Mideast Aluminium Producers Plan to Lead Charge to Meet Expected Global Demand of 70 MM MT in 2020
Aluminium producers in the Mideast expect the industry to see demand for the metal top 70 million metric tons per...
Gulf Cooperation Council
Alba Aims for Providing a Quarter of Gulf Region’s Annual Aluminium Production: CEO Murray
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) is angling at becoming the owner of the largest single-site aluminium smelting operation on Earth according to its CEO Tim Murray. Murray made the comments in the course of a brief interview with a domestic media outlet earlier...
Aleris Inks Deal with UAE Firm to Market Architectural Aluminium Alloy
Ohio’s Aleris International, Inc. announced a partnership earlier this week with Dubai’s MJ Building Materials TradingDMCC to promote its proprietary...
GCC Aluminium Firms Produced over 5 MM Metric Tons of Aluminium in 2016
According to numbers released by the Gulf Aluminium Council, the smelters of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) combined to produce...
Events
Chinese Overcapacity Makes for Tough Going on International Aluminium Market: EGA’s Kalban
Significant competition from aluminium smelters in the People’s Republic of China will temper upward pressures on the global price of aluminium according to Emirates Global Aluminium chief executive Abdulla Kalban. Although Kalban’s firm is among the top ten aluminium producers on Earth, EGA remains dependent upon sales to overseas buyers. As a result the firm […]
Consortium to Build US$120MM Aluminium Rolling Plant in UAE
Dubai Investments, Dubal Holding and Singapore-based industrial group MARS have announced a joint venture to build a US$119.79 million aluminium rolling plant in the United Arab Emirites’ Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (Kizad). Thirty-five percent of the joint venture, to be named Emirates Aluminium Rolling (Emiroll), will be owned by Dubal Holding, thirty percent will […]
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 ...
