As construction progresses "at full steam" on its secondary smelter in Georgia, Aurubis has decided to spend an additional $276 million to double the plant's metals recovery capacity.
Last week's Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Convention put a focus on two issues critical to the global side of the sector: the state of recycling in China and efforts to enhance shipping protocols.
Apple is pushing to use more recycled metals in its products and debuted an overhead projector-based augmented reality system to make device dismantling easier for contractors.
As demand for electric vehicles declines, prices for lithium, cobalt and copper are sliding down, potentially putting lithium-ion battery recyclers in a tight spot.
Metals producer Mitsubishi Materials purchased a stake in a startup working to build a smelter in Indiana. Meanwhile, the company unveiled plans to substantially increase e-scrap recycling capacity at its Japanese smelters.
One of the biggest e-scrap smelters in the world boosted its consumption of scrap electronics by 14% last year, achieving the highest number in four years.
A company with a unique process for extracting metals from printed circuit boards announced it is planning to grow and expand aggressively across the U.S., after years of keeping a relatively low profile.
The Canadian government will provide millions of dollars to help a Montreal-based startup develop a pilot facility using a hydrometallurgical process to recover metals from circuit boards.