UACJ To Invest US$33.3 MM For New Equipment In Michigan And Arizona Automotive Aluminium Plants
UACJ Corporation’s United States subsidiary UACJ Automotive Whitehall Industries (UWH) announced last week a plan to install US$333 million in...
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Tri-Arrows Aluminum Joins ASI As Production & Transformation Member
Trade group Aluminium Stewardship Initiative announced last week that Tri-Arrows Aluminium, Inc. has joined the association as a Production & Transformation member. Tri-Arrows’ membership brings the ASI’s total number of members to 184. Tri-Arrows delivers rolled aluminium sheet to buyers throughout North...
Constellium Agrees To Buy UACJ’s Share Of Bowling Green Aluminium Auto Body Sheet Plant For US$100 Million
Amsterdam rolled and extruded aluminium leader Constellium N.V. announced yesterday the signing of a binding purchase agreement with UACJ Corporation...
Sources Say Expiration of Zhongwang Talks with Aleris Opens Door for Hindalco Bid
According to sources professing knowledge of the situation, last week’s expiration of acquisition talks between Aleris International, Inc. and China...
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Alcoa and Tri-Arrows Join The Aluminum Association’s Aluminum Transportation Group
American aluminium trade group The Aluminum Association announced today that the Aluminum Transportation Group (ATG) has grown by two. Pittsburgh’s Alcoa Corporation and Kentucky’s Tri-Arrows Aluminum Inc. have become the ATG’s tenth and eleventh member companies. Heidi Brock, president and CEO of the Aluminum Association, welcomed the two firms, both of whom are acknowledged leaders […]
Tri-Arrows Commits US$125 MM in Building Cold-Rolling Mill at Logan Aluminum
Rolled aluminium firm Tri-Arrows Aluminum, Inc. will soon be starting on the construction of a US$125-million cold rolling mill in western Kentucky. According to a press release disseminated by Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin (R), the new mill will be constructed on the campus of Logan Aluminum Inc., a joint venture between Tri-Arrows and Novelis, in […]
Kentucky UACJ Automotive Aluminium Plant to Undergo $3.3MM Expansion
Citing an increased demand for automotive aluminium, UACJ subsidiary UACJ Automotive Whitehall Industries (UWH) is planning a US$3.3-million expansion at its Paducah, Kentucky, facility. The plant, which produces precision aluminium parts for automotive applications, came under UACJ’s roof after being purchased last year. It will undergo a 56,000-ft2 expansion to make room for new machining […]
UACJ Preparing to Ramp Up Aluminium Production for Tesla Model 3 Chassis Parts
Japanese aluminium company UACJ will reportedly be ramping up operations at its plant in Michigan in order to provide aluminium chassis parts for Tesla’s Model 3. A report in The Nihon Keizai Shinbun (The Nikkei) on Sunday revealed a JPY3 billion (USD26 million) investment that is to take place at what is assumed to be […]
UACJ to Invest US$488 MM in US, Thailand to Boost Rolled Aluminum Capacity
Japan’s aluminium firm UACJ announced this week that it is planning to spend US$488 million in the United States and the Kingdom of Thailand in order to boost its overseas rolled aluminium capacity by forty percent. According to the company’s projections, the capex project in question will boost overseas capacity to 700,000 metric tons, which […]
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 ...
