This video takes you inside a scrap metal processing warehouse. Walk through the facility and learn the difference between ...

Anode—A 99 percent pure form of copper that is typically sent through an electro-refining process for further purification, ultimately emerging as copper cathode. Automobile Shredder—A ...

image: Scientists at the Critical Materials Institute, headquartered at the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, have developed a new two-step process to make recycling rare-earth metals easier ...

Shippers of mixed nonferrous metals produced by shredding plants have enjoyed a robust market throughout the past 12 years, spurred in large part by strong demand from China. Buyers of mixed grades, ...

The US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in collaboration with mobility technology company Magna, developed a manufacturing process that reduces more than 50% of the ...

Ford and Alcan have launched what is claimed to be the North American automotive industry’s first ‘closed-loop’ recycling programme for aluminium sheet scrap. Under the new programme, Ford recovers ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - As China tightens restrictions on imports of foreign waste, Chinese metal recyclers and even smelters like Jiangxi Copper Co are increasingly looking to use Southeast Asian ...

The newly operational Hutch Metal Recycling sits in a large remodeled facility, where the smell of grease and metal shavings greets customers selling large or small amounts of recyclable scrap metal.