A potential easing of trade tensions between the United States and Canada could reshape the North American aluminum market, with European buyers facing the risk of stronger competition for Canadian metal. Import data from ITC Trade Map shows that US purchases of Canadian unwrought aluminum fell sharply in 2025, while imports from Canada increased across six European markets, highlighting how trade flows have evolved amid tariff uncertainty. The United States imported approximately 2.03 million metric tons of unwrought aluminum from Canada in 2025, down 25.9% from 2.74 million metric tons in 2024. The decline amounted to around 711,494 metric tons over the year. Import value also decreased, falling 22.2% from $7.82 billion to $6.09 billion. The figures come as the possibility of a...
Century Aluminum’s proposed USD 4 billion primary aluminum smelter in Inola, Oklahoma, is “moving forward on all fronts” as the company prepares for construction, despite local opposition and legal challenges, CEO Jesse Gary said during the company’s third-quarter earnings call. Developed jointly by Century Aluminum and Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), the project is designed to produce 750,000 tonnes of primary aluminum annually, potentially doubling U.S. primary aluminum production. The facility is expected to create thousands of direct and indirect jobs and add USD 1.5 billion to Oklahoma’s gross domestic product, according to company estimates. The partners had targeted construction to begin by the end of 2026. However, local restrictions and permitting challenges have affected the...
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Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced Ma’aden Aluminium has become a new Production & Transformation member of the ASI. This brings the total number of members working toward a responsible aluminium value chain to 114. Ma’aden is a supplier of primary and rolled product solutions to domestic and global markets. The company in 2009 established a joint venture with Alcoa to build the world’s most efficiently integrated aluminium project in Saudi Arabia. The project includes a bauxite mine, a refinery, a smelter and one of the world’s most advanced rolling mills. ASI is a global, multi-stakeholder, non-profit standards setting and certification organisation that aims to recognise and foster the responsible production, sourcing and stewardship of aluminium. “ASI membership will...
German automaker BMW AG has reportedly invested 6.5 million euros in the technical retrofitting of its Dingolfing press shop for the implementation of a new system to accomplish the goal of fully recycling its scrap aluminium waste. The new system enables the press shop to separate and recycle aluminium sheet waste to turn it into reusable products for the industry. It can also save CO2 emission of around 120,000 tonnes per annum. During the production of car components in the press shop, there is always a generation of sheet metal waste, out of which the plant’s new recycling equipment automatically can separate aluminium portions by means of scrap chutes. The chutes the deposit the aluminium scraps on a trio of conveyor belts and feed into a machine that presses the scraps into cubes....
The average spot alumina price increased by RMB 6 per tonne or 0.24 per cent on Tuesday, 18 February 2020, after remaining flat on February 14 and February 17. Alumina price in China stood at RMB 2486 per tonne, from RMB 2480 per tonne. The prices of alumina rose across East and Central China markets today. Alumina prices in East and Central markets climbed RMB 10 per tonne each to stand at RMB 2490 per tonne and RMB 2500 per tonne. Their average prices are expected to range at RMB 2480- 2500 per tonne and RMB 2480-2520 per tonne. In North and South markets, the price remained unchanged at RMB 2500 per tonne and RMB 2520 per tonne. After a continuous fall for the past four days in a row, A00 aluminium ingot price in China recorded a hike by RMB 60 per tonne to stand at RMB 13610 per...
The US dollar index held steady on Monday and climbed to the highest level at 99.211 since October 8, 2019. Three-month LME aluminium slipped to close at US$ 1,700 per tonne and finished the day 0.17 per cent lower at US$ 1,717 per tonne, primarily attributed to stronger US dollar and rebound in inventories. The trading range is expected at US$ 1,700 per tonne to US$ 1,760 per tonne today, February 18. As of Monday, February 17, LME aluminium cash (bid) price yet again recorded a sharp decline from US$ 1704 per tonne, as of February 14, to US$ 1678 per tonne, while LME official settlement price from US$ 1704.5 per tonne to US$ 1678.5 per tonne. 3-months bid price came in at US$ 1711 per tonne and 3-months offer price at US$ 1712 per tonne after declining by US$ 22 per tonne. Dec 21 bid...
Australasia’s largest aluminium smelter and has been operating 24 hours a day since 1983, Tomago Aluminium’s employees and contractors have again came up to show their social responsibility in regards to charitable causes, especially those affecting their communities. Though it came as little surprise when seeing the impact of the bushfires raging across NSW they established a bushfire appeal and yet again gave generously out of their own pockets. When fires were rampaging across the state, staff initiated the Tomago Aluminium Bushfire Appeal and donated $21,000. The aluminium smelter company which contributes $1.5billion annually to Australia’s economy added another $29,000 to take the total donation to $50,000 which was donated to the NSW Rural Fire Service on 17 th February’20. The...
