Secondary aluminium is increasingly central to Europe’s decarbonisation plans. It is used in automotive castings, construction profiles, packaging and consumer goods and is valued because it can deliver similar mechanical properties to primary metal while requiring a fraction of the energy and...
India’s aluminium recycling sector has matured significantly over the past decade. Secondary aluminium, produced by remelting and refining scrap, now accounts for a growing share of the country’s total aluminium consumption. Recycling aluminium requires up to 95 per cent less energy than smelting...
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The economy of Costa Rica is expected to shrink 5% by end of this year, as the country is hit hard by COVID-19 outbreak and the central bank stated it as the steepest decline since 1982 for the Central American nation. Costa Rica’s export of aluminium scrap during 2018-19 has been recorded at...
Aluminium Industry experts are reportedly emphasising the urgent need for BIS (The Bureau of Indian Standards) quality standards for aluminium scrap to hinder the imports and use of cheap and sub-standard scrap in India. The BIS standards will ensure quality, environment, and safety concerns as per...
The cabinet of ministers’ of the island nation in South Asia, Sri Lanka has decided to ban the export of metals scrap, which includes aluminium in a proposal to save them for domestic production. However, some scrap metal could be exported under a recommendation of the Industrial Development Board...
India’s aluminium scrap imports from the United States continued to increase in August 2020, according to the latest data released the US Geological Survey. The imports in August grew by 5,300 tonnes or 24.42 per cent from 21,700 tonnes in July to 27,000 tonnes. In June 2020, India’s aluminium...
The US exports of aluminium scrap stood at 158,000 tonnes in July 2020, with a year-on-year increase of 3.95%, according to the latest report from the US Geological Survey. On a month-on-month comparison, exports climbed by 5.33% from June’s export volume of 150,000 tonnes. The US exported 1.010...
China has approved 121,000 tonnes of aluminium scrap imports in its 12 batch of quota this year, according to the China Solid Waste and Chemicals Management report. This brings China’s total approved amount of aluminium scrap import quotas to 818,000 tonnes so far this year. SMM estimates China’s...
The economy of Peru is an upper-middle-income economy as classified by the World Bank and is the 47th largest in the world by total GDP. The majority of its economy is driven by industries such as mining, manufacturing, fishing, and tourism. The Southern American nation’s export of aluminium scrap...
According to the Shanghai Metals Market, the Chinese secondary aluminium producers operating rates increased by 2.3 percentage points on the month but fell by 5 percentage points from a year ago to stand at 50.3 per cent in July. Recovery in domestic and overseas automobile demand resulting in the...
India’s imports of aluminium scrap from the US came in at 4,190 tonnes in May, with a month-on-month decrease of 60%. India had imported 10,400 tonnes in April 2020. On a yearly basis, imports reduced by 83% from 24,200 tonnes in May 2019, as updated by the US Census Bureau. India imported 111,000...
The China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association's recycling branch (CMRA) is urging shipping firms to pursue carrying aluminium scrap. This has been conveyed on 11 th August’20, specifying their concern over the possibilities of dearth for raw material. From 1 st July’20 onwards, new standards for...
Austria is a highly developed industrialized country with an important service sector. The most important industries are mechanical engineering, metals, construction, chemicals, electronics and vehicle manufacturing. Aluminium scrap export of Austria during 2017-19 remained enterprising market, as...
According to the latest data released by the US Geological Survey for April, the United States, in the said month, exported 124,000 tonnes of aluminium scrap to various parts of the world. Month-on-month, the export declined by 39,000 tonnes or 24 per cent, following a hike in the previous month....
The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) has reportedly approved Scalmalloy, an aluminium-magnesium-scandium powder alloy designed for metal 3D printing technologies, from ApWorks for Formula One. The alloy has a very high tensile strength (UTS 520 MPa) and yield strength (480 MPa). It...
The economy of Indonesia is the largest in Southeast Asia and is one of the emerging market economies of the world. Indonesia is a member of G20 and classified as a newly industrialised country. The aluminium scrap import of the island nation during 2019 was recorded with 159,742 tonnes and the...
China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment has issued the ninth batch of aluminium scrap import quotas for 2020 on Monday, July 6, according to Shanghai Metals Market report. The Ministry has confirmed that the ninth batch of quotas would allow 209,660 tonnes of additional high-grade aluminium...
The economy of Croatia is a developing high-income service-based economy and with the tertiary sector accounting for 60% of total gross domestic product (GDP). The Croatian economy is one of the strongest economies in Southeast Europe. COVID-19 Pandemic has caused more than 400.000 workers to file...
India’s imports of aluminium scrap from the US stood at 34,100 tonnes in March, with a month-on-month increase of 3.65%. India had imported 32,900 tonnes in February 2020. On a yearly basis, imports increased by 31% from 26,100 tonnes in March 2019, as updated by the US Census Bureau. In the first...
Shanghai Metals Market reveals that China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment has issued the eighth batch of copper and aluminium scrap quotas for 2020 on Tuesday, June 16. The authorities confirmed that the eighth batch of metal scrap quotas would allow additional 5,840 tonnes of high-grade...
