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U.S. exports of shredded scrap topped 1 million tonnes in August for the second time this year, but it might be the last hurrah for the fragmented scrap in 2008.
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Further slippage in prices of secondary aluminum alloys and the scrap it comes from is stirring fresh unease over how badly market participants will be hurt by a poorly performing economy.
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U.S. exports of shredded scrap topped 1 million tonnes in August for the second time this year, but it might be the last hurrah for the fragmented scrap in 2008.
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Further slippage in prices of secondary aluminum alloys and the scrap it comes from is stirring fresh unease over how badly market participants will be hurt by a poorly performing economy.
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Ferrous scrap’s price stumbling is expected to continue in November, largely because there is still a lot of prime industrial steel scrap overhanging the market.
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Ferrous scrap’s price stumbling is expected to continue in November, largely because there is still a lot of prime industrial steel scrap overhanging the market.
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Russia is considering imposing an export tax of 120 euros ($160) per tonne on ferrous scrap at the beginning of November in an effort to curb exports and keep the material for domestic mills, according to Ioannis Meimaroglu, chairman of the International Rebar Exporters and Producers Association’s (Irepas’) raw materials committee.
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David J. Joseph Co. (DJJ) has promoted Chip Nelson to vice president of international at the company’s Cincinnati-based scrap brokerage and services group.
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Metalico Inc., which expanded into platinum group metals (PGM) during the past two years and suffered a recent earnings setback from unhedged PGM purchase commitments, has recruited three outside executives to realign the segment’s management.
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After seven successive months of expansion, U.S. aluminum scrap exports have fallen.
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After seven successive months of expansion, U.S. aluminum scrap exports have fallen.
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Metalico Inc., which expanded into platinum group metals (PGM) during the past two years and suffered a recent earnings setback from unhedged PGM purchase commitments, has recruited three outside executives to realign the segment’s management.
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Offshore sales of copper and aluminum scrap slipped in August, but the nonferrous scrap market?s second string players?nickel, zinc and used aluminum beverage cans (UBCs)?were on the rise.
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David J. Joseph Co. (DJJ) has promoted Chip Nelson to vice president of international at the company’s Cincinnati-based scrap Brokerage and Services group.
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European secondary aluminum prices are falling fast on plummeting demand as automakers reduce production and sentiment remains bearish, according to market participants.
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Offshore sales of copper and aluminum scrap slipped in August, but the nonferrous scrap market’s second string players—nickel, zinc and used aluminum beverage cans (UBCs)—were on the rise.
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President Bush this past week signed into law a ban on exports of mercury that will start in 2013.
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Copper scrap prices have fallen slightly—mostly due to weak demand, low primary copper prices and troubled credit markets—but for the most part have stabilized after a massive decline last week.
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Decisions by global steel producers to make drastic production cuts in the face of weak steel demand have left the scrap market in turmoil, according to a number of scrap dealers who are seeing prices tumble rapidly.
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U.S. exports of steel and iron scrap slipped modestly in August despite strong gains in shredded scrap and in shipments to India.
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Copper scrap prices have fallen slightly—mostly due to weak demand, low primary copper prices and troubled credit markets—but for the most part have stabilized after a massive decline last week.
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U.S. exports of steel and iron scrap slipped modestly in August despite strong gains in shredded scrap and in shipments to India.
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Brass scrap auctioned off from seven U.S. military bases this week averaged $1.02 a pound, far below the $1.54 average achieved as recently as Oct. 7.
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The legislators of Dutchess County, N.Y., voted Thursday evening to shorten the proposed tag-and-hold period for nonferrous metal at scrapyards to two days from the original five.