LME aluminium stocks declined by more than half during the first nine months of 2026, falling by 267,875 tonnes from 509,250 tonnes on January 2 to 241,375 tonnes on September 30 (52.6 per cent). The decline continued throughout the period, with average warehouse inventories falling each month. Compared with the same period in 2025, monthly average stocks were lower across all nine months, with the gap widening in the third quarter. Q1 LME aluminium stocks fall 18.2 per cent LME aluminium inventories continued to decline during Q1 2026. Month-end stocks fell from 495,725 tonnes in January to 465,550 tonnes in February, before dropping further to 416,775 tonnes in March. Monthly average inventories stood at 498,670 tonnes in January, 481,801 tonnes in February and 440,710 tonnes in March....
The London Metal Exchange (LME) aluminium price chart reported declines on the November 10 trading session after a temporary surge at the November 9 close. Both near-term and longer-dated contracts posted over 1 per cent dip over the previous session. The LME aluminium cash bid as well as offer prices contracted 0.32 per cent day-on-day on November 10. The bid shifted from USD 3,145 per tonne to USD 3,135 per tonne. The offer price dipped from USD 3,147 per tonne to USD 3,137 per tonne. Explore- Most comprehensive and forward-looking industry-focused report — Global Bauxite & Alumina Market Forecast to 2036: Supply–Demand, Trade Flows & Price Outlook The LME aluminium three-month bid price reported a 1.11 per cent decline from USD 3,059 per tonne on November 9 to USD 3,025 per tonne on...
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Ball Corporation has announced its five most sustainable manufacturing plants of 2019. Each facility will receive the 2019 R. David Hoover Sustainability Award. The company has announced the five aluminium packaging plants with the most significant operational and social sustainability improvements in 2019, including progress across the areas with the most significant sustainability impact across operations as well as the promotion of aluminium packaging's sustainability credentials and engagement in their local communities, Ball Corporation said. The winners of the 2019 R. David Hoover Sustainability Award are: Kapolei, Hawaii (Beverage Packaging North & Central America); Buenos Aires, Argentina (Beverage Packaging South America); Gelsenkirchen, Germany (Beverage Packaging EMEA); Yangon,...
Norsk Hydro ASA has announced its first-quarter results of 2020, mentioning the growth of underlying EBIT from NOK 559 million during the same period last year to NOK 2,247 million. The successful ramp up of production at the Alunorte refinery, reduced costs, and positive currency effects are believed to have contributed positively to the first-quarter results. But these positive effects were partly offset by lower realised alumina and aluminium prices. Separately for bauxite and alumina, Hydro’s underlying EBIT in Q1 2020 came in at NOK 535 million, up from NOK 153 million, attributing to increased production following the lifting of production embargo last year and lower raw material costs. Underlying EBIT for primary aluminium improved from negative NOK 771 million in Q1 2019 to NOK...
Qatar Aluminium Manufacturing Company, a 50% joint venture partner in a successful smelter that produces premium high quality primary aluminium products in Qatar, announced results for the three months period ended 31 March 2020. Net profit came in at QR 10.7 million. “Financial performance of QAMCO during first quarter of 2020 has continued to be impacted by external macroeconomic factors beyond the Company’s control, which weighed on the Company’s financial performance since 2019,” the company said. Revenue stood at QR565 million, down by 14% year-on-year, as the pressure continued on the global aluminium prices and uncertainty building supply surplus on account of decreased global demand. EBITDA stood at QR 166 million for the three months. That was down by 11% year-on-year. Average...
Cherished Alcircle Readers Family, Greetings from AlCircle! We hope you all are staying safe and remaining healthy at this challenging time. The global COVID-19 pandemic is affecting all our families, businesses, communities, and our way of life. During this time, we wanted to reach out to all our readers to acquire their thoughts and insights on the global aluminium industry in regards to the impact of the COVID-19. While COVID-19 is certainly a new challenge for all of us, we remain fully dedicated towards gathering and sharing information of the industry by publishing on our website. As all the major trade shows and events have been cancelled or postponed for an indefinite time, we love to have your thoughts, so that over the coming months it might help everyone related to the industry...
The average Bauxite (4.5≤Al/Si ＜5.5) price in Shanxi stands at RMB 365 per tonne on Wednesday, 29 April 2020, down RMB 25 per tonne or 6.41 per cent, after remaining flat at RMB 390 per tonne since April 15. The average price is expected to move within a range of RMB 350-RMB 380 per tonne. The average spot alumina price in China has increased to RMB 2183 per tonne on April 29. This marks an increase of RMB 40 per tonne. The prices of alumina in East, Central, and North China markets have risen by RMB 40 per tonne, RMB 45 per tonne and RMB 35 per tonne to stand at RMB 2175 per tonne, RMB 2180 per tonne, and RMB 2185 per tonne. Alumina-South remains unchanged at RMB 2520 per tonne. Australian alumina FOB price stands USD 15 per tonne higher on Wednesday, 29 April 2020. The price stands at...
