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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Spar, in collaboration with Tomra has installed trail Reverse Vending Machines (RVM) at the CJ Lang, and Son Ltd backed outlet at East Ayrshire, Scotland, named Spar Crosshouse. This vending machine will accept glass and plastic bottles along with aluminium beverage cans or aluminium aerosol bottles. The Spar store was recently renovated, and the entire 3,216 sq. ft store required 13 weeks to be fully optimised with modern technological appliances like state-of-the-art freezers and refrigerators. The latest instalments also include LED lights with floor and ceiling restoration. To move toward sustainability, the store has also installed the latest energy-smart refrigeration systems aligned with Spar Scotland’s green strategy, focusing on the growth of the Spar Scotland chilled and...
The global mining and metal giant Rio Tinto announced the construction of a new aluminium recycling facility at its Arvida plant in Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, Quebec. This new investment will cost around C$35 million (US$29 million), with an initial capacity of 30,000 tonnes per year. This investment will make the Anglo-Australian multinational company the first producer of primary aluminium in North America that use recycled post-consumer aluminium into alloys. Rio Tinto's goal to increase low-carbon aluminium production, notably through recycling, and to integrate the circular economy into its value chain will be furthered by this. The aluminium recycling facility at Arvida is expected to be operational by the second quarter of 2024. It will help Rio Tinto increase the range of low-carbon...
The two main categories of aluminium scrap are "old scrap" from post-consumer usage and "new scrap" from industrial operations. New scrap is produced throughout the semi-fabrication and final manufacture of aluminium goods. Old scrap is defined as goods gathered after consumers' discarding. Because it is profitable, recycling aluminium scrap is a vital part of the aluminium industry. As per the USGS statistics, the United States exported 19,500 tonnes of aluminium scrap to Mexico, which recorded M-o-M augmentation of 11,040 tonnes or 130.49 per cent from 8,460 tonnes in March. In March, a hike of 1,230 tonnes or 17.01 per cent was witnessed from 7,230 tonnes in February. For the same year, in February, the amount expanded by 2,020 tonnes or 38.77 per cent from 5,210 tonnes in January. In...
On Tuesday, August 23, Novelis Inc., an American industrial aluminium company specialised in rolling and recycling, announced that it achieved Performance Standard Certifications from the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative for its 14 aluminium scrap collection centres across Brazil. This certification recognises Novelis’ responsible manufacturing practices and its strong focus on the circular economy and use of recycled aluminium across all product ranges. The certification also acknowledges the company’s ambition to be a leader in sustainability. Novelis’ 14 collection centres in Brazil accumulate post-consumer aluminium beverage cans, which are then recycled by the company into aluminium sheet products and used to make new beverage cans. This entire process takes as little as 60 days. In...
Blister packages for pharmaceuticals usually consist of aluminium and plastic layers. As a result of their multi-material composition, discarded packages are typically landfilled, although metallic and polymeric fractions can be recycled if they are separated. The separation of aluminium and plastic from pharmaceutical blister packaging is quite difficult to separate due to heat-sealed together with a type of glue, thus recycling is primarily avoided. A group of engineering students at the National University of Singapore (NUS) developed a chemical recycling method to separate plastic from aluminium and restore the components. Following this, both the aluminium and plastic can be returned to the recycling companies. The Green Doctors Programme was spawned in August 2021 after a pharmacist...
New Zealand is about to gain its circular economy where plastic, steel or aluminium waste would be returned and converted into raw material. The Gore District Council has a set series of kerbside recycling programmes for waste minimisation. This week the Council agreed on various solutions to venture out of its Rethinking Waste project initiative and incorporate more transparency. The Council will scrutinise the feasibility and community support for setting up a kerbside collection service after it has appointed a waste minimisation officer and has thoroughly studied the resource recovery park. The Chief Executive Stephen Parry alluded that a lot of changes had taken place since the first announcement of the Council in 2020 when they had declared they would only set up glass collecting...