According to a recent report, GE has signed a contract with Vedanta to install its digital smelter solution at the latter’s aluminium plant at Jharsuguda in Odisha to enhance productivity. The news came after the two companies jointly announced on Monday, February 17, that “GE and Vedanta Ltd.’s aluminium & power business signed an agreement to implement GE's digital smelter solutions at its largest smelter in India at Jharsuguda in Odisha to significantly increase its operational efficiency and productivity." For the first time, a digital twin technology will be deployed at an aluminium smelter in India, which together with advanced data analytics will expectedly reduce power consumption substantially at the plant. On every 1 per cent reduction in specific power consumption about US$ 4-5...
Ball Corporation reported 2019 net earnings of $566 million on sales of $11.5 billion, compared to $454 million on sales of $11.6 billion in 2018. The company’s 2019 comparable net earnings were $861 million, from $775 million in 2018. In the fourth quarter, net earnings stood at $160 million on sales of $2.7 billion, from $151 million on sales of $2.8 billion in the fourth quarter of 2018. Comparable net earnings were $238 million, from comparable net earnings of $191 million. Ball said results reflect the 2019 sale of the company's Argentine steel aerosol business and Chinese beverage can assets, and the 2018 sale of the company's U.S. steel food and steel aerosol business. "Over the past year, our global beverage volumes increased 5 percent, our aerospace contracted backlog increased...
Suzuki Motorcycle India has today made public the launch of its BS6 compliant Burgman Street 125. The starting price will be INR 77,900 (ex-showroom, New Delhi), the 2020 Suzuki Burgman Street comes with a new colour option along with other amazing features. The Japanese manufacturer asserts that the updated premium scooter is not only eco-friendly but also provides a smooth riding experience. Suzuki has tooled the BS6 Burgman Street 125 with a fuel injection system, the integrated engine start and kill switch. The scooter started its journey in July 2018 and has played a significant role in Suzuki accumulating good volumes along with the segment-leading Access 125. The sporty styling of a maxi-scooter and upmarket features drives Burgman Street is an attractive option in the growing 125...
The American scrap import has shown a positive trend in Aug/Sept/Oct’19 with a total volume of 145,300 tonnes. In August’19 the volume of scrap imports stood at 45,300 tonnes, whereas in September’19 the import was recorded at 47,600 tonnes, a rise of 5.07%, with 2300 tonnes in excess. During October’19, the US aluminium scrap import was reflected at 52,400 tonnes, growth of 10.08% and by volume of 4800 tonnes from the previous month. Though the trend is showing up, when compared with the previous year during September’18, there is a decline of 12.5%. The total import volume was recorded at 54,400 tonnes, an excess of 6800 tonnes from September’19. The month of October’18 also showed a better import than October’19, with import volume recorded 60,500 tonnes. The downfall of scrap import...
As updated by Shanghai Metals Market, social inventories of primary aluminium across eight consumption areas in China, including SHFE warrants, stood at 1.16 million tonnes as of Monday February 17, an increase of 69,000 tonnes Thursday February 13. The chart below shows the current status of the primary aluminium inventories across China in more details: Primary aluminium stocks in Wuxi and Nanhai, Gongyi increased by 30,000 tonnes 10,000 tonnes from February 13 to stand at 415,000 tonnes and 244,000 tonnes on Monday, 17 February 2020. But the stocks in Shanghai and Chongqing remained unchanged at 108,000 tonnes and 11,000 tonnes. Inventories in Gongyi, and Hangzhou came in at 193,000 tonnes and 123,000 tonnes, an increase of 29,000 tonnes, and 2,000 tonnes from February 13. But the...
Mining giant Rio Tinto has reportedly started dismantling its inoperative Gove refinery in East Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. The refinery was mothballed in 2014, causing job loss to 1,000 workers. Smokestacks of the refinery have been already scaffolded and stripped down, with work starting on sections posing hazards to both humans and the environment. "It's all about taking down parts of the refinery that are at high risk and would make it unsafe for our people to work in the refinery area," said Gove operations general manager Alysia Tringrove. She also said that this would continue through 2020. But since plant removal is a slow process, it may not be finished until the eventual ceasing of mining, expected by 2030, according to Rio Tinto. "We're still very much...
After the second straight quarterly loss in the quarter ended December 31, 2019, National Aluminium Company (NALCO) is anticipated to see higher profits in the time to come, according to market analysts. Improved coal supplies and sober costs of critical inputs such as caustic soda, coal tar pitch, and calcine petroleum coke is believed to bolster the potential future hike of the company’s profits. Besides, expected strengthening in alumina prices would also contribute to the rebound, said analysts. “The company had to battle business headwinds in the form of softening international alumina prices and acute coal crunch in the domestic market. This led to spike in costs of metal production that reflected in the company’s earnings, pushing Nalco to rare back-to-back quarterly losses”,...
