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Owl’s Head Alloys Inc. is adding a secondary aluminum ingot casting line at its Bowling Green, Ky., facility as it seeks to boost its A380.1 output.
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A secondary lead refining company has confirmed that it signed a series of 2013 contracts using a “cost-plus” pricing model, saying that it wouldn’t be able to “stand the losses that (it) had last time.”
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U.S. scrap prices are expected to gain some strength during the current quarter despite a sluggish start to the market in 2013, according to Commercial Metals Co. (CMC) chairman, president and chief executive officer Joseph Alvarado.
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Ferrous scrap buying in the Midwest began in earnest Friday as several steel mills in the region entered the market at prices mostly sideways from December.
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Free-market aluminum scrap and secondary alloy prices recorded gains on this week’s surge in London Metal Exchange prices, although some players believe prices will settle down shortly.
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The imminent re-leasing of land operated by Sims Metal Management Ltd. at the Port of Albany is likely to trigger a heated bidding process as at least one other major recycling company has confirmed it will compete for the site.
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Harsco Corp. has signed a $225-million multiyear contract with JSW Steel Ltd. to provide onsite services at the Indian steelmaker’s Vijayanagar plant.
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A steel mill in the Chicago area entered the scrap market Wednesday to secure metal at mostly unchanged prices, leaving market participants divided on whether overall price levels would rise this month as some had previously speculated.
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An Idaho recycler is seeking permission to open a new scrapyard in the state.
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Scrap lead battery free-market prices have moved up a penny on the back of higher prices on the London Metal Exchange, although some buyers say they are waiting to see if the rise is a temporary symptom of post-fiscal cliff optimism.
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Former Aleris International Inc. raw materials specialist Brenda Thomas has joined Charleston, S.C.-based High Tide Metals Inc. as a nonferrous scrap metal broker and trader.
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Columbus Scrap Material Inc. has assumed the lease and purchased some of the equipment at Progress Rail Services Corp.’s New Hope, Tenn., facility.
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The first signs of where domestic ferrous scrap prices could settle in January are unlikely to emerge until late this week as mills have yet to trade for the month.
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Stainless scrap players are optimistic that the recent start-up of the melt shop at ThyssenKrupp Stainless LLC’s facility in Calvert, Ala., will buoy the domestic market this year.
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A decision to allow Copperking LLC to open a bulk metal recycling center in Oakland, Calif., is being appealed.
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Steven Zaritsky, doing business as 1599 West LLC, is asking the Santa Maria Planning Commission in California to issue a planned development permit to open a California Redemption Value (CRV) recycling center.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized changes to federal Clean Air Act standards for boilers and incinerators as well as revisions to the Non-Hazardous Secondary Materials Rule, but the changes are unlikely to impact scrap metal recyclers.