Daiki Aluminium Industry has recorded a year-on-year increase in profit of 1.4 per cent for the first quarter of the financial year 2023 ended June 30. From 4.01 billion yen in Q1 FY2022, Daiki Aluminium’s profit decreased to 4.07 billion yen ($30.1 million) during the same period this year. Earnings per share also grew by 1.4 per cent from 97.56 yen to 98.93 yen, while net sales jumped by 46.2 per cent to 72.43 billion yen. The Japan-headquartered secondary smelting and alloying aluminium company has projected an attributable profit of 6.4 billion yen for the first six months of FY2023 ending September 30. The net sales is anticipated to reach 143.2 billion yen. For the entire fiscal year 2023, the company estimates attributable profit and net sales to hover around 12.37 billion yen and...
Headquartered in London, CafePod, to bring the experience of flavoured coffee to a user’s resident, has decided to supplement its Nespresso® compatible pod range with three new exquisite blends. For the first time, CafePod made its coffee pods with 80 per cent recycled aluminium which can be 100 per cent recycled after use, similar to the rest of the company’s production. Aluminium is a lightweight material extremely suitable for the packaging industry because of its malleability. Moreover, an aluminium end-of-life product can be recycled innumerable times to produce new items of utilisation. The production of primary aluminium is costly plus energy-consuming, and there is the prevailing issue of carbon emissions, whereas the production of secondary aluminium narrows down those concepts....
The United States’ aluminium scrap exports to Malaysia skyrocketed in April 2022 standing at 24,100 tonnes, found the US Census Bureau data. On a month-on-month calculation, the exports registered a surge of 802.62 per cent from 2,670 tonnes. In the first three months of 2022, the United States aluminium scrap exports to Malaysia remained range-bound, recording at 3,400 tonnes in January, which declined the next month by 45 per cent to 1,870 tonnes. In March, the exports grew by 27.34 per cent over a month to amount 2,670 tonnes. The United States aluminium scrap exports to Malaysia totalled 7,940 tonnes in the first quarter of 2022. In four-month period, the United States aluminium scrap exports to Malaysia added up to 32,040 tonnes. The United States total aluminium scrap exports in...
Imperial Aluminium's anticipated expansion at a former industrial site on Bridge Street is being hampered by asbestos and lead contamination. Imperial Aluminum produces secondary aluminium alloys with facilities to service the Southeast and Midwest. As part of Imperial Aluminium's plans to raze portions of the structure, lead and asbestos must be removed from the former Kepcor/Structural Stoneware building. In order to pay for the cleanup, the company is seeking $105,000 in state grant funding from Carroll County commissioners. Commissioner Christopher Modranski said, "I think they have some lead-based caulking and some asbestos. They have to do some cleanup before they can utilize the property. The grant will allow them to hire a contractor to remove hazardous material." The recycler of...
Sustainable aluminium management has become more critical due to the exponential growth in global demand. Due to the shift to a sustainable society with lightweight electric vehicles, aluminium utilisation in the transportation industry has expanded. Recycling aluminium is therefore crucial to reducing the amount of rubbish that ends up in landfills. Recycling aluminium conserves 95% of the energy required to produce the same quantity of aluminium from scratch. United States export of aluminium scrap to South Korea in April 2022 stood at 25,600 tonnes, which was augmented by 21,890 tonnes M-o-M from 3,710 tonnes in March. In March, a flat growth of 90 tonnes or 2.48 per cent was recorded from 3,620 tonnes in February. For the same year in January, M-o-M expansion of 870 tonnes or 31.63...
The City of Bendigo has agreed with the Solar Recovery Corporation, Eaglehawk Landfill, Strathfieldsaye and Heathcote Transfer Stations to set up specialised drop-off points taking in solar panels for free to be sorted separated and recycled. Headquartered in Australia, Melbourne, Solar Recovery Corporation has a partnership with Italy’s La Mia Energia that, in the past few years, has acquired quite a name in the business of panel recycling and manufacturing technology designated to rectify end-of-life solar panels. Solar Recovery Corporation uses a unique process where a machine separates the aluminium frame, junction box and cables from solar panels. Post this; an automated robot accomplishes the dismantling and sorting responsibility. The materials usually retrieved by the process are...
