Scrap

• Metech's e-cycling operations moving to Massachusetts site Jun 03, 2005

  Metech International Inc., the Mapleville, R.I.,-based precious metals and electronics recycler, will move its electronics recycling operations to Worcester, Mass.

• Nabbed What do ISRI, the FBI and e-scrap have in common? Jun 03, 2005

  Only days after a former No. 2 man at the Federal Bureau of Investigation came in from the cold and cleared the mystery surrounding the identity of "Deep Throat," the Washington-based Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) aired its own G-man story and managed to promote the cause of e-cycling in one shot.

• Ordinance planned to prevent pilfering Jun 03, 2005

  The mayor of Springfield, Ill., says better record keeping on scrap metal purchases would discourage vandalism of vacant buildings.

• Nasaac gap shrinking, but LME link hazy Jun 03, 2005

  The arm's-length dance routine of U.S. secondary aluminum ingot prices and the London Metal Exchange's North American alloy contract might become a bit more intimate in June.

• EPA signs smelter consent order with Mercury Marine Jun 03, 2005

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has signed an administrative consent order with Mercury Marine Group, a unit of Brunswick Corp., requiring the company to comply with federal hazardous air pollutant emissions standards at its aluminum smelting facility in Fond du Lac, Wis.

• Computing environment goal, Dell targets 50% recovery hike Jun 03, 2005

  Personal computer manufacturer Dell Inc. plans to increase the recovery rate of its used computer equipment by 50 percent in 2006, matching the target it had set for this year.

• US plays hardball to nix scrap controls Jun 03, 2005

  The U.S. government is continuing to pursue bilateral and multilateral talks with Russia, Ukraine and other countries using tariff and non-tariff controls to discourage scrap exports into the global market.

• Metech's new owner sets sights on growth, streamlined business Jun 01, 2005

  Metech International Inc. has changed ownership but, as previously, its major investor is keeping a low profile.

• Turkey leads No. 1 heavy melt exports higher Jun 01, 2005

  Although Turkish ferrous scrap demand has seemingly evaporated in recent months, the country's intake during the first quarter boosted U.S. exports of No. 1 heavy melting steel.

• Electronics recycling bill key link in Tennessee bribery indictment Jun 01, 2005

  A harmless-looking electronics recycling bill in Tennessee's legislature is a key link in a bribery indictment of a 30-year member of the State Senate whose brother was an 11-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

• Wabash slices a penny off alloys Jun 01, 2005

  Wabash Alloys LLC, Wabash, Ind., lowered most grades of secondary aluminum alloy by 1 cent a pound Wednesday.

• ASL kicks off CRT recycling system in Calif. May 31, 2005

  Asset Services & Liquidators Co. (ASL) says it has implemented the best available technology for recycling unwanted computer monitors and televisions.

• Boeing's Kansas plants offering more aluminum scrap in 3d qtr. May 31, 2005

  Projected quantities of aluminum scrap have moved higher in the coming quarter for most categories of the light metal to be auctioned by Boeing Co.'s plants in Kansas.

• Amity Metals taps Myers as broker May 31, 2005

  Charles N. Myers will be joining Charlotte, N.C.,-based Amity Metals as a nonferrous and stainless scrap broker.

• Former Hawaii recycler sentenced in bribe case May 31, 2005

  A federal court judge has sentenced the former owner of a Hawaiian scrap recycling company to three years' probation with six months' home detention for his role in a bribery scheme involving the unauthorized sale of scrap from the Pearl Harbor Naval Base.

• Duranti re-elected president of BIR May 31, 2005

  Fernando Duranti, managing director of Leghe & Metalli International Srl, a Milan, Italy,-based nonferrous scrap trader, has been re-elected to a second two-year term as president of the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR), the Brussels-based scrap industry federation.

• Panic selling in Ukraine blamed for titanium scrap price decline May 27, 2005

  Titanium scrap suppliers were enjoying a banner year until April, when a selling "panic" in eastern Europe sent prices plummeting, according to a U.S. specialty scrap trader.

• MMI bolsters exports to keep profits flowing May 27, 2005

  Metal Management Inc. (MMI) responded to falling U.S. steel scrap prices earlier this year by emphasizing exports, executives of the Chicago-based scrapyard chain told investment analysts.

• Lustrous stainless market fading to gray May 27, 2005

  The brightness in the stainless steel scrap market throughout much of last year has begun to dull, scrap industry executives were told at a gathering in Spain last week.

• California driver of '04 gain in aluminum can recycling May 27, 2005

  Nearly half the gain in U.S. aluminum can recycling last year was due to California raising the refundable deposit on beverage containers, according to an advocacy group.

• Sweat furnace licensing called 'waste of time' by small players May 25, 2005

  What big aluminum recycling smelters view as a level playing field for environmental enforcement would actually be a waste of time and money for operators of small furnaces, critics contend.

• House members form e-cycling working group May 25, 2005

  New state laws designed to deal with the growing problem of recycling and disposing of electronic waste and its heavy metal components have stirred attention in Washington.

• Mass. inks 10-year deal with Recycle America May 25, 2005

  A material recovery facility owned by the state of Massachusetts will be operated for the next 10 years by Recycle America Alliance.

• Galamba buys Missouri recycler May 25, 2005

  Galamba Metals Group LLC, based in Kansas City, Mo., has purchased its fourth recycling facility in the central part of the state, Hendren Salvage Co.