Prices realized for the “hockey pucks” and for a separate offering of 1 million pounds of mixed aluminum solids were lower than then third-quarter sales by Boeing’s Whichita operation. In contrast, many aluminum scrap items offered by Boeing’s Seattle-area plants rose in value when bids were opened recently (AMM, Oct. 3)

Wabash got the fourth-quarter pucks by topping A. Tenenbaum Co. Inc., North Little Rock, Ark., with a bid of 53.68 cents a pound vs. Tenenbaum’s 52.33 cents a pound.

Tenenbaum, which operates Arkansas Aluminum Alloys Inc., a Hot Springs, Ark., secondary aluminum smelter, had won the briquetted material the last time around (AMM, June 26).

In the recent bidding, Tenenbaum won the 1 million pounds of mixed aluminum solids with a bid of 54.63 cents a pound, three-quarters of a penny more than the Wabash bid of 53.88 cents a pound.

Yaffe Iron & Metal Co. Inc., Muskogee, Okla., was the high bidder for 600,000 pounds of alloy 2024 and alloy 2324 aluminum solids. The winning bid of 39.34 cents a pound topped by around 3 cents a pound the runner-up bid by Glickman Inc., Wichita. However, Glickman’s bid of 36.23 cents a pound for 50,000 pounds of mixed solids and contaminated borings was 5 cents a pound higher than Yaffe’s offer.

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