Hydro has joined Siemens Mobility, TSR Group and Voestalpine in the Train2Train pilot project aimed at recovering aluminium from decommissioned trains and recycling it into components for new rail vehicles. The project brings together the rail value chain, from train dismantling and material...
Canada is using a mix of federal funding, provincial recycling rules and private investment to build a stronger market for recycled aluminium. Over the past five years, policy changes and new projects have improved scrap collection, added remelting capacity and reinforced the country’s position as...
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The gas supply restriction by Russia has propelled the energy prices to surge, resulting in the aluminium smelters slashing production, which are big customers for secondary non-ferrous metals. The European metal sector is countering a massive challenge following the Ukraine-Russia geopolitical...
Pondy Oxides & Chemicals, one of India's top secondary lead smelters, is planning to build an aluminium recycling/melting facility at its current location in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu. The project is a part of the company's expansion strategy for 2022, with a projected total expenditure of INR 5...
Aluminium is a very resilient metal that can be recycled repeatedly without losing its original value. Recycling aluminium conserves 95 per cent of the energy required to produce the same quantity of aluminium from scratch. Recycling metals isn't always as simple as it may be. Steel is the hardest...
Gravita India, Jaipur-based aluminium recycler and alloy ingot producer, has reportedly announced the start of commercial aluminium production at a new recycling plant owned by its step down subsidiary situated in Senegal, West Africa. The plant, with an annual capacity of around 4,000 MTPA,...
On Saturday, October 8, Atharva Metalcraft, a scrap processing facility in Ludhiana, witnessed a severe accident which injured seven people working there. According to the police, the machine used for compressing scrap material exploded, resulting in the blast. Two of the seven workers were...
Novelis Inc., an American industrial aluminium company, specialised in making flat-rolled products (FRPs) and recycling, announced today that it initiated operations of a closed-loop-recycling with Smart Press Shop (SPS). In the partnership, Novelis supplies aluminium FRPs from its Nachterstedt...
The country linking northeast Africa with the Middle East, Egypt, witnessed the launch of SIG's 'Recycle for Good', an innovative new recycling initiative to enable immediate household and food service industry collection of used aseptic carton packs through tech-based solutions. However, this...
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the Yampa Valley Sustainability Council (YVSC) collaborate to inform Coloradans about the best trash management techniques. Residents are being urged by YVSC to purchase and recycle aluminium and other metal containers over plastic...
The Suffolk Waste Partnership has launched a new scheme to encourage metal packaging recycling. To increase kerbside recycling rates, residents of the region are urged to recycle empty aerosol cans, food and beverage cans, aluminium foil packaging and foil trays, and metal screw tops. “Our...
KDB Capital, run by state lender Korea Development Bank has occupied an aluminium recycling company, DS Liquid, in collaboration with local private equity fund (PEF) Harvest Equity Partners in order to enhance its ESG portfolio. KDB, along with the newly established Harvest Equity firm, raised a...
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) during their Convention & Exposition (ISRI2022) in late March found Greg Wittbecker, an advisor to London-based CRU International referring to the scarcity of primary aluminium worldwide and encouraging the growth of scrap recycle to fill in the...
Tom Giddings, the executive director of Alupro, made it to Letsrecycle.com '35 under 35' list for 2022. The list, which features leaders of the future and celebrates their extraordinary experiences within the waste and resources business, aims to highlight the sector's emerging stars. The judges...
In Grande Prairie, Alberta, Nespresso Canada has introduced its Green Bag recycling programme. Through collaboration with Aquatera Utilities Inc., Nespresso Club members who live in the City of Grande Prairie will now have access to this recycling solution. The first municipality in Alberta to use...
Thailand has received its first AI-enabled reverse vending machine (RVM), ‘Circu-larOne’ from SUSTAINTECH, n eco-friendly tech start-up. This vending machine has been developed by Thai people and is controlled by the cloud business of global technology company Tencent. The RVM accepts PET or glass...
With an aim to increase its refining capacity, Runaya Refining has placed an order for two additional SARAH hot dross processing units from Taha International. The acquisition aims to strategise to employ cutting-edge technology in the manufacturing industry while also preserving the environment....
Collaboration between Silicon Ranch Corp., a sizable independent power producer based in Nashville, Tennessee, and SOLARCYCLE, a tech-driven solar recycling platform, will recycle obsolete solar modules from Silicon Ranch projects using SOLARCYCLE's high-recovery recycling technology. The...
USA-based technology brand Ocean Insight has created a modular solution that can successfully sort light metal elements like aluminium and magnesium very quickly. This device, known as SpeedSorter, applies laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) to rapidly recognise alloy configuration as...
Greg Wittbecker, an advisor to London-based CRU International, reported that aluminium experienced a "marked turnaround in primary demand" since scrap processors and traders gathered in Las Vegas for the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) Convention & Exposition (ISRI2022) in late...
