Rio Tinto To Close Dutch Anode Plant Aluchemie
Anglo-Australian metals mining giant Rio Tinto Group announced last week its decision to cease operations at Aluchemie, its stand-alone anode...
Europe
Constellium Reports Revenue Drop Of 17 Percent In 2020
European value-added aluminium firm Constellium NV reported results for the final quarter and full year of 2020 earlier this week. The firm’s bottom line struggled last year, but management says the difficulties last year prepared it to be successful this year. For...
Gränges’ Finspång Automotive Aluminium Plant Earns Provisional ASI Certification
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) and Swedish rolled aluminium firm Gränges AB announced earlier this week that the firm’s Finspång...
Rusal Purchases Aluminium Rheinfelden Out Of Insolvency Proceedings
Russian Federation aluminium titan UC Rusal last week took title to German aluminium producer Aluminium Rheinfelden GmbH, saving the firm...
Events
Trio Of Constellium Automotive Aluminium Plants Awarded ASI Certification
European value-added aluminium firm Constellium NV announced yesterday the certification of its operations in Gottmadingen, Dahenfeld, and Singen, Germany against the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative’s (ASI) Chain of Custody Standards. The three plants supply advanced aluminium parts to the European automotive market. The Gottmadingen and Dahenfeld operations produce aluminium structural components, while the Singen plant produces […]
Constellium Plans Increase Of Aluminium Recycling Capacity By 60k Metric Tons Per Annum In Europe
European value-added aluminium firm Constellium NV announced last week a new project to increase its aluminium recycling capacity on the continent by 60 thousand metric tons per annum, bumping its aluminium recycling capacity that is already the highest in Europe. Constellium did not reveal a cost for the project, but it does expect to have […]
Century Aluminum Inks Supply Deal With Hammerer For Low-Carbon Aluminium
American aluminium smelter Century Aluminum announced earlier this week the sale of 150 thousand metric tons of its low-carbon aluminium to Austria’s Hammerer Aluminium Industries (HAI), which will be supplied to it via Glencore plc. Century’s low-carbon aluminium Natur-Al is produced using electricity generated via fully-renewable sources at Century’s Norðurál Grundartangi aluminium smelter in Iceland. […]
Ball Corporation To Build New Aluminium Beverage Can Plant In Czech Republic
Colorado’s Ball Corporation announced earlier this week plans to build a new €170 million beverage packaging plant in Czechia that will go online in the fall of 2022. The plant, which will be built at the Pilzen Digital Park in western Czech Republic, will feature two production lines of aluminium beverage cans. Construction is to […]
ASI Certifies Two Audi Aluminium Press Operations Under Chain Of Custody Standard
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced yesterday the certification of a pair of Audi production facilities in Neckarsulm and Ingolstadt, Germany against its Chain of Custody (CoC) Standard Certification. The rolled material press shops at those sites produce aluminium automotive parts from aluminium sheet. Audi captures the scrap aluminium from the operations and recycled, completing […]
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 ...
