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 $6.09 billion. The figures come as the possibility of a...
Century Aluminum’s proposed USD 4 billion primary aluminum smelter in Inola, Oklahoma, is “moving forward on all fronts” as the company prepares for construction, despite local opposition and legal challenges, CEO Jesse Gary said during the company’s third-quarter earnings call. Developed jointly by Century Aluminum and Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), the project is designed to produce 750,000 tonnes of primary aluminum annually, potentially doubling U.S. primary aluminum production. The facility is expected to create thousands of direct and indirect jobs and add USD 1.5 billion to Oklahoma’s gross domestic product, according to company estimates. The partners had targeted construction to begin by the end of 2026. However, local restrictions and permitting challenges have affected the...
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The US dollar dropped to two-week lows against a basket its rivals on Friday. LME aluminium price fell to the lowest since 22 October. LME price closed at US$ 1709.5 per tonne on Friday, January 31. Three-month LME aluminium slipped to its lowest in more than three months at US$1,714 per tonne on Friday, before it recovered some ground to end the trading day 0.2% lower at US$1,725 per tonne. The contract is likely to trade between US$1,700-1,750 per tonne today. As on Friday January 31, LME aluminium cash (bid) price stands at US$ 1709 per tonne, LME official settlement price stands at US$ 1709.5 per tonne; 3-months bid price stands at US$ 1724 per tonne, 3-months offer price is US$ 1724.5 per tonne; Dec 20 bid price stands at US$ 1855 per tonne, and Dec 20 offer price stands at US$ 1860...
The globally renowned sports gear and lifestyle brand Puma premiered its first-ever smartwatch, the Puma Sport Connected, in India. The wearable product is made available for purchase on the Puma’s official website and also on Flipkart e-commerce site. The smartwatch is priced INR 19,995 in India and is tooled with standard features of tracking activity, aligned with support for Google Fit, to track all the data, which helps track and log activities such as logging of strength training workouts, pilates, rowing and more. <iframe width="550" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KqSI8n5RO64" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> The Puma Smartwatch features three colours - white with beige...
RUSAL, one of the leading aluminium producers in the world was praised by the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, for its aid and research into the GamEvac-Combi, a Russian fusion vector vaccine against Ebola, in the Republic of Guinea. The Russian Ministry of Health praised RUSAL for its valuable contribution to help combat the Ebola virus in Guinea, apace with strengthening the relationship between the two countries. Mr Yakov Itskov, Head of Alumina Business, RUSAL, was rewarded with a medal for ‘Merit For Public Health’ by the Russian health minister. The other employees of Rusal, who participated in the public-private partnership to control Ebola, were also rewarded with ‘Excellent Worker of Public Health’ badges. These included the top executives like Mr Aleksandr Bregadze,...
The Group General Manager Des Benson of Wight Aluminium communicated that Whanganui plant embarked its production as on 13th January’20. The building comprises a huge floor size of 8000 square metres and it is erected in a new industrial area of Castlecliff. It took two long years to develop the building. It is also the head office for Wight Aluminium, the largest suppliers of aluminium windows and high-rise facades in New Zealand. Damon Wagstaff, Whanganui-based company director said: “Wight Aluminium had grown considerably, particularly in the last five years.” The total staff strength of the organization is 120, out of which 60 staffs are based at Whanganui. Wight Aluminium a year ago opened another new purpose-built factory in Hamilton, and in Auckland, the company owns its design and...
We are once again more than happy to share the performance metrics of our third quarterly e-magazine “ Aluminium Middle East: Focus 2020 ”, which in just two months has achieved overwhelming responses from all over the world. In the era of advanced digital media when every outcome is measurable and transparent, we are delighted to find how our e-magazine has created a buzz on the internet. In two months’ time, the magazine has reached 37,111 viewers across 50 countries and achieved 120,719 hits in total. The average time spent by a user on the magazine is 7 minutes 4 seconds , with a direct reach of 852 . Besides, it has earmarked a notable performance on social media. While on Facebook, it has achieved 10,426 reach , on LinkedIn and Twitter, it has secured 5,428 and 1,665 reach ,...