Aluminum Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) Chief Executive Officer Ali Al Baqali said: “Starting 2020 strong with winning five major international Safety Awards from the National Safety Council is one of our best achievements to date.” Alba scooped the 2020 Safety Leadership Award, 2020 Occupational Excellence Achievement Award, 2020 Significant Improvement Award, Perfect Record Award and Milestone Award from the National Safety Council (NSC) – USA. All these awards will be presented to Alba at the 2020 National Safety Council Congress and Expo Indianapolis USA in October 2020. The five NSC Awards recognize Alba in various areas of Safety: Safety Leadership Award for achieving a ‘perfect record’ of zero fatalities over the last six consecutive years; Significant Improvement Award for reducing the...
Concerns about the extent of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in China supported the US dollar and the safe-haven yen. The US dollar index, which measures the currency against a basket of rivals, rose to its strongest since October. LME base metals fell across the board last Friday night. LME aluminium lost 1.9%. Three-month LME aluminium was down 1.19% to end at US$1,720 per tonne. The decline was capped on the back of falling inventories of aluminium stocks. The contract is likely to trade between US$1,720-1,760 per tonne. As on Friday February 14, LME aluminium cash (bid) price stands at US$ 1704 per tonne, LME official settlement price stands at US$ 1704.5 per tonne; 3-months bid price stands at US$ 1733 per tonne, 3-months offer price is US$ 1734 per tonne; Dec 21 bid price stands at US$...
The A00 aluminium ingot price has recorded further downfall of RMB 40 per tonne, marking the fourth consecutive day of decline, found Shanghai Metals Market on Monday, February 17. The price has thus, come in at RMB 13,550 per tonne. The average prices are expected to range between RMB 13,530 per tonne and RMB 13,570 per tonne, with spot contract to be traded at a discount price of RMB 40-0 per tonne. The back-to-back fall in ingot price could be attributed to the slower consumption in comparison with the stocks arrived. Delay in production resumption after the Chinese New Year Holiday due to the outbreak of epidemic Coronavirus has primarily slowed the transaction process in the Chinese market. A maximum number of Chinese cities, as of today, have seen the ingot price fall of RMB 20 per...
Hindalco Industries Ltd has raised the prices of aluminium ingots, billets, and wire rods by nearly 1.5%. With effect from February 13, the aluminium ingot price now stands at INR 139,250 per tonne, an increase of 1.46% from INR 137,250 per tonne on February 5. Hindalco has increased the prices of wire rods and billets by 1.35% and 1.39% from February 5. The prices for Hindalco products now stand at INR 149,850 per tonne and INR 145,850 per tonne, from INR 147,850 per tonne and INR 143,850 per tonne. The Indian aluminium producers generally link prices of its products to the three-month futures of aluminium on London Metal Exchange. The three-month futures of aluminium are down more than 5% so far in 2020, with a 6% fall in prices since late January alone. Aluminium operations of the...
BMW has introduced a new wheel design which is more aerodynamic and provides all-round efficiency. The Aerodynamic aluminium wheel will feature on the BMW iX3 as well the iNext and i4 models. During the test run, BMW found that the new aerodynamic wheel reduced drag for the iX3 by about 5% compared with the conventionally powered BMW X3. The new aerodynamic aluminium wheels are 15% lighter than the wheels previously fitted by BMW. The aerodynamics and weight benefit the overall effect of reducing power consumption for the BMW iX3 by another 2% in the European WLTP test cycle, which equates 0.4 kwh/100 km, thereby extending the range of the vehicle by 10 km. BMW said: “the Aerodynamic Wheels blend lightweight construction and reduced air resistance with the sporting elegance of a V‑spoke...
The US dollar on Monday, February 10, rose to a four-month peak against the euro, but eased off on the subsequent day. However, on February 12 and 13, it again increased, as investors expressed confidence that the novel coronavirus outbreak would be contained soon. Three-month LME aluminium dropped and finished the Monday session at US$ 1,707 per tonne. On Tuesday, it rallied 1.87 per cent to end at US$ 1,739 per tonne. On Thursday, it advanced to a two-week high before it finished the trading day 1.15 per cent higher at US$ 1,755 per tonne. LME aluminium cash (bid) price throughout the week during February 10-14 showed a growing trend, ranging between US$ 1,675.5 per tonne and US$ 1704 per tonne. Only on Thursday, February 13, the price recorded a steep decline from US$ 1,706.5 per tonne...
