The U.S. scrap market is sitting on a significant opportunity in UBC and zorba recovery, but without structural change and serious private-public investment, that potential will keep slipping through our fingers.
Novelis is partnering with DRT for 99% recycled content in beverage can end stock, reshaping the numbers behind one of aluminum's most specialized markets.
Novelis' Q2 results show how a split in end-market demand, firm scrap costs, and new capacity on the horizon are tightening margins in the North American flat-rolled market.
A Nemak plant is on its way out as global automaking reshapes what type of demand matters.
From Mount Pleasant to Sapulpa, the supply chain is shifting with implications for scrap flows.
WM forecasts that 400 landfills will close in the next 15 years, putting greater emphasis on need for recycling.
The merger could reshape aluminum demand, scrap flows, and supplier power across the entire North American auto part supply chain.
If you want cheap domestic aluminum, the answer is recycled content.
ReMA's Spotlight on Aluminum highlighted a litany of pressure points shaping the industry, with a particular emphasis on the aluminum scrap frontier.
Sortation technology is often puzzle where the end goal determines the methods employed, making it hard to gauge what companies are capable of going beyond standard processing.