Our current approach can win economic skirmishes, but not the geopolitical conflict. – Part 2 Impact #5 of ad hoc industrial policy: Failing to use all required tools Industrial policy is often caricatured as just tariffs and subsidies. Mis-framed debates that evaluate the merits of tariffs in...
Roeslein & Associates has introduced the R.U.D.I. AI Vision Camera, a new tool for aluminium beverage and food canmakers designed to track can counts and identify production losses in real time. The camera expands Roeslein’s R.U.D.I. AI platform, which has previously focused on data management and...
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Mykolaiv alumina refinery is set to be offered for privatisation in the fourth quarter of 2026, with a starting price of around USD 86 million, according to Ukraine’s State Property Fund. The announcement was made by Dmytro Natalukha, head of the State Property Fund, during a press briefing marking...
Work has started on a new energy project in Kyrgyzstan’s Jalal-Abad region, where a mix of hydropower and solar generation is being developed with support from SINOMACH. The plan isn’t massive in scale, but it’s meant to address local shortages. One part of it is a 5 MW small hydropower plant,...
Norsk Hydro has acquired a long-term electricity arrangement with Statkraft to provide power supply for its aluminium plants in Norway well into the next decade. The agreement starts from 2029, up until 2038. Over that period, the total volume adds up to 12.3 terawatt hours, out of which 8.8 TWh...
Eskom and South32 have moved forward with a long-term renewable energy plan for the Hillside Aluminium smelter in KwaZulu-Natal, to keep it running past 2031. The proposed solution, currently under discussion, is expected to begin when the smelter’s existing electricity contract expires in 2031,...
Guinea’s bauxite sector started 2026 on a strong note, with output and exports rising sharply in the first quarter, even as the government moved toward restricting shipments later in the year. Data from the mines ministry shows exports reaching about 60.9 million tonnes between January and March,...
Vedanta Limited appoints Pallavi Bhatia as Chief Human Resources Officer for its aluminium business to boost leadership in this key area. In her new job, Bhatia will be head of HR strategy for the aluminium unit. She will target talent growth, leadership training, staff involvement, and workforce...
Norsk Hydro has accelerated its push into circular manufacturing by supplying low-carbon, recycled aluminium to the reECONIC project led by Mercedes-Benz Trucks. Based on the electric Mercedes-Benz eEconic platform, the initiative gathers over 30 partners to demonstrate the reuse of materials in...
The scrap sitting idle at a Recyclus battery recycling plant in Wolverhampton is being given a second look and, potentially, a second life, by Technology Minerals by reprocessing around 180 tonnes of previously treated battery material to enhance copper and aluminium recovery. This follows the...
Australian Metro Mining has released an update of the quarterly activities for the January-March quarter (Q1), delivering a mixed but operationally resilient performance throughout the timeline. Despite near-term cost pressures and seasonal operational constraints, Metro continues to position...
India’s aluminium tariff regime, especially now in 2026, has become a regulatory fault line between upstream smelters chasing security, downstream processors absorbing cost pressure, recyclers fighting for cheaper feedstock and the country is trying to balance it all to keep a lid on inflation...
The United States and the European Union have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on critical minerals, targeting stronger production, supply chain security and coordinated trade policies. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič formalised the agreement...
Mysteel assessed the national average spot price for smelter-grade alumina with a minimum purity of 98.6 per cent at RMB 2,696 per tonne (USD 395 per tonne) on April 23, marking a marginal decline of 0.5 per cent from a week earlier. The price drop slowed compared with the 2 per cent on-week...
SMM Aluminium Billet Market: In March, the aluminium billet operating rate rebounded significantly by 11.8 percentage points M-o-M to 53.2 per cent, but still declined 4.1 percentage points Y-o-Y. Downstream profile enterprises basically completed resumption of work after the Lantern Festival, with...
Toyo Printing Inks will participate in METPACK 2026, one of the most important international trade fairs for the metal packaging industry, to be held May 5–8 in Essen, Germany. Toyo Printing Inks will participate in METPACK 2026, one of the most important international trade fairs for the metal...
The London Metal Exchange (LME) aluminium prices continued to soften around the curve on the close of April 28. The cash and contract prices eased as inventories remained on a declining trend. Explore- Most accurate data to drive business decisions with Global ALuminium Industry Outlook 2026 across...
The Indonesian bauxite market in 2026 is being shaped by three concurrent developments that, when read together, point toward a meaningful and potentially rapid price recovery. Individually, each is significant. Together, they form a self-reinforcing mechanism that the market has not yet fully...
Construction of a 4-million-kilowatt new energy transmission project began on April 15 in Jungar Banner, located in Ordos, North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region, according to State Grid East Inner Mongolia Electric Power Co. For the global aluminium value-chain 2026 outlook, book our...
National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO)declared that its Board of Directors will meet on April 30, 2026, to consider the declaration of a third interim dividend for the financial year 2025-26. The board meeting is scheduled for Thursday. The main agenda is focused on evaluating the proposed...
