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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Rusal, one of the leading global aluminium producers, has signed a new five-year sustainability-linked pre-export finance facility for USD 1,085,000,000. The financed amount is increased from the initially announced USD 750 million because of Rusal’s commitment to low-carbon aluminium technologies and green aluminium production. This finance facility is the first ever sustainability-linked syndicated facility arranged by international and domestic commercial banks in Russia. The interest rate is linked to a sustainability discount or premium determined by the company’s fulfilment of the sustainability key performance indicators (KPI). Sustainability KPIs are related to the environmental impact of Rusal’s operations and its sustainable developments. It also covers the growth targets of the...
Metro Mining has release its Quarterly Activities Report for the September quarter 2019. Total Bauxite mining for the Quarter stood at 1,420K WMT and the miner shipped 1,415K WMT. Both the numbers registered record levels since operations commenced. The Bauxite Hills Mines has registered month on month increase in mining and shipping levels. The entire bauxite production in September Quarter 2019 was shipped to Chinese customers. Approximately 2.3M WMT of 2019 production will be sold under the long–term off-take to Xinfa. September Quarter shipments exceeded budget by 13. Metro Mining remains on track to meet its 2019 production and shipping guidance of 3.3-3.5M WMT. For the first three quarters of 2019, the miner produced 2.3 WMT of bauxite compared to 2.3 WMT of bauxite in the whole...
Alba has released financial results for Q3 2019 and nine months of 2019. The leading aluminium producer’s performance was impacted by lower LME price and premiums in the quarter, which was partially offset by higher sales volume. The company reported a profit and total comprehensive income of BD10.7 million (US$28.5 million) in Q3 2019 compared with BD14.3 million (US$38.1 million) for Q3 2018, down by 25% YoY. The company posted a gross profit of BD29.2 million (US$77.6 million) compared with BD19.0 million (US$50.6 million) in Q3 2018, up by 53% YoY. Alba reported revenue of BD287.1million (US$763.6 million) in Q3 2019, up by 22% YoY, compared with BD234.5 million (US$623.8 million) in Q3 2018. Alba reported a total comprehensive loss of BD8.4 million (US$22.4 million) in nine months of...
The US dollar and bond yields rose on Friday as the United States said it was close to finalizing parts of a trade deal with China. The dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of other currencies, was up 0.62% for the week with a rise of 0.17% last Friday, ending at 97.83. LME base metals closed mixed while the SHFE complex traded higher across the board. LME aluminium gained 0.99% and SHFE aluminium grew 0.25%. LME aluminium closed the day lower on last Friday but gained during night trading. Three-month LME aluminium outperformed most of the other base metals as it closed at the highest level last Friday night at US$1,734 per tonne, up 0.99% on the day. LME aluminium is likely to trade at US$1,705-1,740 per tonne. As on October 25, Friday, LME aluminium cash (bid)...
Shanghai Metals Market found that China’s bauxite imports fell in September for the second straight month, due to a weak supply from major sources such as the Republic of Guinea, as the latter entered a rainy season in July. Customs data under HS code 26060000 showed that China imported 6.75 million tonnes of bauxite in September, down 21.86 per cent from 9.04 million tonnes in August 2019 and 2.08 per cent from 6.89 million tonnes. This brought imports in the first nine months of 2019 to 78.13 million tonnes, up 26.79% from the same period a year earlier. From Guinea, China imported 1.79 million tonnes in the month of September, down 50.89 per cent from August, marking a decline for the second month in a row. From Australia, on the other hand, the China’s bauxite import volume rose by...
According to Shanghai Metals Market, the A00 aluminium ingot price has recorded a growth of RMB 10 per tonne to stand at RMB 14,000 per tonne. This marks the fourth consecutive rise, but the price still stands lower by RMB 30 per tonne, compared with RMB 14,030 per tonne during the same period last month. The average prices are expected to range between RMB 13,980 per tonne and RMB 14,020 per tonne, with spot contract to be traded at a premium price of RMB 80-120 per tonne. However, the price rise today has not touched upon all the major markets in China, such as Foshan, Chongqing, Shenyang, Linyi, and Gongyi, where the price has witnessed falls or remained restrained. For instance, in Foshan, the ingot price has slipped by RMB 20 per tonne to RMB 13,910 per tonne, while that in Chongqing...
Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro) has reportedly joined the list of guarantors to the On-Pack Recycling Label (OPRL) scheme. The scheme is to reduce consumer confusion by providing consistent visual cues on whether or not packaging can be recycled. OPRL has over 400 members at the present. Existing guarantors to the OPRL are INCPEN (the Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment), ACE UK (the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment), CPI (the Confederation of Paper Industries), LARAC (the Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee) and plastic recycling charity RECOUP. They together will work alongside representatives from different sectors like cartons, paper and card, plastic packaging and so on to develop the label that will advise people how to...
Environment Agency UK reports that a little less than 30,000 tonnes of aluminium packaging was recycled in Q3 2019. Packaging recycling rate was up 6% in the full year 2018. These numbers indicate that aluminium will hit its annual target of 108,919 tonnes of recycling in UK. Rick Hindley, executive director, of the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro) said: “We are optimistic, following a disappointing Q2, that this year’s target will be met and anticipate that there should be more than enough evidence to allow producers to meet their obligations. As a result, we expect the unjustifiably high PRN price will start to fall to more realistic levels. Historically, aluminium PRN prices have been below £30 per tonne, yet currently aluminium PRN’s are trading, on the spot market,...
Rio Tinto has reportedly begun the commissioning of an industry-leading filter press technology at its Vaudreuil alumina refinery in Quebec, under CAD $250 million budget. Four 85-tonne presses have been already installed. The original scheduled time of commissioning the presses was six weeks later. By moving the refinery to dry stacking of bauxite residue in just 17 minutes instead of 3 years it takes currently, the new filter presses are expected to deliver environmental benefits. It will extend the life of the refinery operation as well, which supports 1,000 jobs in the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region. The presses will be fully operational by early 2020. Bauxite residue is primarily composed of the insoluble fraction of the bauxite ore that remains after extraction of the...
IBAAS has announced the 9 th IBAAS International Conference & Exhibition (IBAAS-JNARDDC 2020) to be held in Raipur, India during November 4 - 6, 2020 to be co-organized with Jawaharlal Nehru Aluminium Research Development & Design Centre (JNARDDC), India. The theme for the IBAAS-JNARDDC 2020 conference is “Sustainability Challenges of Bauxite, Alumina & Aluminium Industry”. It is to be noted that Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI), Australia will be holding an exclusive workshop during this conference and exhibition. Raipur, a mining hub in the state of Chhattisgarh, is located in close proximity to the major Indian Aluminium smelters. The conference organizing committee is formulating a world class program focusing on key topics and issues in the bauxite, alumina, aluminium and...
Improved availability of coal from linked mines and robust output of around 1 million tonnes per annum from Vedanta’s captive Chotia block has helped the company achieve cost competitiveness in the manufacture of alumina. According to a report, Vedanta’s alumina cost at Odisha’s Lanjigarh refinery fell to a two-year low of $284 per tonne by the end of June 2019, down 17 per cent year-on-year. Increased production of alumina was one of the primary reasons, which was at the highest point ever, showing a spike of 37 per cent Y-o-Y. Materialisation of linked coal improved from 66 per cent in FY2019 to 72 per cent by the end of Q1 FY20. Higher local bauxite sourcing also aided Vedanta’s efforts to trim the production cost of alumina. Under a long-term linkage arrangement with the Odisha Mining...
According to the preliminary estimates from Aluminum Association, aluminium demand in the United States and Canada (shipments by domestic producers plus imports) totalled an estimated 7.5 million tonnes from January to July 2019, an increase of 1.3 per cent over YTD 2018. The U.S. accounted for the larger share in it. {newsStudioGallery} As shown by data from US Geological Survey, US imported 2.8 million tonnes of aluminium and semi-finished aluminium in the period from January to July 2019, a drop of 17.6% from 3.4 million tonnes in the same period of 2018. The import of crude aluminium and alloy dropped about 27% to 1.9 million tonnes from 2.6 million tonnes in the first seven months of 2018. On the other hand, imports of semi-finished aluminium have registered an increase during the...
