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A $20-per-tonne decline in European ferrous scrap export prices, aided in part by Black Sea scrap sellers accepting lower offers from steel mills in Turkey, has left several western European scrap processors worried that they are likely to face further price reductions.
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U.S. exports of copper and brass scrap rebounded somewhat in July as shipments to South Korea nudged up and Chinese demand for red metal remained strong, according to the latest figures from the U.S. Commerce Department.
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California, the only state with an electronics recycling program currently in place, received a general thumbs up from the first two speakers at a trade association forum in Rosemont, Ill., regarding how the nine-month-old program has functioned.
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The U.S. Maritime Administration (Marad) said it has issued contracts to four U.S. ship scrappers to dismantle four vessels from its National Defense Reserve Fleet, also known as the Ghost Fleet.
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New battle lines are being drawn in an eight-year war between a Colton, Calif., scrapyard, some of the city's residents and a rival recycler.
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The profit margins of U.S. secondary aluminum smelters are probably benefiting from the buoyant influence of investment funds on London Metal Exchange pricing, an executive suggested Thursday.
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Demand for copper and brass scrap in the United Kingdom has picked up recently, although prices are steady for the moment, market participants said.
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U.S. exports of shredded scrap plunged by more than 100,000 tonnes in July as several key overseas importers trimmed their purchases.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has tapped its allied expertise to solve a scrapyard's problem of safely disposing of propane tanks.
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Metal Management Inc. (MMI) has set aside 1 million shares of the company's common stock for sale to its workers.
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Cinelli Iron & Metal Co., Hackensack, N.J., is planning to relocate its ferrous scrap processing operations to Secaucus, N.J., possibly as early as November.
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Appliance Recycling Centers of America Inc. (Arca) said Tuesday that Jaco Environmental Inc. has agreed not to sue Arca or any of its customers for allegedly violating a Jaco recycling patent that Arca claims was fraudulently obtained.
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Hale Products Inc., the Shelby, N.C.,-based manufacturer of the Hurst Jaws of Life and Centaur rescue tools, has introduced a new line of high-powered industrial cutters for the scrap processing industry.
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Even after two successive months of decline, U.S. exports of aluminum scrap in July remained nearly 70 percent ahead of the 2004 pace.
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European ferrous scrap exporters are still waiting for Turkish buyers to return to the market, with no sales booked in the past week.
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Industrial Services of America Inc. (ISA), a Louisville, Ky.,-based scrap metals recycler and waste handler, said Friday that its waste management contract with Home Depot Inc. hasn't been renewed.
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U.S. exports of nonferrous scrap in July were the lowest in five months but managed to stay above 160,000 short tons, a threshold never reached until March this year.
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Quarterly bidding for aluminum scrap from Boeing Co.'s plants near Seattle showed the price for "pucks" rebounding nicely, but other grades barely budged from the June results.
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Newly listed Australian metals recycler CMA Corp. Ltd., Perth, will buy Scrap Metal Recyclers Ltd., New Zealand's second-largest scrap company, and Australia's Northern Territory Metal Recyclers for Australian $15.8 million ($12 million).
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Baseball star Bobby Abreu of the Philadelphia Phillies set a record this summer by smashing 41 home runs as part of Major League Baseball's annual Home Run Derby at Detroit's Comerica Park.
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Southern Recycling LLC, operator of the largest scrap operation in hurricane- and flood-damaged New Orleans, is ready to get back to work at its biggest yard in the Big Easy.
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U.S. scrap metal exports fell below the $500-million mark in July after spending two months above that unprecedented level.
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The growing use of 200-series stainless by stainless steel consumers is causing problems in the scrap recycling industry, according to Fernando Duranti, president of the Bureau of International Recycling and managing director of Leghe & Metalli International Srl, a Milan-based nonferrous metals and stainless scrap company.
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Harsco Corp.'s MultiServ mill services division has signed new multiyear contracts to expand its on-site services at two steel plants in Mexico.