Europe’s recycled aluminium industry is an important component of the global secondary aluminium supply chain, with Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom (UK) representing key national markets. Production across the European region stood at nearly 6 million tonnes in 2023, supported by established scrap recovery systems, industrial recycling capacity and demand for recycled metal. Russia also contributes to the regional landscape through secondary aluminium production units concentrated in several industrial centres. According to AL Circle’s analysis in its report, “ World Recycled ALuminium Market Analysis Industry Forecast ”, the four countries present different market structures, from Germany’s substantial recycling capacity and Italy’s scrap-based production to the UK’s organised...
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...
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The manufacturing sector has navigated South Korea’s expeditious economic development, switching it into a global industrial hub. The country is one the largest shipbuilding destination, fifth in car making, sixth largest steel producer and a billion-dollar surplus importer of aluminium scrap. Smart manufacturing and services dominate the economy, employing the majority of the population, among it includes the major manufactures are mobile phones, consumer electronics, household whitegoods, cars, ships, steel and all of which are exported around the world. The East Asian nation on the southern half of the Korean Peninsula, South Korea imported 1.47 million tonnes of aluminium scrap during 2019-20 and the expenditure recorded for the import volume was $2.69 billion. In 2019, the South...
On Wednesday, September 8, Novelis Inc., the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, declared that it expanded its research partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) Novelis Innovation Hub, aiming at enhancing materials and process research to help Novelis build a sustainable world and achieve a net zero carbon footprint by 2050. The expansion of partnership will work on accelerating the pace of innovation via high throughput development methodologies and artificial intelligence and developing new generations of electric vehicle batteries using the higher amount of recycled aluminum. Philippe Meyer, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Novelis Inc., said: "Our collaboration provides an exciting opportunity to accelerate our R&D and to...
The second most recycled metal after the steel is aluminium, and about one-third of all aluminium is extracted from scrap products. Recycling of aluminium diminishes the need for raw materials and also restricts the usage of valuable energy resources. The primary benefits of aluminium recycling are that it uses 95% less energy than producing aluminium from raw materials. However, it also saves 97% of GHG emissions emitted in the primary production process. Recycling 1 tonne of aluminium saves around 9 tonnes of CO2 emissions and approx. 4 tonnes of bauxite. Recycled aluminium is used in the manufacturing of aircraft, automobiles, bicycles, boats, computers, cookware, gutters, siding, wire, cans, etc. Slovenia is an independent, advanced, and stable nation and has had an open market...
The United States imports of aluminium scrap from Canada stood at 36,900 tonnes in June 2021, an increase of 2,800 tonnes or 8.21 per cent month-on-month, found the US Census Bureau. In May, the US imported 34,100 tonnes of aluminium scrap, essentially unchanged from 34,200 tonnes in April 2021. Total imports in the three-month period ended June 30 amounted to 105,200 tonnes, up by 7.02 per cent from 98,300 tonnes in Q1 2021. On a year-on-year basis, the United States’ aluminium scrap imports from Canada in June 2021 stood 20.59 per cent higher than 30,600 tonnes. During the first half of the year, the imports from Canada came in at 203,000 tonnes, 29.30 per cent more year-on-year than 157,000 tonnes. The United States’ total aluminium imports (including aluminium crude metals and alloys...
South Korea's imports of aluminium scrap from the US stood at 15,900 tonnes in June 2021, from 21,600 tonnes in June 2020, marking a decrease of 26.39% year-on-year. On a monthly basis, imports declined by 14.52% from 18,600 tonnes in May 2021, as updated by the US Census Bureau. For the first six months of 2021, South Korea imported 121,000 tonnes of aluminium scrap, from 142,000 tonnes imported for the first six months of 2020. That indicated a decline of 14.79% year-on-year. South Korea's imports of total aluminium (semi-finished products, crude metals and alloy and scrap) from the US were 16,500 tonnes in June 2021, down by 30% from 23,500 tonnes in June 2020. Imports stood 18.32% lower from May 2021’s imports of 20,200 tonnes. Total aluminium imports came in at 129,000 tonnes in...
