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...
Xinjiang
Beijing Urges End To Aluminium Capacity’s Migration Westward
Beijing told aluminium smelters earlier this week that increased production in the country’s western regions shouldn’t be encouraged despite current industry trends. The central government made the same directive for coke production as well. The trend in recent months and years has...
Henan Aluminium Producers Experience Brief Environmental Curtailment Due To Ethnic Festival
Makers of aluminium rod, coil, and plate in Henan province are seeing a temporary drop in production due to environmental...
Sources Say Xinfa Shutters 500 Thousand MTPA Of Aluminium Smelting Capacity In Xinjiang
An aluminium smelter owned by Xinfa Group in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was shut down this week after an...
Events
Xinjiang East Hope Cited By Beijing For Illegal Aluminium Smelting Capacity
Spot prices for aluminium in the People’s Republic of China rallied today after news broke that 200 metric tons per annum in illegal smelting capacity under construction by Xinjiang East Hope that was ordered shut down last year by the local government in Xinjiang was recently found by government inspectors to still be under construction. […]
Shandong Government Orders 3.21 Million MTPA in Aluminium Capacity Shuttered
Another bite has been taken out of the People’s Republic of China’s aluminium capacity this week, as the government of the Shandong province mandated 3.21 million metric tons per annum of capacity shuttered, most of which is operated by China Hongqiao. According to a statement released yesterday but dated July 24, checks by the Shandong […]
Enforcement Against Illegal Aluminium Smelters Planned for This Week in Xinjiang
Aluminium prices in the People’s Republic of China are up thanks to indications from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region that a long-promised crackdown on illegal smelting capacity is underway. According to a document obtained by Bloomberg, local governments will begin checks this week on smelters built since the spring of 2013 that are in violation […]
China’s East Hope Group to Invest US$1.5 bn in Inner Mongolia
According to local reports last week, Shanghai’s East Hope Group is to begin a “major investment project” in the Inner Mongolian city of Baotou. East Hope indicated that the investment would be in the neighborhood of US$1.5 billion. The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Party Committee, Party Secretary Wang Jun, city leaders Du Xuejun, Zhang Shiming, […]
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 ...
