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Tokyo Steel Corp. has cut its scrap buying prices for the seventh time in just over two weeks, pulling prices back to levels not seen since mid-May.
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Harsco Corp. has agreed to handle slag at two Austrian stainless and specialty steel mills in a 10-year deal that is expected to generate as much as $100 million for the mill services provider. The work will be done in collaboration with Germany’s Scholz Recycling AG & Co. KG.
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OmniSource Corp. is asking a county court judge in Indiana to overturn a fine and determination of fault issued in connection with a 2007 chlorine leak at one of its Fort Wayne, Ind., scrapyards.
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A California scrap dealer has filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against a customer, claiming the buyer refused to take delivery of all the nonferrous scrap agreed to in two contracts and completely refused to pay for another order it accepted.
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Harsco Corp. has agreed to handle slag at two Austrian stainless and specialty steel mills in a 10-year deal that is expected to generate as much as $100 million for the mill services provider. The work will be done in collaboration with Germany’s Scholz Recycling AG & Co. KG.
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A California scrap dealer has filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against a customer, claiming the buyer refused to take delivery of all the nonferrous scrap agreed to in two contracts and completely refused to pay for another order it accepted.
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Steinert US LLC will move its North American headquarters to Erlanger Ky., from Clearwater, Fla., next month.
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Aluminum ammunition scrap to be generated at Whiteman Air Force Base near Warrensburg, Mo., over the next six months attracted a top bid of 40 cents per pound at a military auction Wednesday.
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For the third consecutive week, U.S. scrap loaded into non-intermodal railcars has dropped. Loadings fell to 7,175 carloads in the week ended Oct. 10, off 12.3 percent from 8,179 carloads the previous week and 20.1 percent below the 2009 peak of 8,976 carloads in the week ended Sept. 19.
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Secondary aluminum ingot spot prices were generally flat the past week, though some of the cheaper sellers moved their pricing closer to the herd.
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U.S. exports of shredded scrap jumped 42.2 percent in August, led by Chinese steelmakers and foundries whose purchases from the United States so far this year are more than 10 times the year-ago level.
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Secondary aluminum ingot spot prices were generally flat the past week, though some of the cheaper sellers moved their pricing closer to the herd.
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U.S. exports of shredded scrap jumped 42.2 percent in August, led by Chinese steelmakers and foundries whose purchases from the United States so far this year are more than 10 times the year-ago level.
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Aluminum ammunition scrap to be generated at Whiteman Air Force Base near Warrensburg, Mo., over the next six months attracted a top bid of 40 cents per pound at a military auction Wednesday.
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Container recyclers are fired up over a veto message from California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who said the state legislature must drastically cut the scope of recycling activities supported by revenue from the state’s beverage container program rather than add new containers to the deposit-fee structure.
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U.S. titanium scrap receipts were essentially flat in the second quarter vs. the first quarter, while Australia accounted for the majority of concentrate imports.
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Brass and bronze ingot makers’ scrap prices inched up in concert with those for primary copper during the past week, but little has changed in terms of still-plodding supply/demand fundamentals, market participants said.
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Container recyclers are fired up over a veto message from California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who said the state legislature must drastically cut the scope of recycling activities supported by revenue from the state’s beverage container program rather than add new containers to the deposit-fee structure.
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Brass and bronze ingot makers’ scrap prices inched up in concert with those for primary copper during the past week, but little has changed in terms of still-plodding supply/demand fundamentals, market participants said.
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Steinert US LLC (SUS), a leading maker of separation equipment for the scrap metals industry, will move its North American headquarters to Erlanger Ky., from Clearwater, Fla.
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Trading company Stanton A. Moss Inc. in Bryn Mawr, Pa., and casting alloy maker Arsham Aluminum Alloys, Houston, have settled out of court in a dispute over a supply deal.
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After three months of successive declines, U.S. exports of nonferrous scrap rebounded in August to the highest level since September 2008.
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Trading company Stanton A. Moss Inc. in Bryn Mawr, Pa., and casting alloy maker Arsham Aluminum Alloys, Houston, have settled out of court in a dispute over a supply deal.
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After three months of successive declines, U.S. exports of nonferrous scrap rebounded in August to the highest level since September 2008.