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    Aquaman Dives into Sustainability with Water in Aluminum Cans

    Jason Momoa, an actor known widely for his roles as Aquaman and Khal Drogo on Game of Thrones, released a YouTube video in which he shaved his famous beard to promote the use of aluminum versus plastic while introducing his new line of water in aluminum cans. In the trending video, Momoa says, “I just […]

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    Fonderie Pandolfo Orders Aluminum Recycling Furnace

    Fonderie Pandolfo in Italy ordered a twin-chamber melting furnace for the recycling of contaminated aluminum scrap. The new furnace will double the company’s production rate, enabling it to satisfy continuous market requests. The TCF® melting furnace will be delivered and installed by Tenova LOI Thermprocess in Germany. Fonderie Pandolfo was founded in 2009 as a modern casthouse primarily […]

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    Trimet Puts New Aluminum Recycling Furnace into Operation

    Trimet Aluminium SE started up operation of a new rotary furnace for remelting aluminum scrap at its Gelsenkirchen recycling plant in Germany. The ceremony was attended by Philipp Schlüter, chairman of the executive board, Jens Meinecke, plant manager, and the employees of the facility. “Around 90% of the aluminum in circulation is recycled, and the total […]

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    Rebirth by Fire: Secondary Aluminum for the Win

    By Gerd Krause, Mediakonzep. At the end of their product life, cars, bicycles, beverage cans, rails, and bridges of closed down railway lines become valuable scrap material that can be separated by type, recycled, and then resurrected as consumer goods. Aluminum is one of the best enablers in an ecological recycling economy thanks to its […]

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    Century Aluminum to Expand Its Sebree Casthouse with Scrap Recycling

    Century Aluminum Sebree LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Century Aluminum Company, is investing in two new expansion programs at its Sebree, Kentucky, smelter, which will increase its production of both value-added and secondary aluminum. The programs will improve the smelter’s product mix by adding approximately 90,000 tonnes of additional billet capacity to the Sebree casthouse and to increase the […]

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    ARTICLE: Secondary Aluminum Processing Waste – Ensuring Its Environmentally Protective Management

    By Curt Wells and Paul O’Connor, The Aluminum Association. Aluminum recycling provides significant societal environmental benefit in terms of landfilled waste reduction and the energy consumption/emissions avoided as compared to aluminum produced from virgin ore. However, aluminum recycling also generates waste products and these are referred to as secondary aluminum processing wastes, which are comprised […]

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    TRIMET Aluminium Modernizing Its Recycling Plants

    TRIMET Aluminium SE is investing several million euros in the modernization of its recycling plants in Gelsenkirchen and Harzgerode, Germany, with the aim of ensuring productivity, saving resources, and protecting the environment. Currently, the company produces about 235,000 tons of recycled aluminum annually. “Aluminum recycling is becoming increasingly important,” said Thomas Reuther, member of the […]

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    New Voice for a Unified Aluminum Recycling Industry: Interview with Luke Palen, Aluminum Recyclers Council

    The Aluminum Recyclers Council (ARC) was recently formed to promote and protect the domestic aluminum recycling industry, while also improving recycling operations in North America through business excellence programs. The ARC named Luke Palen as chairman. He is also the president of Spectro Alloys Corp., an aluminum recycling company operating in Minnesota for over 40 […]