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Two Tennessee aluminum recyclers hope to secure a permit to build a 90-acre landfill for salt cakes, despite residents’ objections last week at a public hearing.
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Foreign steelmakers looking to buy ferrous scrap from U.S. exporters may have to boost their buying prices to get the material they need, industry sources said.
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Derichebourg Group returned to the black in fiscal 2010 as scrap metal sales boosted the company’s annual revenue by 28.3 percent, the company said.
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Thomas Danjczek, president of the Steel Manufacturers Association, and Alan Price, president of the American Scrap Coalition, told the OECD Steel Committee that some nations have justified scrap export restrictions by citing national security reasons and the need for scrap to ensure production of downstream products. A Dec. 10 story incorrectly implied that they supported such justifications. They do not.
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Logan Aluminum Inc. has agreed to pay a $285,000 penalty to settle alleged violations of the Clean Air Act.
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Copper scrap traders are eyeing wide discounts to the Comex with concern, with some even reporting delaying contracts in pursuit of narrower spreads.
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Prompt industrial aluminum scrap will remain tight in 2011, according to the chief executive of Quanex Building Products Corp., which owns Nichols Aluminum.
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Prompt industrial aluminum scrap will remain tight in 2011, according to the chief executive of Quanex Building Products Corp., which owns Nichols Aluminum.
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Copper scrap traders are eyeing wide discounts to the Comex with concern, with some even reporting delaying contracts in pursuit of narrower spreads.
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Thomas Danjczek, president of the Steel Manufacturers Association, and Alan Price of the American Scrap Coalition told the OECD Steel Committee that nations restricting scrap exports have cited reasons like needing the scrap to ensure production of downstream products and national security purposes as justifications for imposing such restrictions. A story in AMM’s Dec. 10 edition incorrectly implied that they supported such justifications. They do not.
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Two U.S. steel industry representatives urged steelmakers from the world’s largest industrial countries to discourage embargoes on ferrous scrap exports and look to the United States as a model of how the ferrous scrap market should work.
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Secondary aluminum producers have finally succeeded in raising prices 2 cents per pound, citing stronger markets and rising scrap prices.
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California officials have again delayed a decision on whether to rescind a special-use permit at a four-year-old scrap metal recycling facility.
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Two U.S. steel industry representatives urged steelmakers from the world’s largest industrial countries to discourage embargoes on ferrous scrap exports and look to the United States as a model of how the ferrous scrap market should work.
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California officials have again delayed a decision on whether to rescind a special-use permit at a four-year-old scrap metal recycling facility.
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Secondary aluminum producers have finally succeeded in raising prices 2 cents per pound, citing stronger markets and rising scrap prices.
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Aluminum scrap flows are showing the first signs of tightening as snow arrived in the Midwest and Northeast, industry sources told AMM.
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Mike Vail has joined Alter Trading Corp. as regional vice president, operations.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will try to recover the cost of an emergency cleanup of abandoned materials at a defunct auto salvage operation.
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Aluminum scrap flows are showing the first signs of tightening as snow arrived in the Midwest and Northeast, industry sources told AMM.
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Los Angeles scrap veteran Arnold Berkovics has opted to retire after 37 years in the business, certain he will find distractions elsewhere.
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Bill Heenan has retired as president of the Steel Recycling Institute (SRI), ending a nearly 40-year career in the steel industry.
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Walter L. Roth, past president of the former Erman Howell Division of Luria Steel & Trading Co. and owner of the Walter Erman Cos., has died.
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The aluminum scrap market was “weird” Tuesday as buyers tried to handle the wild primary aluminum price swings on the London Metal Exchange.