Hindalco Industries Ltd has reduced the prices of aluminium ingots, billets, and wire rods by nearly 1.5%. With effect from January 30, the aluminium ingot price now stands at INR 140,750 per tonne, a decrease of 1.57 from INR 143,000 per tonne on January 28. This is the third time in a row that the company has dropped the prices of its aluminium ingots. Hindalco has dropped the prices of wire rods and billets by 1.46% and 1.5% from January 28. The prices for Hindalco products now stand at INR 151,350 per tonne and INR 147,350 per tonne, from INR 153,600 per tonne and INR 149,600 per tonne. The Indian aluminium producers generally link prices of its products to the three-month futures of aluminium on London Metal Exchange. Aluminium operations of the company, excluding those of its US arm...
The Alcoa Corp’s Australian aluminium smelter was slug by power failure as on 31st January’20, following a transmission line toppled amidst high temperatures in the south-eastern part of the country. Australian Energy Market Operator, the administrator of electricity supply said: “the transmission line outage has resulted in a separation between Victoria and South Australia at the Heywood Interconnector, as well as interrupting supply at the Portland aluminium smelter.” An Alcoa spokeswoman communicated: “At approximately 2:20 p.m. EST on 31st January, Portland Aluminium smelter lost power to both potlines due to a fault external to the plant. The cause of the fault is currently unknown.”
According to a recent study, the worldwide market value for aluminium powder is expected to expand at a CAGR of roughly 2.5 per cent over the next five years to reach US$ 1060 million in 2024 from US$ 910 million in 2019. Amidst this bullish aluminium powder market trend, Germany is also likely to generate higher revenue this year from its aluminium powder and flakes export. From US$61 million in 2019, the country’s revenue in 2020 is estimated to increase by 6.5 per cent to US$ 65 million, suggests the global trade data. In fact, the country has been seeing a year-on-year rise in aluminium powder and flakes export value over the past four years. In 2017, the value was US$ 41 million, which in 2018 grew 24.3 per cent to US$ 51 million. In 2019, this growth did not cease but continued by...
Mitsui & Co., Ltd. has joined as a General Supporter member of Aluminium Stewardship Initiative’s (ASI). This brings the total number of ASI members to 112. “We are very pleased to join the ASI community. Sustainability has always been one of the most important values for Mitsui & Co., Ltd. and we look forward to working together with the ASI community to create more responsible and sustainable aluminium industry and a brighter future,” Hiroyuki Aoyagi, General Manager, New Metals & Aluminium Division, Mitsui & Co., Ltd. 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. In Mineral&Metal Resources Business Unit, the company secures stable...
An amazing record-breaking five products, acknowledged earlier this year for supremacy in aluminium foil innovation by the Alufoil Trophy 2019 competition, have obtained internationally recognised WorldStars, which followed judging by voting members of the World Packaging Organisation (WPO) at its meeting in Bali, Indonesia. The apprised success to WorldStar, Constantia Flexibles International, has secured two awards in the food category. The first was towards its EasyOpenLidretort, a freshly generated solution for alufoil-based food container systems, required for in-packing of sterilization processes, permitting smoother and more convenient opening. The 2nd award for the organization comes in regards to a joint venture with Saturn Petcare, as they offer a modern way of styling for...
Alcomet, a Bulgaria-based company that is principally engaged in the production of aluminium rolled and extruded products, reported a drop in non-consolidated net profit and revenue in 2019. The company’s net profit dropped from 13.6 million levs in 2018 to 9.4 million levs in 2018. Revenue stood at 353.5 million levs, down from 368.2 million levs a year earlier. The company said the decline in revenue was due to lower sales revenue. Sales of extruded products increased by 2.7% year-on-year to 22,719 tonnes in 2019. Rolled products sale came in at 43,020 tonnes, down 2.7% year-on-year. Total sales declined 0.9% to 65,739 tonnes. Germany accounted for 24% share of all sales. It was followed by Italy with 14.6% and Poland with 11%. Alcomet offers a broad range of aluminium semi-finished...
The Ministry of Social Protection’s Department of Labour, on Thursday afternoon, reportedly requested the management of Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc. (BCGI) to be present in a meeting on Friday to discuss the layoff of 288 employees last week. Junior Minister of Social Protection Keith Scott has been harping that BCGI did not properly inform the Ministry about the layoff. He said if the meeting on Friday yields no resolution, then the Chief Labour Officer would declare a deadlock and refer the dispute to no adjudication. Depending on this, the workers could be compensated, said Keith further. 142 workers sent home last week because the company could not receive tax concessions on fuel and the rest 146 being started sending from Thursday, as some workers continued to block the Berbice...
