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Today’s Trucking Challenges: Market Insights and Trends Moving Forward
Scrap recyclers, their suppliers, and consumers are being faced with increasingly difficult transportation obstacles and costs. Trucking market challenges are of... more
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ISRI Virtual Event: Back to the Future with ISRI Century Club
Icons of the industry and the association will make you laugh, and think about the future of the industry and the role the association has played during their long... more
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ISRI Virtual Event: Conflict with Customers: COVID, Masks, and More
In the recycling industry, as in any industry that has a public-facing operation, we periodically work with challenging customers. In normal times, it is not unusual to... more
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Fall 2020 Aluminum Spotlight
Aluminum prices have had the worst price performance among the major base metals through July 2020. Concerns about aluminum’s vulnerability to reduced auto sales along... more
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Fall 2020 Copper Spotlight Sponsored by SDI LaFarga Copperworks
Although copper prices got off to a rough start in 2020, prices for the red metal began to rebound at the start of the third quarter as manufacturing reports from the... more
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Fall 2020 Paper Spotlight
China continues to play a dominant role in the global market for recovered paper and fiber, even as new trade restrictions are set to come into place next year. As a... more
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Fall 2020 Plastics Spotlight
Few commodity sectors have had to contend with as many market challenges as plastics recyclers given the volatility in natural gas & crude oil prices, the... more
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Fall 2020 Nickel/Stainless Spotlight Sponsored by SciAps
Session Stainless scrap market participants continue to contend with a long list of market challenges. From heightened nickel and commodity price volatility to declining... more
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Fall 2020 Ferrous Spotlight Sponsored by Argus
Plunging steel mill capacity utilization rates, the temporary shutdown of North American auto production, curtailed scrapyard retail operations, and other... more
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