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All Green Recycling LLC has launched All Green Global LLC (AGG), a joint venture with RedOrange LLC, in an effort to boost market share.
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Early indications suggest the domestic ferrous scrap market may have bottomed out in October, though it remains to be seen whether November will roll over sideways or see a slight rebound, scrap sources say.
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Stainless scrap prices continue to fall due to weak end-user demand and softening raw material prices.
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A Nova Scotia subsidiary of American Iron & Metal Co. Inc. (AIM) is seeking to expand the scope of services at its Dartmouth facility in Halifax to include automobile recycling.
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A-1 Auto Wrecking & Salvage Inc. has cleared a hurdle in its effort to expand its Nevada recycling facility.
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Free-market aluminum scrap prices have moved down after a sustained drop in London Metal Exchange pricing, with A380.1 threatening to dip back below the $1-per-pound mark.
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The owner of an Iowa salvage yard has been ordered to pay $40,000 in fines and gain compliance to settle a lawsuit filed by the state in 2010.
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Scrap industry veteran Ted M. Luntz died Friday in Cleveland. He was 86.
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Wise Alloys LLC has signed a new five-year labor agreement with International Union of Operating Engineers Local 320 three weeks before the current contract was set to expire.
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Metals recyclers in Abilene, Texas, might face stiffer requirements once local officials hold a final vote on an ordinance covering scrap metals later this month.
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Cozzi O’Brien Recycling LLC wants to establish an auto shredding operation in West Chicago, Ill., but opposition from local officials appears to have stymied the effort.
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California has revised a scrap metal law to eliminate a provision that allowed infrequent scrap sellers to receive payment on the spot for small amounts of copper.
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Upstate Shredding LLC-Ben Weitsman & Son Inc. has hired four new managers at its New York and Pennsylvania locations from competitor Sims Metal Management Ltd. as it looks to build its team amid the company’s expansion.
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The following MB non-ferrous European free market scrap prices changed on Friday:
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Copper scrap market participants expect a difficult fourth quarter as orders continue to dwindle.
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Some free-market aluminum scrap and alloy prices dropped Thursday in line with a decrease on the London Metal Exchange, with traders reporting slower activity moving into the fourth quarter.
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Recycle West Virginia LLC (Recycle WV) has upgraded its nonferrous scrap metal separation systems as part of a plant expansion aimed at increasing its range of shredded materials.
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USA Metal Recycling LLC is being sued by the city of Siloam Springs, Ark., which claims the company is operating without an appropriate business license outside of a legal operating zone.
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AMM’s Midwest Ferrous Scrap Index has plunged further after mills sent October prices drastically lower, bringing the total decline since August to nearly 20 percent.
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Liquidity Services Inc. has surpassed the 2-billion-pound mark in scrap material sales.
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High Voltage Processing Inc. has moved to a larger copper wire scrap processing facility in Pennsylvania and plans to open another in Asia by 2014, co-owner Jim Dwyer told AMM.
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The onset of colder weather has loosened the supply of spent lead-acid automotive batteries, according to lead scrap traders, although free-market prices have so far remained unchanged.
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China Armco Metals Inc. has applied for a certificate to import scrap directly into China from overseas suppliers.
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The owners of Dodson Trucking Iron & Metal LLC are among six people who have been accused of stealing tractor-trailer loads of scrap metal worth $1.8 million over a two-year period.