-
Boeing Co. is offering slightly smaller quantities of briquetted aluminum borings from its plants near Seattle in the fourth quarter, but a significant increase in 7000-series alloys.
-
Wabash Alloys LLC, Wabash, Ind., has increased the price for A380.1 aluminum alloy by 1 cent, putting the book price for the product at 83 cents a pound.
-
The Greensboro (N.C.) City Council has approved a plan to establish a full-time electronic waste recycling program for the residents of the city and surrounding Guilford County.
-
Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc. has agreed to buy Greenleaf Auto Recyclers LLC, an Arlington, Texas,-based auto dismantler that operates 22 yards throughout the United States and once was the centerpiece of Ford Motor Co.'s short-lived venture into the used car parts business.
-
U.S. exports of copper and brass scrap fell in June as buying activity by Chinese and Indian metal consumers slowed.
-
A scrap recycler will pay a $20,000 penalty as part of an agreement with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) to resolve alleged hazardous waste and stormwater violations involving residue from its shredder.
-
Smelter grades of aluminum scrap are inching upward in price, but the competition for material is light enough that buyers can choose their own pace in making the adjustment.
-
British shipbuilder Swan Hunter (Tyneside) Ltd. is in discussions with Dutch shipbreaking venture NV Ecodock that could lead to a £40-million ($72.4-million) ship-scrapping operation on the Tyne River in northeast England.
-
A Reading, Pa., magistrate has told two brothers to either clean up or sell the property where their late father's scrapyard is located.
-
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) gave a briefing last week to the Federal Electronics Stewardship Working Group, an interagency panel established by the government to reduce the environmental impact of electronics waste.
-
German ferrous scrap processors have secured increases of 40 to 50 euros ($50 to $62) a tonne in August settlements after almost two weeks of negotiations.
-
Copper scrap prices have increased as primary copper on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange continues to surge and supplies of raw materials dwindle.
-
U.S. exports of nonferrous scrap backed off slightly in June after three successive monthly records, but the pace remained robust.
-
Turkish ferrous scrap buyers are finding material increasingly hard to find as sellers hold off in a rising market and mills in the United States and Europe grab much of what is available close to home.
-
A rolling mill executive hinted Thursday that aluminum can scrap prices have been flattened in an up market by the price caps on can stock written into mills' contracts with container makers.
-
A 1-cent hike for A380.1 aluminum alloy to a book price of 82 cents a pound was announced Thursday by Wabash Alloys LLC, based in Wabash, Ind.
-
Implementation of new European rules covering the handling, management and export of electronic waste has been delayed in the United Kingdom by almost a year because of industry concerns, according to the U.K. Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).
-
Electronic auctions of military scrap should begin showing up on the Web around Labor Day, according to William Angrick, chairman and chief executive officer of Liquidity Services Inc.
-
Arkansas Aluminum Alloys Inc., a secondary aluminum smelter in Hot Springs, Ark., has a new president and two new vice presidents.
-
Domestic production of aluminum sheet and "strong" pricing provided most of the sparkle as Aleris International Inc. posted net income of $18.9 million on $603.6 million in sales in the second quarter.
-
Fire has damaged Remacor Corp.'s plant in Taylor, Pa., a small town west of Pittsburgh, and is expected to affect the facility's magnesium production.
-
China and Hong Kong sharply trimmed their imports of zinc scrap from the United States in May, pulling down the monthly total to the lowest level since January.
-
The U.S. Defense Department's impending shift to Liquidity Services Inc. to market military scrap is likely to provide metal recyclers with a new set of pricing indicators.
-
The Owensboro Riverport Authority in Kentucky, authorized since January as a warehouse for die-cast aluminum alloy warranted by the London Metal Exchange, has received its first shipment of warranted metal.