According to SMM survey statistics, the operating rate of the secondary aluminium alloy industry in September was 35.0 per cent, up 3.1 percentage points M-o-M but down 6.7 percentage points Y-o-Y. Industry production continued its recovery trend, but the overall operating level remained below the same period last year. On the demand side, September marked the traditional peak consumption season, with downstream orders recovering from August. End-use demand from automobiles and other sectors improved marginally, but the peak season effect has yet to fully materialise. According to CAAM data, automobile production in September was 2.99 million units, up 11.4 per cent M-o-M but down 8.7 per cent Y-o-Y. NEV production was 1.814 million units, up 12.2 per cent Y-o-Y. CAAM noted that China's...
Europe’s aluminium scrap exports to the US have risen by 243 per cent, highlighting a growing concern over the continent’s access to strategic raw materials as it pursues recycling, decarbonisation and industrial competitiveness. Evangelos Mytilineos, Executive Chairman of METLEN, raised the issue, linking scrap outflows to the broader challenges facing European industry, energy security and strategic autonomy. Aluminium scrap outflows raise industrial concerns Mytilineos referred to the contrasting US tariff treatment of aluminium products, i.e., a 50 per cent tariff on primary aluminium, compared with zero tariff on scrap . With European aluminium scrap exports to the US increasing by 243 per cent, he questioned whether Europe could strengthen its industrial base while allowing valuable...
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The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has formulated a new way of battery recycling which can recover up to 70 per cent of the lithium without engaging corrosive chemicals, high temperatures or prior sorting processes. The fact is, the aluminium usage in the new recycling method as a reducing agent for the mechanochemical reaction saves the application of chemicals and high temperatures. Scientiests explain that no other chemicals are needed due to the presence of aluminium in the cathode. Mechanochemical reaction is a process that uses mechanical processes at room temperature and at normal air pressure to bring about chemical reactions. In the new recycling process, the battery waste is ground up to recover the lithium, during which reaction with the aluminium, results in the...
A Cambodian recycling company, Seng Casin Electronics, has begun locally producing secondary aluminium from aluminium scrap to be readily exported to China. The first of its kind in Cambodia, the company also wishes to venture out with its aluminium products into the domestic industrial sector. Seng Casin Electronics has planned to supply local beverage companies with aluminium cans made with recycled aluminium from its facility in Takeo province. The CEO of the company, Sun Bunheng, claimed that the factory presently exports the total volume of its extracted pure aluminium. “We are gearing up to produce drink cans for local breweries and beverage companies and also plan to manufacture aluminium power lines,” Bunheng explained. The CEO also added: “There are Chinese and South Korean...
According to the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR), the most recent banking crisis is weakening market confidence, with UK non-ferrous traders reporting reduced tonnage. The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) is the only global recycling industry federation representing more than 30,000 companies around the globe, with a direct membership of over 900 companies and 37 national associations from 68 countries. BIR members are world leaders in the supply of raw materials and a key pillar for sustainable economic development. On March 23, 2023, the first federation to support the interests of the recycling industry on an international scale, BIR stated in its report that the emergency bailout of Credit Suisse and other trade and banking shocks "have proven once again that...
The beverage container return program, launched by the Singapore-based National Environment Agency (NEA), is expected to start on April 1, 2025. With this scheme, the organisation intends to raise Singapore's recycling rate, lower the quantity of garbage disposed of, and lower carbon emissions. The programme will impose a 10-cent refundable deposit on all pre-packaged beverages, aluminium cans and plastic bottles with a capacity of 150 millilitres to 3 litres. This deposit will be repaid entirely when empty beverage containers like aluminium cans or bottles are returned to the appropriate return stations. A deposit mark and barcode will be visible on all beverage containers covered by the programme. While the barcode makes it easier to return containers and acts as an anti-fraud tool, the...
Another UK region, the Eastleigh Borough Council, has been registered with the coffee pod returning drive, Podback. The Eastleigh Council has expanded its weekly recycling drive to include plastic or aluminium coffee pods, which would now be collected with the community's other organic waste. The Podback coffee pod recycling programme is customisable to suit a residence in the borough. To be registered within the non-profit organisation's loop, one has to sign up for the service through Podback's official website . The registered individuals will receive Podback collection bags for the safe transportation of waste products along with the community food waste bins. Flat-dwellers can also register for the recycling drive, as Podback collection bags are available for every type of customer....
Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMP), the international supplier of sustainable and recyclable aluminium and glass packaging solutions for brand owners worldwide, will make a social effort to improve the working conditions and income of about 30 collectors in the city of Alagoinhas. The initiative will be carried out on March 25 at the Cooperative of Collectors and Recyclers of Alagoinhas through a partnership with the NGO Pimp My Carroça, founded by artist Mundano. "This pioneering project is part of our goal of contributing to the social and economic impact of recycling, valuing the work of cooperatives and their collectors. With this, we seek to promote empowerment and well-being to the local community, with the reaffirmation of the commitment to sustainability in all regions where we...
Hydro Wicona will supply zero-carbon aluminium to a construction project in Europe. Titled the Innovationsbogen project in Augsburg, Wicona will provide doors, window, and curtain walling profiles made from recycled post-consumer aluminium. By the fourth quarter of this year, construction on the Augsburg building project is expected to be finished. Wicona will provide the project with 85 tonnes of Hydro CIRCAL 100R. Compared to pre-consumer/process scrap and raw aluminium, the utilisation of post-consumer scrap greatly lowers the CO2 footprint. Aluminium with a carbon footprint of less than 0.5 kg CO2e/kg over the whole value chain is called near-zero aluminium. “Covering such a high profile building in Europe with a near-zero aluminium façade is a milestone achievement for Hydro. We are...
Federal Metal Co., Bedford, USA, has announced an investment of around $17.8 million in building and equipping a facility in North Little Rock, Arkansas, to melt post-consumer aluminium-copper radiators to create recycled-content metal products. According to Peter Nagusky, Federal Metal’s president and CEO, exporting scrap radiators to other countries is a waste. Instead, domestic semi-finished copper and aluminium producers must increase the use of scrap than primary metal to enhance the recycled content of products. It is economically advantageous and also environmentally sustainable. “Major investments in new mill, foundry and refining capacity are underway in the United States for the first time in generations, and it’s important the scrap industry here keeps pace to assure the...
The Newfoundland and Labrador government helped a regional social enterprise in the recycling and environmental sectors develop a process for composting and recycling liquid waste. Ever Green Environmental is increasingly managing aluminium beer cans thrown away or not intended for open market sale. Novelis is set to be profiled in John Holden's Emmy Award-winning series EARTH, which airs on Fox Business Network. The Missoula-based AniMeals No-kill Adoption Center and Animal Food Bank is renowned for giving animals the shelter and other support they require. Recycling Works has taken over the organization's long-running aluminium recycling operation. The citizens of Sibu (a city in Malaysia) were encouraged to sell their recyclable old items during the 3R Recycling Programme held in Swan...
Global Recycling Day was celebrated by Arsenal Football Club and USA’s leading aluminium beverage can producer, Ball Corporation, through the initiation of their social media content series. The series talks about community welfare and sustainability, underlining the fact that good things might happen when one starts recycling. Five recycling heroes from a regional school Colney Training Centre were completely taken aback by the arrival of legendary Arsenal footballers Eddie Nketiah, Matt Turner and Gabriel Martinelli. The 12 years old Gooners belonging to a North London school located close to the Emirates Stadium took an active interest in this year’s ‘Premier League Inspires’ challenge, with sustainability being the main objective behind the drive. The girls saw a great opportunity in...
On Tuesday, a top government official announced that redeem centres for aluminium cans and glass bottles will resume operations in Seychelles on March 20, a day later than usual, due to persisting difficulties. Seychelles has six primary redemption centres where collectors may drop off their aluminium cans and PET bottles. On the second and third most inhabited islands, Praslin and La Digue, respectively, there are one and four on Mahe, the major island. In the meantime, beginning on March 20, individuals can bring their glass bottles and cans for recycling. Denis Matatiken, the Department of Environment's main secretary, told reporters that owing to difficulties that were out of their control, the environmental authorities decided to terminate the exchange period in November rather than...
