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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Indonesia Aluminium Alloy (IAA), being a subsidiary of PT Inalum, is unquestionably beneficial for better market access and raw material utilization. This was said during the soft commissioning event at the PT IAA recycling plant by Hendi Prio Santoso, the managing director of Mind ID. On this occasion, the Board of Commissioners and Directors of PT IAA, Carry EF Mumbunan, Togu Sihombing, Ricky Gunawan, and Agus Wibowo were present in addition to the Managing Director of PT Inalum, Danny Praditya, Senior Vice President of PT Inalum Rainaldi Harahap, Kuspriyono, and Benny Alexander Wiwoho. Hendi Santoso said, "We have great hopes from the Mind ID Group that this capacity can be increased as much as possible while at the same time developing marketing by making derivative products made by...
Recycling aluminium cans results in 95 per cent energy savings over producing the same quantity of metal from scratch. Recycling is a crucial component of the modern aluminium industry. With this, the Eldorado Civic Association is asking the local residents to drop aluminium cans at their collection site in Altoona. The collected cans will be used by the local group to fund their initiatives. The collection site is at the former Kiwanis building on California Avenue. According to Ed Shrift, one of the volunteers of the can collection drive, the aluminium cans can be dropped off at any particular time. They will be utilised to support the local project of the Eldorado Civic Association. With the assistance of the neighbourhood and donations from its members, the charity can also provide...
Norsk Hydro, the Norwegian aluminium giant, signed a letter of intent (LoI) on January 3, 2023, with World Wide Wind AS (WWW), a newly established Norwegian company presenting a novel solution and technology - counter-rotating vertical axis turbines - to explore using recycled aluminium to build a potentially revolutionary new floating design. The two will begin by building a prototype of WWW's contra-rotating vertical turbine (CVRT) concept, which features two omnidirectional rotors spaced apart on a tower-spar structure, all anchored with a novel turret-shaped mooring system to the seafloor. The duo expects to expand its collaboration to investigate employing the lightweight metal alloy in the "renewable wind industry" more broadly. The levelling cost of energy (LCOE) for floating wind...
The world's leading research institute, Brunel University London, has joined forces with automakers and suppliers to develop low-carbon, low-cost aluminium extrusion alloys through BCAST, the Brunel Centre for Advanced Solidification Technology. The £10 million CirConAl project, funded by the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) of the United Kingdom, intends to maximize the use of post-consumer trash in a new generation of high-strength alloys with a carbon footprint of less than 2 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of aluminium produced. In the UK, programmes to create a whole supply chain for zero-emission vehicles are supported by the government, businesses, and industry working together as CirConAl. The Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy, Grant Shapps, revealed the...
According to the US Census Bureau data, the United States aluminium scrap exports to the Republic of Korea or South Korea in September 2022 stood at 20,800 tonnes, registering a decline of 6.3 per cent month-on-month. However, in August, the exports increased sequentially by 14.43 per cent from 19,400 tonnes to 22,200 tonnes. That brought the United States total exports to South Korea in the September quarter to 62,400 tonnes, down by 18 per cent from 76,100 tonnes in the previous quarter. On a year-on-year calculation, the United States aluminium scrap exports to South Korea during September 2022 recorded a plunge of 16.8 per cent from 25,000 tonnes. In the first nine months of the year, the United States scrap exports to South Korea amounted to 218,000 tonnes, up by 12.95 per cent from...
Aquarius, a sports drink manufactured by Coca-Cola, collaborated with Crown Bevcan EMEA (Europe and Middle East) or Crown Emirates Company Limited and its dedicated print and reprographics studio to launch an innovative and engaging promotional campaign titled "Recover what moves you!," in Spain. The standard 330ml aluminium cans in which Aquarius is currently sold are an environmentally friendly packaging option that promotes the Circular Economy and lessens the number of raw materials that must be acquired from the planet due to its infinite recyclability. The central concept of the campaign for collecting more Aquarius cans garnered a lot of connection and involvement, which unmistakably delivered the "wow factor." The various letters were printed using Crown's Accents variable...
