Tag: Scrap

Scrap discounts remain exceptionally wide to the Midwest transaction price. Some seasonal tightness may occur, but still affords rolling mills and extruders excellent earnings potential.

AMU spoke with Ingrid Joerg about her experience and her vision for Constellium, the Paris-based aluminum company with operations in Europe, North America and Asia.

Sortera uses proprietary technology equipped with AI-enabled multi-sensor sorting systems with blending capabilities to better sort and upcycle scrap

Aluminum Market Chatter from survey respondents.

The EU's preparatory work on possible aluminum scrap export restrictions provides the starting point for examining why current European scrap flows to the US remain too small to materially affect either region's can sheet market.

This piece examines how U.S. and EU tariff structures are encouraging new forms of arbitrage and potential circumvention.

Southwire is expanding the footprint of its Heflin, Alabama cable plant and intends to outfit the additional space with new aluminum-capable drawing and medium-voltage cable production equipment.

As Aluminum Dynamics' Mississippi mill ramps up without feedstock from its delayed Benson recycler, UBC scrap availability could tighten heading into 2026.

Join AMU for a special webinar with Shapiro Metals CEO Bruce Shapiro on Thursday, Nov. 6, at 11 am ET. The live webinar will be free for all to attend. A recording will be available only to AMU and SMU subscribers. You can register here. Shapiro Metals started in 1904 with Bruce’s grandfather, who worked as a “junk peddler.” […]

The company cited, among other things, scrap purchases, tariff mitigations and the ramp-up of its plant in Switzerland.