Steel
Stainless steel: Dramatic period for Europe and the USA
| Two leading experts in the field of stainless steel scrap highlighted fundamental developments on both sides of the Atlantic at the latest BIR Stainless Steel & Special Alloys Committee meeting.
Non-ferrous metal recyclers not well understood
| BIR Non-Ferrous Metals Division President Robert Stein of Alter Trading, USA, complained about nations creating false internal markets.
Sorting smallest pieces
| Steinert Elektromagnetbau has launched a Fines all-metal recovery system.
Outlook: Steel market balance will remain fragile
| Strengthening indicators and evidence of improving dynamics suggest that the EU economy is well on track for recovery this year and into 2015.
Toyota recycles copper from wiring harnesses
| According to a press release Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has developed a world-first technology for recycling the copper contained in wiring harnesses, in collaboration with Yazaki Corporation, Toyota Tsusho Corporation, and eight other companies. The newly-developed technology is expected to produce copper with a purity of 99.96 percent.
Aluminium from aircrafts
| Boeing and Kaiser Aluminium have announced a scrap recycling program.
