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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Hungarian eco-center features Andritz shredder for e-scrap and appliances
Andritz MeWa, part of the Germany-based Andritz Group, has completed a recycling plant for electrical and electronic scrap and refrigerators in the town of Karcag in eastern Hungary. The plant is the start of the new Eco-Center being set up in Karcag intended to strengthen the region’s economy with...
CMRA says China imported 3.7 million tons of scrap in June
The Beijing-based China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association Recycling Metal Branch (CMRA) says data released by China Customs shows that in June 2014 China imported 3.7 million tons of scrap commodities, including metal, paper and plastic scrap. The value of the 350,000 tons of “unwrought...
Newell Recycling and Blaze Recycling merge
Newell Recycling of Georgia LLC, headquartered in East Point, Georgia, has entered into a definitive merger agreement with the scrap metal recycling firm Blaze Recycling & Metals LLC, Norcross, Georgia. The combined company will be called Newell Recycling Southeast. The deal is subject to customary...
ISRI adds Thorn-Aluminum Breakage spec to the Scrap Specifications Circular
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) announced today a new nonferrous specification has been published in the Scrap Specifications Circular 2014. Approved by the ISRI nonferrous division and board of directors, the new specification states that, “Thorn—Aluminum Breakage shall consist...
China’s recycling industry valued at $100 billion
BCC Research, based in Wellesley, Massachusetts, says about $103 billion in recycling-related economic activity occurred in China in 2013, down slightly from $107.5 billion in 2012. In its newly released report, Recycling Markets in China, the research firm forecasts China's recycling market will...
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...
North American Aluminum scrap prices rise marginally
The North American Aluminum scrap prices ended marginally higher on ScrapMonster Price Index as on July 8th, Tuesday. 1100 Scrap prices moved higher by $0.01 per Lb. The prices of 3003 Scrap too increased $0.01 per Lb. A similar up move of $0.01 per Lb was witnessed in 356 Aluminum Wheels, 5052...
Nonferrous Metal Recycling industry revenue to grow to $19 bn in 2014
Revenue for the Nonferrous Metal Recycling industry is forecast to grow strongly over the five years to 2014, rising at an annualized rate of 12.1% to $19.0 billion, said IBISWorld Industry. “As research continues to demonstrate the energy efficiencies and cost benefits of using recycled metals in...
Eurometal's SENNEBOGEN shifts 480t of scrap daily
The first SENNEBOGEN 821 E-Series delivered to the French market has made a solid impression, handling up to 480 tonnes of scrap metal daily. The compact materials handling machine is owned by Eurometal, and is working at the company’s Meyzieu scrapyard near Lyon. The unit was supplied by...
Lagos recyclers buy N4m waste drink cans weekly
Recycling companies in Lagos State currently source at least N4 million empty aluminium drink cans every month from scavengers and waste resource merchants. A waste resource merchant, who chooses to be called Jaco, says there are about 10 companies in Lagos that buy empty aluminium drink cans and...
Recycling is big money for South Carolina
A report by Dr. Frank Hefner, an economist with the College of Charleston Department of Economics and Finance, finds that the recycling industry in South Carolina brings in $13 billion to the state's economy each year - double the estimated impact of recycling in 2006. The economic impact report...
AZ Adds Recycling to rest stops
The Arizona Department of Transportation is implementing a recycling program at its rest areas. The state has already installed recycling receptacles at three of its rest areas and plans to bring in its other sites soon. “With each site visit I make to our rest areas, I see how necessary recycling...
Recycle Week 2014 kicks off
Recycle Week 2014 kicks off today (June 16) with a number of events taking place up and down the UK aimed at encouraging people to cut waste and recycle more. The 11th annual recycling awareness week runs until Sunday June 22 and will this year operate under the theme ‘Recycling at Home and Away’...
India e-scrap volumes set to grow
Discarded electronics are poised to provide a growing source of secondary commodities within India, according to a recently published report by TechSci Research called India E-Waste Management Market Forecast & Opportunities, 2019. Noida, India-based TechSci Research says India’s e-scrap market “is...
BlueOak Resources to build electronics recycling plant in Arkansas
Burlingame, California, has broken ground on an electronics recycling facility in Osceola, Arkansas, which aims to extract precious metals from obsolete electronics collected throughout the region. The company says it expects the plant to be operational by the end of 2015, processing 15 million...
Downstream aluminium market highlight from US and Canada
Aluminum imports of ingot, scrap and mill products into the U.S. and Canada (excluding cross-border trade) totaled 516 million pounds during April 2014, up 24.8 percent from the April 2013 total of 413 million pounds. Including scrap, which accounted for about 51 percent of reported aluminum...
Aluminium scrap market in the Middle East 'at nascent stage'
The Gulf Co-Operation Council (GCC) region’s aluminium scrap market will achieve an annual growth rate of around 10.6% between the period 2010 to 2017. According to Frost & Sullivan, the research firm, the volume of scrap that originates from Middle East will reach 500 000 tons by 2015. Of these...
European secondary aluminium prices edge higher on lack of imports
European secondary aluminium ingot prices edged up on Friday June 6, as the relative lack of UK material on the continent led to a tightening of supply. DIN226 pressure diecasting ingot rose to €1,680-1,740 ($2,286-2,368) per tonne from €1,670-1,730 previously, as the strong sterling continued to...
