Fun Kids, the UK’s leading radio station for children, families and parents, released the final episode of the Amazing Aluminium podcast series on 2nd September. Co-created by the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro), Amazing Aluminium touches on the metal’s composition, its...
The Aluminium Federation (ALFED) has issued an urgent briefing to government setting out key concerns from the UK aluminium industry around the implementation of the UK Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) ahead of its planned introduction in January 2027. The briefing has been shared with...
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Sims Metal Management Ltd., with corporate headquarters in Sydney and New York City, has announced restructuring initiatives that it says are designed to streamline Sims Recycling Solutions, its electronics recycling business. The review has determined that certain loss-making assets are outside of...
The UK Government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has provided funding for a project to scope out viable approaches for collecting and recycling flexible packaging materials containing aluminium, such as toothpaste tubes and pet food sachets. Funded by Defra’s Action...
JLR’s global sales presence has improved beyond its traditional major markets from below 15% in 2008 to more than 40% at present. Last week,Jaguar Land Rover received 2014 Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade. Lord-Lieutenant of West Midlands, Mr Paul Chandrasekharan Sabapathy CBE...
An aluminium factory located in Oxfordshire that made parts for Spitfires in Second World War is expected to turn into a distribution warehouse. The Sapa plant located in Southam Road, Banbury was closed in the year 2007 with 300 people loosing their jobs. In the year 1930, the majority of the...
Bridgnorth Aluminium, a specialist manufacturer of aluminium coils for the food, pharmaceutical and printing industries, has secured a £62million finance package from the Birmingham office of Lloyds Bank. The finance package encompasses a £45million asset based lending facility from Lloyds Bank...
Recycle Week 2014 kicks off today (June 16) with a number of events taking place up and down the UK aimed at encouraging people to cut waste and recycle more. The 11th annual recycling awareness week runs until Sunday June 22 and will this year operate under the theme ‘Recycling at Home and Away’...
Bridgnorth Aluminium has made a deal of £62m package for helping the business develop in their on-going operations as well as future expansion of the company’s manufacturing plant located in Shropshire. The finance package from the company’s office of Lloyds Bank includes a £45m lending facility...
Every Can Counts, an ‘away from home’ drinks can recycling initiative, is to expand into Greece five years since first being launched in the UK. Managed by Alupro in the UK, plans to target the estimated 30% of drinks cans discarded outside of the home were originally revealed in May 2008 amid...
Supported by Jaguar Land Rover and SMMT, this event follows the success of ALFEDs 2013 conference, building on the key themes and featuring the latest thinking and innovations. The role of aluminium in lightweighting road transport vehicles is pushing designers and materials technology to new...
Administrators working at Doncaster manufacturing company considered to be ‘doomed’ have finalized a deal to sell particular divisions of business and create 14 jobs initially. But in the whole process, 98 jobs were lost. As the administrators were fearful that 98 employees would lose jobs at...
Three new independent companies have been established from the remains of an insolvent Doncaster-based aluminium manufacturer. Norking Aluminium Limited entered administration in April, after the company suffered cash flow problems as a result of a slump in the construction industry, despite...
The just-completed “The SSE Hydro” is the biggest multi-purpose arena in the UK. It is designed to stage concerts, conferences and a wide variety of other events, and has a seating capacity of 12,000. Designed by the world-renowned architectural firm, Foster & Partners, the venue has a diameter of...
After careful considerations, Sapa has today started consultations with employees in Workington, UK, regarding a potential closure of its aluminium tubing operations in Workington. At the same time, Sapa is investigating if there are possibilities to sell its brass business at the Workington-based...
Aluminium industry leaders say their campaign against damaging red tape is starting to bear fruit, with the UK now being seen as a more friendly environment towards heavy industry and manufacturing. However, more needs to be done. During the past decade, a raft of energy legislation aimed at...
Aluminium makers are feeling perky after a good year for energy policy, according to the trade body ALFED. On Friday the group blamed carbon cutting laws for making the UK “globally uncompetitive” over the last decade and leading to the UK’s primary aluminium producing capacity dropping 87%. ALFED...
Aluminium industry leaders say their campaign against damaging red tape is starting to bear fruit, with the UK now being seen as a more friendly environment towards heavy industry and manufacturing. However, more needs to be done. During the past decade, a raft of energy legislation aimed at...
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C (Alba) welcomed a high level delegation of Labour party members from the House of Lords and House of Commons of the UK Parliament. The delegation -- comprising Lord Noon of St. John’s Wood KT MBE, Lord Clive Soley, Rt. Hon Hazel Blears, MP, Patricia Janet, Baroness Scotland...
UK aluminium scrap prices rose among the pure grades on Wednesday April 16, as scrap markets started to tighten and the recent increase in London Metal Exchange aluminium prices found support. "The LME has gone up and is holding, so we'll see what happens to prices now," a secondary aluminium ingot...