According to the US Census Bureau data, India imported 41,800 tonnes of aluminium scrap from the United States in September 2022, registering a month-on-month downfall of 4,300 tonnes or 9.33 per cent. In August, the import volume stood at 46,100 tonnes, up by 5,200 tonnes or 12.71 per cent from 40,900 tonnes in July. Thus, in the three months of Q3 2022, India’s aluminium scrap imports from the US totalled 128,800 tonnes, reflecting an increase of 16,100 tonnes or 14.29 per cent from 112,700 tonnes in Q2 2022. From January to September, India imported 356,000 tonnes of aluminium scrap from the US, compared to 295,000 tonnes during the corresponding period of the previous year. That reflected a year-on-year increase of 20.68 per cent in India’s aluminium scrap import volume from the US in...
Titan has introduced a new smartwatch in India with the added main feature of Bluetooth calling, as the model has a speaker and a microphone that lets the user directly talk through the watch when paired with a smartphone. Available in blue, grey, gold and black hues, the dial has been packed inside a 100% recyclable aluminium case flaunting the company’s logo. The Titan Talk BT calling smartwatch marks the brand’s venture into the sustainability zone as the silicon strap is easily changeable if weary. The dial comes inside a rigid aluminium case that has the Titan logo embedded on it and two additional buttons on the right edge. The smartwatch has a 46mm dial and is protected by a transparent mineral glass. Aluminium is an excellent choice for such an intelligent device that looks after...
Aluminium is one of the most sustainable metals found abundantly on the earth's surface, with an ability to retain its original properties even after undergoing rigid recycling processes. Therefore, companies that promote aluminium as their base raw material are always searching for sustainability drives across the entire value chain, which can renew their flagship objects without emitting the estimated amount of carbon or Green House Gases (GHGs) such products usually leave behind. Products made of aluminium, if collected properly, can initiate a circular economy which can be very beneficial for the earth's atmosphere. Moreover, the Paris Environmental Pact of 2015 has instigated many global brands to follow green environmental practices that can curtail carbon emissions to a great...
According to the China customs data, the average operating rate of secondary aluminium enterprises fell sharply by 51.1 per cent in November’22, and so did the imports of aluminium scrap. As per the data, China’s aluminium scrap imports declined by 14.8 per cent year-on-year and 16.08 per cent month-on-month to 126,000 tonnes in November. From January to November 2022, China imported 1.39 million tonnes of aluminium scrap, an increase of 59 per cent on the year. Guangdong province imported 80,400 tonnes of aluminium scrap under general trade, which was down by 18,200 tonnes M-o-M, accounting for 63.51 per cent of the total imports. Guangdong’s scrap imports under feeding processing trade dropped by 400 tonnes to 7,700 tonnes, accounting for 6.08 per cent of the total. Aluminium scrap...
On December 21, an event called "Export of Transformational Industries and Their Role in Promoting Global Environmental Sustainability" was organised in Bahrain to discuss the environmental and sustainability issues faced across the entire aluminium value chain and how to reduce them. The event was hosted by the Gulf Hotel under the eminent patronage of Abdulla bin Adel Fakhro, Minister of Industry and Commerce, and was chaired by personalities like Piyush Srivastava, Ambassador of India to Bahrain. The event was materialised by the active deliberation of Taha International Industrial Services and Export Bahrain. This event recognised advanced technologies that can be applied to lower emissions and help achieve a sustainable discourse around the aluminium-producing and manufacturing...
Hydro's aluminium recycling plant in Lucé has reportedly been issued DNV certification to produce Hydro CIRCAL. It is Hydro's first plant in France to produce Hydro CIRCAL, a low-carbon recycled aluminium product containing at least 75 per cent of post-consumer, end-of-life scrap. Expanding Hydro CIRCAL production will help the company meet the increasing demand for low-carbon products and accelerate the circular economy in Europe. Eivind Kallevik, Executive Vice President of Hydro Aluminium Metal, said: “Our customers are asking for more low-carbon products to further lower their carbon footprint and it’s exciting to be able to offer Hydro CIRCAL at Lucé. This also helps to accelerate the circular economy in Europe.” Karl Willart, Director of Operations at Hydro Lucé, commented: “We are...
