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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Recycling Recap 2018: New projects, awareness activities, and imported tariffs marked the year
2018 marks an eventful year for the global secondary aluminium industry with a series of new investments, expansions, awareness activities, and also a bit of intermediate twist and turns in the market. China’s retaliatory tariffs on the US scrap exports, Aluminium Association of India’s proposal to...
Exports orders, stockpiling support December Secondary aluminium operating rates in China
Shanghai Metals Market data showed operating rates across Chinese secondary aluminium producers averaged 57.21 per cent in December, down 9.54 percentage points year-on-year (YoY). Compared to November, it increased 0.07 percentage point as more export orders and pre-holiday stockpiling offset the...
South Korea’s aluminium scrap imports from Japan increases 5% YoY in 2018
South Korea, one of the leading aluminium scrap importers in the world, imports aluminium scrap and recycles them for making aluminium alloys. The country’s estimated import volume registered a growth of 42855 tonnes or 6 per cent year-on-year in 2018. South Korea’s automotive sector is a major...
Mexico’s aluminium scrap import expected to see a rise this year; US to remain predominant exporter
Mexico’s aluminium industry has been growing steadily at a 13 per cent annual rate since the year 2011. The country produces 1.6 per cent of the world’s global production and depends highly on imports and recycling of aluminium products as it has limited resources of bauxite. For the same reason,...
Wistaston Scout Group installs new aluminium can collection bins
According to a report, Wistaston Scout Group (35 th South West Cheshire) has installed new aluminium can collection bins in Wistaton to raise money for the group. The news bins have been set up on the car part at Wistaston Memorial Hall on Church Lane, outside Wistonia stores on Kings Drive and...
India’s aluminium imports including scrap from US jumps 158% YoY in January-October 2018
India, one of the major aluminium importers from the US, imported 168,000 tonnes of crude metal and alloys, aluminium semi-finished products and scrap from the US during January-October 2018, an increase of 102800 tonnes or 157.67% from 65,200 tonnes during January-October 2017. {newsStudioGallery}...
India's aluminium scraps import increases 22% in April-October FY2018-2019
Aluminium scraps import by India increased by 22.3 per cent during April-October period of financial year 2018-2019, according to data from the Aluminium Association of India (AAI). India imported 7, 73,000 tonnes of aluminium scrap during April-October, from 6,32, 000 tonnes during the same period...
China to put strict restrictions on imports of scrap steel and aluminium from July 2019
According an update from the environment ministry of China, the country will restrict imports of scrap steel and aluminium from July 1, 2019. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment statement said that the ministry will move scrap steel and aluminium from an unrestricted import list of solid waste...
U.S. scrap recyclers threatened by rising recycling costs and falling scrap demand and prices
In the U.S. recycling used to be extremely profitable business while aiding while doing its part to the environment. However, local recyclers are facing a number of challenges while recycling holiday packaging materials. Local recyclers are struggling to cope with increasing financial pressures...
MSMEs, SMEs to be hurt from government’s import duty hike plan, says MRAI
Sanjay Mehta, President of Material Recycling. Association of India (MRAI) has opposed the proposed increase in import duty on primary aluminium and aluminium scrap from 7.5 per cent and 2.5 per cent to 10 per cent. In a letter addressed to the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Suresh Prabhu,...
Austria aluminium scrap import to grow in 2018 from year ago; Germany to continue as the top exporter
Aluminium recycling is part of Europe’s wider Aluminium industry, a sector of the economy that generates almost €40 billion revenue a year and directly or indirectly employs more than one million people. Aluminium beverage cans contribute to a large extent to the overall estimated recycling result...
Commerce ministry supports Indian government’s plan to hike import duty on aluminium
Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu said the commerce ministry is in favour of increasing import duties on primary aluminium and aluminium scrap with a view to support local producers, PTI reports. “That is a proposal to protect our domestic industry. The proposal is under examination and...
U.S. aluminium scrap exports up 12% in January-October 2018
According to the latest Mineral Industry Survey report from US Geological Survey, the U.S. exports of aluminium scrap, which is not included in the government’s consumption statistics, stood at 164,000 tonnes in October 2018, up 5% from October 2017 total of 156,000 tonnes. Month on month,...
France’s aluminium scrap exports volume to Italy likely to rise this year, but revenue to record low
As aluminium scrap remains a significant resource for the production of secondary aluminium and subsequently new aluminium products across the world, France’s exports of scrap see a steady market trend year over year. In 2018, France’s aluminium scrap exports are estimated to see growth from...
Analysts project an aluminium scrap supply glut in the US; no sustainable demand likely from alternative export markets
With China’s crack down on inferior quality scrap imports and the steep tariffs on imported scrap from the US, there is a fear of scrap supply glut in the U.S., analysts from CRU Group said. Mike Southwood and Greg Wittbecker, both Pittsburgh-based aluminium industry analysts with CRU Group said so...
Aluminium scrap exports by the UK to rise in 2018 after a dip in the year earlier
Since 2002, the European Union has been a continuous net exporter of aluminium scrap. More than 80% of the scrap generated in the EU heads to Asia, while 37% to China and 28% to India. {newsStudioGallery} The aluminium scrap generated in the UK is also more than the needs of the UK foundry industry...
Schools win prize money for collecting highest aluminium scrap in Perils Recycling Campaign
According to a report, over 37 tonnes of recyclable materials have been collected by more than 58 schools in Perlis in the first Perils Recycling Campaign 2018. The schools in Perils had taken up this challenge of collecting recyclable materials for advocating best recycling practices during the...
Italy’s aluminium scrap imports to rise 8% in 2018; Germany to be the top supplier
Italy is the world’s largest user of aluminium after the USA, Japan, People’s Republic of China and Germany. The aluminium market is concentrated almost exclusively in the north of the country. The large part of aluminium is used by extrusion plants and foundries to supply to the automobile...
