Germany’s aluminium scrap exports rebound 4.58% in H1 2026: Which countries are buying the most?
Germany’s aluminium scrap trade showed signs of recovery in the first half of 2026, with exports to the world reaching 616,000 tonnes, up 4.58 per cent from 589,000 tonnes in H1 2025. The increase was even more pronounced against the second half of 2025, with H1 2026 shipments rising 7.50 per cent...
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...
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Japan aluminum scrap exports seen at record as South Korea buys
Japan’s exports of aluminum scrap are headed for a record this year as a weaker yen and higher recycling capacity in South Korea boost shipments, according to Mitsui Bussan Metals Co. “This year’s exports will be a record if the yen and aluminum prices remain stable,” said Shigeyuki Fukushima,...
Japanese scrap aluminum prices rise on tight supply
Japan's scrap aluminum prices have risen by 5-8% from a month ago due to tightening supply, local trade sources said Tuesday. Prices for telik, used by secondary aluminum alloy smelters, were heard in the range of Yen 135-140/kg ($1,380-1,430/mt) ex-yard this week, up Yen 5-8/kg from a month ago,...
Scrap exports hamper downstream industry in Middle East: Frost & Sullivan
Secondary aluminium production and the downstream industry in the Middle East are being limited by large-scale export of aluminium scrap, a result of relatively low downstream activity, according to delegates at Metal Bulletin’s 21st recycled aluminium conference in Dubai. “Major recyclers [in the...
Europe needs 600,000 tpy of new recycling capacity by 2020 – Norsk Hydro
Europe needs to add 600,000 tpy of aluminium recycling capacity by 2020, Norsk Hydro head of recycling Roland Scharf-Bergmann said. Speaking at Metal Bulletin’s 21st recycled aluminium conference in Dubai, he said that, as the level of primary aluminium production in Europe falls as a result of the...
BIR World Recycling Awards
“The world does not need scrap contracts,” proclaimed the London Metal Exchange’s former Chief Executive Officer Martin Abbott in his address to the latest BIR Non-Ferrous Metals Division meeting, held in Warsaw on 29 October 2013. Mr Abbott was in Warsaw to receive the BIR Certificate of Merit for...
Novelis commissions expanded Latchford Recycling Plant
Novelis, the world leader in aluminium rolling and recycling, announced today the commissioning of its expanded recycling plant in Latchford, Warrington in the UK. With an investment of approximately € 13.6 million (£6 million), the plant’s capacity will increase by over a third and becomes...
Brazilian aluminium scrap prices up again in October
Brazil’s domestic aluminium scrap market continued to strengthen in October with most prices recording monthly rises, while all were up from levels a year earlier, according to a survey released by the Brazilian aluminium association, Abal. The most expensive class of secondary aluminium items in...
Warren City Council modifying scrap metal proposal
An effort to stop copper and aluminum thefts from buildings continues today when a City Council committee will discuss modifying the city's salvage legislation proposal to allow city residents up to three free permits. Councilman Eddie Colbert, D-7th Ward, hopes to pass legislation next month that...
Aluminium scrap will be a big issue for secondary smelters in 2014
UK secondary aluminium producers are preparing for a difficult scrap market in 2014, with tightness expected across international markets and no expectations of lower prices to come. “Scrap will be an issue next year – we’re trying to maintain sensible stock levels until the new year, but when we...
Scrap aluminium wheel prices dip 1 cent
Scrap aluminium wheel prices have weakened in October, with several suppliers noting that consumers are reducing purchasing activities in an effort to normalise inventory levels. Free-market transaction prices for 356.1 wheels are between 82 and 84 cents per lb compared with 83 and 85 cents on...
Trailer, aluminum bales weighing 45,000 pounds stolen from Fort Myers recycling center
Fort Myers police are searching for the suspects who broke into Garden Street Recycling early Friday morning. Police say the suspects entered the Metro Parkway compound and removed a white 53-foot trailer containing 38 bales of aluminum and two green steel boxes. The green containers are 72-inches...
ISRI seeks nominations for Design for Recycling Award
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), the Voice of the Recycling Industry, today released a call for entries for the 2014 Design for Recycling® (DFR) Award. The DFR Award is ISRI’s highest award given annually to the most outstanding contribution to products designed with recycling in...
UK aluminium scrap market moves into balance
UK secondary aluminium prices were broadly stable on Wednesday October 23, while scrap moved into balance after dealers started offering more material to the market last week. LM6/LM25 gravity diecasting ingot edged down to £1,700-1,740 ($2,748-2,813) per tonne from £1,710-1,750 previously, but all...
Toyota Zambia donates aluminium scrap to CRE
Toyota Zambia has given aluminium scraps to Chazanga Aluminium Recycling Entrepreneurs (CRE) through the National Technology Business Council (NTBC). The firm at the weekend handed over the aluminium scrap worth K375, 000, which will go towards the project that was formed out of the International...
Novelis maintains recycled content targets despite scrap tightness
US aluminum sheet maker Novelis remains on track to reach 80% recycled content by 2020 despite a persistently tight scrap scenario, Marco Palmieri, president of Novelis North America, said in an interview late Wednesday. Palmieri, formerly president of Novelis South America, was named as head of...
Swansea Council makes £1 million from recycling
Swansea Council has made £1 million from selling its recycling. An answer to a question put to cabinet members ahead of council meeting next week revealed that the authority recycled nearly 6,000 tonnes of glass, over 7,500 tonnes of paper, and more than 1,100 tonnes of scrap metal and aluminium...
European secondary Aluminium flat as market makes 2014 plans
European secondary aluminium ingot prices stayed flat on Friday October 18, with activity slowing ahead of negotiations over 2014 supply contracts. “It’s still a little early to sign 2014 contracts, but that will happen in the next two or three weeks,” a producer in north Europe said. DIN226...
UK aluminium scrap dealers release metal into market
Large scrap dealers in the UK have started offering material to customers that they had been holding back in the hope of pushing up prices, sources said on Wednesday October 16. “Some people have been sitting on scrap, and it’s slowly but surely hitting them that it will get worse before it gets...
