Chalco’s Strong Bottom Line In 2021’s First Half Due To Aluminium Price Recovery
Aluminum Corp of China Ltd (Chalco) turned in its best half year profit in fourteen years last week even after...
Aluminum Corp of China Ltd (Chalco)
Aluminium Price Spike At Shanghai Exchange Prompts CNIA Meeting
Citing an “irrational surge” in aluminium prices, the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association (CNIA) met earlier this week to discuss prices reaching highs not seen in over a dozen years. At the Shanghai Futures Exchange, primary aluminium reached US$$3,332 per metric ton,...
Chalco’s Net Income Falls By Over 13 Percent In 2020
State-run Aluminum Corp of China Ltd released financial results for 2020 earlier this week, posting the lowest annual profit since...
Chalco’s First-Half Aluminium Production Falls Behind Rusal To 1.86 MMT
Aluminum Corp of China Ltd (Chalco) struggled in the opening half of 2020, as profits fell by 95 percent and...
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Chalco Cutting Alumina Production Rate By A Tenth In “Flexible Production” Measures
The world’s leading producer of alumina said on Thursday that it is entering “flexible production” that will translate into curtailing overall production by a tenth going forward. Aluminum Corp of China Ltd (Chalco) indicated that cuts would be allocated across three alumina production lines at Shanxi Huaxing and Shanxi New Material in China’s northern reaches. […]
Chalco Ships First Bauxite From Boffa Mines In Guinea
Aluminum Corp of China Ltd (Chalco) earlier this week commenced the first shipment of its inaugural batch of bauxite ore from mines in the West African country of Guinea. According to a Chinese ship-tracking website, the first 55 thousand metric tons of bauxite from the project left port on Sunday secured in the cargo holds […]
First Shipment By Chalco Of Bauxite From Guinea Mine Scheduled For Early December
Aluminum Corp of China Ltd (Chalco) said earlier this week that it has queued up its inaugural bauxite ore shipment from Guinea by early next month. “The mining operation has already started and the first output will be shipped to China at the beginning of December,” said Chen Qi, deputy general manager of Chinalco, to […]
Tepid Aluminium Market Translates To 14 Percent Drop In Chalco’s First Half Net Profit
The Aluminum Corp of China Ltd. (Chalco) reported results for the first half of the year on Wednesday. The firm’s bottom line suffered from a weak domestic market for aluminium in the first six months. The year’s first half saw Chalco smelt 1.89 million metric tons of primary aluminium, which was a drop of over […]
Chinalco Reports 31.8 Percent Jump In Revenue For 2019’s Opening Half
Despite growing downward pressure on the industry and evaporating profit margins, Aluminum Corporation of China (Chinalco) reported a record high in revenue for the first half of the year yesterday. According to state-run media, Chinalco recorded CNY170 billion (US$24.7 billion) in revenue for the opening six months of 2019, good for an increase of 31.8 […]
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 ...
