Chinese Aluminium Firms Ordered To Cut Carbon Dioxide Output By 18 Percent By 2025
Last week the Chinese government tasked state-owned enterprises to cut their energy consumption per CN¥10,000 (US$1,570) by 15 percent and...
Last week the Aluminum Association, European Aluminium, the Aluminium Association of Canada, and the Japan Aluminium Association came together to release Towards a Fairer and Cleaner Trade in Aluminium, a policymaker briefing that details the manifest harm exacted by state subsidies of...
Last week the Chinese government tasked state-owned enterprises to cut their energy consumption per CN¥10,000 (US$1,570) by 15 percent and...
An explosion at an aluminium smelter in Yunnan and energy supply cuts conspired to hold China’s aluminium output in November...
Cutbacks on power supplies in the People’s Republic of China so far this year have translated in a cut of...
Winter is coming to the People’s Republic of China, and along with it is the prospect of yet more power cuts for the country’s aluminium and other metals operations. Experts who spoke with Reuters this week said that a summer with low supplies of coal has already threatened dire circumstances for power generation in the […]
Regulators in Yunnan province have warned aluminium producers powered by hydropower sources to keep average monthly outputs at August levels for the remainder of the year. A document from the Yunnan Development and Reform Commission obtained by Reuters ordered the cuts, which come on top of 1 million metric tons per annum of capacity that […]
Trade group European Aluminium lauded the government of the United Kingdom for launching an investigation into allegations that aluminium extrusions producers from the People’s Republic of China dumped their products on the British Isles. The association notes that the United Kingdom joins the rest of the continent as well as the United States, Canada, Australia, […]
An expert on the metals market in the People’s Republic of China advised its clients that the Middle Kingdom is preparing to release hundreds of thousands of metric tons of raw aluminium in an effort at depressing the market for the metal. According to CRU, China’s National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration could release between […]
A jump in aluminium supply in Inner Mongolia helped push the People’s Republic of China’s aluminium production level to a new record in April. China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported earlier this week that the Middle Kingdom’s total aluminium output for the month was 3.35 million metric tons. Last month’s output bests March’s total of […]
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2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both ...
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...