Secondary aluminum prices lose ground; few buys seen

Dec 09, 2008 | 11:37 AM | Paul Schaffer

Although the deep recession has left aluminum scrap consumers with little appetite for material, low prices have balanced the market and then some.

"There's just nothing coming in," one scrapyard manager said, noting that over-the-scale intake is down about 70 percent. "I've just wasted my time here for the last two weeks."....





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