Aluminium Price Arbitrage Makes China Net Importer Of Aluminium For First Time In Over A Decade
The aluminium tides turned for the People’s Republic of China in July, as the nation became a net importer of...
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India To Begin Limiting Aluminium And Copper Imports From China And Other Asian Neighbors
Indian government and aluminium industry sources told Reuters earlier this week that the country is soon to begin monitoring aluminium and copper imports in an effort at containing the flow of both metals into its market from the People’s Republic of China...
European Commission Launches Anti-Dumping Investigation Into Chinese Flat-Rolled Aluminium
The European Union announced last week the commencement of an anti-dumping investigation on imports from Chinese producers of flat-rolled aluminium...
European Aluminium Calls On European Commission To Address Subsidized Aluminium From China
Earlier this week aluminium trade group European Aluminium petitioned the European Commission to take the next step after issuing a...
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China Alumina and Aluminium Production Up In April
Recent figures from the Shanghai Metals Market (SMM) show a slight rebound in China’s aluminium market. The country posted production figures of 5.65 million tonnes of alumina in April, which correspond to daily output of 179,800 tonnes, a 2.62% increase month-on-month. Total metallurgical-grade alumina production for the first four months of 2020 clocked in at […]
China Aluminium Demand Growing, Rio Tinto Upbeat
According to research from consulting research center Antaike, Chinese aluminium demand has grown between 150,000 and 200,000 tonnes in the last month due to a coronavirus induced scrap shortage. Antaike points the finger for declining scrap supplies to falling imports and decreases in recycling activity registered since the end of the Lunar New Year. “Price […]
ShFE Aluminium Stocks Decline and CRU Predicts 4 Million Tonne Surplus In 2020
Data shows that aluminium stocks on the Shanghai Futures Exchange (ShFE) have fallen for the first time in 2020, going down by 5,922 tons, or 1.1% from the previous week. However, as the coronavirus outbreak spreading across the global has weakened demand, China is likely to see its aluminium exports decline. Wen Xianjun, vice chairman […]
Despite December Restarts, 2019’s Aluminium Production Drop Is China’s First In A Decade
Experts say weak demand and trans-Pacific trade tensions are the culprits for the People’s Republic of China’s first net production drop in aluminium in a decade over the course of 2019. According to numbers published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) yesterday, China’s aluminium smelters combined to produce 35.04 million metric tons of aluminium […]
Shanghai Aluminium Futures Break CNY14,000/Tonne Barrier For First Time Since Halloween
Spurred on by a drop in inventories and an expected surge in demand, aluminium futures rose at the Shanghai Futures Exchange to their highest level since the end of October on Monday. With data showing that aluminium inventories in Shanghai’s warehouses fell to a nadir of 665,067 metric tons, which was the lowest point since […]
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 businesses and policymakers to accelerate decarbonization efforts. However, with COVID-19 disrupting lives and economies in an unprecedented manner, countries across the globe ...
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 ...
Aluminium of Greece (AOG): is the Pechiney spirit still alive?
Between September 24-25, FastmarketsMB organized its annual aluminium conference in Athens. A day before the conference, in accordance with an ...
