Prices For Second Quarter Aluminium Deliveries Rise In Japan As Coronavirus Depresses Demand
Prices for aluminium in Japan have jumped by over one fourth over last quarter’s asking price, but buyers have shown...
covid-19
Japan’s First Second Quarter Aluminium Premiums Deal Lower By 22 Percent From 2019
Japan saw the first significant aluminium delivery deal for the second quarter of this year settle at US$82 per metric ton above London Metal Exchange cash price earlier this week according to industry sources who spoke to metals media. Per S&P Global,...
Coronavirus Spikes Demand For Aluminium Nose Clips As Production Of Disposable Face Masks Skyrockets
Reverberations from the COVID-19 virus (“coronavirus”) have been felt all along the aluminium value stream in the People’s Republic of...
Former Noranda Smelter In Missouri Again Faces Closure Due To Tepid Market And Weak Tariff Enforcement
An executive at a Missouri aluminium smelter that reopened after the Trump Administration’s blanket tariffs on imported aluminium told Reuters...
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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 ...