The US Chamber of Commerce experts has warned US President Donald Trump at the odds of using his preceding outlook on the trade deals in the ongoing negotiations between Kenya and the US. According to a report on April 26, The US Chamber of Commerce stated that the United States should work to achieve a single, comprehensive agreement with Kenya that removes barriers to trade and investment, instead of pursuing a phased approach as it mostly does. The Chamber stated in comments submitted to the US Trade Representative: "To be effective, negotiators should work out a comprehensive deal that addresses all issues under negotiation rather than seeking agreement on a subset of issues or pursuing a phased approach.” The US government in recent times concluded partial or phased trade agreements...
Illycaffè, a global leader in high-quality coffee, has extended its line of aluminium capsules compatible with Nespresso Original coffee machines. The new line of capsules is now available in Decaffeinato espresso, containing the ideal measure of the legendary and unique illy blends. The illy-branded capsules are available in total five choices representing four intensities of taste: Classico, Intenso espresso, Forte espresso, and new Decaffeinato espresso. All these varieties are available on the illy e-shop and selective retailers for a suggested retail price of $8.99 per pack of ten capsules. The illy-branded aluminium capsules are produced and distributed by JAB’s JDE platform. illycaffè and JAB had signed a trademark licensing agreement. JAB’s JDE platform is primarily responsible...
The US dollar fell for the second day on Tuesday, April 28, as investors put pressure on safe-haven currencies as they eyed the Federal Reserve’s meeting and rebalanced portfolios ahead of the end of the month. Month-end rebalancing is negative for the greenback, with the US dollar likely to be sold against the euro, sterling, the Japanese yen and the Australian dollar, according to Mark McCormick, global head of FX strategy at TD Securities in Toronto. LME aluminium cash (bid) price as well as LME official settlement price declined on Tuesday, April 28, from US$ 1472.5 per tonne on April 27 to US$ 1465 per tonne. 3-months bid price and 3-months offer price also decreased from US$ 1509.5 per tonne to US$ 1503.5 per tonne. Dec 21 bid price and Dec 21 offer price hovered at US$ 1628 per...
The Japanese domestic car production in March’20 has declined against a year earlier, squeezed by sluggish global and domestic sales due to the impact of the Covid-19 rife. The domestic production of the country's eight-car manufacturers has shown drop by 8% against the preceding year to around 791,000 in March. The March output showed an 8% recovery from February when China's strict quarantine measures against Covid-19 disrupted supplies of auto parts. Large production drop has been declared by Toyota, Mazda, Nissan, and Honda, as they pressed down the country's overall car output in March. Smaller producers Daihatsu, Subaru, and Mitsubishi all increased their March output by 10-14% each from the previous year, whereas Suzuki posted steady output in March. Japan's domestic car sales...
Aluminium Corp of China Ltd, known as Chalco, announced that the company’s net profit declined year-on-year on lower sales due to the coronavirus outbreak. The company’s net income came in at 30.7 million yuan in the first quarter of 2020, a drop of 93.1 per cent from 444.9 million yuan in the first quarter of 2019. “Affected by the outbreak of COVID-19, the market price of the company’s leading products decreased significantly,” Chalco said in the filing. According to a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange, revenue in the first quarter decreased 8 per cent year-on-year. Revenues stood at 39.67 billion yuan in the mentioned period as demand declined due to the coronavirus and panicked investors sold off commodities across the board, Reuters reported. Shanghai aluminium prices decreased...
The Serbian aluminium rolling mill Impol Seval has made public that its net profit has dropped to Serbian Dinar 504.9 million ($4.7 million/4.3 million euro) in 2019 from Serbian Dinar 895.8 million dinars in the preceding year. The company's revenue went up 10.4% to Serbian Dinar13.8 billion, whereas its operating costs increased to Serbian Dinar13.3 billion from Serbian Dinar 11.8 million, Impol Seval said in a bourse filing. The Slovenian company Impol invested 7 million euro ($7.8 million) in Serbian blue-chip aluminium rolling mill Impol Seval and has invested about Euro 4 million in the aluminium plant in the first nine months of 2019. In October 2002, the Serbian government sold a 70% stake in Impol Seval to Slovenia's Impol for a total of $6.5 million. Back then, the Slovenian...
