India Aluminium Producers Working On Scrap Standards To Stem Rising Tide Of Imports
India’s aluminium producers are teaming up with planning think-tank Niti Aayog and the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) to retool...
India aluminium scrap
India’s Aluminium Industry Calls Upon Government To Cut Duties On Raw Materials
Last week India’s aluminium industry called upon New Delhi to cut basic customs duties on aluminium fluoride and other raw materials necessary for aluminium production, as such duties make it all but impossible for domestic producers to compete in the global marketplace....
Despite Lobbying, India Government Passes On Rise In Aluminium Scrap Duties
Although the Indian Primary Aluminum Association has intensely lobbied the Indian government for a raise on scrap metal imports, New...
China Planned Aluminium Scrap Ban Concerns India’s Aluminium Smelters
Restrictions soon to fall into place on scrap aluminium imported into the People’s Republic of China has aluminium producers in...
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India’s Aluminium Recyclers Push Back Against Talk Of Imported Scrap Tariff Hike
Though India’s primary aluminium producers continue to call for raising import duties on raw and scrap aluminium, downstream interests steadfastly oppose such a move, and have again gone on record to detail the harm they expect a rise in aluminium import duties would exact. An open letter penned by President of Material Recycling Association of […]
Indian Professor Develops New Process For Small-Scale Production Of Aluminium Ingot Using Recycled Scrap
A researcher in India has developed a method for recycling scrap aluminium that allows small plants to produce graded-quality aluminium ingots with enhanced metallurgical and mechanical properties. Though details are sparse, the method, which was developed in a project entitled “Technology System Development of recycling of aluminum alloys for Industrial Applications” and headed up by […]
Amid Spike In Imported Aluminium Scrap, India’s Aluminium Sector Continues Plea For Relief
Scrap aluminium imported into India spiked by 21.44 percent since the start of the fiscal year, with buyers shipping in 657 thousand metric tons since April 1. According to the Aluminium Association of India (AAI), the government must soon enact artificial barriers to such imports, which rose from last year’s first-half imported aluminium total of […]
Indian Trade Group Seeks End To 2.5-Percent Duty On Imported Scrap Aluminium
An Indian scrap metals trade group appealed to the government last week to remove the 2.5 percent import duty on aluminium scrap, setting aright the inverted duty structure on aluminium scrap now in place. The Metal Recycling Association of India criticized the tariff, which is in place despite the assessment of no tariffs on finished […]
High Goods and Services Tax Rate Eviscerating India’s Scrap Aluminium Industry: Trade Group
India’s ballooning goods and services tax (GST) rate may spell the end for a wide swath of the country’s aluminium-recycling firms, most of which are micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSME). Such was the opinion expressed by a domestic trade group on Saturday. Mahendra Shah, president of the All India Non Ferrous Metal Exim Association, […]
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 ...
