APAA Calls Upon Biden To Maintain Section 232 Aluminium Tariffs
Last week the American Primary Aluminum Association (APAA) welcomed President-Elect Joe Biden to office and called upon him to leave...
North America
Noranda Alumina Reports Strongest Six-Month Production In Over Three Years
Noranda Alumina announced last week that the firm’s latest six-month production period was the strongest it’s been in over three years. According to the firm, operations refined about 590 thousand metric tons of alumina in the latter half of last year, equating...
Aluminerie Alouette Sets Record For Aluminium Production At Pointe-Noire
Quebec aluminium smelter Aluminerie Alouette announced this week that its output during 2020 set a production record, besting its previous...
Rusal America Debuts New Aluminium Alloy Powders For 3D Printing
Rusal America announced yesterday the debut of its new portfolio of aluminium powders designed specifically for additive manufacturing. The new...
Events
Ball Corporation Plans New Aluminium Beverage Can Plant For Bowling Green, Kentucky
Colorado’s Ball Corporation announced earlier this week its plans to construct a new aluminum end manufacturing facility in Kentucky. The firm intends to begin construction early next year. Ball’s new facility will produce sheet aluminium for use in beverage cans, which it intends to market to various regional and national customers. Noting the rise in […]
JW Aluminum Shutters Williamsport Plant
American flat-rolled aluminium producer JW Aluminum announced the closure of their plant in Williamsport, Pennsylvania by month’s end. The firm said it was seeking buyers for the plant, but at the moment the plant will shutter its operations. Stan Brant, Jr., Chief Executive Officer of JW Aluminum, elaborated on the decision in a related press […]
Strike At Constellium Aluminium Can Recycling Plant In Alabama Continues
A strike is currently underway at Constellium’s aluminium used beverage containers (UBCs) consuming mill in Muscle Shoals. According to a press release, about 200 members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 200 walked off the job on December 15 due to an inability of management and labor to come to an accord on a contract at […]
Rio Tinto To Add US$8.4 Million Remelt Furnace For Reycled Aluminium In Quebec Plant
Anglo-Australian metals titan Rio Tinto Group announced a plan to increase the capacity of the recycling operations at Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec, in order to offer more low-carbon and recycled aluminium to rolled aluminium buyers in North America. The US$8.4 million project will consist largely of the installation of a new remelt furnace in the Laterrière Plant’s […]
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 the British government agreed to halt retaliatory tariffs on American goods beginning on January 1. In a split from the European Union’s trade policies, London agreed to suspend the tariffs that were implemented last year […]
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 ...
