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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As updated by Shanghai Metals Market, social inventories of primary aluminium across eight consumption areas in China, including SHFE warrants, came in at 610,000 tonnes as of Thursday, 09 January 2020, barely changed from a week ago. The current status of primary aluminium inventories across China is given in the chart below: A00 aluminium ingot price extended growth by RMB 10 per tonne to stand at RMB 14470 per tonne on Thursday, 09 January 2020. The price is expected to move within a range of RMB 14450-14490 per tonne. Spot aluminium price is likely to be traded at a premium of RMB 50-90 per tonne. Aluminium ingot price in Wuxi and Hangzhou increased by RMB 15 per tonne and RMB 35 per tonne to stand at RMB 14455 per tonne and RMB 14475 per tonne. The prices are likely to range at RMB...
Rio Tinto, the global mining and metals production firm says it has started securing orders for its new aluminium alloy wheel known as Revolution-AI. As per the company’s communication, researchers at its Arvida Research and Development Centre in Quebec, Canada, have spent more than 5 years in developing a car wheel alloy, which can be considered stronger and also reduces fuel consumption, improves safety and handling and succeeding “an industry-standard no one had better for more than four decades.” In September’19, London-based Tinto obtains its first order for the new Revolution-AI alloy and it has been designed in a way so that it can be easily recycled and it can also be used at the existing wheel-manufacturing plant. Jerome Fourmann, who is a technical director at Rio Tinto states...
Primary aluminium production in China stood at 35.43 million tonnes in 2019, a drop of 1.84% year-on-year, showed Shanghai Metals Market survey. The consumption declined by 1.4% YoY to stand at 36.11 million tonnes. Inventories stood at 686,000 tonnes. In December, primary aluminium output totalled 3.04 million tonnes, with a year-on-year increase of 1.47%, according to an SMM. Aluminium capacity in operation is likely to increase to 36.4 million tonnes on an annualised basis this month, as new projects including Zhongfu’s in Guangyuan of Sichuan, Shenhuo’s in Yunnan, Yunnan Aluminium’s in Heqing county and East Hope’s in Guyang of Inner Mongolia will ramp up. China’s primary aluminium production is expected to rise by 3.07% year-on-year to stand at 3.06 million tonnes by the end of this...
The giant in metals and mining, Vedanta Ltd has planned a capital expenditure of $250-300 million in the next fiscal on the ramp-up of its Lanjigarh alumina refinery in Odisha. Vedanta, in an astonishing manner, has proposed to expand the capacity of the refinery to 6 mtpa. The refinery's present gridlock capacity is 2 mtpa. The company aims to recover the invested sum within two years by banking on locally sourced bauxite to trim logistics costs. Arun Kumar, Chief Financial Officer of Vedanta Ltd at the company's recent results conference said “Every tonne of aluminium produced with the Odisha sourced bauxite which can be used in expanding refinery capacity, will give us Ebitda advantage of $400 per tonne. So, if we can cover 50 per cent or 60 per cent of our requirement, then to that...
Log9 Materials, a Bengaluru-based start-up, believes that the fundamental is to focus on the generation of energy, in place of energy storage. It says that a car powered by aluminium fuel cells can have a drive of 1000 km, post which the aluminium plates can be replaced within minutes. The contest is always about top speed or luxury when it came to premium cars with big price tags and it was about better mileage when it came to mass-market cars and there is still abundant focus on these subject matters, but clean mobility employs the centre stage of every car manufacturer's agenda today. Being from Hyundai to Porsche, they all have plug-in electric car models in their launch line up - even Ferrari developed hybrid cars of which the SF90 Stradale is a PHEV that can run on battery only as...
ICRA announced that the signs of recovery for aluminium prices are been seen in the last three months, as trade tensions in international markets have softened to an area leading to an improvement in sentiment. Accordingly, aluminium prices at the spot market have inclined by 4% in the last three months. Jayanta Roy, Senior Vice-President and Group Head, Corporate Sector Ratings, ICRA said “The prevailing global supply-demand scenario in both aluminium and copper has been conducive to a price recovery, given the deficits of these metals in the physical market. But weak macroeconomic sentiments arising out of the trade tensions weighed on prices thus far.” The unpredictable nature of macro-economy, as well as feeble sentiments due to the trade war, have driven to a sharp slowdown in global...
