China Hongqiao Begins Production At Hydroelectricity-Powered Aluminium Smelter In Yunnan
China’s aluminium smelting leviathan China Hongqiao Group Ltd. said last week it has begun the initial phase of production at...
China
Regal Metal To Build Aluminium Recycling And Secondary Plant In Shanxi
The People’s Republic of China’s Regal Metal announced this week that it plans to build an aluminium-recycling plant with a nameplate capacity of 300 thousand metric tons in Shanxi province. The project is a bid by Regal to revitalize old and abandoned...
India To Begin Limiting Aluminium And Copper Imports From China And Other Asian Neighbors
Indian government and aluminium industry sources told Reuters earlier this week that the country is soon to begin monitoring aluminium...
Chalco’s First-Half Aluminium Production Falls Behind Rusal To 1.86 MMT
Aluminum Corp of China Ltd (Chalco) struggled in the opening half of 2020, as profits fell by 95 percent and...
Events
European Commission Mandates Registration For Aluminium Extrusions Imported From China
The European Commission announced on Tuesday that aluminium extrusions imported from the People’s Republic of China will immediately be subject to registration by each of its member nations’ customs authority. The move is the next step in the European Commission’s response to complaints from the continent’s aluminium sector as expressed by the trade body European […]
Aluminium Price Arbitrage Makes China Net Importer Of Aluminium For First Time In Over A Decade
The aluminium tides turned for the People’s Republic of China in July, as the nation became a net importer of aluminium for the first time in almost 11 years. According to customs data released earlier in the week, the Middle Kingdom witnessed aluminium import levels jump by over seven times the volume reported the year […]
European Commission Launches Anti-Dumping Investigation Into Chinese Flat-Rolled Aluminium
The European Union announced last week the commencement of an anti-dumping investigation on imports from Chinese producers of flat-rolled aluminium products. Per the European Commission, the industry provided enough evidence of the harm to supplies of raw materials in the Union the underpriced imports of flat-rolled aluminium from China has wrought. The formal complaint to […]
China Hongqiao Abruptly Quits The International Aluminium Institute
World leading aluminium producer China Hongqiao Group abruptly quit the International Aluminium Institute (IAI) this week, leaving only four years after joining the body. The IAI accounted for almost two-thirds of the bauxite, alumina, and aluminium mined, refined, and smelted throughout the world. However, with Hongqiao’s departure, the firm takes with it around 6.5 million […]
Tianjin Zhongwang Certified By ASI Against Chain Of Custody Standard
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced on Wednesday the certification of Tianjin Zhongwang Aluminium Co., Ltd.’s plant in Tianjin against its Chain of Custody Standard. Per the ASI, this week’s certifications cover the plant’s aluminium refining/remelting, casting and post-casthouse activities. The plant, which achieved certification under the ASI’s Performance Standard this spring, carries out casting, […]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
