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Fun Kids highlights Amazing Aluminium with podcast series
End User05 SEPT 2026

Fun Kids highlights Amazing Aluminium with podcast series

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...

ALFED calls for urgent UK CBAM clarity as January 2027 deadline approaches
Sustainability27 AUG 2026

ALFED calls for urgent UK CBAM clarity as January 2027 deadline approaches

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...

Bridgnorth Aluminium targets growth in North America under new GM
Primary AL26 AUG 2026

Bridgnorth Aluminium targets growth in North America under new GM

Bridgnorth Aluminium has appointed Ilias Avgerinos as General Manager to lead a new expansion push after investment and operational upgrades returned the UK aluminium producer to round-the-clock production. Avgerinos takes charge as the company targets growth in North America and newer markets...

AL Circle Analysis: Inside aluminium’s global recycling reckoning with scrap, solar and smelters
Recycled AL21 AUG 2026

AL Circle Analysis: Inside aluminium’s global recycling reckoning with scrap, solar and smelters

Aluminium’s circular economy is no longer a sustainability side story — it is becoming a contest over who controls scrap, who sets the compliance bar, and who can afford the energy to keep smelting. On one hand, recycled aluminium is being tested, as dross piles up in China, scrap ships out of the...

The importance of data in driving progress towards the circular packaging economy
Recycled AL20 AUG 2026

The importance of data in driving progress towards the circular packaging economy

Prior to the roll-out of extended producer responsibility for packaging (pEPR), the UK’s approach to capturing, recording and reporting recycling data had remained consistent for years. You had a denominator (market size) and a numerator (number of Packaging Recovery Notes [PRN/PERNs] issued),...

Solar PV boom creates a new aluminium recycling opportunity as panel waste grows
Sustainability12 AUG 2026

Solar PV boom creates a new aluminium recycling opportunity as panel waste grows

The solar industry has moved from a niche technology to one of the world’s fastest-growing sources of renewable power. But as installations surge, another question is becoming harder to ignore: what happens to all those panels when they break, lose efficiency or are replaced by newer technology?...

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