Japan ranks as the world's third-largest automobile manufacturing nation and is also recognized as the largest electronics goods industry. However, the major Japanese export industries comprise automobiles, consumer electronics, computers, semiconductors, and iron and steel. Furthermore, the additional key industries which contribute to the country’s economy are mining, nonferrous metals, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, bio-industry, shipbuilding, aerospace, textiles, and processed foods. The island country in East Asia, located in the northwest Pacific Ocean, Japan exported 254,739 tonnes of aluminium scrap in 2020 to 24 nations globally and generated revenue of $271.72 million. Out of the total export of aluminium scrap by Japan in 2020, the five countries with high volume of import...
The week witnessed announcement of Hydro’s aluminium recycling capacity Sjunnen extrusion plant and India’s aluminium scrap imports from the United States. Some of the major highlights of the week are: Hydro will expand its aluminium recycling capacity at its Sjunnen extrusion plant in Sweden by 50% in a €11.3 million expansion. The expansion, which will be finalized by the end of 2022, will meet increased market demand for low-carbon aluminium profiles across all industries where Hydro Extrusions operates. The recycling capacity will increase from 42,000 tonnes to 62,000 tonnes per year. To know more: https://www.alcircle.com/news/hydro-to-expand-aluminium-recycling-capacity-at-its-sjunnen-plant-70192 India’s aluminium scrap imports from the United States stood at 28,100 tonnes in June...
In October 2020, the Government of Kazakhstan has published a draft which mandated to stress the country's ban on scrap metal exports by truck. The barring of exports comprised of used and exhausted pipes, rails, railway elements and rolling stock, but excludes alloyed and resistant steel scrap. However, in October 2018, the measure was enacted to prohibit illegal scrap exports for approx. 500,000 tonnes per year at the time, with a consequential amount of this heading to Russia. It has had no impact on documented shipments by rail, as Kazakhstan and Russian are both members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and the Eurasian Customs Union. In May 2020, Kazakhstan imposed a ban on scrap exports by rail without any formal announcement, bestowing to a scrap shortage in Russia and...
The leading association that creates awareness and impotence of recycling, metal recycling trade among members, All India Non-Ferrous Metal Exim Association (ANMA), which comprises around 500 aluminium scrap recyclers in Gujarat, has urged the Union government to abstain from enforcing BIS (Bureau of India Standards) quality standards on imported aluminium scrap. On 24 th August 2021, Jayant Jain, the honorary secretary of ANMA during the event of the Annual General Meeting in Ahmedabad, said: “The import duty on aluminium scrap in our neighbouring countries is nil. Our government has imposed a 2.5 per cent import duty on the same. We fear that the government under the influence of larger players in aluminium production might raise this import duty. Why should there be a duty on scrap in...
Hydro will expand its aluminium recycling capacity at its Sjunnen extrusion plant in Sweden by 50% in a €11.3 million expansion. The expansion, which will be finalized by the end of 2022, will meet increased market demand for low-carbon aluminium profiles across all industries where Hydro Extrusions operates. The recycling capacity will increase from 42,000 tonnes to 62,000 tonnes per year. “By using more process scrap and end-of-life aluminium from local industries and our own extrusion plants in Vetlanda and Finspång, we can supply more low-carbon aluminium to the local market. The recycling casthouses have an important role to fill in the transition toward a greener economy,” said Jonas Bjuhr, Managing Director Hydro Extrusions Sweden. The location in Sweden is ideal to capture...
The Covid-19 pandemic is not the solitary reason to turn off the keys for the last time of many aircraft. The rise in the environmental impact of flying is another major reason for putting further pressure on airlines to turn off the engine forever for certain aircraft. Modern aircraft are much more efficient and the airlines persist that they the performing everything to reduce emissions pollution, the spotlight is shifting to another eco concern. Early 2000 was the benchmark year when the dying aeroplane was considered to be an issue. The retired aircraft were used to be disposed of like vehicles or crushed or left out for corrosion in uninhabited scrapyards. However, in 2007, a French firm has developed a solution to the problem and at the same time took the edge of a business...
India’s aluminium scrap imports from the United States stood at 28,100 tonnes in June 2021, reflecting a downfall of 1,500 tonnes or 5.07 per cent from 29,600 tonnes in May, found the latest data from the US Census Bureau. However, on a year-on-year basis, the imports stood 119.53 per cent higher than 12,800 tonnes. In the second quarter of 2021 ended June 30, India’s aluminium scrap imports from the US totalled 88,000 tonnes, up by 8,000 tonnes or 8.64 per cent from 81,000 tonnes in Q1 ended March 31. In the first half of the year, India’s imports from the US amounted to 169,000 tonnes, 37.40 per cent more than 123,000 tonnes during the same period last year. The United States total aluminium scrap exports in June 2021 came in at 157,000 tonnes, down by 7.65 per cent from 170,000 tonnes...
