said Monday. Two Tokyo-based trading houses said they had received offers for ADC12...
Studsvik of Sweden has signed a contract with the UK’s LLW Repository Ltd (LLWR) for the transport and dismantling of old heat exchangers from the Berkeley Magnox nuclear power plant. Under the £8 million ($12.8 million) contract - awarded by LLWR on behalf of Magnox Ltd - Studsvik will transport...
