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California scrapyards are backing a proposed state law intended to improve the detection of stolen metal after a coalition in favor of a compromise bill fell apart.
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Brass ammunition scrap to be generated at a Utah military base over the next 12 months was priced at $2.47 a pound in a recent online auction, below a somewhat similar offering in Georgia in late July that brought a winning bid of $2.85 a pound
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U.S. exports of nickel scrap rocketed 66.6 percent in June as Canadian buyers took a record tonnage and Japan also boosted its buying of the alloying metal.
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A near-silent Turkish deep-sea ferrous scrap market was roused by a new deal from the Baltic Sea region at a price about $4 to $5 a tonne higher than previous sales.
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Brass ammunition scrap to be generated at a Utah military base over the next 12 months was priced at $2.47 a pound in a recent online auction, below a somewhat similar offering in Georgia in late July that brought a winning bid of $2.85 a pound
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Harsco Corp., Harrisburg, Pa., has acquired Zeta-Tech Associates Inc., a niche technical services and applied technology company serving the railway industry. It specializes in railway engineering services and track maintenance software.
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Harsco Corp., Harrisburg, Pa., has acquired Zeta-Tech Associates Inc., a niche technical services and applied technology company serving the railway industry. It specializes in railway engineering services and track maintenance software.
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Sims Group Ltd. said revenue and profits soared in its fiscal year ended June 30 but warned that higher ocean freight rates and a weak U.S. dollar could soften its fiscal first-quarter earnings.
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The Oregon-based sponsor of a model-by-model environmental ratings system for computers are hoping to take on digital televisions, with the backing of U.S. regulators.
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Sims Group Ltd. said revenue and profits soared in its 2007 fiscal year ended June 30 but warned that higher ocean freight rates and a weak U.S. dollar could soften its first-quarter earnings.
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A year’s worth of turnings and borings from a U.S. Army manufacturing facility in Watervliet, N.Y., went for $278.43 per long ton Wednesday to a buyer that had paid $311.08 per ton for the previous 12 months’ material.
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Prices offered for the Chrysler Group’s factory bundles to be generated in September rose by an average of $18 a long ton as stronger demand from some flat-rolled steelmakers, higher freight rates and higher prices paid earlier this month for dealer grades of scrap drove up the market for the prime scrap steel, industry sources said.
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Prices offered for the Chrysler Group’s factory bundles to be generated in September rose by an average of $18 a long ton as stronger demand from some flat-rolled steelmakers, higher freight rates and higher prices paid earlier this month for dealer grades of scrap drove up the market for the prime scrap steel, industry sources said.
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The steering committee of the National Vehicle Mercury Switch Recovery Program has met to evaluate the progress of the year-old endeavor, which began paying per-switch bounties to auto dismantlers in January.
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The steering committee of the National Vehicle Mercury Switch Recovery Program met in mid-August to evaluate the progress of the year-old endeavor, which began paying per-switch bounties to auto dismantlers in January.
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Stronger demand from Turkish and Egyptian steelmakers pushed U.S. exports of No. 1 heavy melting steel scrap upward in June and offset the decline in offshore sales elsewhere.
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General Motors Corp.’s transmission plant near Baltimore has become the company’s eighth facility worldwide to become “landfill free”—ending all shipments of production waste to landfills.
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Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., and David J. Joseph Co. (DJJ), Cincinnati, hosted a half-day meeting with scrap suppliers to the steelmaker’s Norfolk, Neb., bar mill in an effort to encourage their participation in the National Vehicle Mercury Switch Recovery Program.
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Nucor Corp. and David J. Joseph Co. (DJJ) hosted a half-day meeting Aug. 23 with the scrap suppliers to the steelmaker’s Norfolk, Neb., bar mill in an effort to encourage their participation in the National Vehicle Mercury Switch Recovery Program.
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Metech International Inc., a New England electronics and precious metals recycler that recently expanded into Asia, has been purchased by Centillion Environment & Recycling Ltd., Singapore, for $22 million.
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MMTC Ltd.’s global tender for 5,000 tonnes of shredded scrap brought in offers starting at $390 per tonne, at least $20 higher than current Indian prices for this grade of ferrous scrap.
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Harsco Corp. has acquired Alexander Mill Services International, a privately held Polish company that provides mill services to leading steel producers in Poland and Romania and to smaller mills in Greece and Portugal.
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Secondary smelters’ buying prices for aluminum scrap have risen in the past week, generally by 2 cents a pound, on indications of solid domestic demand for alloy ingot, hopes for resurging Chinese scrap buys and cues from the London Metal Exchange.
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Harsco Corp. has acquired Alexander Mill Services International, a privately held Polish company that provides mill services to leading steel producers in Poland and Romania and to smaller mills in Greece and Portugal.