Hydro has supplied aluminium profiles to The Ocean Cleanup’s second-generation Interceptor. The company has delivered aluminium in four different shapes from its Dutch plant in Hoogezand. “Providing aluminium for such a unique project is truly inspiring. It highlights the opportunities this represents in term of dealing with one the biggest environmental issues we are facing, in addition to the vast prospects of aluminium solutions,” said John Delamboy, commercial director for Hydro Extruded Solutions in the Benelux region. The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization based in the Netherlands, has developed the Interceptor, an autonomous system for collecting plastic pollution from rivers before it reaches the sea. Aluminium profiles are used as construction parts for the body and...
According to China customs data, China in March 2020 imported 77,000 tonnes of aluminium scrap, down 39.1 per cent year-on-year but up 29.8 per cent from February 2020. This brought China’s total aluminium scrap imports in the first three months of the year to 199,000 tonnes, down 40.1 per cent from the same period last year. Most of the secondary aluminium producers resumed operations after March, which boosted demand for imported aluminium scrap. The general consumption of secondary aluminium within China and abroad has, however, dropped owing to slow global economic activities due to the outbreak of COVID19. With more stringent movement restrictions outside China in mid-March, Chinese secondary aluminium producers reported a sharp decline in export orders. As for unwrought aluminium...
PC Transport Systems, the Russian manufacturer of urban electric vehicles is developing the first Russian-made all-aluminium tram, drawing the best example of aluminium tram production in Europe. The body-shells for the three-section low-floor Type 71-931M1 Vityaz-M tram are being assembled and painted at the company’s Tver Mechanical Electric Transport Plant, that has undergone comprehensive modernisation to facilitate the production of aluminium vehicles. <iframe width="500" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8ALNDHwF3T0" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> The final assembly will be then undertaken at the manufacturer’s Nevsky Electric Transport Plant in St Petersburg. The use of...
There is no end to research, inspection, and introspection around the currently much talked about virus SARS-CoV-2, or popularly known as COVID19. The more its impacts are being reported across the world, the more it is triggering investigation among medical sciences. Research says what worries the most is the virus’s high rate of contagion, as it can survive outside the human body, in the air, and on surfaces such as metal, glass, and plastics, if they are not properly disinfected. It has been evident that human-to-human transmissions have an incubation time of 2 to 10 days, spreading through air droplets. But when these droplets reach surfaces, such as walls, clothing, furniture, or other objects, the virus behaves differently depending on the type of surface it lands on. On plastic and...
Ball Corporation announced that the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has approved its targets to reduce absolute carbon emissions. The company targets to reduce emission within its operations by 55 percent and within its value chain by 16 percent by 2030 against a 2017 baseline. Ball becomes the first in the can making industry to receive approval for science based target. This milestone affirms Ball's industry-leading efforts to help accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy and limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, supporting the goals of the Paris Agreement, Ball Corporation said. "The private sector has a vital role to play in accelerating a low carbon economy and, as the world's leading supplier of sustainable aluminium beverage packaging, we are dedicated to...
ACHENBACH BUSCHHÜTTEN, specialist and world market leader for aluminium foil rolling mills and foil slitting machines, was ordered by LOTTE ALUMINIUM, subsidiary of the multinational LOTTE group which is the fifth-largest company in South Korea, to establish a new Greenfield production plant in Hungary. There, thinnest aluminium foils as a sophisticated carrier material for rechargeable batteries are produced highly productive with Achenbach machinery in the near future. Handshake between Cho Hyuncheol, President & CEO LOTTE ALUMINIUM and André E. Barten, President & CEO ACHENBACH BUSCHHÜTTEN In the first expansion stage the scope of supply and performance comprise three OPTIMILL Foil Rolling Mills automated with OPTIROLL Control Systems and each run with a SUPERSTACK Rolling Oil...
Aluminium imports by the US for consumption stood at 563,000 tonnes in January-February 2020, down 39.79% from 935,000 tonnes in January-February 2019, according to the latest Mineral Industry Survey report from the US Geological Survey. In February, the US imported 238,000 tonnes of aluminium, a decrease of 46.76% from 447,000 tonnes in February 2019. The US imports of crude metal and alloys decreased 26.76% year-on-year to stand at 208,000 tonnes in February 2020. Crude metal and alloys import were 284,000 tonnes in February 2019. On a month on month basis, imports dropped 40% from 347,000 tonnes. In the first two months of 2020, the US imported 494,000 tonnes of crude metal and alloys as compared to 583,000 tonnes in the first two months of 2019, which indicates a 15.27% decrease...
