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ISRI quantifies recycling trade activities

ISRI quantifies recycling trade activities <![CDATA[The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), Washington, is using the U.S. Department of Commerce's World Trade Month in May to offer details on the export market’s role in the recycling industry.“The recycling industry is vital to global supply chains, manufacturing and the environment,” says…
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Nucor clears hurdle for West Virginina project

Nucor clears hurdle for West Virginina project <![CDATA[Nucor Corp., headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, reportedly has cleared a hurdle in its quest to build a new scrap-fed electric arc furnace (EAF) steel mill in Mason County, West Virginia, along the Ohio River.The West Virginia Economic Development Authority (WVEDA) reportedly has…
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BlueScope charges ahead in Ohio

BlueScope charges ahead in Ohio <![CDATA[A mid-May ceremony at North Star BlueScope Steel in Delta, Ohio, has marked the completion of a $700 million capacity expansion project at the facility. According to Australia-based BlueScope Steel Ltd., the expansion will increase annual hot-rolled steel coil production by 850,000 metric tons.“This was a…
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Metal Exchange Corp. purchases distributor of aluminum rolled products

Metal Exchange Corp. purchases distributor of aluminum rolled products <![CDATA[St. Louis-based Metal Exchange Corp., a company involved in nonferrous metals trading, manufacturing, scrap processing, distribution and transportation, has acquired New Jersey-based Medalco Metals Inc., a U.S.-based distributor of light-gauge aluminum rolled products. Since it was established in 2003, Medalco has…
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Greenback receives plastic recycling funding

Greenback receives plastic recycling funding <![CDATA[Greenback Technologies Ltd., based in the United Kingdom, says it has secured additional funding that can help enable it to build a plastic scrap recycling facility in Mexico that will use pyrolysis technology.Greenback says it has “successfully completed part of a pre-Series B funding round”…
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Eriez introduces pulley separators

Eriez introduces pulley separators <![CDATA[Recycling equipment manufacturer Eriez, Erie, Pennsylvania, has launched the Dynamic Pulley Separator. The equipment is designed to free steel and weakly magnetic fines from recycled materials.   The company says the equipment increases profitability by improving downstream separation and the grade of nonferrous metals. The Dynamic Pulley Separator…
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Downward correction

Downward correction <![CDATA[While domestic demand for copper and aluminum scrap remains, pricing has softened since March, with Rick Dobkin of Shapiro Metals, St. Louis, writing in the Brussels-based Bureau of International Recycling’s “World Mirror: Non-Ferrous Metals,” released in mid-May, that the decline has been significant. “The U.S. regional premium has…
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Ambitious goals

Ambitious goals <![CDATA[Last year, the Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI), Washington, released a report with The Aluminum Association, Arlington, Virginia, showing the U.S. consumer recycling rate for aluminum used beverage cans (UBCs) in 2020 was 45.2 percent compared with 39.6 percent for glass bottles and 20.3 percent for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles.…
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ArcelorMittal acquires scrap yards in Germany

ArcelorMittal acquires scrap yards in Germany <![CDATA[ArcelorMittal, a Luxembourg-based steelmaker, has announced the acquisition of 10 scrap recycling facilities from the Alba International Recycling business unit of the Berlin-based Alba Group.According to the steel producer, the deal involves 10 scrap yards in southern Germany that had been branded in three…
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