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Redwave Metal Days! The best opportunity to stay on top of new developments in the field of metal/aluminium recycling!
Metal and aluminium recycling is moving ever more into the spotlight as companies around the world seek to incorporate more secondary material into their materials flow sheet and product lines. Metal scrap offers many economic benefits over prime metal. This event features international speeches of different sectors in the metal and aluminium recycling industry and latest innovations. ...
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Aluminium can recycler Novelis drops prices
Price reductions in the wider aluminium market have led aluminium can recycler Novelis to reduce its used beverage can prices by £50 per tonne as of Monday (23 February). Novelis suppliers were notified today that new prices would be £350 p/t for loose and whole and loose and flatten cans and £400 p/t for baled cans. Company national manager Andy Doran told MRW: “We monitor London Metal ...
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Novelis Casts First Ingot at New Aluminium Recycling Center in Nachterstedt
Novelis, the world leader in aluminium rolling and recycling, announced today that it successfully cast the first production-sized ingot – almost 10 meters long – at its 200 million Euro aluminium recycling and casting center in Nachterstedt, Germany. Located adjacent to the company’s existing aluminium rolling mill, the new plant will produce up to 400,000 metric tons of ...
By Novelis Inc.
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UK recycles 52% of its aluminium beverage cans
The UK recycled 52 per cent of its aluminium beverage cans in 2007, according to new research from the European Aluminium Association. Overall, the recycling rate for aluminium beverage cans in Western Europe is now 61.8 per cent, an increase by 10 per cent compared to the year 2005. The EAA reviewed the aluminium beverage can recycling rates of 27 European Union countries. The UK features ...
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Odourless Aluminium Recycling
Environmental excellence coupled with economic benefits: When recycling aluminium, different classes of metal scrap are used. Especially lower grades of scrap can cause odour. The elimination of this odour is not only environmental-friendly but also renders the recycling process very economic, as lower grades of scrap can be used increasingly. Metal recycling in general and aluminium recycling ...
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Novelis Expands Finishing Capacity for Beverage Can Sheet in Europe
Novelis, the world leader in aluminium rolling and recycling, today announced the commissioning of a new aluminium slitting and packing line at Aluminium Norf GmbH (Alunorf), its joint-venture facility in Neuss, Germany. With an investment of approximately 15 million Euros, it will increase the plant’s finishing capacity for beverage can sheet. “This investment reflects the solid ...
By Novelis Inc.
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Novelis recycles record 39 billion cans
Aluminium giant Novelis has broken a company record by recycling an estimated 39 billion aluminium drink cans in the past year. Through recycling the company has reduced the need for 530,000 tonnes of primary aluminium avoiding five million tonnes of greenhouse gases. Novelis president of global procurement and metal management Nick Madden said: “The GHGs avoided through our can recycling ...
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EU aluminium beverage can recycling hits 63%
Aluminium drinks can recycling has increased to 63% across the EU27, data from the European Aluminium Association (EAA) has found. During the past two years, the recycling rate for aluminium cans has risen by 5.4%, going from 57.7% in 2006, to 61.8% in 2007 and reaching 63.1% in 2009. Germany recycles the most cans, with a rate of 96% by using the Green Dot scheme, which means the product ...
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REDWAVE XRF - new sorting possibilities for the Metal and Aluminium Recycling Industry
The sorting system REDWAVE XRF was initially used in the field of glass sorting, more precisely for the separation of heat-resistant and leaded glass from the waste glass cullet. Soon it became apparent that the fields of application go far beyond the glass sector. The use of this innovative technology together with the development of a new machine design set new standards in the metal sorting, ...
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Changes in the Management Team of Novelis Europe
Novelis, the world leader in aluminium rolling and recycling, announces a change in the management of its Automotive and Can businesses in Europe. Michael Hahne, who previously served as Vice President and General Manager Can in Novelis Europe, will assume the position of Vice President and General Manager Automotive in Novelis Europe effective April 1, 2016. Michael succeeds Pierre Labat, who ...
