Aluminium Stewardship Initiative Certifies RONAL GROUP Under Sustainable Performance Standard
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) this week certified RONAL GROUP facilities RONAL POLSKA Sp. z o.o. in Wałbrzych, Poland and...
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Rio Tinto To Supply BMW With Proprietary Zero-Carbon Aluminium
Anglo-Australian Rio Tinto Group has agreed to supply German automaker BMW AG with low-carbon aluminium this week. Rio Tinto will be supplying BMW’s production plant in South Carolina with ELYSIS carbon-free primary aluminium from Canada under the agreement. Rio Tinto’s carbon-free aluminium...
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...
Norsk Hydro Plans US$15 MM Expansion To Aluminium Remelting Plant In NW Kentucky
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced a planned US$15 million expansion of its aluminium remelting facility in Henderson, Kentucky...
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Novelis Plans New Automotive Aluminium Recycling Plant For SW Kentucky
Atlanta’s rolled aluminium firm Novelis announced plans yesterday to build a $365 million automotive recycling center outside of Clarksville, Tennessee. Novelis’s new plant in Guthrie, Kentucky will expand its closed-loop recycling operations by reclaiming aluminium from vehicles at the end of their useful lives and aluminium scrap leftover from automotive production and make it reusable […]
Evtec Takes On GFG Alliance Subsidiary Liberty Aluminium Technologies Upon Jaguar Land Rover’s Urging
GFG Alliance sold off two aluminium parts factories last week and will be closing a third after Jaguar Land Rover asked a third party to step in and secure its aluminium parts supply from those plants. Coventry, England’s Evtec has agreed to taking on those sites after JLR’s invitation to do the same. It will […]
Rhenmetall Inks LoI For €22 MM In Aluminium Piston Sales To North American Automotive Buyer
German metals firm Rheinmetall AG announced last week a new €22 million deal for aluminium pistons destined for the North American auto market. Specifying the buyer as only “a well-known carmaker,” Rheinmetall said it signed a letter of intent with the unnamed buyer to develop and produce customized aluminium pistons. The pistons would be part […]
AMAG To Supply ASI-Certified Sustainable Aluminium To Audi For A6 Avant
European cast and rolled aluminium supplier AMAG Austria Metall AG announced this week that it has been chosen to supply German automaker Audi AG with certified sustainable aluminium for use in its A6 Avant luxury performance wagon. In a press release the firm said its inaugural run of Aluminium Stewardship Initiative-certified sustainable aluminium to Audi’s […]
Trio Of Constellium Automotive Aluminium Plants Awarded ASI Certification
European value-added aluminium firm Constellium NV announced yesterday the certification of its operations in Gottmadingen, Dahenfeld, and Singen, Germany against the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative’s (ASI) Chain of Custody Standards. The three plants supply advanced aluminium parts to the European automotive market. The Gottmadingen and Dahenfeld operations produce aluminium structural components, while the Singen plant produces […]
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 ...
