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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Scramble for Scrap Metal
Metal manufacturers are raiding the scrap heap to save money, pushing up demand–and prices–for recycled metal. Scrap prices are rising faster than primary metal, which is smelted for ore, in important markets like copper, aluminum and steel, as demand grows from U.S. manufacturers looking to save...
State OKs permit for aluminum recycling landfill
State environmental regulators have approved a proposed aluminum recycling waste landfill that some residents oppose as unsafe. The landfill would store salt cake, a recycling byproduct that emits toxic ammonia gas when it comes into contact with water. It would serve two Mount Pleasant aluminum...
Aluminium waste trial to be expanded
Weston Aluminium says a trial involving the processing of hazardous waste in the Hunter Valley has been so successful it is looking to extend it. The company has applied to the New South Wales Government to process up to 200 tonnes of spent potlining material at the Weston furnace. A recent trial...
Five Men Arrested, Police Retrieve Alluminium Maganizes Worth RM33,000
Police have arrested five men including two teenagers yesterday and retrieved 275 pieces of aluminium magazines worth RM33,000 that were reported to be stolen from a factory in Jalan Batu Maung here, on Wednesday. Barat Daya district deputy police chief, DSP Lai Fah Him said the men, aged between...
Metal Manufacturers Turn To Scrap For Savings
Strong demand lifts scrap metal prices faster than prices of "virgin" or new metal --Price gap between Comex copper and high-grade scrap copper shrank to 31 cents a pound from 49 cents a pound at the start of 2011 --Asian demand strains U.S. scrap supply NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Metal manufacturers...
Aluminium Recycling in Italy Benefits from $15.8 Million Investment
Rolled aluminium giant, Novelis Inc., has made an investment of $15.8 million in the construction of a new line that will recycle painted scrap aluminium into the metal needed to produce rolled aluminium sheet. The new continuous casting line will be installed at the company's production facility...
Alcoa to invest USD 21 million in analysis of aluminum usage rate
Reportedly, Alcoa announced on July 1st 2011 to invest USD 21 million analysis of aluminum recycling, energy saving and emission reduction. The facility will occupy 35,000 square foot and will take new technology to melt the aluminum scrap to produce aluminum slab which will be used to produce new...
Base metals decline on global cues
Most of base metals declined at the non-ferrous metal market here today due to stockist selling amidst lacklustre trade on the back bearish global sentiment. Meanwhile, aluminium utensils moved up on better demand from consumer industries. The industrial metals ended lower at the LME on worries...
Novelis Invests $15.8 Million to Expand Aluminum Recycling in Italy
Novelis Inc., the world's largest producer of rolled aluminum and a global leader in aluminum recycling, today announced the investment of $15.8 million in the construction of a new continuous casting line at its production facility in Pieve Emanuele, Italy. The new line will recycle painted scrap...
Increase In Aluminum Recycling Depends On China
As the global economy rebounds and demand for aluminum rises, the need for recycling of scrap metal increases, and China must play a big role in that if the secondary market is to expand. David Wilson, director of metals research, at Societe Generale, said recycling needs to take off in China,...
Conference Participants See Scrap Aluminum Prices Rising
Higher aluminum scrap prices are expected next year, according to 67% of participants in the Harbor Aluminum outlook conference in Chicago survey Wednesday. Of those survey participants, 48% say scrap prices are strategic to their bottom line. Structural Shift To Tighter Scrap Spreads – Harbor...
Nonferrous Scrap, China, Asia
The spot price of domestic aluminum ranged in the 16,490 to 16,670 per ton range in April. Early month trading was in the doldrums. Better external markets drove domestic aluminum prices to rise, but prices continued because of weak demand downstream and trading was flat. Shanghai Futures Exchange...
Aluminum used in electronics recycled in large quantities
Aluminum continues to be a popular metal in the electronics world. Aluminum computer casings, for example are able to be infinitely recycled without losing any functional properties. This allows engineers to create new shapes, colors and styles to satisfy consumers’ constantly changing needs while...
Novelis sets target of recycled input material at 80 percent
Novelis Inc. set a corporate wide commitment to reduce its carbon footprint. Their new sustainability commitment calls for an intensified focus on expanding the use of recycled materials, increasing post-consumer recycling of aluminum products, and accelerating the development of new, high-recycled...
EPA Seeks Small Entity Participation on Air Rules for Secondary Aluminum Production Facilities
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is inviting small businesses, governments and not-for-profit organizations to participate as Small Entity Representatives (SERs) for a Small Business Advocacy Review (SBAR) Panel to review risk and technology standards for secondary aluminum production...
Recycled aluminum prices to drop in Europe
...Recently, the prices of recycled aluminum have remained flat in the UK market, market participants predicted that it would drop in the near future...
Remote control car munches aluminium can ringpulls for fuel
...This clean and green micro-car runs on something you'd normally just toss away: the aluminium ringpulls that snap off Coke cans. The all-electric radio controlled vehicle, named "dAlH2Orean", can zip along at 30km per hour by turning waste aluminium scraps like ringpulls into hydrogen, and then...
Japanese earthquake - Secondary aluminum alloy makers reduce scrap procurement in East Japan
...Japan Metals Bulletin reported that secondary aluminum alloy makers in East Japan are decreasing aluminum scrap procurement for consumption in the first half of April...
