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The Blase family has purchased an auto shredder for its new recycling facility in Lithonia, Ga.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has published its final interpretation of regulations that would allow the recycling of plastics recovered from scrap metal shredder residue.
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A Chicago-area scrap company has completed a two-year expansion at one of its facilities after finalizing the installation of a baler this month.
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Japanese ferrous scrap export prices continue to fall as South Korean mills, in particular, move to cut their scrap purchasing prices both at home and abroad.
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RPM Recycling Inc., Wind Gap, Pa., quietly closed its doors April 9 and is now for sale, according to customers of the facility.
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East Coast bulk ferrous scrap export prices shed more than $10 per tonne April 10 after a single sale to Turkey broke a nearly monthlong deadlock between U.S. exporters and Turkish buyers.
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Midwest ferrous scrap prices shed at least $20 per gross ton across all grades in April as mill buyers fought off dealer resistance amid lower overall demand.
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Highlight Networks Inc. has signed a deal with SiteXpedite LLC to process electronic and metal scrap, the electronic waste recycler said April 9, estimating its value at more than $1 million.
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The former human resources manager at United Milwaukee Scrap LLC has been accused of embezzling $1 million since 2006 to allegedly support a bingo habit.
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Free-market lead scrap prices have weakened further, market participants said, as secondary tags trail falling terminal markets.
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OmniSource Corp. is set to open a new feeder yard to supply its Jackson, Mich., auto shredder.
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Two scrap-trading firms have filed a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (Rico) Act lawsuit against two scrap veterans and a slew of businesses for allegedly selling them both the same four containers in a stainless steel scrap deal.
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Some mill-grade aluminum scrap prices increased April 8 as strengthening terminal markets coupled with steady demand lent support to the secondary market.
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Stainless scrap processor buying prices have fallen further as market participants report a sustained slowdown in consumer orders.
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High-grade copper scrap prices are trading at a premium to Comex tags in the U.S. market following a sharp swing lower in refined metal prices, sources told AMM sister publication Metal Bulletin at the Center for Copper and Mining Studies’ annual Cesco Week in Santiago, Chile.
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South Korean steel producers might import less ferrous scrap due to the weakening won against the U.S. dollar, but the cut in purchases is likely to be only temporary, sources say.
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Derek Prichett, vice president of global recycling at Novelis Inc., is confident that the company can source enough scrap metal to hit its interim goal of 50-percent recycled content in its products by 2015, but acknowledges that things will get harder beyond that as it targets 80-percent recycled material by 2020.
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East Coast bulk ferrous scrap exports remain at a standstill as a weak finished product market in Turkey keeps the country’s largest offshore scrap consumer at bay.
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Electronic waste recycler Highlight Networks Inc. has opened a 12,000-square-foot facility in East Syracuse, N.Y.
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Industry veteran F. Nicholas Grasberger will take over as Harsco Corp. senior vice president and chief financial officer effective April 22.
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MetalX LLC is said to be close to finalizing a deal to buy an auto shredder facility in Birmingham, Ala., owned by Sims Metal Management Ltd.
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Prices for most secondary aluminum scrap grades fell April 4 as sources said unfavorable margins and weakening terminal markets continued to present significant headwinds to maintaining profitability.
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Two environmental groups are accusing PSC Metals Inc. of illegally discharging pollutants into the Cumberland River from its 52-acre auto shredding and scrap metal processing facility in Nashville, Tenn.
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A Tennessee metal recycler struggling to keep his business operating has failed to win support to operate at a new site.