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Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality has proposed softening a ban on sending recyclables to landfill when “extraordinary circumstances” make other outlets unavailable.
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Exporter Integra Metals LLC has filed a third-party breach-of-contract claim against scrap metal processor William F. Sullivan & Co. Inc., which provided scrap that it shipped to India. The importer of the goods had filed suit vs. Integra, alleging the scrap is substandard and doesn’t meet contracted chemistry requirements.
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The nonferrous scrap industry is over the worst of the turmoil created by the global economic recession, with a “guarded optimism” pervading the market, according to Robert Stein, president of the Bureau of International Recycling’s nonferrous metals division.
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New York exporter Integra Metals LLC has filed a third-party breach-of-contract claim against scrap metal processor William F. Sullivan & Co. Inc., which provided scrap that it shipped to India. The importer of the goods had filed suit against Integra, alleging the scrap provided is substandard and doesn’t meet the chemistry requirements of the contract.
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Harris Equipment has unveiled its newly redesigned Piranha closed-door horizontal baler.
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A recent military scrap auction, restricted to bidders with deep pockets, included two successful offers of $150—one winning 2,500 pounds of high-temperature alloys at 7 cents per pound in California and the other getting 500,000 pounds of steel scrap at 74 cents per long ton in Portsmouth, Va.
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Edd Berkoben will step down as president of Harris Waste Management Group Inc. on Dec. 31.
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Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality has proposed softening a ban on sending recyclables to landfill when other outlets are unavailable due to “extraordinary circumstances.”
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Appliance Recycling Centers of America Inc. (Arca) has been named the official turnkey provider for a refrigerator rebate program run by South Carolina electric and water utility Santee Cooper.
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The bookkeeper at a North Carolina metals recycler is facing charges of allegedly embezzling more than $207,000 from the company over a seven-month period last year.
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U.S. copper scrap exports logged a 21.5-percent gain in August, the thrust of which came from renewed Chinese buying interest.
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City Commissioners in Benton Harbor, Mich., have approved a special-use permit allowing Louis Padnos Iron & Metal Co. to open a scrapyard in the city.
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City Commissioners in Benton Harbor, Mich., have approved a special-use permit allowing Louis Padnos Iron & Metal Co. to open a scrapyard in the city.
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Turkish steelmakers have booked orders for five cargoes of ferrous scrap, all from U.S. exporters and at prices that are down from prior sales levels, industry sources said.
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U.S. copper scrap exports logged a 21.5-percent gain in August, the thrust of which came from renewed Chinese buying interest.
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The bookkeeper at a North Carolina metals recycler is facing charges of allegedly embezzling more than $207,000 from the company over a seven-month period last year.
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The volume of U.S. scrap moving via non-intermodal railcars has rebounded slightly after three consecutive weekly declines.
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Secondary aluminum ingot prices seem poised to rise, although buyers currently seem able to find material at the same level as last week.
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Police have arrested two brothers for allegedly stealing scrap metal destined for an Alter Metal Recycling yard in Lincoln, Neb., where one of the brothers worked.
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Seven scrap metal dealers in Ohio and Wisconsin have made separate arrangements with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regional office in Chicago to comply with federal rules to protect the stratospheric ozone layer.
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A Durham, Calif., scrap dealer, outraged that he has had to pay more than $1.5 million in fines and attorney fees, is retaliating with a large-scale attempt to unseat the local district attorney.
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A Durham, Calif., scrap dealer, outraged that he has had to pay more than $1.5 million in fines and attorney fees, is retaliating with a large-scale attempt to unseat the local district attorney.
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Secondary aluminum ingot prices seem poised to rise, although buyers currently seem able to find material at the same level as last week.
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Police have arrested two brothers for allegedly stealing scrap metal destined for an Alter Metal Recycling yard in Lincoln, Neb., where one of the brothers worked.