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Secondary aluminum ingot and aluminum scrap prices surged in Europe last week as consumers, short of stocks as the end of the year approaches, raced to buy material for prompt delivery.
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The U.S. Defense Department's efforts to dispose of its "Ghost Fleet" ships has spawned a West Coast sequel.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has cited Del's Metal Co. for alleged clean-air violations at the company's Rock Island, Ill., secondary aluminum production facilities.
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Trading volumes for the ferrous scrap futures contract launched recently on the Central Japan Commodity Exchange (C-Com) have fallen to less than 500 lots a day, well below the 5,000 figure that large trading houses have said is needed before they will enter the market.
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The scrap industry has enough irons in the fire in Washington that it has begun recruiting sympathetic members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives into a formal recycling caucus.
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Reduced sales to Canadian and British ferroalloy makers and refiners cut U.S. nickel scrap exports by 9.5 percent in September.
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Alsa Technologies GmbH, a unit of industrial holding company Agor AG of Köln, Germany, expects to open an aluminum salt slag processing plant in the United States within the next three to five years.
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Wendt Corp. has been chosen to design and build a new shredder for Metal Management Inc.'s scrapyard in Memphis, Tenn.
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Mexico has cemented its role as the top destination for aluminum remelt scrap ingot (RSI) exported from the United States.
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VAW-Imco Guss und Recycling GmbH will open its newest secondary aluminum smelter in Stuttgart, Germany, this month with an initial capacity of 60,000 tonnes per year.
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Wabash Alloys LLC, Wabash, Ind., on Wednesday increased A380.1 aluminum alloy by 1 cent to 90 cents a pound.
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The squeeze in copper scrap, if prolonged, might discourage U.S. ingot makers sufficiently to deplete their number further, a recycling executive said.
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The London Metal Exchange might consider changing the specifications of the aluminum alloy contract in order to boost liquidity and promote trading in the contract in the Far East.
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The disappearance of government-owned roadside aluminum, an expensive nuisance that has afflicted several parts of the world, has now reached Baltimore.
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Stainless steel scrap continues to show luster in offshore markets, with U.S. exports of the shiny metal increasing for the third consecutive month in September.
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Appliance Recycling Centers of America Inc. (Arca) said the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has awarded it a three-year contract to manage two appliance recycling programs the Low Income Refrigerator Exchange Program and the Refrigerator Turn-In and Recycling Program.
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An Ohio bill that would allow auto shredders to negotiate free fluff disposal at local landfills has passed the state legislature and is likely to be signed into law by Gov. Bob Taft.
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Scrap metal dealer and processor Herbert "Herbie" Black has launched a Canadian $5-million ($4.2-million) lawsuit against a rival, two environmental groups and several of their directors for allegedly conspiring to prevent him from building a car-shredding plant near Quebec City.
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Projected quantities of aluminum scrap to be generated in the first three months of 2006 by Spirit AeroSystems Inc., a former Boeing Co. division, are off slightly from the current quarter.
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The Indian government has cleared several shipments of imported ferrous scrap for delivery to the nation's ports after several companies said their import certificates had been issued before the country's new inspection rules were put in place.
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U.S. exports of copper and brass scrap fell 11.4 percent in September as higher prices prompted a slowdown in overseas buying.
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The latest plan by the city government in Portland, Maine, to move two scrapyards out of a redevelopment area has one of the companies supportive but the other skeptical.
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Copper scrap prices continue to climb as the material stream dries up following a slowdown in manufacturing industries while overseas demand remains firm.
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Industrial Services of America Inc. (ISA) said its board of directors has approved a new program to repurchase up to 200,000 shares of its common stock.