Aluminij Mostar Inks Aluminium Billet Offtake Agreement With Glencore
Bosnian aluminium smelter Aluminij d.d. Mostar signed a five-year deal this week with British-Swiss firm Glencore plc for the supply...
Europe
Vimetco Joins Aluminium Stewardship Initiative As Its 150th Member
Last week the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative welcomed Vimetco Extrusion as a new Industrial User, raising its total membership worldwide to 150. Vimetco is Romania’s vertically-integrated aluminium extrusion firm. Founded in 2006, the firm operates a pair of extrusion presses and employs over...
Norsk Hydro Inks Duo Of Deals For Renewable Energy Plants In Brazil
Norwegian aluminium smelter Norsk Hydro ASA signed a pair of Memorandums of Understanding aimed at establishing renewal energy operations. This...
Hope For Relief For United States Aluminium Exporters As United Kingdom Relaxes Tariffs On Other Goods
Hopes for progress toward an end to tariffs on United States aluminium assessed by the United Kingdom spring anew after...
Events
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative Certifies Constellium’s Neuf-Brisach Plant
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced yesterday the certification of Amsterdam rolled and extruded aluminium leader Constellium N.V.’s plant in Neuf-Brisach, France, under the ASI’s Performance and Chain of Custody Standards. The certification at Constellium’s plant covers its recycling, casting, rolling, and finishing operations. The plant is one of its largest sites, capable of an […]
GFG To Double Lochaber Smelter’s Capacity With Addition Of Aluminium Recycling Plant
Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance said last week it is preparing to invest £94 million in the construction of a new aluminium recycling facility in Scotland at its existing aluminium smelter at Lochaber. Local media said the investment would also include a doubling of the aluminium smelter’s nameplate capacity, bringing it to 80 thousand metric tons […]
Hammerer Aluminium Plant In Romania Becomes Country’s First Site Certified By ASI
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) yesterday announced that Hammerer Aluminium Industries (HAI) has achieved ASI Performance Standard Provisional Certification for its plant at Romania’s HAI Santana S.R.L. The provisional certification covers the plant’s remelting and casting operations, as the plant is primarily engaged in the production of extrusion billets and rolling ingots derived from recycled […]
Norsk Hydro, Panasonic, And Equinor Agree To Study Establishing A Battery Plant In Norway
Norwegian aluminium smelter Norsk Hydro ASA announced a memorandum of understanding with technology firm Panasonic and international energy company Equinor to explore the possibility of collaborating on a sustainable and affordable business in batteries in Europe. The trio agreed to investigate the possibility of building a battery operation in Norway through the upcoming summer. Any […]
Norsk Hydro And Hindalco Less Than Pleased Over LME’s Proposed Low-Carbon Aluminium Trading Platform
A few of the world’s major aluminium producers are less than pleased with the London Metal Exchange with its move to provide a new trading platform for green aluminium. Such was the report after they recently went on record with financial media admitting to opposing the LME’s plans. In an article in Financial Times, executives […]
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 ...
