Canada’s recycled aluminium sector: Key initiatives since 2021
Canada is using a mix of federal funding, provincial recycling rules and private investment to build a stronger market for recycled aluminium. Over the past five years, policy changes and new projects have improved scrap collection, added remelting capacity and reinforced the country’s position as...
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...
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Aluminium Scrap supply hold back Aluminum Die-casting Consumption
According to the data from China Custom that from Jan. to Mar. China has imported 570 thousand tons of aluminum scrap increased 2.5% yoy. The aluminum price ratio between domestic and foreign was still went down since the beginning of this year which leaded to the rising of import cost, thus...
Indian Primary Aluminum Price Up While LME Aluminum Dropped
On April 20, 2012, Indian primary aluminum jumped up 0.9 percent, landing north of $2.00 per kilogram and making it the day’s biggest increase. The cash price of primary aluminum weakened on the LME by 0.6 percent, settling at $2,016 per metric ton. Also on the LME, the 3-month price of primary...
Yechiu Metal Soars 14% As It Joins Taiwan Listings In China
Shares in Yechiu Metal Recycling (China), an aluminum products and scrap company with operations in China, the U.S. and Malaysia, soared by 14% in early trading today as it joined the growing ranks of Taiwan-controlled businesses listed at mainland bourses. Yechiu sold 105 million new shares at 13...
LME Aluminum Prices Dropping This Week, Asian Prices Steady
After Flat Days, 3-Month Aluminum Price Drops 0.9% The 3-month price of primary aluminum experienced the biggest price shift of the day in aluminum prices, dropping 0.9 percent on the LME to close at $2,068 per metric ton on April 19, 2012. The cash price of primary aluminum saw a 0.6 percent...
Novelis resumes purchase of cans on spot market
Aluminium recycling firm Novelis has resumed purchasing cans on the spot market after temporarily stopping earlier this year. The company had placed restrictions on can purchases for its 130,000 tonne capacity plant in Warrington during the early months of 2012. The move was prompted by a low...
Import Volume of Unwrought Aluminum and Aluminum Products Decreased 3.3%
According to China Custom that the import volume of unwrought aluminum and aluminum products in March was 120,494 tons which was lower than the former month. From January to March imported 175,157 tons of unwrought aluminum that increased 10.6% when compared with the same period of last year. In...
SINTEF scientists target impure aluminium
Norway: Following a decade of study and the invention of a specialised piece of equipment, the Norwegian Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research (SINTEF) is close to the moment of truth for a recycling method for impure aluminium. At the centre of its work is a four-metre-long piece of...
MIT: Time to Act on Contaminants in Recycled Aluminium
New research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has shown that while aluminium has long been the poster child of recycling, problems may arise unless measures are taken to reduce impurities that can build up as aluminium is recycled over and over again. According to the Institute,...
Aluminium Recycling Campaign in Norway Ends with Remarkable Results
In a national recycling campaign, school children across Norway have collected 11 million used tea light cups made of aluminium. The campaign has been started by WWF in collaboration with IKEA and Hydro and they invited first to fourth grade students from throughout the country to collect the...
Italy ranks 3rd in the world for recycling of aluminium
"Most of our ingots are destined to the export trade: The German automotive companies buy aluminium and use it for their auto components. Recycling is an industrial and manufacturing process both downstream - recovery, sorting and processing at the foundries where new material is produced - and...
Scientists Develop New Apparatus to Recycle and Refine Impure Aluminium
Numerous projects across the globe have attempted to recycle and refine impure aluminium but have not been very successful. For over a decade, scientists at SINTEF have been working on their new apparatus to recycle and refine impure aluminium. They will however know the results by this May 2012. A...
Bahrain to expand aluminium capacity
Garmco plans to triple output and build region’s largest recycling plant Bahrain-based aluminium producer Gulf Aluminium Rolling Company (Garmco) plans to triple its production capacity over the next 10 years and build the Middle East’s largest aluminium recycling plant. Garmco is targeting a...
MIT Aims To Prevent Contamination In Aluminum Recycling
Aluminum has long been the poster child of recycling. About half of all aluminum used in the United States is now recycled, and this recycling has clear and dramatic benefits: Pound for pound, it takes anywhere from nine to 18 times as much energy to produce aluminum from raw ore as from recycled...
Japan end-users eye diversifying aluminum to reduce costs
Japan's rolling mills are considering the possibility of using non-Good Western grade aluminum to cut purchase costs, local market sources said Tuesday. The suggestion to diversify aluminum supply sources to non-Good Western grades, including brands not registered on the London Metal Exchange, came...
Margins diminish further in European secondary aluminium
European secondary aluminium ingot prices remained stable on Friday March 2, but rising scrap prices piled yet more pressure of producers struggling with tight margins. "Ingot prices are still within last week's ranges, but scrap is going up," an ingot producer said. "Scrap merchants have reacted...
UK aluminium scrap pricing notice
Metal Bulletin is changing its published UK aluminium scrap prices, to better serve an evolving market. Metal Bulletin continually evaluates its pricing coverage of all markets and is proposing the following changes to its UK aluminium scrap prices
Secondary Aluminum Industry Outlook from Shanghai Cu & Al Summit
The 2012 (7th) Shanghai Copper & Aluminum Summit co-organized by SMM and Shanghai Nonferrous Metals Industry Association will be held from March 21-23 this year. The event brings together industry elites to share their views on development of China’s aluminum market. Speeches on development of...
Expert points at auto waste, wants industry to evolve disposal chain
Handling auto waste is emerging as a big issue and the automotive industry should create a ‘disposal chain', similar to supply chain, so that vehicles that ultimately turn into scrap bundles can be effectively disposed of, Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India, R. Chidambaram,...
