Guangxi Power Cuts Could Shutter Up To Half A Million MTPA Of Aluminium Smelting Capacity By Weekend
Up to half a million metric tons per annum of aluminium smelting capacity in Guangxi may be temporarily shuttered after...
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Yunnan Regulators Order Further Aluminium Output Cuts As Winter Approaches
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...
Chalco Shutters Production At Shandong Huayu Aluminium Smelter
Blaming the rising cost of electricity in the province, Aluminum Corp of China (Chalco) announced on Wednesday that it is...
Chinese Aluminium Smelters Announce Additional 800 Thousand TPA In Production Cuts
Recognizing the damage excess capacity continues to wreak upon the country’s aluminium market, the People’s Republic of China’s top smelters...
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Chinese Aluminium: Higher Overhead And Lower Aluminium Prices Squeeze Out Capacity
The Chinese aluminium sector is in peril, and the country’s smelters must soon take drastic and determined action in order to prevent an even steeper dive into the abyss. Such was the verdict of two industry reports released earlier in November, one each by Aladdiny and Antaike. In the report issued by Aladdiny, analysts noted […]
Henan Zhongfu To Move 250 Thousand MTPA Of Aluminium Production To Sichuan Province
Per an announcement made yesterday by corporate officials, People’s Republic of China aluminium producer Henan Zhongfu Industrial has opted to shutter a 250-thousand-metric-ton-per-annum aluminium smelter in the province, sending the production capacity southwest to Sichuan province. The capacity, operated by subsidiary Linfeng Aluminum has already been suspended. According to a statement submitted late Wednesday to […]
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 and Information Technology Committee and acquired by Reuters, Shandong Xinfa Aluminium Group is […]
Quartet Of NE China Cities Announce Cancellation Of Alumina Projects
Only days after the announcement by one northeastern Chinese city’s announcement that it would not go forward with what was planned to be the biggest alumina refinery on Earth, four more cities in the province announced that their own plans for alumina operations met their end on the chopping block as well. On Monday, wire […]
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 last winter would happen again this year. Saying that the action is pursuant to Beijing’s wider objectives on air quality improvement, the MIIT declared that cuts of 30 percent for the alumina and aluminium sector […]
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 ...