Japan’s exports of aluminium semi-finished products (plates, sheets, bars, etc.) to the US totalled 36,500 tonnes in the first three quarters of 2019, indicating an increase of 35.19% from 27,000 tonnes in the first three quarters of 2018, according to the latest Mineral Industry Survey report from US Geological Survey. In September, semi-finished exports to the US rose 39.16% compared with the same period last year. Exports increased from 2,630 tonnes in September 2018 to 3,660 tonnes in September 2019. Aluminium semi-finished exports fell 25.15% from August’s total exports of 4,890 tonnes and 29.21% from July’s total exports of 5,170 tonnes. Japan exported 45,000 tonnes of aluminium (crude metal and alloys, semi-finished products and scrap) to the US in January-September 2019, from...
Hindalco Industries Ltd has increased the prices of aluminium ingots, billets, and wire rods by more than 2%, after cutting them by more than 1% in the previous week. With effect from January 7, the aluminium ingot price now stands at INR 147,250 per tonne, up an increase of 2.43% from INR 143,750 per tonne on January 4. The company has raised the prices of wire rods and billets by 2.27% and 2.33% from January 4. The prices for Hindalco products now stand at INR 157,850 per tonne and INR 153,850 per tonne, from INR 154,350 per tonne and INR 150,350 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 up nearly 6% in the December quarter and Hindalco hiked...
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), the world’s largest aluminium smelter ex-China, has announced that its aluminium production in 2019 exceeded 1.36 million tonnes, marking a new milestone. Compared with 1,011,101 tonnes of production in 2018, Alba’s output in 2019 increased by 35 per cent over the year and stood at 1,365,005 tonnes. Besides this record production, Alba also achieved Zero Fatality and Zero Lost Time Injuries (LTIs) operations in 2019, said the company itself at a small gathering held at Alba Oasis on Tuesday, January 7, 2020. The gathering was attended by Alba Executive Management, Directors, Managers and employees from various departments. While commenting on setting a new milestone, Alba’s Chairman of the Board of Directors Shaikh Daij bin Salman bin Daij Al Khalifa said:...
Today everybody enjoys having a laptop which is oblique, decent display, good-pace processor to be placed on their work table. Asus Zenbook Pro Duo (UX581), the full aluminium encased laptop delivering the superior look and feel, with its logo surrounded by concentric circles on top of the computer. This PC is going to put every laptop in the market to nail-biting. It is a dream come true for every creator: architects, interior designers, graphic designs and artists of every nature. The features: CPU: 2.4GHz Intel Core i9-9980HK (octa-core, 16MB cache, up to 5GHz) Graphics: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 RAM: 32GB DDR4 Screen: 15.6-inch, OLED Ultra HD (3,840 x 2,160), 14-inch Ultra HD (3,840 x 1,110) touch display Storage: 1TB SSD Ports: 1 x Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C), 2 x USB-C 3.1, HDMI 2.0,...
The US dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket its rivals, rallied on Tuesday. LME aluminium closed lower on Tuesday and SHFE aluminium dipped 0.07%. LME aluminium closed Tuesday’s trading at US$ 1794 per tonne, up 0.22% from Monday. Three-month LME aluminium pulled back on Tuesday, closing down 0.76% at US$1,818 per tonne. It is expected to trade between US$1,800-1,840 per tonne today. As on January 7, Tuesday, LME aluminium cash (bid) price stands at US$ 1793.50 per tonne, LME official settlement price stands at US$ 1794 per tonne; 3-months bid price stands at US$ 1826 per tonne, 3-months offer price is US$ 1826.5 per tonne; Dec 20 bid price stands at US$ 1960 per tonne, and Dec 20 offer price stands at US$ 1965 per tonne. The LME aluminium opening stock decreased to...
After three consecutive declines ranging between RMB 14,560 per tonne and RMB 14,450 per tonne on January 3, 6, and 7, the average A00 aluminium ingot price has recorded a marginal rise of RMB 10 today, on January 8, to stand at 14,460 per tonne. The average prices are expected to range between RMB 14,440 per tonne and RMB 14,480 per tonne, with spot contract to be traded at a premium price of RMB80-120 per tonne. Except Hangzhou, where the aluminium ingot price has increased by RMB 10 per tonne to RMB 14,440 per tonne, other major cities in China have witnessed shrink in the price today, found SMM. While in Foshan and Chongqing, the price has declined by RMB 50 per tonne, in Linyi and Gongyi, the price has dwindled by RMB 20 per tonne and RMB 15 per tonne to RMB 14,460 per tonnes and RMB...
