Grade A or contaminated qualities.
What Are Used Beverage Can (UBC)?
Aluminum Used Beverage Can (UBC) is a packaging container made primarily of aluminum. It is widely used for packaging carbonated soft drinks, fruit and vegetable juice, tea, sports drinks and beer.
UBC Scrap must be free from excessive dirt, liquid, other scrap metals, lids, foil, plastic, paper, glass and other non-metallic items.
ISRI Specification:
As per the latest Scrap Specifications Circular 2017 released by the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), the different categories of UBC are classified under the following ISRI codes.
Take: New Aluminum Can Stock
Talc: Post-Consumer Aluminum Can Scrap
Talcred: Shredded Aluminum UBC Scrap
Taldack: Densified UBC Scrap
Taldon: Baled Aluminum UBC Scrap
Taldork: Briquetued UBC Scrap
We recognise that far from being a waste, valuable scrap can often form an essential part of our clients’ production requirements. With this in mind, we always endeavour to segregate and sort material for recycling back into the same alloy series.
This philosophy is aligned to our customers wishing to create a closed-loop recycling effect, encompassing the revert market for some of the more exotic metals such as titanium and nickel alloys.
However, sometimes the mixing of scrap is unavoidable, and as a result we can also offer a wide range of secondary materials for use in a variety of end markets.