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Global aluminium industry gears up for ALUMINIUM 2026 in Düsseldorf with focus on recycling, innovation and demand
Four days to go, and the aluminium world is getting ready to move to Düsseldorf. From October 6-8, the city will host ALUMINIUM 2026 , with more than 800 exhibitors and partners and over 21,000 trade visitors expected at Messe Düsseldorf. The event will bring together producers, recyclers, downstream manufacturers, technology providers, equipment suppliers, policymakers and end users from across the global aluminium value chain. The 2026 edition comes at an important point for the aluminium industry. European producers are facing pressure from energy costs, international competition and tighter climate requirements, while concerns around raw material security and resilient supply chains continue to grow. At the same time, demand for aluminium is expanding across electric mobility,...
Runaya businesses achieve ‘A’ category credit ratings from CRISIL
Runaya, a Vedanta company specialising in advanced technological solutions for the circular economy and critical metals recovery, has strengthened its credit profile, with all its key businesses now positioned in the A family rating category. CRISIL’s ‘A’ family ratings mark a significant milestone in Runaya’s credit story, reflecting its strengthening financial profile, resilient business fundamentals and growing diversification as the company scales into higher-value and technology-intensive manufacturing. This progression from the earlier BBB family rating profile underscores the continued strengthening of its businesses and provides a stronger foundation for its next phase of growth. This milestone comes against a backdrop of strong growth, with Runaya’s businesses recording nearly...
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India’s aluminium recyclers navigate supply constraints, quality and policy challenges - Aluminium Bharat 2026
India’s circular aluminium industry is facing growing pressure from tightening global scrap availability, rising prices, export restrictions and higher logistics costs, even as demand for recycled aluminium continues to expand. These challenges were highlighted during the Circular Aluminium: Scrap, Recycled Billet & Alloy Quality session at Aluminium Bharat 2026, organised by the Aluminium Extrusion Manufacturers Association of India (ALEMAI) and co-hosted by BigMint, held on September 26 at the Helipad Exhibition Centre, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Industry leaders discussed India’s dependence on imported scrap, rising sourcing costs, domestic collection challenges, alloy quality and the need for greater efficiency across the recycling value chain. Middle East supply tightens as local demand...
“We would not describe Europe as undergoing a uniform deindustrialisation”: Norbert Bürger on Europe’s aluminium industry
Norbert Bürger brings more than 30 years of experience in the global aluminium industry, with a career spanning Austria, Germany, Hungary, Japan and the United States. His expertise covers aluminium rolling and extrusion, plant management, sales, strategy, investments and M&A, with senior roles at AMAG, Pankl and Alcoa. Today, Bürger is a founding partner of Lightmet Consulting, a Vienna-based independent consultancy focused on the aluminium industry. Led by Bürger and Markus Plakolm, Lightmet brings together eight senior partners with technical, operational and commercial expertise across the aluminium value chain. The firm advises aluminium companies on strategy, operational excellence, investment projects, feasibility studies, M&A, recycling, sustainability and digitalisation. In this...
The second life of an aluminium can depends on one crucial step
Aluminium’s lower-energy recycling process offers a major sustainability benefit, but collection, recovery and credible evidence are needed to turn that potential into measurable results. The challenge extends beyond whether a can is recyclable. It is about keeping aluminium in circulation and demonstrating what happens to it after use. GlobalData’s Q3 2025 survey of 21,000 people across 42 countries offers one indication of the communication challenge: consumers associate metal drinks packaging with sustainability far less often than glass. The survey asked about overall metal packaging. Nonetheless, the findings are relevant to aluminium, a major material in beverage packaging. Only 21 per cent of respondents considered metal a sustainable choice for alcoholic drinks packaging, while 22...
Financing expands Metycle’s capacity to source and supply secondary copper and aluminium at scale
Metycle , a global supplier of secondary copper and aluminium, has secured a USD 150 million credit facility from Rivonia Road Capital, a global private capital manager focused on asset-backed lending. The financing will support eligible transactions across the full trade cycle from supplier payment through buyer settlement, enabling Metycle to execute larger transactions, move greater volumes of secondary metals, and expand supply to industrial buyers and smelters. It also provides a repeatable framework for financing complex physical commodity transactions with institutional private credit, enabling faster execution for suppliers and larger, more consistent flows of specified secondary feedstock for customers. “Secondary metals do not lack demand. They lack predictability. Our...
US aluminium landfill loss can become domestic supply opportunity, says waste intelligence firm
The United States is sending more than $1 billion worth of aluminum cans to landfills each year, even as it relies heavily on imports of the metal. According to London-based AI waste intelligence company Greyparrot, the discarded cans represent around 11 million megawatt-hours of wasted energy annually. The scale of the lost material becomes clearer at the recycling plant level. Data from Greyparrot’s Analyzer systems at Circular Services’ Sunset Park material recovery facility (MRF) in Brooklyn, New York, shows that 89 percent of aluminum reaching the sorting belt is recoverable. The facility processes roughly 91,000 cans per day, equivalent to about 514 metric tons per year, and recovers nearly nine out of every 10 cans that pass through its sorting lines. Greyparrot released the...
Metlen invests €25m to expand recycled aluminium capacity in Greece
Metlen Energy & Metals PLC is investing EUR 25 million in its recycled aluminium production facility EP.AL.ME. in Greece, targeting higher processing capacity and greater use of complex aluminium scrap streams. The investment will fund automated sorting, processing and melting equipment at EP.AL.ME., which Metlen describes as Greece’s largest independent recycled aluminium producer. The project will allow the facility to process more complex scrap, including post-consumer aluminium recovered from end-of-life products. The expansion will connect EP.AL.ME. more closely with Metlen’s Aluminium of Greece facility. EP.AL.ME. will manage the collection, sorting and pre-processing of aluminium scrap, while Aluminium of Greece will provide the production scale needed to incorporate recycled metal...
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