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About 100 PSC Metals Inc. workers have set up a picket line at the main gate to Mittal Steel USA's plant in Burns Harbor, Ind.
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When a Congressional subcommittee summoned witnesses on electronics recycling last week, one of the overlapping debates was on whether to charge buyers of new equipment for the costs of processing the discards.
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Alan Farrell, 59, an Atlanta-based aluminum scrap trader for Newco Metals Inc., died earlier this month following a stroke.
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For Sims Group Ltd., the transportation headaches caused by high oil prices are softening a bit by improved prospects for recycling plastics from New York City's household discards.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Region 2 office has reached an agreement with the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Virgin Islands Waste Management Authority that will improve conditions at a scrap collection area next to the Anguilla Municipal Solid Waste Landfill in St. Croix.
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Ukraine's parliament has rejected a draft law aimed at gradually lowering the 30 euro ($37.50) export duty on steel scrap to 18 euros ($22.50) per tonne.
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The scrap industry has received an invitation to help supervise a nationally coordinated payment system for electronics recycling.
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Offshore demand for titanium scrap weakened slightly in June, although shipments to many of the top importing nations increased.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be acting as its own guinea pig in establishing the viability of a government-wide electronics recycling program announced in December.
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High prices have prompted Turkish ferrous scrap buyers to play a waiting game and stay out of the western European market, but small shiploads of scrap continue to flow in from some Black Sea exporters.
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Fred Isaacs, chairman of American Iron & Supply Co., Minneapolis, died Wednesday of congestive heart failure. He was 83.
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Wabash Alloys LLC, Wabash, Ind., on Wednesday hiked A380.1 aluminum alloy by 1 cent to 86 cents a pound.
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U.S. exports of zinc scrap rose 5.4 percent in June thanks largely to an uptick in shipments to China.
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A joint project to create model state legislation for electronics recycling has rewritten its draft bill, generally to simplify putting it into effect.
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William Stern has rejoined PSC Metals Inc. as a buyer at its St. Louis yard.
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Strong demand from Turkish steelmakers and their counterparts in Egypt and Indonesia spurred U.S. exports of No. 1 heavy melting steel scrap in June to their highest level in almost a decade.
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A scrap executive from Maine has not forgotten the roots he forged along the Gulf Coast in his youth and is digging into his own pocket to help those who have suffered from the ravages of Hurricane Katrina.
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Aleris International Inc., Beachwood, Ohio, is set to buy bankrupt Dutch magnesium recycling company Remag Alloys BV, Delfzijl, the Netherlands, according to a source close to the company.
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Turkish buyers might have to pay higher prices for ferrous scrap from Europe this week as they prepare to re-enter the market, sources said.
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General Environmental Management Inc. didn't return the kickoff at San Diego State University's home opener Saturday night, but it may have scored some points with environmentalists.
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Almost nothing goes wrong in a scrapyard that someone hasn't encountered before, according to John Gilstrap.
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Winning bids for the first-ever nationwide Web auction of Defense Department scrap metal included two Texas lots of aircraft material that drew top offers of about $650,000 each.
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Aleris International Inc. has expanded its activities in Brazil by acquiring from Tomra Systems ASA, Asker, Norway, a collection network for discarded aluminum cans.
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Metso Minerals has acquired Texas Shredder Inc., the San Antonio, Texas,-based provider of shredder plants to the scrap industry.