metals

By rr_test_admin, 1 April, 2021
[caption id="attachment_15636" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Market graph trending downward. A number of metals are trending down after record and near-record pricing in recent months. | BEST BACKGROUNDS/Shutterstock[/caption] Copper and other battery inputs have fallen in price over the last month, a shift tied to China's COVID
By rr_test_admin, 11 March, 2021
[caption id="attachment_15483" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Circuit board close up. Researchers explained that their method demonstrates metal purification can occur at much lower temperatures than typically used. | nikkytok/Shutterstock[/caption] Iowa State University engineers have developed a method that uses oxidation technology t
By rr_test_admin, 25 February, 2021
[caption id="attachment_15401" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]Close-up view of circuit board paths. Copper, a key non-ferrous metal recovered from scrap electronics, has generally been climbing in value since March 2020. | kilukilu/Shutterstock[/caption] After reaching an eight-year record last year, the price of copper has continued to increase,
By rr_test_admin, 18 February, 2021
[caption id="attachment_14089" align="aligncenter" width="1280"]Hard drive closeup in a server rack. Sims' drive into the cloud was slowed by the coronavirus pandemic last year. | Maximumm/Shutterstock[/caption] Sims Lifecycle Services enjoyed a year-over-year profit boost in the latter half of 2020, although COVID-19 slowed the company's push to r
By rr_test_admin, 18 February, 2021
[caption id="attachment_15374" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]Lithium batteries on white background. Aqua Metals, a lead-acid battery technology company, is moving into the lithium-ion battery recycling business. | showcake/Shutterstock[/caption] A battery recycling company goes public, North American collection numbers are released, and a lead
By rr_test_admin, 18 February, 2021

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[caption id="attachment_9949" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]A pile of electronic scrap ready for recycling. European metals refining company Boliden consumed its lowest quantity of scrap circuit boards in nearly a decade last year. | haraldmuc/Shutterstock[/caption] For major e-scrap smelting companies, the turbulence of 2020 brought pandemic-driven su
By rr_test_admin, 4 February, 2021
[caption id="attachment_15295" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Close up of a circuit board. Silver is a key metal for e-scrap recovery firms. | Arkadiusz Komski/Shutterstock[/caption] Silver prices increased sharply over the past week, and financial analysts anticipate they will remain elevated in the near future. Pri
By rr_test_admin, 10 December, 2020
[caption id="attachment_14975" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]Closeup of a circuit board with copper. Some analysts predict copper prices will increase close to their 2011 record, when the metal was trading for more than $4.50 per pound. | Syafiq Adnan/Shutterstock[/caption] Prices for a major metal found in the electronics recycling stream