Year in Review: The Journey of Aluminium Prices in 2017
The last twelve months have seen an incredible comeback in the aluminium market. Thanks to sweeping fundamental changes in the...
Features
Aluminium Combines Now: While ALRO Flourishes, KAP Flounders
While seemingly very different, Romania’s ALRO and Montenegro’s KAP – Kombinat Aluminijuma Podgorica – share one key number: $570 million. For ALRO, that is the amount of investment it has received since its 2002 privatisation. For KAP, that same number represents the...
Why aluminium prices still have potential to grow
Aluminium has been the top-performing base metal this year, prices climbing 25 % so far, largely due to China’s determination...
The Promised Road: Implementing Aluminium Capacity Cuts (Part 2)
As mentioned in the first part of this series, three main policies will remain in force this winter. We have...
Events
The Promised Road: Where is China’s Aluminium Industry Headed? (Part 1)
*Overcapacity: policy failure or implementation issue? *How will the policies be enforced this winter? *Will the shuttered capacity be restarted after March? *Where is China’s aluminium industry headed? The heating season in northern China has officially arrived. At the same time, the shadow of the deteriorating air quality over the past few years […]
Long Read: Hongqiao’s Trials and Tribulations in 2017
The world’s largest aluminium firm has had a challenging year. From a series of damaging anonymous reports from short sellers to seeing its stock crashing down as a result, 2017 has been a minefield for China Hongqiao Group. According to critics, the company is scarcely out of danger, as it has a myriad of explosive […]
Low-carbon Aluminium Boosts Industry’s Green Credentials
Global warming remains one of the leading critical global issues – emphasised in the last Paris accord and this month’s COP23 summit in Bonn. The carbon equivalent (CE), as a measure of how much CO2 is produced by any activity, is now accepted as a crucial major index of environmental performance, not least for the […]
Why Trimet Aluminium is betting on EnPot’s virtual battery
Trimet Aluminium SE is not just Germany’s biggest aluminium producer and one of the leading players in Europe, it is also a hotbed for innovation. The 30-year old family business made news earlier this year after it became the first company to roll out a revolutionary new “virtual battery” system that opens a new front […]
Will Aluminij Mostar survive?
Aluminij Mostar d.d., an aluminium smelter based in Bosnia & Herzegovina, celebrated this year twenty years since restarting production in 1997, after being severely damaged in the Bosnian war (1992-1995). But few had any reason to be cheerful: the smelter is going through an existential crisis that could very well seal its fate. Blighted by […]
Aluminium of Greece (AOG): is the Pechiney spirit still alive?
Between September 24-25, FastmarketsMB organized its annual aluminium conference in Athens. A day before the conference, in accordance with an old tradition, a one-day field trip for conference delegates was organized to the Aluminium of Greece (AoG) plant, some 180 km from ...
International Aluminium 2019 Conference – Key Takeaways
The FastmaketsMB aluminium conference is the sequel to the Metal Bulletin aluminium conferences, which have traditionally been one of oldest ...
Electric Vehicles (EVs): outlook for sales and aluminium demand
After last year’s electric vehicles (EVs) sales increase of 72% year/year, to 2.02 million, this year’s growth is expected to ...
Are Things Finally Looking Up For The Aluminium Market?
Base metals prices recovered sharply in the first half of September, after a seasonal slump in August, as investors and ...