A slew of indirect tax incentives have been seeking by The Federation of Indian Minerals Industries (FIMI) to strengthen the fading mining industry. The submission of a list of changes in indirect tax levies on various minerals and mining products by FIMI in a memorandum to the Ministry of Finance, pursuing their incorporation in the country’s budget to be placed before the Indian Parliament next month. FIMI has solicited scrapping of the 15% export tax on bauxite. It has requested that Indian having 3.896 billion tons of bauxite reserves and being the fifth largest in the world, with 84% of the reserves being of the metallurgical grade used mainly for alumina extraction is essential to have excellent conservation of these bauxite reserves. The as large volume of aluminium smelters been...
According to a recent report, the UK-based aluminium flat-rolled products company Bridgnorth Aluminium has successfully secured ASI Performance Certification for responsible production, sourcing and stewardship of aluminium. The certification covers the manufacture of lithographic coils, foilstock, transformer windings and formable aluminium strips/coils for automotive heat and sound absorbing components. The operations of Bridgnorth include casthouses, rolling mills, two Litho Centres, a multi-slitting line and finishing lines. Since 1933, the company has been manufacturing aluminium strips. The ASI Certification is the only comprehensive voluntary sustainability standard initiative for the aluminium value chain. It sets out 59 criteria under the three sustainability pillars of...
The House of Democrats in the USA on 10 th December’19 announced their support on an amended version of the USMCA, an agreement that was signed on November’18 by all three countries – USA, Mexico, and Canada. The amended agreement which involves changes made to labour and environmental standards and enforcement thereof was swiftly signed by Mexico, but it must now pass through US Congress and Canada’s Parliament for approval. The US Aluminium Association rapidly endorsed the new USMCA but stated that “strong import monitoring and trade enforcement are vital to effective USMCA implementation.” The major concern is the tremendous increase in Chinese aluminium sheet and plate exports to Mexico, which is standing up at 94% YTD October’19 in comparison to the same period in 2018, and risen...
According to Shanghai Metals Market, Shandong Weiqiao Group, the top aluminium producer in China has cut its prebaked anode benchmark purchasing price for January. The price is reduced by RMB 70 per tonne from December, marking the seventh straight month of cut. SMM data shows the prebaked anode purchasing price for January is RMB 2,600 per tonne in cash. The price in December was RMB 2,670 per tonne, after declining by RMB 130 per tonne from RMB 2,800 per tonne in November. In September and October, Weiqiao’s prebaked anode benchmark purchasing price was RMB 2,925 per tonne and RMB 2,900 per tonne, respectively. However, despite the cut in Weiqiao’s benchmark purchasing price, the average prebaked anode price in east China has remained unchanged today, on January 7, from RMB 2,780 per...
The National Aluminium Co. Ltd. raises the price of its aluminium ingots third time in a row. The Government of India owned aluminium producer has hiked the prices of its ingots by 2% approximately, and the cost now stands at INR 152,850 – 156,350 per tonne. As considered most of the aluminium producer’s link prices of their products to the three-month futures of aluminium on London Metal Exchange, this was up by nearly 6% in December quarter. At the same period, NALCO has raised the prices of its products by over 3%. Alumina and aluminium products account for nearly two-thirds of NALCO’s gross top line; chemical sales take care of the rest of its revenue. The company produces aluminium wire rods, aluminium billets, chequered sheets and rolled coil.
That time of the year has again come when AlCircle launches its Aluminium Industry Recap report to give an opportunity to its readers to look back at the key developments in the year gone by. Presenting the same opportunity, the Aluminium Industry Recap 2019 edition has compiled all the new innovations, projects, mergers and acquisitions, investments, and policy changes that shaped or disrupted the global aluminium industry value chain over the year 2019. The primary aim of the report is to touch upon the major developments of the year vertical wise, which influenced each other driving growth or counter growth. And most importantly, the developments are not only interpreted chronologically but also analytically so that the readers can easily conclude the movement of the entire aluminium...
