For a decade, China's many recycling conferences have served as aharom-eter of the health of the world's biggest scrap import market. In down years, the convention halls were sparse; in up years, meetings spilled into all-night negotiating sessions that forced hotel cafes and bars into fourth shifts. The 10th annual International Secondary Metals Forum, held Nov. 7-9 in Ningbo, China, continued that tradition. Buoyed by a bull market in many nonferrous metals, this premier Chinese scrap conference-organized by the Beijing-based China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association's metal recycling branch (CMRA)-bested its old attendance record by attracting roughly 1,800 delegates, 300 of whom came from nearly two dozen other countries.
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