Constellium Plans 25 Percent Cut In Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2025
Yesterday Amsterdam rolled and extruded aluminium leader Constellium N.V. released its sustainability report for the previous year, noting goals met...
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Chalco Cutting Alumina Production Rate By A Tenth In “Flexible Production” Measures
The world’s leading producer of alumina said on Thursday that it is entering “flexible production” that will translate into curtailing overall production by a tenth going forward. Aluminum Corp of China Ltd (Chalco) indicated that cuts would be allocated across three alumina...
En+ Highlights Low-Carbon Aluminium As Key To Europe’s Economic Recovery
Russian Federation aluminium giant U.C. Rusal’s parent company En+ Group yesterday urged Europe to adopt low-carbon aluminium as the metal...
Ball Corp Partners With Blue Ocean To Provide Aluminium Cups To Walmart and Sam’s Club
Colorado’s Ball Corporation announced on Monday a partnership with top omnichannel solutions provider Blue Ocean Innovative Solutions to introduce its...
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Australian Metal Firm Amaero Closing In On Global Patent For New Scandium-Aluminium Alloy
Australian metals additive innovator Amaero International Limited advised the Australian stock market last week that the process for securing its intellectual property rights to a new high-performance aluminium alloy is in the final stages. Amaero said it is in the “national” stage of securing the patent for its new aluminium alloy, which would give it […]
U.S. Aluminium Beverage Can Makers Urge Trump Administration Against Section 232 Tariffs On Canadian Imports
A quartet of North American aluminium beverage can trade groups sent an open letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthiser last week, seeking to convince the Trump Administration that a reimposition of Section 232 aluminium tariffs on aluminium imports from Canada would be extraordinarily detrimental to their constituents and U.S. consumers generally. The letter, which […]
The Net-Zero Shift Starts With Low Carbon Aluminium
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both businesses and policymakers to accelerate decarbonization efforts. However, with COVID-19 disrupting lives and economies in an unprecedented manner, countries across the globe are grappling with the immediate need to protect lives and livelihoods, challenging the […]
USW Says Rumored Section 232 Tariffs On Canadian Aluminium Makes “Mockery” Of USMCA
One of the biggest metalworkers’ unions on the North American continent said late last week that the rumored imposition of tariffs on Canadian aluminium exports to the United States would make a “mockery” of the principles underlying the pending United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement while failing to address the true source of the aluminium sector’s woes. In […]
Aluminum Association Calls On Trump Administration To Continue Section 232 Exemptions For Mexico And Canada
The Aluminum Association published an open letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthiser on Thursday seeking to convince the Trump Administration to continue excepting North American producers from Section 232 aluminium tariffs. The letter, which was signed by more than a dozen CEOs and other executive officers from companies all along the aluminium value chain, […]