Norway / Taiwan | Scandinavian aluminium producer Hydro has signed an agreement to acquire the remaining 15.1% of the Formosa Alloy Materials Company (Famco). The Taiwan aluminium remelt plant consequ ...
Spain / China | Copper producer and scrap metal consumer La Farga Group expands its sphere of influence to China, creating, with two local partners, a new production plant exclusively of railway produ ...
Germany | Investment firm Nordic Capital Fund VII has acquired a majority stake in SiC Processing AG from a group of sellers, while the founding family remains as co-owners with 25% and former lead in ...
Europe | In June Eurometaux and Öko-Institut e.V. launched the jointly prepared report addressing the industrial proposals to the Raw Materials Initiative of the European Commission .
Germany / Canada | Specialist in rare metal applications Neo Material Technologies Inc has purchased a 50% stake and voting control in Germany's Buss & Buss Spezialmetalle GmbH to expand its rare met ...
BIR | Markets are continuing to “react dramatically” to an economic atmosphere which is still “not overly clear”. Intra-day price ranges often exceed the margins realised by processing facilities duri ...
Europe | The overall recycling rate for aluminium beverage cans in the enlarged EU 27 including EFTA countries and Turkey further improved in 2008 and stands now at 63.1%. It has improved from 61.8% i ...
BIR | Global production of stainless steel is likely to exceed 30m tonnes this year compared to less than 24m tonnes in 2009, with 50% of this output likely to be from emerging markets such as China, ...
United States | Aluminium manufacturer and recycler Aleris International, has emerged from Chapter 11, having completed its financial and operational restructuring.