United Company Rusal in its third-quarter result of 2019 reports a decline of 6.9 per cent in bauxite production from 4,242 thousand tonnes in Q2 2019 to 3,948 thousand tonnes. In the first nine months of the year, the company, as per the report, produced 12,021 thousand tonnes of bauxite, compared with 10,128 thousand tonnes during the same period last year. This means the bauxite output grew 18.7 per cent year-on-year in the nine months of 2019. The production of alumina also grew in the third quarter of the year from 1,918 thousand tonnes in Q2 2019 to 1,957 thousand tonnes in Q3 2019, up 2.1 per cent quarter-on-quarter. With this, the total production in the nine months of 2019 amounted to 5,808 thousand tonnes, up 0.1 per cent from 5,816 thousand tonnes in the same period last year....
After successful launch of its first two e-magazines -“Aluminium LeaderSpeak 2019” and “Aluminium Industry 4.0: Drivers & Change Makers” , AlCircle team is now gearing up to bring up to you a region focus theme e-magazine on the topic “Aluminium Middle East: Focus 2020 ”. Middle East aluminium industry is on a steady growth trajectory. Using an optimal combination of low cost energy, skilled manpower and technological innovations, the countries in the Gulf region have been expanding rapidly in the aluminium sector in ex-China world. Gulf countries are constantly working towards making a shift towards non-oil sector especially the aluminium industry. The region has attracted huge investments in their respective countries as part of the regional drive for industrial diversification leading...
United Company Rusal has reportedly announced its third-quarter result, which reveals only a small quarterly rise in aluminium sales, pressured by a weak metal market. Compared to the second quarter 2019, Rusal’s aluminium sales in the third quarter ended on September 30 increased by 0.8 per cent to amount to 1,091 thousand tonnes, while the production totalled at 942 thousand tonnes, up 0.4 per cent quarter-on-quarter. In Q2 2019, the sales were at 1,082 thousand tonnes and the production at 938 thousand tonnes. Rusal’s total sales of aluminium in the first nine months of the year clocked at 3,069 thousand tonnes, up 9.8 per cent from 2,794 thousand tonnes in the same period last year. But the production in the nine months remained flat at 2,809 thousand tonnes, compared with 2,810...
The US dollar rose against the British pound and the euro, on the back of better-than-expected US manufacturing sector data. The dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of other currencies, climbed 0.2% and ended at 97.66. LME base metals most increased with the SHFE complex trading higher across the board. LME aluminium lost 0.55% and SHFE aluminium rose 0.25%. While LME base metals ended mostly higher overnight, three-month LME aluminium slipped as downward pressure piled up after prices hovered rangebound for nearly two weeks. It closed down 0.55% at US$1,717 per tonne, losing all the gains from the prior session. Three months LME aluminium is likely to trade at US$1,710-1,740 per tonne. As on October 24, Thursday, LME aluminium cash (bid) price stood at US$ 1713 per...
Followed by the rise in the last two days, the A00 aluminium ingot price today, on October 25, has decided to end the week with restraint, as found by Shanghai Metals Market. The price has continued to remain at RMB 13,990 per tonne, with average expected prices to range between RMB 13,970 per tonne and RMB 14,010 per tonne. The spot contract is likely to be traded at a premium price of RMB 80-120 per tonne, according to SMM data. However, in many cities in China, the ingot price has recorded a drop. For instance, in Wuxi, Shenyang, Foshan, and Tianjin, the ingot price has inched down by RMB 15 per tonne and RMB 10 per tonne to stand at RMB 13,985 per tonne, RMB 13,945 per tonne, RMB 13,930 per tonne, and RMB 13,960 per tonne, respectively. In Hangzhou, Chongqing, and Gongyi, the price...
Qatar Aluminium Manufacturing Company (QAMCO), a 50% shareholder in Qatalum, reported a net profit of QR 60.6 million for the ten-month period ended 30 September 2019. The earnings per share (EPS) stood at QR 0.011. QAMCO’s share of total assets in the JV stood at QR 7.8 billion, with its share of cash and bank balances amounted to QR 280.3 million. EBITDA came in QR 543.1 million in the 10-month period, despite challenging macro-economic conditions and a highly volatile environment for global aluminium prices. Mr. Abdulrahman Ahmad Al-Shaibi, Chairman of the Board of Directors, QAMCO, said: “The broader macro-economic environment remains volatile but the Company yet again demonstrated its ability to deliver continued performance. The management has been instrumental in rolling out a...
