The Promised Road: Where is China’s Aluminium Industry Headed? (Part 1)
*Overcapacity: policy failure or implementation issue? *How will the policies be enforced this winter? *Will the shuttered capacity be...
aluminium overcapacity
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 mid-October, but the markets remained cautious about the prospects for a final agreement. Other than nickel and lead, base metal prices have...
Long Read: Hongqiao’s Trials and Tribulations in 2017
The world’s largest aluminium firm has had a challenging year. From a series of damaging anonymous reports from short sellers...
European Aluminium Lobbies G20 for Global Forum on Aluminium Capacity
Trade advocacy group European Aluminium is urging the G20 to establish a worldwide forum regarding excess aluminium capacity when it...
Events
Aluminium Firms Offer Solutions in US Commerce Department Hearing on China Dumping
The United States International Trade Commission held its long-awaited hearing over allegations of unfair trade practices by aluminium smelters in the People’s Republic of China and the harm to American smelters such practices have inflicted. Chaired by Democratic Senator Joe Manchin and Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito, both from West Virginia, the USITC heard from […]
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 ...
