China To Repeat Winter Aluminium Output Cuts In November
The People’s Republic of China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said yesterday that the winter output cuts it mandated...
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Xinfa Escapes Seasonal Aluminium Production Cuts To Capacity In Shandong
A top aluminium smelter in the People’s Republic of China has escaped winter metal production cuts for 2018-2019, and will be mandated to drop alumina production by only a tenth for two months this season. Per documents published by the Liaocheng Economic...
U.S. Tariffs Notwithstanding, China’s Aluminium Exports Rose By 0.2% in April
Despite the blanket tariffs on aluminium imports imposed by the Trump administration, exports of the metal from the People’s Republic...
Capacity Closures and Rising Overhead Hammer China Hongqiao’s 2017 Bottom Line
The world’s premier raw aluminium producer China Hongqiao Group Limited released financial results for 2017 on Friday, revealing losses of...
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China’s Aluminium Production in December Up by 15.3 Percent From Previous Month
The People’s Republic of China’s aluminium production came roaring back in December to levels not seen since early summer according to numbers released by the government on Thursday. China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) revealed that the Middle Kingdom produced 2.71 million metric tons in the final month of 2017, good for a 15.3-percent rise […]
Official Numbers Show Another Drop in China’s Aluminium Production in November
According to numbers released late last week, aluminium production by smelters in the People’s Republic of China fell yet again in the year’s penultimate month from last year. The National Development and Reform Commission said on Thursday that November’s total aluminium output came to 2.35 million metric tons, which was a drop of 16.8 percent […]
Chinese State Numbers Show Fifth Consecutive Month of Lower Aluminium Output
Numbers published last week by the state show a drop in production by aluminium smelters in the People’s Republic of China last month, marking the fifth straight month the country has produced less of the metal than the month prior. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the Middle Kingdom produced 2.35 million metric tons […]
China’s Increased Use of Aluminium Beverage Cans to Fuel Demand Growth: Rio Tinto’s Barrios
The second-biggest metals miner on Earth expects demand for aluminium to continue its upward arc, and much of the fuel propelling it will come in the form of aluminium beverage cans produced in the Middle Kingdom. CEO of Rio Tinto Group’s aluminium unit Alf Barrios told Bloomberg in an interview yesterday that the increased adoption […]
The Promised Road: Implementing Aluminium Capacity Cuts (Part 2)
As mentioned in the first part of this series, three main policies will remain in force this winter. We have already shown that the policy of shutting down illegal production capacity is strictly implemented. So far, the vast majority of illegal production have been closed or halted. The same trend is visible in the implementation […]
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 ...
