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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Japan Metal Bulletin reported that Japanese supply of waste automotive engine decreases recently around Tokyo. A trader source said that the export increases for Malaysia while the supply decreases due to lower scrapped car. Domestic secondary aluminum makers cannot operate normally due to shortage...
Aleris International Inc. has reported a second-quarter profit on a solid increase in sales. The aluminum recycler and producer said its net income in the quarter totaled $56 million. Aleris said it had a year-earlier loss of $60 million, which excluded $2.2 billion in gains associated with the...
Some of the community's heavy hitters are amassing their collective muscle to help the municipality secure elevated recycling revenues. With West Milford Township able to collect upwards of approximately 1,900 times the revenue from recycled aluminum by diverting the scrap from curbside collection...
Shandong Loften Aluminum Foil (Loften Foil) (002379) posted a 30.63-percent year-on-year fall in net profits for the first half of 2011 to 10.98 million yuan, reports the China Securities Journal, citing a company filing. Sales revenues grew 58.75 percent year-on-year to 807.44 million yuan during...
Aluminum waste buried years ago at Middle Point Landfill has begun causing temperatures to rise in a closed section of the landfill. In late March, Allied Waste discovered steam and heat in the closed area and notified the state. “When we noticed the elevated temperatures in portions of the...
Nonferrous auto shred prices could be heading for an uptick after renewed Chinese interest in the lower-grade zorba shred has sent prices up by between 3 and 6 cents per pound, depending on region. East Coast sources said zorba prices are about 5 to 6 cents per pound higher than a month ago, while...
Public consultation is starting over plans to process non-recyclable waste in north Wales, possibly building an incineration plant. Two sites in Deeside and Anglesey have been earmarked in the £800m project.
The Recycling Roundtable, and advocacy group comprised of The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), the Steel Recycling Institute (SRI), the Aluminum Association, the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA), the National Solid Waste Management Association (NSWMA), the American...
Select base metals declined at the nonferrous metal market here due to sluggish demand from industrial users amid bearish trend in global markets. Meanwhile, copper armiture and aluminum utensils scrap inched up on better offtake from consumer industries. The industrial metals fell at the LME over...
Total aluminum recovered from scrap in the U.S. in March was 260,000 tons, 9% higher than 239,000 tons the previous month and 17% higher than the 222,000 tons recovered in March 2010. Of this, 138,000 tons of aluminum was recovered from new scrap, 5% higher than the 132,000 tons recovered the...
The city of Oxnard issued the following news release:Join the City of Oxnard in celebration of the Del Norte Regional Recycling and Transfer Station's fifteenth anniversary as we reduce, reuse and recycle our way to a cleaner, more eco-friendly tomorrow. In honor of the event, the Del Norte...
An ounce of gold is going for $1,600 - silver for $40 - but there's a much more common metal that's become increasingly precious. Aluminum is bringing in 70 cents a pound, and more and more people are learning there's cash in those cans.
The Gangqiao industry park with a handling capacity of 880,000 tons of renewable resources would obtain 0.2 billion Yuan of central financial subsidy funds. Gangqiao industrial park demonstration base occupies 3,800 acre land with a 1.457 billion total investment. It will carry out items including...
The overall recycling rate for aluminium beverage cans in the EU 27 increased by 1.2% to 64.3% in 2009. Despite the difficult economic situation the consumption of aluminium beverage cans in wider Europe remained at 34bn units - it was possible to collect and recycle a further 400M in addition to...
HOUSEHOLDERS are now able to place aluminium foil products in their blue box for glass and cans as part of South Lakeland District Council’s kerbside collection service. As well as foil cartons, people will also be able to recycle other aluminium products including milk bottle tops, barbecue and...
Inside Waste Weekly reported last week that the government’s announcement of a carbon price plan might well lead to a rise in recycling rates for high embodied energy materials such as aluminium and plastics, but could also bring challenges such as increased operating costs. While the industry...
Aluminum markets are improving. A lot of aluminum scrap is available on the market, and a scrap dealer based in the Midwest says sales are becoming a bit more challenging. “You can get all the material [you want] but you don’t want to sell it too early due to the potential of better pricing,” he...
Japan Metal Bulletin reported that Chinese largest secondary alloyed aluminum maker Shanghai Sigma Metals expands the group's Chinese production capacity to 4 times at annual 2.4 million tonnes in 5 years.