The Senior Environmental Officer of Environmental Agency (EPA), Collins Primo, says: “The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is well pleased with the US$10,000 improvements which the Linden-based Bosai Minerals Group (Guyana) has effected to its once problematic tailings pond.” Although he said recommendations will be done on procedures the amenities can be further improved. A team led by Primo to inspect the facility on 29 th January’20 was done to determine whether the bauxite mining company will be accorded permission to continue bauxite washing and to discard the slurry residue into the tailings pond. Primo communicated that the decision could be done by 31 st January’20, earliest or latest by 5 th February’20. The EPA instructed the Chinese company to cease the discharge of water...
United Company Rusal, one of the world’s largest aluminium companies by primary production output, has reportedly invested around 60 million roubles for modernising coke-calcining kiln at its Volgograd aluminium smelter. The modernisation of the kiln is for enhancing the environmental aspects of production and intensifying the plant’s coke calcining process. Following the modernisation, the kiln’s capacity is expected to increase to 12 tonnes per hour as compared to 8-9 tonnes at any other comparable plants. The modernisation includes the development of new structural segments for making raw materials go through a preparatory ‘drying’ process so the coke enters the heating chamber of the kiln has a lower moisture content compared with earlier generations of kilns. The consumption of...
The Doraguda based, in Rayagada district of Orissa, a fully owned company of Hindalco, the metals flagship company of Aditya Birla Group’s alumina refinery Utkal Alumina International (UAIL), having its mines at Baphlimali with reserves lasting for over 25 years and a captive co-generation power plant of 90 MW. Baphlimali mine is the source of bauxite for UAIL through an 18-kilometer long conveyor, a rare in the world of supply. The Baphlimali Bauxite Mine of UAIL under the patronage of the Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM), Bhubaneswar region celebrated 22 nd Mines Environment & Mineral Conservation Week 2019-20. The main purpose of this event regarded to conserving mineral resources & protecting the environment in and around the mines area, and also to encourage awareness on these vital...
LME aluminium price dropped to the lowest since 25 October. Benchmark aluminium price on London Metal Exchange closed at US$ 1722.5 per tonne on Thursday, January 30, a decrease of 0.58% from US$ 1732.5 per tonne on Wednesday. As on Thursday January 30, LME aluminium cash (bid) price stands at US$ 1722 per tonne, LME official settlement price stands at US$ 1722.5 per tonne; 3-months bid price stands at US$ 1735.5 per tonne, 3-months offer price is US$ 1736 per tonne; Dec 20 bid price stands at US$ 1868 per tonne, and Dec 20 offer price stands at US$ 1873 per tonne. The LME aluminium opening stock increased to 1274325 tonnes. Live Warrants totalled 786625 tonnes, and Cancelled Warrants were 487700 tonnes. LME aluminium 3-months Asian Reference Price is hovering at US$ 1732 per tonne. SHFE...
The Jamaican bauxite mining operation of New Day Aluminium, Noranda Bauxite, declares that bauxite exports from its St. Ann facility were accounted for approximately 3.8 million wet metric tonnes for the calendar year 2019. The bauxite exports covered sales to its sister Alumina refinery, Noranda Alumina, as well as their third party shipments to entities in Asia and the USA. Noranda bauxite has amenities to export roughly an extra 2 million tonnes of bauxite annually from its deep-water port in St. Ann. Noranda bauxite is the only bauxite producer, licensed to export bauxite from Jamaica. Chris Young, Noranda Bauxite’s Vice President of Business Development, stated: “We have in Jamaica some of the world’s best bauxite, with excellent available alumina content as well as extremely low...
Benchmark aluminium price on London Metal Exchange closed at US$ 1732.5 per tonne on Wednesday, January 29, a decrease of 0.69% from US$ 1744.5 per tonne on Tuesday. As on Wednesday January 29, LME aluminium cash (bid) price stands at US$ 1732 per tonne, LME official settlement price stands at US$ 1732.5 per tonne; 3-months bid price stands at US$ 1747.5 per tonne, 3-months offer price is US$ 1748 per tonne; Dec 20 bid price stands at US$ 1883 per tonne, and Dec 20 offer price stands at US$ 1888 per tonne. The LME aluminium opening stock increased to 1256350 tonnes. Live Warrants totalled 776425 tonnes, and Cancelled Warrants were 479925 tonnes. LME aluminium 3-months Asian Reference Price is hovering at US$ 1754.50per tonne. SHFE Aluminium Price Trend Shanghai Futures Exchange is closed...
