Norsk Hydro To Add New Aluminium Scrap Recycling Capacity To Eastern Pennsylvania Plant
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced this week yet another capex project, this one a NOK500 million (US$51 million)...
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Rio Tinto Plans US$29 MM Addition Of Scrap Aluminium Recycling Facility At Arvida Plant In Quebec
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group announced this week a US$29 million capex to build a new aluminium recycling plant at its Arvida facility in Quebec. The project will make Rio Tinto the first of North America’s primary aluminium producers to use...
Exports Of Aluminium Scrap From US Drops In Q1 While Imports From Canada, Mexico Rise
Import and export data released last week shows a general decline in exports of aluminium scrap from United States firms...
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative Certifies Pair Of OETINGER Scrap Recycling Plants
Trade group Aluminium Stewardship Initiative announced the provisional certification of OETINGER Aluminium’s Weißenhorn and Neu-Ulm plants in Germany against its...
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AMAG Inks Closed-Loop Aluminium Partnership With Audi Hungaria
European cast and rolled aluminium supplier AMAG Austria Metall AG announced this week a partnership with AUDI Hungaria Zrt to develop an aluminium closed-loop system between its factories. Per the press release, waste aluminium generated at Audi’s plant in Györ will be delivered to AMAG’s plant in Ranshofen for recycling back into its primary aluminium […]
ASI Certifies Three Of Jupiter Aluminum’s Scrap Aluminium Remelting Plants Under Chain Of Custody Standard
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced last week the certification of a trio of plants in the United States operated by Jupiter Alumium against its Chain of Custody standard. Two of the plants certified by the ASI last week are located in Indiana, and the third is in West Virginia. All three plants collect scrap […]
Beijing Names 26 New Approved Importers Of Scrap Aluminium
The government of the People’s Republic of China named a second set of over two dozen overseas aluminium and copper scrap companies on Friday who will now be permitted to import the same to its shores. The China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association made the announcement that 26 new foreign companies would be given a waiver […]
United States Scrap Aluminium Recovery Falls In May
Recycled aluminium collected from secondary producers in the United States saw a steep decline in May, recovering 19 percent less of it than the previous year. According to numbers from the United States Geological Survey, secondary producers recovered 231 thousand metric tons of scrap aluminium, which was also down from April’s total by 9 percent. […]
China Releases New Standards For Imported Aluminium Scrap
The long-awaited new standards on imported scrap aluminium and copper were published by the government of the People’s Republic of China on Sunday. The new standards, which will go into effect on July 1, place the minimum aluminium and aluminium alloy content at 100 percent for recycled aluminium ingot, 98 percent for aluminium castings, and […]
Biden Infrastructure Bill A Big Boon To Aluminium Industry: Norsk Hydro VP Mike Stier
Earlier this month the United States Congress passed into law President Joe Biden’s US$1.2 trillion infrastructure package. The Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America Act (or the INVEST in America Act) will allocate US$550 billion ...
The Net-Zero Shift Starts With Low Carbon Aluminium
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both ...
Aluminium at the LME Week – Key Takeaways
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Aluminium Market Oversupplied, Demand Growth Flat
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...
