How is India Affected by Turmoil in Aluminium Markets?
The repercussions of the policies pursued by the Donald Trump administration on aluminium markets are too pronounced to be ignored....
Features
What to Expect From the Can Market in 2018 and Beyond
The global demand for beverage cans will grow between 3.7 – 4% in 2018, and a similar growth trend is expected over the next five years. This growth is driven largely by increased consumption in emerging markets, most of which will take...
Alumina Costs Are Hurting Aluminium Smelters
Even if the London Metal Exchange (LME) three-month aluminium price hit a seven-year high of US$ 2718 per tonne on...
A Closer Look at Slovenia’s Impol Group
Impol Group, Slovenia’s biggest producer of flat rolled and extruded aluminium products, has big ambitions for its newly established subsidiary...
Events
UC Rusal Sanctions: Dangerous Games on Aluminium Markets
In early April, right as LME aluminium prices slipped below US$ 2000/tonne and heralded further falls, the U.S. Treasury Department announced fresh sanctions against Russia. The U.S. imposed sanctions against 24 Russian businessmen, striking at allies of President Vladimir Putin in a quite unexpected and aggressive move to punish Moscow for its alleged meddling in […]
Aluminium vs. steel in electric vehicles – the battle goes on
Aluminium use in automobiles and light trucks marks the highest growth from all other aluminium applications, in any segment of use. Aluminium remains “the fastest growing automotive material over competing materials and is entering its most unprecedented growth phase since we’ve been tracking the shifting mix of automotive materials,” the latest survey of automakers by […]
Lights Out for Hongqiao? Beijing Floats Proposal to Scale Back Captive Coal Power Plants
While nearly all of the discussion in recent days in the aluminium world has centered on United States sanctions levied against Rusal and Oleg Deripaska, an issue at least as important to the sector’s present and future is steadily reaching a boil on the other side of the Asian continent. China Hongqiao Group, the world’s […]
Hoist By Our Own Petard: The Coming Backfire of Trump’s Aluminium Tariffs
Enormously controversial both in the States and abroad, the blanket 10-percent tariffs ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump are scheduled to go into effect on Friday. The tariffs are hugely unpopular for good reason – they are all but certain to exacerbate existing structural problems within the global aluminium trade while turning loose a host […]
Is Rio Tinto Changing Its Aluminium Strategy – Again?
After agreeing last December to sell the Dunkerque smelter in France many have seen the move as Rio Tinto’s desire to continue to divest its non-core parts of the aluminium segment – much like BHP Billiton did – such as Pacific Aluminium division’s assets in Australia and New Zeeland, and the ISAL smelter in Iceland. […]
Zhongwang Fake Semis Prosecution May Slam The Door On Key Routes For U.S. Import Duty Avoidance
The global aluminium market has been watching the trials and travails of Chinese behemoth Zhongwang with intense interest for the past few weeks after the company and its founder Liu Zhongtian were brought up on criminal charges by the United States federal ...
Aluminium Prices Under Double Pressure: Trade Wars and Chinese Exports
Base metals prices tumbled to their lowest in several weeks at the start of August, after U.S. President Donald Trump ...
Dirty Metal – China’s Troublesome Tether Between Coal And Aluminium
The year 2019 has been a red-letter year for the aluminium sector in the People’s Republic of China. Despite trade ...
Is Rio Tinto’s ISAL smelter a bargain or a smart investment?
At least three companies (including Swiss commodity trader Glencore and German Trimet Aluminium) have expressed interest in buying Rio Tinto’s ...
