Latest News from CAB

An Exciting Year Ahead for CAB in 2025

With a stronger team and a new year ahead, the Council for Aluminium in Building has laid out its planned event support for members in a new document. Releasing this information towards the end of 2024 helps members plan their active year ahead and it is hoped more member company teams will be available to […]

An Update on Aluminium’s Recyclability

Aluminium is a fundamental component of our daily environment, greatly impacting our modern way of life. Its significance is evident in transportation, construction, and packaging, making it difficult to imagine modern day life without it. The International Aluminium Institute (IAI) indicates that global yearly demand for aluminium is now over 100 million tonnes of semi-fabricated […]

Mormet Joins CAB’s Closed Loop Recycling Scheme

The Council for Aluminium in Building welcomes Mormet Aluminium into membership. Based in Tamworth and incorporated in 1988, Mormet are major processors and recyclers of pre-consumer and post-consumer alloys of aluminium and other non ferrous metals, trading in both the UK and internationally. The company has joined CAB specifically to take part in CAB ‘Closed […]

The Importance of the ‘Closed Loop’

We are all well aware that aluminium can be recycled many times over with very little loss, taking just 5% of the original production energy to recycle. What is less known is that aluminium comes in many various grades of alloy that are created to offer specific characteristics for various uses in construction, automotive and […]

CAB Members Feeling the Pinch

UK construction output is predicted to decrease by 2.9% in 2024, followed by a rebound of 2.0% in 2025. This forecast is slightly more pessimistic than what was anticipated three months ago. The downward revision in the projections is mainly attributed to the delay in recovery of the private housing new build and repair, maintenance, […]