Steel Versus Aluminium: Who’s Winning the Lightweighting Battle In Cars?
Much like the metals industry, automobile manufacturers are continually and significantly investing in research and development, from developing new alloys...
Experts
Don’t Doubt China’s Determination to End Air Pollution
The LME aluminium price fell in June to its lowest level since mid-March as the market reacted to rising supplies and exports from China, as well as to lower output costs and higher inventories. The price decline (which this author predicted in...
Aluminium’s Big 4: strategies and outlook for 2017
The four biggest aluminium companies in the world (excluding China), namely Alcoa, Norsk Hydro, UC Rusal and Rio Tinto, had...
India needs to expand its secondary aluminium production to tap into global markets
In the worldwide aluminium business, the focus is increasingly shifting to downstream activities. The processing of primary aluminium in secondary...
Events
Aluminium prices in 2017 – the only way is up?
– A closer look at Reuters’ aluminium price poll – The price outlook remains positive despite temporary fall expected in the Q3 Analysts are pretty divided when it comes to the direction aluminium prices will go in the second half of the year. They can be split into two groups: on one hand, […]
47th Faro Meeting Highlights
On April 6-7, Imola, Italy hosted the 47th Faro Meeting, a conference devoted to latest developments in the automotive industry and metals markets. During the first day of the two-day conference, speakers from renowned world companies, including Ducker Worldwide, LMC Automotive and Novelis Inc, expressed their views on current and future trends in the automotive […]
High electricity prices are driving Australia’s aluminium industry out of business
Record high power prices are making difficult times worse for the aluminium industry in Australia. The latest victim is the Boyne Island smelter majority owned by Pacific Aluminium (a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto, and co-owned by several Japanese companies), who decided to reduce production by 14% or some 80,000 tonnes/year at the end […]
Why aluminium prices are set to increase in H2 2017
After a strong start in the first two months of the year, base metals prices have weakened recently in expectation of U.S. interest rate increase this month, which would drive up the US dollar. Speculations that China will cut aluminium and alumina production in several provinces to cope with air pollution were behind the 12% […]
Creating value out of aluminium waste in India
Disposal of aluminium industry waste, chiefly the bauxite residue called red mud is a worldwide concern. The high alkalinity of red mud and the presence of toxic materials in it pose a serious ecological hazard. Which is why the aluminium industry has been brainstorming to overcome the problem associated with red mud disposal. The remedies […]
Biden Infrastructure Bill A Big Boon To Aluminium Industry: Norsk Hydro VP Mike Stier
Earlier this month the United States Congress passed into law President Joe Biden’s US$1.2 trillion infrastructure package. The Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America Act (or the INVEST in America Act) will allocate US$550 billion ...
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 ...
Aluminium at the LME Week – Key Takeaways
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Aluminium Market Oversupplied, Demand Growth Flat
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...