The world's leading provider of reverse vending solutions, TOMRA Collection has landed with the market's smallest three-material reverse vending machine, TOMRA M1, lined up to deliver a plug-and-play solution that empowers smaller retailers to partake in deposit return schemes (DRS). According to the technology-led solutions provider that enables the circular economy with the advanced collection and sorting systems, the stand-alone reverse vending machine necessities just 0.62 square metres of floor space while measuring 98cm wide and 63cm deep and standing at 165cm tall. Furthermore, the TOMRA-created reverse vending machine can apprehend aluminium beverage cans and glass and plastic bottles. The device can reportedly store up to 550 cans, 270 PET bottles and 80 uncrushed glass bottles....
Circular economy guidelines dictate that all products should be made in such a way so they can be later demolished and remodelled into end products once the original product has become unusable. Aluminium scrap is one of those foundation materials that can be remodified into a wide variety of new products, so recycling it makes good economic and environmental sense. Aluminium metals are used extensively in construction projects such as roads and bridges. In the transportation industry, it can be used to manufacture automobiles, aircraft and other modes of transportation. Outside Asia, Colombia has one of the largest shipbuilding industries in the world. Modern industries like shipbuilding, electronics, automobile and construction contribute to Colombia's GDP; however, it also generates...
The recycled sector is of activities as residual items from the upstream sectors flow through this genre to be sorted and revitalised again. Runaya Refining, which was founded in 2017 by Annanya Agarwal and Naivedya Agarwal, entered the aluminium dross market and now has attained credit ratings of 'IND BBB+ in exchange for former 'IND BBB' by India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra), whereas, its short-term limits have been upgraded to IND A2. Hydro, to attain sustainability, emphasises recycling pre and post-consumer aluminium scrap, for which it has invested NOK 500 million at its extrusion factory in Cressona, Pennsylvania. Cayman Islands Department of Environmental Health (DEH) wavered away two forty-foot containers packed with 35,407 lbs of aluminium cans, Type 1 & 2 plastic containers,...
Connecticut Metal, North America’s leading recycler of aluminium foil and laminate scraps, reportedly recycled more than 50,000 tonnes of aluminium-containing materials at its Ansonia facility. Foil, paper, and polymer laminates used in the food, drug, and cosmetics sectors were recovered at this facility, which opened in 2010. “Our company began 38 years ago by recycling rigid containers. As flexible packaging made rapid inroads into these markets, we decided to also recycle flexible materials,” said Mary Vulcano, Vice President of Connecticut Metal. Connecticut Metal initially specialised in laminates made of aluminium foil. The business created a unique procedure to remove metal from the paper and plastic substrates. Soon, the company became one of the significant consumers of foil...
Founded in 1987, Alutrade, one of the well-sought aluminium recycling companies and extrusion specialists in the UK, claims to have invested between £1.2 million and £1.3 million to introduce better health and safety standards at the Midlands after the accidental demise of an employee in 2017. The departed soul, Stuart Towns, was only thirty-five years old when he succumbed to severe blows in his head induced at Alutrade’s site on Tat Bank Road, Oldbury. After being accused of corporate manslaughter, Alutrade was defamed at the Wolverhampton Crown Court in March and was charged almost £2 million. Three senior management members were also subjected to penalties after they were proven guilty following the Health and Safety at Work Act. The director at Alutrade, Andrew Powell, told sources...
Runaya Refining LLP has bagged greater credit ratings of ‘IND BBB+ from India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) as against the former ratings of ‘IND BBB’, while its short-term limits have been upgraded to IND A2. The advancement in credit ratings represents Runaya's improvement in net leverage for FY2022 and 1QFY2023 on the back of higher dross processing volumes and operating profitability. The commissioning of aluminium dross processing facilities at Vedanta’s Limited’s subsidiary Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd’s (BALCO) Korba (Chhattisgarh) also played an imported factor. Runaya Refining was formed in 2017 by Annanya Agarwal and Naivedya Agarwal, sons of Navin Agarwal, Chairman of Vedanta Limited, India’s leading aluminium producer, to capture the market of aluminium dross. The company has...
