Aluminium’s trade map is no longer drawn by smelters alone. Scrap flows, power contracts, industrial policy and specialist grades now shape who secures metal, at what cost and under whose rules. Ten recent developments across Europe, the US, Australia, Japan and Mexico show how recycling, energy and regulation are becoming the new levers of aluminium competitiveness. They also show where traders, exporters and policymakers may need to adjust. Scrap tug-of-war: the US pull, Europe’s leak and the recycling base at stake The pull starts with price. The US UBC scrap benchmark averaged USD 2,322.89 a tonne in July, USD 2,491.22 in August and USD 2,602.51 in September. That is a 12 per cent climb, and it came after a July that opened at USD 2,464.98 and fell to USD 2,270.76 within two days....
Nespresso is expanding its aluminium coffee capsule recycling network across New Zealand, adding 25 JB Hi-Fi stores as collection points and bringing the total number of participating retail locations to 138. The move gives coffee drinkers more places to return used capsules, helping make recycling a little easier after that final, satisfying sip. The new collection points join existing locations at Briscoes and Noel Leeming stores. The expansion also complements other return options available through Nespresso, including its boutiques, public collection points, NZ Post drop-off locations and courier collections from customers’ homes. The aim is to make returning used capsules more convenient, recognising that a single collection method will not work for everyone. For those who enjoy...
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...Alcoa /quotes/comstock/13*!aa/quotes/nls/aa (AA 12.87, -0.01, -0.08%) announced today the launch of a free, user-friendly iPhone application compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad that will make it fun and easy for consumers to recycle aluminum cans. The new app -- called Aluminate(TM) -- will help consumers find recycling centers, track how many aluminum cans they recycle, and calculate the cash they can earn as they help protect the environment through recycling aluminum cans...
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...If you normally throw your empty soda cans in the trash, or even if you already recycle them, Jacob Price wants your help...
...It was steak for lunch. As the two Indians at the JW Marriott in Atlanta cut into it, they gave the American seated across the table something to chew on. “We would like to buy Novelis.” Debnarayan Bhattacharya, the managing director of Aditya Birla group flagship Hindalco Industries , which was less than one-fourth the size of Novelis, had just uttered the bravest words of his career. It was August 2006. ..
...The Aluminum Association, Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) and the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) announced the 2009 Used Beverage Container (UBC) recycling rate at 57.4 percent. This is the highest recycling rate of any beverage container in the United States. In 2009, Americans and the aluminum industry recycled nearly 55.5 billion aluminum cans, nearly 2.3 billion more than in 2008...
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...Redditch - Over the past 21 years the aluminium packaging industry has invested over £50 million supporting the development of the recycling infrastructure for aluminium packaging, including drinks cans...
...Reuters reported that Norwegian group Norsk Hydro may convert its troubled German aluminium plant from a producer of primary metal to a recycling unit...
...Aluminium giant Novelis has stressed that its recycling activities in the UK will not be affected by the proposed closure of its foil rolling and packaging production plant at Bridgnorth in Shropshire...
