Ball Teams Up With Boomerang Water To Provide Refillable Aluminium Bottled Water
Colorado packaging firm Ball Corporation is joining with Boomerang Water LLC to package drinking water in 100-percent recyclable aluminium water...
North America
AEC Praises ITC’s Renewal Of Antidumping And Countervailing Duties Against China’s Aluminium Extruders
Trade group American Extruders Council (AEC) lauded the U.S. International Trade Commission’s (ITC) unanimous decision this week to extend protections from subsidized aluminium imports from the People’s Republic of China. The ITC’s decision to extend protections for US aluminium extruders came in...
Novelis Opens New Aluminium Customer Solution Center In Suburban Detroit
Atlanta’s rolled aluminium firm Novelis Inc. commissioned its new US$35-million automotive Customer Solution Center (CSC) in suburban Detroit yesterday. The...
Smith & Wesson Introduces 9mm Pistol With Aluminium Alloy Frame
A new entrant has come upon the polymer pistol scene, as American small arms manufacturer Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc....
Events
Kaiser Warrick Calls Off Force Majeure Thanks To New Magnesium Supplier
American aluminium producer Kaiser Aluminum Corporation has lifted a force majeure at the Warrick Rolling Mill in Indiana. Kaiser declared the force majeure earlier in the summer due to a critical shortage of magnesium. Kaiser declared the force majeure on 7 July after its supplier, US Magnesium, LLC (US Mag) declared its own force majeure […]
Norsk Hydro To Add New Aluminium Scrap Recycling Capacity To Eastern Pennsylvania Plant
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced this week yet another capex project, this one a NOK500 million (US$51 million) expansion of its aluminium recycling plant in Cressona, Pennsylvania. Per the firm, the 50 thousand metric ton per annum expansion of the plant is expected to be completed towards the end of 2024. The new […]
Rio Tinto Plans US$29 MM Addition Of Scrap Aluminium Recycling Facility At Arvida Plant In Quebec
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group announced this week a US$29 million capex to build a new aluminium recycling plant at its Arvida facility in Quebec. The project will make Rio Tinto the first of North America’s primary aluminium producers to use recycled post-consumer aluminium in the production of aluminium alloys. The firm says the […]
Norsk Hydro’s Utah Aluminium Extrusion Plant Becomes First US Facility Powered Entirely By Renewable Resources
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA said this week that its aluminium extrusion plant in the Southwest United States will become the first American facility to be powered entirely by renewable energy. The firm said in a press release that its Spanish Fork, Utah plant inked an eight-year deal with the city government and the […]
Century Aluminum Net Sales Rise 14 Percent In Second Quarter
American aluminium smelter Century Aluminum reported results for the second quarter of 2022 this week. The firm enjoyed higher net sales in the quarter, but increased power prices took their toll on the quarter’s bottom line. In the second quarter, Century saw shipments of primary aluminium rise by one percent on the quarter, largely thanks […]
Biden Infrastructure Bill A Big Boon To Aluminium Industry: Norsk Hydro VP Mike Stier
Earlier this month the United States Congress passed into law President Joe Biden’s US$1.2 trillion infrastructure package. The Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America Act (or the INVEST in America Act) will allocate US$550 billion ...
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 ...
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 ...
