Speira inaugurated a new recycling furnace for beverage cans at its Rheinwerk site in Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, on 8 October 2026. CanTech International and Aluminium Today carried the company announcement on 9 October. The Metal Packager and Shanghai Metals Market followed on 10 October. The rolling and recycling group said it has invested about €40 million in the furnace, in the optimisation of the third of four casting lines for recycled alloys, and in extra storage for 6,500 tonnes of can scrap.
The furnace is the fourth recycling unit at Rheinwerk. Speira put its annual capacity at around 60,000 tonnes. The new store sits in the 300-metre halls of the former primary aluminium smelter and includes space to receive and sample incoming scrap. The furnace is prepared for hydrogen once the site is connected to a hydrogen grid. Red Bull, which already uses cans made from Speira recycled aluminium, attended the opening. Speira said the beverage-can book is the fastest-growing part of its recycled-aluminium business.
The company operates eleven recycling and production sites in Germany and Norway. It recycles up to 650,000 tonnes of aluminium a year and rolls about one million tonnes of product. Speira states that recycling aluminium uses around 95 percent less energy than primary production, and that the extra melt will help keep can scrap in Europe rather than sending it out as export.
What the Neuss furnace takes
The new unit melts aluminium that is then rolled into beverage-can sheet. Speira already runs a used-beverage-can sorting plant at Rheinwerk. The new store and sampling benches are meant to take more post-consumer cans, the material that has already completed a use cycle, and to feed all of the site’s recycling furnaces, not only the new one.
A yard that offers this book should treat it as baled used beverage cans, the grade this site already lists as Taldon. Magnetic cleaning, dry bales and the absence of steel, lead, plastic, glass and other packaging are the specification. Foil, aerosol, food trays and mixed household aluminium are a different melt. See aluminium scrap and ISRI scrap codes for the labels already used here.
The 60,000-tonne figure is nameplate capacity announced at the inauguration. It is not a published purchase programme for this month. The 6,500-tonne store is inventory space at the works, not a bid.
Who it affects among yards, traders, mills and processors
German, Dutch and Belgian yards that already sell baled UBC into the Rhine region have a larger domestic melt and more covered storage at one consumer. The works is inland. Delivery is truck or rail to Neuss, not a deep-sea stem. A trader who has been booking European can scrap against an overseas remelter should treat Speira’s comment on keeping can scrap in the region as a booking question for the next intra-EU lot. The 2027 waste-shipment list is a separate legal book; see why the EU wants to limit scrap metal exports.
This furnace is a different ticket from the TRIMET sorter opened in Hamm earlier this month. Hamm is a laser sort of mixed aluminium into alloy families. Neuss is a can-sheet remelt that wants a known UBC specification. A processor that lives on mixed old sheet or fragmentiser aluminium should not assume the new Speira furnace will take that stream.
The October BIR non-ferrous note said some European smelters are reducing activity because automotive ingot is weak and post-production aluminium is short. Can-sheet is a different end use. A yard that has been waiting on an automotive remelter to lift postponed tonnes can still offer clean UBC into a can furnace that is adding capacity. The two books should stay on separate tickets.
CBAM still prices imported aluminium products, not scrap under the usual waste codes. A recycled-content claim on the parcel does not change that.
How to name the lot
Name the grade the can furnace already charges: baled UBC / Taldon. State tonnes, bale size or density if you know it, whether the material is magnetically cleaned, the city or works, and whether the sale is ex-works or delivered. If the lot includes foil, steel cans or other packaging, say so and do not call it Taldon. Do not write €40 million, 60,000 tonnes or a recycled-content percentage on the offer.
Verified companies can list on live lots or post a wanted enquiry. Request access if you have can scrap or a remelt programme to cover.