For aluminium recyclers, managing profitability is no longer only about securing scrap, improving recovery rates or controlling operating costs. The timing of purchases, inventory holding, price fixation and customer sales can also influence the final margin that must be achieved. When aluminium...
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...
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...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...
...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,...
...Alcoa North American Rolled Products (NARP) has announced its Top Ten Scrap Suppliers for aluminum recycling for 2010. NARP also announced its "Most Improved" Scrap Supplier for the year...
...THE Mid-Autumn Festival is something the Liau family from Rantau look forward to every year...
...This year's Aluminium 2010 event which recently concluded in Essen Germany received 17,200 visitors, up from the 2008 event of 16,886 visitors...
...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...
...Norwegian group Norsk Hydro (NHY.OL: Quote) may convert its troubled German aluminium plant from a producer of primary metal to a recycling unit, CEO Svein Richard Brandtzaeg said in comments published on Wednesday...
...His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Bahrain Defense Force, Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa will be the official patron of the 25th International Aluminium Conference which will be held from September 20th to 22nd 2010 at the Gulf Hotel Bahrain...
...The Aluminum Association, Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) and the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) on September 15 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....
...Some of the more recent articles have focused on its efforts against the additional tax that Australia’s new government wants to impose on miners. Others highlight BHP’s recently launched, $39 billion takeover offer for the world’s largest producer of potash, Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan...
...Nearly 55.5 billion aluminum cans were recycled in the United States in 2009, an increase of about 2.3 billion cans or 4 percent over the previous year, three industry groups said on Tuesday...
...Novelis today announced that it will invest a further US$11.3 million to help meet growing demand for the aluminium sheet produced at its Sierre, Switzerland, rolling operation...
...The firm is blaming competition from other countries, over capacity in the foil market and also said its Bridgnorth plant was at a technical disadvantage compared to its others in Europe...
...Keeping businesses in the area is something Congressman Tim Ryan says is one of his top priorities, and to prove that point, he made a stop at a Warren facility Tuesday to make sure it's getting the help it needs...
...This morning I added Alumina Ltd. (AWC) to the Barchart Van Meerten Speculative portfolio. AWC's principal activities are mining, processing and marketing of minerals, metals, fertilizers, exploration for minerals, and investments in companies producing metals, minerals and chemicals...
... An admitted "neat freak," Cash says recycling day is torture for her. "Every time I come here, I want to try to clean up these bins," she said last week while dropping off a load of plastic bottles and aluminum cans at Sonoco Recycling on Mule Academy Road in Fishersville. .... It's a...
