China’s Aluminium Scrap Imports Up By Over 7 Percent On The Year In August
Though imports of scrap aluminium into the People’s Republic of China rose on the year in August, levels were nearly...
People’s Republic of China
China Government Planning Strict New Standards For Imported Scrap Aluminium, Copper
According to a report obtained by a prominent commodities news outlet, the government of the People’s Republic of China is planning to recategorize high-purity scrap metal imports only months after setting quotas on the import of the same. Per Argus media, an...
China Bauxite Imports Fall By 6 Percent In August Thanks To The Rains In Africa
Adverse weather conditions are to blame for the drop in imported bauxite ore by buyers in the People’s Republic of...
China’s Fourth Quarter Aluminium Scrap Quota Surpasses Third Quarter Limit
The government of the People’s Republic of China issued the first set of scrap metal quotas for the year’s closing...
Events
Unplanned Outages Drop China’s Aluminium Production By 0.5 Percent In August
Unplanned aluminum production outages at two of the country’s main smelters helped drop the People’s Republic of China’s total production by 0.5 percent on the month in August according to numbers released yesterday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Per Beijing’s numbers, China’s aluminium smelters combined to produce 2.97 million metric tons of primary […]
China Imports Of Bauxite Ore Rose By 24.9 Percent In 2019 Through July
As improvements to low-temperature alumina production continue by refiners in the People’s Republic of China, the country’s thirst for overseas bauxite increases. Such was the story told by Customs data released on Sunday that showed a 24.9 percent jump on the year in imported bauxite in the year’s first seven months. Customs data on HS […]
Beijing Raises Tariff On U.S. Imported Aluminium Scrap By 5 Percent
The stakes have risen in the escalating trade war between the governments of the United States and the People’s Republic of China, as Beijing revealed late Friday that tariffs upon aluminium scrap and copper scrap imported from American sellers will increase by 5 percent in December. A list of retaliatory tariffs published by the Ministry […]
Dirty Metal – China’s Troublesome Tether Between Coal And Aluminium
The year 2019 has been a red-letter year for the aluminium sector in the People’s Republic of China. Despite trade tensions, tariffs, reciprocal tariffs, environmental crackdowns, and all manner of price fluctuations across the entire spectrum of the aluminium value chain, the Middle Kingdom churned out a record volume of aluminium per day in June, […]
Chinalco Reports 31.8 Percent Jump In Revenue For 2019’s Opening Half
Despite growing downward pressure on the industry and evaporating profit margins, Aluminum Corporation of China (Chinalco) reported a record high in revenue for the first half of the year yesterday. According to state-run media, Chinalco recorded CNY170 billion (US$24.7 billion) in revenue for the opening six months of 2019, good for an increase of 31.8 […]
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 old tradition, a one-day field trip for conference delegates was organized to the Aluminium of Greece (AoG) plant, some 180 km from ...
International Aluminium 2019 Conference – Key Takeaways
The FastmaketsMB aluminium conference is the sequel to the Metal Bulletin aluminium conferences, which have traditionally been one of oldest ...
Electric Vehicles (EVs): outlook for sales and aluminium demand
After last year’s electric vehicles (EVs) sales increase of 72% year/year, to 2.02 million, this year’s growth is expected to ...
Are Things Finally Looking Up For The Aluminium Market?
Base metals prices recovered sharply in the first half of September, after a seasonal slump in August, as investors and ...
