Statewide requirements to help prevent copper wire theft will become law on Jan. 1 despite a lawsuit by the scrap metal workers claiming the legislation will effectively shut down their industry. The ...

A lawsuit has been filed against the state, saying that a new law intended to prevent costly copper wire thefts will unintentionally shut down the state’s scrap metal industry if it goes into effect ...

Scrap Management Industries, Inc. (SMI), one of the Midwest's leading ferrous and nonferrous metal recycling companies, ...

A White House fact sheet says the Commerce Department should examine whether 25 percent “of high-quality copper scrap produced in the United States [should] be sold in the United States.” The White ...

MONTREAL — In an industrial suburb of Montreal, sheets of copper move along a conveyor belt suspended four stories above the floor of a foundry — a metals plant — until they drop into a lava-hot ...

The Wichita company has additional locations in Newton, Harper, Kingman, Pratt, McPherson, Great Bend and Salina.

European wire and cable producer signs agreement with technology supplier to equip new copper facility in Lens, France. Nexans says its new plant will “continuously produce wire rod from recycled ...

A trade group representing scrap metal workers has sued the Minnesota Department of Commerce, alleging that a new law designed to curb copper theft will violate the state’s constitution and shutter ...

RICHLAND, Wash.—Metal scrap can be directly transformed and upgraded into high-performance, high-value alloys without the need for conventional melting processes, according to a new study from ...

The last bulk carrier ship arrived at the Bellingham Shipping Terminal on Monday to remove the final shipment of recycled scrap metal from Canadian-based company ABC Recycling. The 590-foot Bulk ...