The aluminium recycled sector remained quite spotlighted this week, primarily due to the Tata Motors proposal to build a 36,000 vehicle per year scrapping facility in Gujarat, India came down in a row with the country’s focus to increase domestic scrap metal processing capacity and diminish dependency on scrap imports. On the path, Ball Beverage Packaging’s India unit is diversifying its aluminium cans packaging offering to multiple other segments such as sparkling water, wine and alcoholic drinks i.e. whiskey, rum and vodka to cater for the surge in demand, due to aluminium 100% recycling feature. The recycling of aluminium is gradually becoming crucial in the global aluminium value chain business, as it bars the metal aluminium to be sourced from the excavation of bauxite and shields...
The recycling of aluminium is gradually becoming crucial in the global aluminium value chain business, as it bars the metal aluminium to be sourced from the excavation of bauxite and shields exploitation. The aluminium industry generates a huge amount of metal scrap and also aluminium in use collected as metal scrap now get processed for recycling, instead of landfilling, which is considered as a harmful act. The cradle of Western Civilization, the birthplace of democracy, the Olympic Games, Greece exported 17,334 tonnes of aluminium scrap in 2020 and the revenue generated from the export accounted for $16.01 million. In 2020, Greece exported aluminium scrap to 23 nations around the globe, while the top five nations are India, Albania, Netherlands, Bulgaria and Italy imported 53.40% of...
The Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI), Washington, has announced to give $50,000 aluminium can capture grant to Gel Recycling, a material recovery facility (MRF) in Port Orange, Florida, as a gesture to help the facility recover more beverage cans. Gel Recycling plans to use this grant by investing in aluminium can capture equipment, such as metal detector and optical sorter, as part of a larger facility upgrade. Ardagh Metal Packaging and Crown Holdings both contributed funds to the grant. According to the report, Gel Recycling’s investment in new aluminium can capture equipment will result in 3.5 million more beverage cans capture at the facility. Metal detector and optical sorter will help the facility eliminate used beverage cans from being missorted into the MRF’s plastics pile....
MIT has conducted new research for the production of hydrogen, whereby it has used scrap aluminium and water to potentially reduce pollution while the production of hydrogen. Aluminium reacts with water at room temperature forming aluminium hydroxide and hydrogen. Hydrogen production emits pollution as it requires fossil fuel-based processes that some estimates claim generates as much as two percent of greenhouse gas emissions globally. Additional pollution is created during the the transportation of hydrogen from its production site to where it is used. However, new process researched by a team of MIT does not produce any greenhouse gases and also solves the problem of transportation because this process can be conducted where the hydrogen is needed as long as there is water available....
The General Manager and Vice President of Ball Beverage Packaging for India and Southeast Asia, Amit Lahoti said: “The demand for can-packed products would sharply rise, given the increasing emphasis on recycling and sustainable solutions.” Mr Lahoti highlighted that the per capita can consumption in India is one per annum while it is 70 in Vietnam and about 40 in China. He further added: “Consumer behaviour and safety concerns in the wake of the pandemic were fuelling demand for aluminium cans in India.” Ball Beverages Packaging India is the subsidiary of American multinational Ball Corporation and supplies aluminium cans for beverages and beer companies. “There is increased awareness around how plastic packaging is adversely affecting marine life, polluting the rivers and oceans and...
The Indian automobile giant Tata Motors plans to set up a 36,000 vehicle per year scrapping facility in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, in a row with India's focus to increase domestic scrap metal processing capacity and reduce dependency on scrap imports. On 13 th August, Tata Motors signed an MoU at the Investor Summit in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, in presence of the Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari; Chief Minister of Gujarat, Vijay Rupani and other delegates from the Government of Gujarat and Government of India. The objective with which the vehicle scrappage policy is implemented is to reduce pollution, while it will phase out unfit and polluting vehicles and promote recovery of aluminium and other metals and materials that can be recycled. <iframe width="500" height="320"...
