Mytilineos rejected claims that restrictions on scrap exports would be protectionist. Evangelos Mytilineos, Chairman and CEO of Metlen, has issued a pointed call to European policymakers to urgently restrict exports of aluminium scrap, warning of a looming "silent crisis" that threatens to erode the foundations of Europe's recycling system and compromise its industrial resilience. Speaking publicly through a LinkedIn post, Mytilineos drew attention to a sharp increase in shipments of recyclable aluminium from Europe to the United States. He attributed this trend to a recent U.S. policy shift that doubled import tariffs on primary aluminium to 50%, while leaving recycled aluminium tariff-free. This has significantly heightened demand for European scrap in the U.S. market, resulting in what he described as a "drain" on a strategically vital raw material-one that is critical for green technologies and circular manufacturing. "Europe is...