An active participant in recycling used food and beverage packaging, Switzerland-based Tetra Pak has decided to fund and install robotic sorting arms at some of the material recycling facilities (MRFs) to propagate the storing and sorting of end-of-life cartons. Recycling aluminium foils or cans is extremely simple as they are comprised of the purest form of aluminium that can be directly pushed through a recycling device without the need to separate any building materials. But on the other hand, aluminium laminated cardboard, paper or plastic needs to be sorted and the materials individually separated before the elements can be run through recycling drives. Tetra Pak’s fundraiser will be for eligible local authoritative groups and their waste management providers, which have not yet...
On December 20, 2022, the disruptive technology driver in the world of aluminium scrap sorting and recycling, Sortera Alloys, Inc., announced that it had achieved high-quality sorting of pre-production aluminium with more than 95 per cent accuracy. These findings demonstrate that Sortera's advanced deep-technology platform, which includes a vision and other advanced hardware sensors and is powered by a software stack that includes machine learning and artificial intelligence, can handle complex sorting effectively and efficiently, specifically processing end-of-life mixed alloys by category and chemical composition. This enables the business to recycle these resources into the supply chain without compromising their integrity or compound makeup, supporting North America's circular economy...
The United States aluminium scrap export volume dipped in September 2022 by 8,000 tonnes or 4.50 per cent, following a rise in the previous quarter, found the US Census Bureau data. From 178,000 tonnes in August, the United States aluminium scrap export decreased to 170,000 tonnes in the succeeding month. The export in August had grown by 14.84 per cent month-on-month from 155,000 tonnes. So, with the ups and downs through the third quarter of 2022, the total aluminium scrap export volume from the United States amounted to 503,000 tonnes, 1.18 per cent or 6,000 tonnes less than 509,000 tonnes in Q2. On a year-on-year calculation, the United States aluminium scrap exports in September 2022 edged a slight dip of 1,000 tonnes from 171,000 tonnes to 170,000 tonnes. In the first nine months of...
The Danish design furniture brand Reframed is quickly becoming the go-to bedroom furniture shop, although only being founded in 2021. The furniture manufacturer has eliminated bulky bed frames in favour of uncomplicated, simple-to-assemble items made of sustainable materials. Its designs feature a simple, clean look anchored in pure practicality. The company has just introduced their well-liked Reframed Bed in anodized aluminium. Tim Rundle, a designer with Reframed, created a new piece to showcase the material's beauty in its unprocessed state. They created a design using aluminium, almost entirely made from post-consumer trash, in collaboration with the metal production business Hydro. Rundle said, “Our new finish celebrates the linear texture of the fine lines formed on the profiles'...
Last week the recycling sector witnessed high potential initiatives, with Hydro announcing the low-carbon aluminium supply deal with Mercedes-Benz for the making of the German auto giant’s range of models from 2023. Pondy Oxides and Chemicals Limited have begun recycling and melting aluminium at their recently renovated Sriperumbudur facility in Tamil Nadu, India, from December 14 2022. SIG Group Ltd (SIG) made an investment of US$1.9 million to develop the available technology to obtain a better value-added method of recycled aseptic cartons in Brazil, recycling the materials like aluminium and plastic separately. Arfin India won a supply deal of $42.26 million (INR 350 crore) worth of aluminium deox from a Saudi Arabia-Middle East steel plant. The recycling industry has grown a lot in...
UK's supermarket chain, Aldi, has registered itself as a member of the Podback recycling scheme that has been encouraging the country's residents to recycle their used aluminium tea, coffee or hot chocolate pods. Due to this new agreement, 980 Aldi supermarket outlets all over the UK will introduce its flagship pods into the scheme, which would be the brand's first initiative to promote the usage of free recycling service to consumers. From January next year, Aldi visitors will be able to order recycling bags through the Podback website, where used plastic or aluminium pods can be stored and dropped off at 6,500 Collect+ points. The users may also register for the local kerbside collection zones under their respective regional authorities. Last year, Podback was established as the first...
