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Aluminium Scrap Export

Make UK: Aluminium recycling sector must grow 25% every year to support UK industrial demand
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New analysis published today emphasises that a substantial 25 per cent annual growth rate will be needed for the aluminium scrap sector to meet the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy demand. Aluminium scrap is an essential material for products supplying defence, clean energy, digital technologies and automotive - all pillars of the UK economy and critical to national security and resilience. However, export scrap leakage has soared by an alarming 84 per cent in the past decade, undermining dome ...
Could the UK’s aluminium scrap export spike risk domestic industrial strategy by 2035?
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Britain's increasing exports of aluminium scrap are raising concerns about the long-term availability of a key raw material. With the intensified push for sustainability across the world, aluminium scrap is a requisite by strategic sectors such as defence, automotive, clean energy and digital technologies. The UK’s aluminium scrap export surge, therefore, may raise concerns within the nation’s industrial chain. Manufacturing body Make UK has cautioned that continued outflows of aluminium scra ...

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The European Union is one of the largest generators and collectors of aluminium scrap in the world, with over 80 per cent recycling rate. The demand is also robust, with an average annual volume of 8 million tonnes. Yet, the European Union exports 1.2 to 1.3 million tonnes of scrap during a year, which reflects 15 per cent of the volume collected domestically. In Q1 2026, the European Union exported 328,134 tonnes of aluminium scrap, - 69 per cent of which were destined to the Asian countries, ...
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SACA, a new coalition, debuts to support growth of recycled aluminium production in the US
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12 Jun 2026
A new trade group representing companies involved in the US secondary aluminium industry has been launched, bringing together businesses from across the country's aluminium recycling and processing value chain. The organisation, called the Secondary Aluminum Coalition for America (SACA), says it represents companies involved in scrap collection and trading, remelting, extrusion and fabrication. This week, members of the coalition travelled to Washington to meet administration officials and la ...
European Aluminium warns: Fix CBAM loopholes, or the carbon leaks
Sustainability
11 Jun 2026
The European aluminium industry has renewed its call for stronger safeguards to protect aluminium scrap and shield Europe from the incomplete framework of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). As the European Union finance ministers prepare to finalise their position on revisions to the CBAM, European Aluminium strongly warns that the existing framework still falls short of protecting the sector from carbon leakage. The industry body European Aluminium welcomed recent progress in the ...
Aluminium scrap evolves into strategic resource: Nations roll out policies to secure domestic supply
Recycled AL
10 Jun 2026
For decades, aluminium scrap has been traded globally as a conventional recyclable commodity, with trade flows largely driven by price, logistics costs and regional supply-demand dynamics. However, as energy transition, low-carbon manufacturing and resource security become increasingly important, the strategic value of aluminium scrap is being reassessed worldwide. From the European Union's consideration of scrap export restrictions, to the US aluminium industry's call to classify scrap as a ...
Europe aluminium recycling facts: Amidst 8MT demand and 66% scrap export surge, recycling grows over 80%
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01 Jun 2026
Every year, millions of tonnes of aluminium scrap are collected, sorted and processed across Europe before being turned into new products. From used beverage cans and demolished buildings to end-of-life vehicles and industrial waste, recycled aluminium has become an important raw material in Europe’s shift towards a lower-carbon and more circular economy. Demand for recycled aluminium is also rising steadily. Europe’s aluminium scrap demand stood at around 6.6 million tonnes in 2021 and is ex ...
EU aluminium scrap export curbs worry recyclers, Commission receives joint letter
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29 May 2026
European recycling companies and associations, coordinated by Recycling Europe, have asked the European Commission to review export restrictions on recycled aluminium scrap. Addressing the Executive Vice President Stéphane Séjourné and Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič in a joint letter on May 28, they expressed concerns regarding measures being built upon defective bases that might nullify the industrial objectives being promoted.   Arguing that the region is not facing a structural shortage of re ...
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