By Novelis Inc.
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UK meets packaging recycling and recovery targets
The UK has met its packaging recycling and recovery targets, new figures show. The Environment Agency has published the targets on the National Packaging Waste Database for quarter four of 2009. More than 1.86 million tonnes of packaging was recovered and recycled in Q4, meaning that the UK has met its targets. Packaging Recovery Note (PRN) trading platform Environment Exchange managing ...
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PRN market faces hard year
Key industry figures involved in the market for Packaging (Waste) Recovery Notes are “cautiously optimistic” about the year ahead but have acknowledged that it will be a difficult year. There has been a strong demand for aluminium beverage cans in recent months and last month aluminium can recycler Novelis increased the price it paid for the material by £100 a tonne. Aluminium Packaging ...
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European carton recycling rate creeps up again
The number of beverage cartons recycled in Europe has increased notably in 2007. Europeans recycled close to 330,000 tonnes of beverage cartons in 2007, representing 32% of total volume, an improvement by 7% over 2006. “Our industry is committed to increase recycling levels of our beverage cartons. This is why we encourage collection schemes through partnerships with local authorities and drive ...
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New possibilities in the metal recycling industry – International experts gathered in Gleisdorf
The REDWAVE Metal Days, at BT-Wolfgang Binder in Gleisdorf, provided the context for international experts from various sectors of the metal and aluminium recycling industry to exchange information on markets, technologies and practical experience. In addition, the new REDWAVE XRF-M sorting system, for recycling in the metals sector, was presented to the participants. The interest of the ...
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Stockpiling alu cans risks 2009 targets, says Alupro
Alupro has called on aluminium can collectors to stop stockpiling the material amid concerns it could affect 2009 recycling targets. As a result of the global economic slowdown, “recycling targets in 2009 are going to be tough to hit anyway,” Alupro executive director Rick Hindley said. Such stockpiling disrupts the generation of Packaging Recovery Notes (PRNs), and material that has not been ...
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Up to 30% of aluminium and steel could be reused
Globally, up to 27% of all steel and 33% of all aluminium could potentially be reused, according to research. Significant barriers to reuse, such as component incompatibility between products and metal corrosion, must first be addressed if these reuse figures are to be achieved. Aluminium or steel can be recycled by melting it down and recasting into new products. Currently, 60% of steel 39% of ...
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Every can counts scheme pilots in Asda trial stores
Supermarket Asda has launched a drinks can recycling programme to run across 49 of its stores in the north west of England. Asda has partnered up with Every Can Counts, a partnership between drinks can manufacturers, the recycling industry and waste management companies. It is being implemented back of store as part of Asda’s initiative to send zero waste to landfill by the end of 2010. “We ...
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Nederman receives order for over SEK 30 million (€3.3’’) from Stena Aluminium
The order is for new investments in Stena Aluminium’s smelter in Älmhult, Sweden. Nederman will supply the plant with solutions for the filtration of the fumes generated in the smelting of returned aluminium products. “Our operations are important especially for the environment, but there is also a growing industrial demand for recycled aluminium. It is therefore a ...
By Nederman
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Material sectors criticise Government`s unachievable packaging recycling targets
Key figures across the recycled plastics, aluminium and wood industries have expressed their concerns over the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs proposed packaging recycling targets for 2020. Some sectors believe the Government’s targets are over-ambitious and need to be revised. They say more infrastructure and work on increasing the recovery rates of materials needs to be put ...
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Unique recycling firm receives big investment
Enval, the first packaging recycling company to allow complete recycling of laminate packaging waste, has obtained significant investment from the East of England Co-Investment Fund. Laminate packaging is a material made up from tightly-packed layers of aluminium and plastic that are hard to separate, such as a drink carton. The spinout company of the University of Cambridge was supported in ...
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