The world’s leading manufacturer and supplier of light alloy wheels for passenger cars and commercial vehicles, Ronal Group, has set itself the aim of a 50 per cent reduction in its manufacturing CO 2 emissions by 2030 and CO 2 -neutral production of all its wheels by 2050 as part of its PLANBLUE sustainability plan. With the production of the first light-alloy wheels built entirely of secondary aluminium for the new all-electric MINI Cooper SE Convertible, the German plant in Landau is taking the lead in this area. The production of primary aluminium is an energy-intensive process that impacts the environment. The carbon balance sheet of the RONAL GROUP shows that 74 per cent of the CO 2 generation is attributable to aluminium procurement. The company sourced 100 per cent of its...
Scotland’s Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) has not received positive reactions from the UK Government, and there have been prevailing talks of ending it. Reports confirm that Scottish Secretary Alister Jack has already instigated the UK Government to rethink the launch of this flagship recycling drive. Scotland’s DRS was established with the idea to make users pay a £0.20 ($0.24) deposit for buying drinks in a single-use container forged out of polyethene terephthalate (PET), steel, plastic, glass or aluminium. The user would then be eligible for a cash deposit return if they turn in the empty container at one of the collecting points spread across the region’s shops, hospitals and commercial outlets. The scheme was supposed to be in action from August 2023, but it is hard to point out any...
The residents of Sibu (a city in Malaysia) were invited to sell their recyclable used products at the 3R Recycling Programme held in Swan Square on March 12 last Sunday. The programme, since its inception, has helped collect recyclable items like paper, cardboard, tin or aluminium cans from the residential area. Volunteer Loh Yu Yee clarified that this is by far the thirteenth edition of the programme organised around the community. She claimed that people participating in the recycling drive would receive Sarimi noodles on completion. “This is a monthly event that we do to encourage people, especially families, to recycle their recyclable items and to save the environment,” she said. The recyclers or participants were urged to separate the waste materials on a prior basis because sorting...
Novelis is about to get documented in an Emmy Award-winning series by John Holden called EARTH that airs on Fox Business Network. The docu-series releasing on March 19 - at 5 p.m. ET, will showcase how Novelis produces low-carbon aluminium, propagating a green economy. The story of this particular episode revolves around Ansys and how it helps create better, greener processes for companies like Climeworks. Then it shows how Novelis produces its flagship low-carbon aluminium Al:sust™ before turning toward CIAC’s contribution to the chemical industry. The episode then talks about Zehnder’s clean air solutions and InQube’s recyclable apparel. From a broader perspective, the EARTH episode wishes to document extraordinary feats of achievements in the recycling sector. At the beginning of the...
AniMeals No-kill Adoption Center and Animal Food Bank based in Missoula is known for providing shelter and other necessary help to animals. The organisation has passed its long-running aluminium recycling programme to Recycling Works. AniMeals has been collecting aluminium cans for the past 14 years to support shelter operations. The recycling programme has grown beyond what the shelter can handle, and the costs associated with running it needed to generate more income to make it worthwhile to continue. "We want to re-focus and stay mission relevant with our program efforts as a no-kill adoption on center and animal food bank. Our recycling program is better-housed under the programs managed by Recycling Works, as keeping recyclables out of landfills is their mission," said Kyle O'Neill,...
Scotland's Deposit Return Scheme (DRS), in collaboration with their logistics service partner, Biffa, will introduce 140 new job opportunities in Motherwell. Biffa will invest almost £80 million to formulate an infrastructure suitable for rallying out the scheme. This will largely help collect, sort and recycle plastic, glass and aluminium beverage packaging options in the area. This investment will be crucial in restructuring the once-parcel depot at the Eurocentral industrial park into a high-technology equipped recycling centre. Packaging solution providers that contribute almost 95 per cent of Scotland's containers and packaging modules have already registered for this noble drive. SEPA, the programme's conductor, has declared registrations will remain open until the official launch...
The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador assists a local social business in the environmental and recycling sector to create a method for composting and recycling liquid waste. Beer cans made of aluminium that were discarded or were not meant to be sold on the open market are increasingly being managed by Ever Green Environmental. These cans are generally thrown away as garbage. For the same, the South Carolina-based Ever Green Recycling received a provincial contribution of $69,000 through the Innovation and Business Investment Corporation in non-repayable funding. The announcement of the same was made by Honourable Andrew Parsons, KC, Minister of Industry, Energy and Technology. "This project will enable Ever Green to diversify its social enterprise and attain more stability,...
