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17th Recycled Aluminium Conference

17th Recycled Aluminium Conference

24 November 2009 - 25 November 2009

If the past 10 months or so have been difficult in any line of business, in aluminium recycling – a valuable yet modest-margin activity at the best of times – the challenges have been all the more acute. Closures, insolvencies and contractual disputes have been rife, and companies are struggling to survive.

Aluminium recycling as an activity, though, can and must survive and grow if the industry is to continue to promote itself as green and sustainable. At least a third of aluminium consumed today comes from secondary sources, and by the end of the next decade, expectations are that this will have risen to a half. Will your company be around to participate in that growth?

Strategies and solutions are on hand for those companies that are well-informed and know where the main challenges and opportunities lie. Metal Bulletin Events' International Recycled Aluminium Conference has established itself as the perfect forum in which to examine and discuss these issues, hear expert views on how to survive and succeed, and make new contacts which can lead to real business openings.

So if you are you a scrap metal merchant or broker, if you recycle scraps and residues into a usable aluminium product, then this is a must-attend meeting for you. If you buy billet, rolling slab, extrusions, casting alloys or diecastings, or manufacture furnace systems, scrap handling equipment or casting machines, then do not miss this key gathering of aluminium recycling industry executives.

This year we take the conference to Spain, an active and growing recyclee of aluminium, and specifically to Bilbao, one of the country’s industrial heartlands. The conference programme will address those issues that you, the industry – our past and potential delegates – have indicated as being of greatest significance to your business success or failure:

  • Industry structure and financial weaknesses: what is the solution?
  • How to improve margins, secure credit insurance, trade and investment finance
  • The outlook for ingot prices this year and next – what implications for the bottom line?
  • Global economic conditions: will China and other “new” economies lead us out of recession?
  • The auto industry slump – any sign yet of the so-called “green shoots” of recovery?
  • Will scrap availability start to pick up – and what will this mean for prices?
  • Recycling fortunes by region – what can Europe do to compete with lower-cost areas?
  • The ongoing battle to reduce costs, cut emissions and meet eco-targets – how can technology help?
  • What legal hurdles lie around the corner and who will benefit or otherwise from these?
 
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