scrap

In previous scrap tire reports, RMA listed information only in millions of tires.

Concluding the ferrous roundtable, Wim van Acker with Roland Berger Strategy Consultants LLC, Munich, Germany, said he expected ferrous scrap markets to be volatile, but fairly strong.

Company supplies dual-diameter recycling extruders for film and fiber scrap with outputs from 8 to 2740 lb/hr, water- or air-cooled.

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Keefe says the combined circulation of Scrap Management will help it reach two key critical segments of the scrap generating market.

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But while volatility remains the same, the wild ride of the first half of this decade may have also been the result of fundamental changes in the way scrap flows globally and the way it is generated domestically.

In some cases, the total scrap rate due to such defects may be as high as 20%, adding significant costs to the process.

Castriota Metals & Recycling acquired the McKees Rocks land in 2001, but Randy spent several years lining up financing and planning and preparing how to best use the site before beginning to inventory scrap there in 2004 and officially opening it up for business in 2005.

Harris also commented that further consolidation is warranted in the scrap market, and called the recent Simsmetal-Hugo Neu merger very impressive.

"Tire manufacturers have taken the initiative to promote environmentally and economically sound solutions to reduce scrap tire waste," said Michael Blumenthal, RMA senior technical director.

steel scrap. According to Pflaum, foundries have experienced a "price disconnect" in which the demand rose for several years without an accompanying price increase.

Cozzi Consulting Group, Burr Ridge, Ill., has announced an agreement with O'Brien Recycling Corp., Franklin Park, Ill., to manage the sales operation of its ferrous scrap metal business.

Steel mills, iron foundries and the scrap brokers who supply them have been, at times in 2004, paying between $200 and $300 per ton for scrap steel and iron.

Plant scrap repelletizing systems for post-industrial scrap recovers costly roll scrap, cut-outs and other waste and reduces size of scrap to manageable inventory.