EGA expands European aluminium recycling footprint with 80% Eco Green acquisition
Emirates Global Aluminium has completed its acquisition of an 80 per cent stake in Italy's Eco Green, strengthening its aluminium scrap collection, sorting and recycling network across Europe. Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) is expanding its aluminium recycling business in Europe with the completed...
EU plans aluminium scrap export ban on non-OECD countries; China, India in focus
The European Union (EU) is preparing a broader restriction on aluminium scrap exports to non-Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, replacing an earlier trade proposal that would have covered only part of the bloc’s scrap flows. The move could largely impact...
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INSHARP accredits River Metals Recycling for achieving workplace health & safety excellence
<p>River Metals Recycling (RMR) of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, was re-certified by the Indiana Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program (INSHARP) for achieving excellence in workplace injury and illness prevention.There was zero OSHA-recordable injury in RMR facility for five consecutive...
ISRI seeks nominations for 2017 Design for Recycling Award
<p>The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), the Voice of the Recycling Industry, today released a call for entries for the 2017 Design for Recycling (DFR) Award. The DFR Award is ISRI’s highest award given annually to the most outstanding contribution to products designed with...
New can stock (class) scrap receipts up 7.3% YOY during August 2016
<p>According to Aluminum Association report, U.S. received a total of 62.1 million pounds of new can stock (class) scrap receipts during August 2016, which records an increase of 7.3 per cent over 57.8 million pounds in August 2015.</p> <p><br /><img style="vertical-align: middle; display: block;...
Recyclers to meet for Annual Commodities Roundtable
<p>The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc. (ISRI), the Voice of the Recycling Industry, is once again hosting its annual Commodities Roundtable Forum, September 19 to 21, 2016, in Chicago. The once a year event is a must-attend for all involved in the trade of scrap commodities, from...
India's upcoming vehicle scrapping policy to have beneficial impact on aluminium auto part makers
<p>The Indian automobile industry stands to benefit immensely from the vehicle scrappage policy to be implemented shortly by the government, said Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Nitin Gadkari. He said this at the 56th ACMA annual session, held in New Delhi on August 30. The...
Secondary recovery in U.S up 4% YTD in H1 2016: USGS
<p>The U.S. aluminium industry purchased an estimated 775 million pounds of aluminium scrap during June 2016, according to aluminium recycling statistics published by the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of Interior, which recorded a slight increase of seven-tenths of one per cent over the June...
Secondary aluminium recovery in U.S. up 4.6% YTD in May: USGS
<p>The U.S. aluminium industry purchased an estimated 751 million pounds of aluminium scrap during May 2016, according to aluminium recycling statistics published by the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of Interior, up 10.6 per cent over the May 2015 total of 679 million.<br /><br />According to...
India Aluminium Scrap prices remain stable; Aluminium Futures down
<p>India major aluminium scrap commodities prices remained stable on Thursday, while aluminium futures prices at Multi Commodity Exchange settled down on profit booking after prices rallied to test 113.70 mark tracking gain's from LME aluminium which held near their strongest level in 13 months on...
Imports up and export down in North America during H1 2016
<p>According to the estimates by Aluminium Association for the month of July 2016, “Index of Net New Orders of Aluminum Mill Products” dropped 9.9 per cent from the previous month. It reports a drop of 8.3 per cent in orders for flat roll products. Orders for extruded products declined...
Aluminium scrap markets yet to pick up momentum globally
<p>Metal scrap consumers in Russia, especially those dealing in aluminium scrap, have been taken aback lately by the speculations regarding Kazakhstan imposing export barriers on some types of scrap. ‘This is in obvious contradiction of many Customs Union regulations and other free trade...
India major aluminium scrap prices continue to stay flat; MCX aluminium down
<p>India major aluminium scrap commodities prices continued to stay flat on Tuesday, while aluminium futures prices at Multi Commodity Exchange settled down due to seasonally weak demand in top metals consumer China and concern that Beijing may not cut rates soon. <br /><br />The major aluminium...
Malang univ students awarded for creating deodorant from processed aluminium waste
<p>Aluminium recycling has long become mainstream, at least in those parts of the globe, where the consumption rate of aluminium packaging solutions has been reasonably high for some time now. Secondary aluminium extracted from packaging solutions has made its way into a number of economically...
Mahindra, MSTC ink agreement for setting up auto shredding and recycling plant in India
<p>India's Mahindra Intertrade, a part of the diversified Mahindra Group has inked an agreement with the State-run metal scrap trading firm MSTC for setting up an auto shredding and recycling plant in the country. The JV agreement was inked in presence of Steel Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh and...
US secondary aluminium recovery in May up 11 per cent year-over-year
<p>To balance the downturn in primary aluminium industry, the US aluminium industry is boosting up the secondary recovery with renewed initiatives.<br /><br />According to the aluminium recycling statistics published by the U.S. Geological Survey and Department of Interior the U.S. aluminium...
India major aluminium scrap prices remain flat; aluminium futures up
<p>India major aluminium scrap commodities prices remained flat on Wednesday; while aluminium futures prices at Multi Commodity Exchange ended up as support seen after Norsk Hydro raise its estimate of growth in global aluminium demand to between 4 per cent and 5 per centfrom 3-4 per cent. <br...
India major aluminium scrap prices down in line with aluminium futures
<p>India major aluminium scrap commodities prices declined on Tuesday in line with aluminium futures prices at Multi Commodity Exchange tracking LME Three-month aluminium which closed down 0.6 percent at $1,625 as recent US data suggests tepid economic growth, slowing manufacturing activity and...
India major aluminium scrap prices show flat trend; aluminium futures down
<p>India major aluminium scrap commodities prices showed a flat trend on Wednesday, while aluminium futures prices at Multi Commodity Exchange ended down in the line of expectation tracking weakness from LME Aluminium which sank to its lowest in six weeks in yesterday's...
New LIBS sorting system developed for aluminium and other non-aluminium metals recycling
<p>SMEs and research organisations in the EU-funded SHREDDERSORT project have developed and demonstrated a new industrial sorting system to separate non-ferrous shredder scrap into cast aluminium (Al), wrought Al, and non-Al categories. Compared to the unsorted material, the sorted categories are...
