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remelted scrap ingot (RSI), 1/1/23
secondary alloy, 1/1/14–15
secondary industry structure
billet plants, 1/1/7
semi-finishing plants, 1/1/7
trade in scrap, 1/1/23–24, 1/1/31
aluminium alloy
LME contract, 1/1/18, 1/1/28
Aluminium Association
alloy specifications, 1/1/14–15
American Metal Market, 1/3/23
Asahi Glass, 3/4/5
Association of Plastic Manufacturers in
Europe (APME), 3/1/15–16
AtoFina (formerly Elf Aquitaine), 3/1/12
Australian Gold Refineries, 2/1/11
Austrian Institute of Applied Systems
Analysis (IIASA), 3/3/15
autocatalyst (see Platinum group metals)
Basel Convention, Intro/8, 1/3/20–21,
1/3/24, 4/1/5, 4/1/11, 4/1/16–18
basic oxygen furnace (BOF), 1/4/6
Battery Council International (BCI),
1/3/19
Bergsoe process, 1/3/8, 1/3/9
BLIC (Liaison Office of the Rubber
Industry of the EU), 3/2/13
British Metals Federation (BMF), 4/1/7,
4/1/15
British Plastics Federation (BPF), 3/1/15
Bronze Age, 1/2/1
carbon steel, 1/4/1
catalytic convertors, 2/3/3
Chalcolithic (copper) period, 1/2/1
Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT),
Intro/31
‘climate change’ levy, 4/1/15
coal
(metallurgical) coking, 1/4/10
aluminium
castings, 1/1/19, 1/1/29
competing materials, 1/1/1
conductivity, 1/1/3
consumption, 1/1/2, 1/1/30
dross, 1/1/15–16
end-uses
historical evolution, 1/1/4
semi-finished, 1/1/15
energy requirements, Intro/20
grades, 1/1/6
Hall-Heroult process, 1/1/6
LME Contract, 1/1/15, 1/1/18
‘mini-mills’, 1/1/13
new scrap
industrial, 1/1/10–11, 1/1/20
internal, 1/1/9–1/1/10
old (post consumption) scrap
availability, 1/1/20–22, 1/1/30
beverage cans (see also UBC)
US recycling, 1/1/11–13
Western Europe, 1/1/12
collection schemes, 1/1/22–23
foil, 1/1/15
processing costs, 1/1/21
recycling rates (UK), Intro/15–18
regulation, 1/1/22–23
price relationships
historical trends, 1/1/24–25
representative, 1/1/24, 1/1/28–29
secondary, Intro/24–25, 1/1/18,
1/1/32–33
production
major secondary producers,
1/1/16–17, 1/1/20
primary, 1/1/6
secondary production trends,
1/1/18–20
products
specification, 1/1/6, 1/1/26–27
properties, 1/1/1–4
Index
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