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TST-Timco Inc., a secondary aluminum smelter in California, has signed a five-year deal for 500 kilowatts of base-load electric power coming from fuel cells using natural gas.
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A research project funded by automakers in Britain has yielded a simplified plastic that could ease the handling of auto shredder fluff.
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M. Lipsitz & Co. Inc., a Waco, Texas,-based scrap metal processor, is relocating its main ferrous operations to another part of the city and will install a larger shredder at the new site.
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With domestic suppliers reluctant to sell in what they perceive to be a rising ferrous scrap market, European ferrous scrap exporters are struggling to acquire stocks.
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U.S. exports of nickel scrap sank in May to the lowest monthly level in more than a year.
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Hugo Neu Corp.'s North Carolina shredder fluff project has won a propaganda skirmish but suffered a setback in the state's legislature.
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Offshore sales of stainless steel scrap turned in a dull performance in May, falling 43.3 percent to 43,093 tonnes from the record 76,062 tonnes exported the previous month.
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As long as the cost of recycling electronics exceeds the revenue stream, incentive payments or subsidies enacted into law should be financed by producers of computers and televisions, the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) says.
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Commercial Metals Co. (CMC) has named Bob McCarty as general manager of its Springfield, Mo., scrap processing facility.
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Salt Lake City officials have fired three workers from the city's water department for allegedly selling discarded city equipment as scrap and pocketing the proceeds.
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A major shipment of aluminum alloy from Europe was probably responsible for a 3.3-percent jump Thursday in warehouse stocks available for servicing the North American special aluminum alloy contract (Nasaac) on the London Metal Exchange.
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Schupan & Sons Inc., a Kalamazoo, Mich.,-based scrap processor, has recycled a former auto parts plant into a recycling facility.
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A ship loaded with ferrous scrap bound for China has sunk after colliding with a Japanese vessel carrying steel pipe, according to Japanese press reports.
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A bit more than 60 percent of the mercury contained in discarded U.S. products was recycled in 2000, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimated in a recent study.
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PSC Metals Inc. said Dyan Reed has joined the company as its Nashville, Tenn.,-based Southeast sales manager for nonferrous metals. Previously, she spent 14 years as a marketing and materials manager with Alumitech of Wabash, Ind.
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Congress conducted its first hearing on the growing problem of electronic waste last week, with a number of federal and state agency experts discussing what, if any, role the federal government should play in the disposal process.
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U.S. aluminum scrap exports continued to soar in May, with overall shipments and exports to China both reaching new highs.
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Stena Metall Group, a Swedish scrap metals processor, has selected webMethods Inc.'s Fabric system as the integration infrastructure for the group.
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Rechargeable battery recycling rose 9 percent during the first half of this year, according to the Atlanta-based Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corp. (RBRC).
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PSC Metals Inc. has acquired Causey Enterprises LLC, a Bowling Green, Ky., scrap metals company.
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The end of a short-lived export tax on China's scrap-based aluminum ingot is having only a modest ripple effect on U.S. recyclers so far.
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U.S. exports of copper scrap shot up 7.8 percent in May on increased buying activity by Asian consumers, according to the latest figures from the U.S. Commerce Department.
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Rechargeable battery recycling rose 9 percent during the first half of this year, according to the Atlanta-based Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corp. (RBRC).
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A project geared to avoid the cost and confusion implicit in 50 unsynchronized state laws on electronic waste will draw northeastern legislators and other interested parties to Connecticut later this month to assess the draft of a model electronics law that was released last week.