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A Seymour, Ind., salvage worker was killed Monday night when the torch he was using to recover scrap set off an explosion.
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Selling the substances and components retrieved from electronic scrap can't pay the full costs of widespread recycling-and Washington isn't volunteering to plug the hole.
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Wise Alloys, the Wise Metals Group rolling mill in Muscle Shoals, Ala., has named Earl McGuire as vice president for can products and Geron Davis as vice president for common alloys coil products.
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Wabash Alloys LLC, Wabash, Ind., increased the price of A380.1 aluminum alloy by 1 cent Monday to 84 cents a pound.
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Australian long-products steelmaker and scrap processor Smorgon Steel Group Ltd. has posted a record annual profit of Australian $88.8 million ($66.6 million), a 96.9-percent increase from the previous year.
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U.S. exports of stainless steel scrap fell to 39,282 tonnes in June, down 8.8 percent from 43,093 tonnes the previous month and 48.4 percent below the record 76,062 tonnes shipped abroad in April.
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Issuing its last annual financial report as a primarily Australian company, recycler Sims Group Ltd. said net income jumped 67 percent to Australian $187.9 million ($142.8 million) in its fiscal year ended June 30 on milder gains of 37 percent in revenue to A$2.6 billion ($2 billion) and 11 percent in physical volume sold.
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Envirocycle Inc. and Nxtcycle Inc., two large recyclers of electronics, are merging their operations to form Amandi Services.
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Back in 2003, the safety director at OmniSource Corp. asked for federal advice on reducing hazards to employees at its Lima, Ohio, scrapyard.
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With a lack of ferrous scrap available for export and more buyers said to be entering the market, European scrap exporters continue to hold out for higher prices.
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A partial speakers list for next month's Commodities Roundtable in the Chicago area has been posted by the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI).
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A tug-of-war is developing in Maine over who will pay for the delivery of discarded household electronic devices to the consolidation centers envisioned in a 2004 law
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Titanium scrap prices are surging in Europe as supplies tighten and prices for ferrotitanium soar.
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Echoing an eight-year-old custom at Alcoa Rigid Packaging, the Materials Management unit of Alcoa Inc. has created its own annual list of "top 10 scrap processors."
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Electronics recycling is a good idea but is sometimes backed for the wrong reasons, according to two trade associations.
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Ukraine's exports of steel scrap totaled 823,200 tonnes in the first seven months of 2005, down 39.4 percent from the same period last year.
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Cash's Scrap Metal & Iron has opened its third scrapyard in the St. Louis area, establishing its newest facility on the banks of the Mississippi River so it can ship scrap by barge.
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Three Salt Lake City employees, fired for pocketing the money gained from selling unusable city equipment as scrap metal, have been rehired.
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Wise Metals Group LLC, the can stock maker headquartered in Linthicum, Md., has been hit with ratings downgrades by both Standard & Poor's and Moody's Investors Service.
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Nordson Corp., a Westlake, Ohio,-based manufacturer of coatings and adhesives equipment, said it has met the compliance deadline for the European Union's Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive and is working to meet the July 2006 deadline for the EU's Restriction of Hazardous Substances (ROHS) directive.
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The steep upswing in U.S. aluminum scrap exports has finally ceased, with June's decline ending five successive monthly gains that averaged 9.6 percent.
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Two steel mill workers in India were killed and 12 others injured when ferrous scrap believed to contain explosives was charged into the furnace at a small mini-mill near Decca.
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TST Inc., Fontana, Calif., has hired Charles Spicer as sales manager for aluminum ingot at its Timco secondary smelting division.
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The auto industry's Vehicle Recycling Partnership (VRP) might soon be looking for a few good shredders to process some fluff.