Increased Hydropower In Yunnan Leads To Bump In Aluminium Production
According to an analyst who spoke to Reuters earlier this week, Yunnan’s aluminium smelters are already starting to increase output...
Yunnan
China’s Yunnan Initiates Aluminium Production Cuts Due to Dry Season
Chinese aluminium smelters located in the Yunnan province of southwestern China began reducing their production capacity by an aggregate of 1.15 million metric tons (equivalent to about 1.27 million short tons) this week. This reduction is in response to production curbs which...
Yunnan To Ease Power Curbs And Boost Aluminium Smelting Capacity Later This Month
The Yunnan government is easing off on power usage restrictions later this month, which is likely to boost aluminium output...
Gränges Partners With China’s Shandong Innovation Group On Aluminium Recycling And Casting Plant In Yunnan
Swedish rolled aluminium firm Gränges AB announced this week the formation of a joint venture with China’s Shandong Innovation Group...
Events
Power Rationing In Yunnan Spells Aluminium Production Cuts In China
Aluminium smelters in the People’s Republic of China are expected to pare down production in the coming weeks thanks to imminent power rationing in Yunnan. Industry media reported that power cuts began last week, and local aluminium smelters will be compelled to reduce production by around 650 thousand metric tons per annum. Further power cuts […]
China Hongqiao To Continue Aluminium Capacity Relocation To Yunnan Despite Power Disruptions
An unreliable power supply will not slow down China Hongqiao’s plan to move 2 million metric tons per annum of aluminium smelting capacity to Yunnan province according to a company spokesperson. The firm has gone on record previously as intending to move over 60 percent of its capacity to the southwestern province by the end […]
China Shenhuo Plans Aluminium Output Increase In Yunnan Thanks To Steady Power Supply
Chinese aluminium producer Henan Shenhuo Coal & Power Co Ltd said this week that it plans to ramp up to its full production capacity of 900 thousand metric tons by the end of this month due to a consistent power supply to its plant in Yunnan province. Per local news sources, the power grid in […]
Hongqiao To Move Additional 1.93 MM MTPA Of Aluminium Smelting Capacity To Yunnan Province
Yet more aluminium capacity is headed south this winter, as Chinese aluminium giant China Hongqiao Group will be relocating 1.93 million metric tons per annum to Yunnan province in the coming months. A notice published by the Yunnan government said the new capacity would wind up in the Honghe prefecture, relocated from Honqiao’s operations in […]
China Hongqiao Aluminium Capacity Move To Yunnan Postponed Due To Power Cuts
The world’s biggest non-state-owned aluminium producer China Hongqiao Group said last week the planned relocation of aluminium capacity to Yunnan has been postponed due to energy limits put in place by the provincial government. Hongqiao chairman Zhang Bo said at Antaike’s China International Aluminium Week on Wednesday that the move of 3 million metric tons […]
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 ...
