Aluminum Dynamics, the newly formed aluminum operations of Steel Dynamics, Inc., signed a contract with Gillespie & Powers Inc. along with their strategic partners Hustler Conveyor Company, American Pulverizer Company, and ETA Engineering for the supply of furnace equipment, pre-treatment equipment, and air pollution control equipment for their recently announced, state-of-the-art facilities in Columbus, Mississippi, Gila […]
Spectro Alloys plans to invest $71 million to add new aluminum recycling equipment to its campus in Rosemount, MN. The investment will allow the Midwest-based recycler to expand its capabilities to sort and melt post-consumer aluminum scrap and cast it into various sheet ingot and billet alloys. This is in response to the need for […]
A new study, “Aluminium Beverage Can Recycling in United Arab Emirates and Asia Pacific: A Review Of Waste Management Maturity In Six Countries,” on recycling of aluminum cans has identified that 60 million tonnes of CO2e per annum could be saved through effective global recycling of used beverage cans (UBCs) by 2030. The study was commissioned […]
Service Center Metals (SCM) cut the ribbon on a $127 million expansion — completed earlier this year — which has added 320,000 sq ft to its 100-acre campus in Prince George, Virginia. The expansion includes two new manufacturing areas — an aluminum recycling and billet casting plant and a new aluminum extrusion line. “In 2023, […]
The REMADE Institute announced a new technology license, which involves a technological innovation capable of removing metallic impurities from recycled aluminum melt, thereby improving the quality of the aluminum and allowing it to be used for more diverse applications, including electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing. The innovation is part of a research and development project first […]
Metallco Group installed two advanced sorting systems to improve its aluminum recycling operations in Norway. This enables the company to achieve a high purity level (up to 99%) in its aluminum scrap. According to Laurie Feinberg, CEO and majority owner of Metallco (in an interview), international recycling businesses are facing a number of challenges and […]
Editor’s Note: Positive environmental and commercial considerations have driven the rapid rise of secondary aluminum in achieving about a third of global aluminum consumption today. Data from the Aluminum Association and the International Aluminum Institute indicate that recycling aluminum uses 90-95% less energy compared with primary aluminum and ~75% of all aluminum ever produced since […]
By Andrea Svendsen, Managing Editor. Hydro successfully produced a batch of aluminum billet using green hydrogen as an energy source. Performed at the company’s extrusion plant in Navarra, Spain, the trial was conducted in collaboration with Hydro Havrand, Hydro’s green hydrogen company, and Fives, an industrial engineering group with expertise in hydrogen burner technology. According […]
We Recycle Solar, Inc., the first vertically integrated recycler of end-of-life photovoltaic (PV) solar panels in North America, expanded its headquarters in Yuma, Arizona. This expanded capacity enables the company to tackle the growing environmental challenge of solar panel waste. “We believe that sustainability in the American energy value chain can only be realized by […]
