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...
Grow with
AL Circle
Recycling seminar a success
The first joint seminar ‘From Ashes to Metals’ organised by the Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants (CEWEP) and the Packaging Group of the European Aluminium Association (EAA) was a success. The seminar gathered a experts and companies active in the sector of treating bottom ashes from...
The wonders of aluminum recycling
Recycling aluminum represents a valuable portion of commodities in the U.S. The industry pumped $77 billion into our economy in 2010 and continues to be the most valuable of recyclable materials. Discovered in the 1820s, aluminum is the most abundant metal on earth. The aluminum can is also unique...
Behr Metals Offers New Recycling Program
There's a new way to recycle aluminum cans in the stateline. Behr Metals has a new trailer pickup program.And that program can help raise money for local charities. An aluminum can may not be worth much by itself. But a trailer full can be worth quite a bit.Around 800 pounds, so we're looking at...
Hot Primary Aluminum Consumption Support Wrought Aluminum Scrap Price
Since August, the price of wrought aluminum scrap maintained high level in Guangdong province,higher than East China and North China. High level of primary price and hot consumption of wrought aluminum are the main factors to support high price of wrought aluminum scrap. Aluminum price keeps...
European aluminium alloy moves sideways on lower LME, scrap
Secondary aluminium alloy 226 prices moved sideways in Europe this week as lower LME and scrap prices meant consumers negotiated cheaper deals, sources said. Trading was quiet because many key players were still away on holiday, and a clearer picture was expected to emerge in the coming weeks. A...
The Lucky Group Is All Set To Make Its Presence Felt At The World Scrap Metal Congress
The Lucky Group is the leader in scrap metal trading in the Middle East, having recycling facilities located at strategic locations in Dubai, Jebel Ali, Doha and Tehran. But with growth and the need to expand their operations in order to satiate the needs of global markets, they have now...
Base metals weakens on global cues
Base metals traded lower by up to Rs 2 in a lacklustre trade in the local non-ferrous metal market on selling by stockists influenced by a weakening global trend. Following were today's quotations in Rs per kg:Aluminium ingots 112, sheet cutting 113, aluminium wire scrap 112 and aluminium utensils...
US June Secondary Aluminium Output
Total aluminium recovered from scrap in the U.S. in June was 254,000 tons, slightly lower than 260,000 tons the previous month but 11% higher than in June 2010. Of this, 134,000 tons of aluminium was recovered from new scrap, slightly lower than the previous month but 7% higher than in June 2010....
Aluminum can recycling rate highest in a decade
The U.S. recycling rate for aluminium beverage cans reached its highest level in a decade, with 58.1% of all cans recycled last year—a rate that is more than double than that of any other beverage container, according to the Aluminum Assn., Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) and Institute of Scrap...
GSM expands into aluminum foundry alloys
Ohio scrap processor Global Scrap Management Inc. (GSM) has invested about $3 million in an aluminum foundry that is expected to melt 4 million pounds of scrap per month. The new Altimet division melting operation is in a former Ford Motor Co. transmission plant in Batavia, Ohio, located a few...
Scrap metal bull and price get a big jump
According to a study by the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc, the market for non ferrous scrap metal copper, aluminum, lead, nickel, zinc and similar metals grew 28% to USD 40 billion in revenue last year. Products from electronic circuit boards to soda cans provide the raw materials...
Estimated N. American scrap aluminum demand
The US aluminum industry purchased an estimated 684 million lb of aluminum scrap during April 2011, according to the US Geological Survey. Figures are up 14.4% over a year ago. USGS estimates that recovery of aluminum and aluminum alloys totaled 556 million lb in April, up 14.3%. Through the first...
UK aluminium scrap prices slip further on LME falls
UK secondary aluminium ingot prices remained at last week’s levels on Wednesday, although scrap prices – particularly the purer grades – continued to slide following price falls in the London Metal Exchange aluminium contract.
Aluminum waste sparks problems in Murfreesboro
Waste from aluminum recycling at Tennessee Aluminum Processors Inc. and Smelter Services Corp. in Mt. Pleasant is causing concern at a Murfreesboro landfill. On March 28, authorities at Middle Point Landfill, located off East Jefferson Pike in Murfreesboro, reported an area of “elevated...
Russian AK5M2 aluminum alloy offers fall tracking US scrap prices
Russian-origin AK5M2 aluminum alloy offers have dropped 4% from two weeks ago, tracking the fall, also of 4%, in US scrap aluminum prices, market sources said Tuesday. AK5M2 alloy is used by secondary aluminum alloy smelters in Asia for production of ADC12 alloy, while old cast and other scrap...
S.I.C. Recycling To Build Scrap Yard in Illinois
S.I.C Recycling, a subsidiary of the John Deere distributor Sloan Implement Co., headquartered in Assumption, Ill., has announced plans to open a scrap metal recycling facility in Riverton, Ill. The company hopes to process more than 13 million pounds of copper and aluminum per year when it is...
Plans announced for scrap-metal recycling plant at Riverton
A scrap-metal recycling plant at Riverton expects to process more than 13 million pounds of copper and aluminum annually and to have a work force of 25 once the plant reaches capacity in a couple of years. SIC Recycling Inc. will sell into an industry that claimed nearly $40 billion in revenues and...
Nonferrous, United States
Secondary aluminum has been relatively quiet as far as volume. We are getting a lot of mixed reports. The market has tightened up a bit. There is a lot of uncertainty in the market because everyone is anticipating the worst of this whole budget crisis, so a lot of people are afraid to take a step...
