Recycling Pavilion at ALUMINIUM 2014 will highlight importance of Urban Mining and Sustainability

“Urban Mining” is gaining in importance in the aluminium industry. The recycling ratios in application industries such as automotive or construction have meanwhile reached about 95 percent, and more than 60 percent in packaging.

The potential and the technical possibilities of recycling will be presented at the ALUMINIUM World Fair in Düsseldorf from 7 to 9 October, which will highlight this topic at a special “Recycling Pavilion”.

With its new “Recycling Pavilion”, the trade fair reflects the aluminium industry’s increasing orientation towards issues of sustainability and energy efficiency. At the joint stand in Hall 9, specialised companies of the industry from Germany, Italy, Spain, China and Dubai present their recycling solutions. The “Recycling Pavilion” is of interest to scrap dealers, suppliers of separating facilities, shredding/crushing plant, remelting facilities and suppliers of secondary aluminium.

Solutions to meet the growing worldwide demand for primary and recycled aluminium are a central issue at the pavilion. Currently, only a third of the demand for aluminium can be met from scrap recycling. Demand for aluminium is growing faster than the quantities of returned aluminium scrap, according to Deutsche Bundesverband GDA, Gesamtverband der Aluminiumindustrie. The optimisation of recycling processes is therefore all the more important.

ALUMINIUM 2014 demonstrates potential of recycling

Aluminium recycling is a profitable business, as will be demonstrated at the ALUMINIUM World Fair held in Düsseldorf from 7 to 9 October. At the world’s largest trade event of the aluminium industry, aluminium producers and converters meet with suppliers of technologies and equipment for production, further processing and finishing. In four exhibition halls, approximately 950 exhibitors from 50 countries show the full performance spectrum every two years: from the production of the base material through to its processing and the finished product – and back to the raw material via the recycling process. With the Recycling Pavilion, the trade fair creates a special contact point for the recycling industry for the first time. At the same time, ALUMINIUM stays on a growth course for its 10th edition: with several months still to go until the trade fair opens, Halls 9 to 12 of Düsseldorf Exhibition Centre are almost completely sold out.