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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Canyon Resources Limited continues to conduct aircore drilling over the Minim Martap Project, a World Class, Tier One Bauxite asset in Cameroon, and recently discovers high-quality results yet again, according to a report. The drilling was conducted on the Agnes Plateau from where Canyon discovered 8 metres at 56.76% aluminium oxide and 1.63% silicon dioxide, 10 metres at 53.50% aluminium oxide and 2.08% silicon dioxide, and 8 metres at 53.30% aluminium oxide and 1.50% silicon dioxide, all from the surface. Canyon’s chief geologist Dr. Alexander Shaw said, “The most recent drilling results from the Agnes plateau are very pleasing and confirm that Canyon’s drilling may be contributing to the improvement of the scale and grade of the Minim Martap resource.” He also said, “A number of holes...
At the sixth annual Monaco Solar & Energy Boat Challenge on July 6th to 7th, the Yacht Club de Monaco (YCM), in presence of HSH Prince Albert II - the yacht club's President, revealed that it was planning to construct the first Zero Emission Committee Boat. The size of the boat will be11.5-metre and will be built with aluminium due to having recyclable properties. Naval architect Espen Øino has designed the hull and structure of the boat, while Dario Calzavara has taken the responsibility for engineering. As this committee boat will be quiet with no carbon emissions, it will be used for whale watching excursions, along with all regattas organised by the Yacht Club de Monaco. The total accommodation capacity in the boat will be for up to 12 passengers. Power will come from twin 100kW YASA...
China Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Promotion Alliance data on Wednesday, July 10, shows that by the end of June 2019, China had over 1 million charging piles or power ports for electric vehicles, up 69.3 per cent year on year. For public charging piles, members of the alliance added 10,926 units last month, which brought the total number to 412,000 units, 51.5 per cent higher from the previous year. Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Shandong, Zhejiang, Hebei, Anhui, Tianjin, and Hebei are the 10 regions in China leading in having public charging infrastructure facilities. They account for 75.3 per cent of the nation’s total number of charging stations. By the end of 2020, Guangdong Power Grid is expected to invest RMB 2.7 billion to build over 10,000 charging points...
REAL Aluminium’s stand at FIT Show 2019 in Birmingham, UK drew a huge crowd as the company was demonstrating its new online aluminium quoting and ordering solution that has cut aluminium quoting times to about four minutes. REAL Aluminium offers a comprehensive range of aluminium fenestration products including aluminium doors and windows for all domestic installations. The REAL Aluminium range covers a full suite of aluminium finished products. John Adams, aluminium category director at REAL Aluminium presented three seminars to show delegates how the new software helps them to quote REAL Aluminium products in just four minutes. He also showed how the company is making the most of the growing aluminium sector. “It was a terrific show and the sheer number of visitors to the seminars...
Vedanta Ltd has raised prices of aluminium ingots today registering a rise for two consecutive days in a row. Vedanta has increased the price of P1020/ EC Grade Ingot with 99.7% purity to INR 143000 per tonne effective from today, July 11 from INR 141250 per tonne on July 9. Last increase took place on July 9 from INR 139750 per tonne on July 5. The company has raised the rates of its products by more than 2.3% in last two increases. LME aluminium prices continued to stay lower through the June quarter leading to a drop in prices of aluminium products of Indian aluminium producers. Three months LME aluminium hovered around US$ 1800 per tonne throughout June. Vedanta’s prices stood 6% lower in the second quarter of FY2019. The company generally links prices of products to the three-month...
Vedanta Limited, at its 54th annual general meeting in Mumbai on July 11, announced that it would invest INR 55,000 crore across its business to increase production by about 50 per cent. The company also said that it would fund this investment from its internal cash flows. Addressing shareholders at the meeting, Vedanta’s chairman Navin Agarwal said, "Looking ahead, we are excited by the prospects in our businesses which include: ramp-up in zinc, lead and especially silver production from Hindustan Zinc and the benefit of a full year’s production from our Gamsberg Zinc mine in South Africa; increased production from our oil and gas business as the first phase of our projects comes on stream and continued structural changes to our cost structure in the aluminium business while increasing...
The U.S. imports of crude metal and alloys decreased from 1.64 million tonnes in the four-month period of 2018 to 1.21 million tonnes in the four-month period of 2019, which indicates a 26 per cent decrease year-on-year. Crude metal and alloys imports stood at 314,000 tonnes in April, down 18 per cent year-on-year. Imports of crude metal and alloys registered a 0.64 per cent growth month-on-month, according to the latest Mineral Industry Survey report from US Geological Survey. Imports were 312,000 tonnes in March 2019. On the export side, the U.S exported 83,600 tonnes of crude metal and alloys in January-April 2019 as compared to 103,000 tonnes in January-April 2018. This records a drop of 19 per cent on the year. Crude metal and alloys export dropped 15 per cent or 3,700 tonnes...
Italian car manufacturer Maserati is reportedly expected to launch Levante Trofeo in India by later this year. Comprising of 22-inch forged aluminium alloy wheels, the SUV weighs lighter; while its carbon fibre inserts to the rear, side skirts enhance the look. The car also sports matte paint scheme internationally, which is likely to come into the Indian markets as well. The ‘Ultimate Maserati of SUVs’, as the company calls it, powers a 3.8-litre, twin-turbocharged V8 engine under the hood and churns out a whopping 590 bhp with a peak torque of 730 Nm. You can do a sprint of 0-100 km/h in flat 3.9 seconds, with the top speed limited to 300 km/h. Besides the powerful engine, what differentiates Trofeo from regular Levante is its incredible styling. It comes with a sharper revised grille...
As China’s import restrictions have changed the market dynamics of the U.S. metal and paper scrap market and the scrap businesses across the U.S. are looking for new markets for recyclable, food and beverage cartons can still have a market in the U.S. According to the Carton Council of North America and Evergreen Packaging, postconsumer cartons continue to be in demand and have good end markets, while markets for other scrap commodities are squeezing. China has never been a market for bales of grade No. 52 cartons from the U.S., so the restrictions will not have an impact on cartons recycling. Cartons are made primarily of high-quality fiber that should not end up in landfills. As the cartons have multiple layers, they are considered complex items for recycling. However, they have...
According to Shanghai Metals Market, stocks of 6063 aluminium billet across five major consumption areas stood at 81,500 tonnes as of Thursday, July 11, a drop of 1,700 tonnes from 83,200 tonnes on Thursday, July 4. Inventories of aluminium billet increased 5,500 tonnes in the previous week. Aluminium billet stocks in China decreased this week as fewer deliveries arrived at warehouses. Inventories of aluminium billet in Huzhou, Zhejiang and Nanchang, Jiangxi decreased 2,500 tonnes and 3,500 tonnes from Thursday, July 4to stand at 8,500 tonnes and 6,400 tonnes on Thursday, 11 July 2019. Stocks of aluminium billet in Changzhou, Jiangsu came in 9,800 tonnes, up 1,300 tonnes from last week. The billet stocks in Foshan, Guangdong and Wuxi, Jiangsu stood at 47,900 tonnes and 8,900 tonnes today,...
The US dollar fell 0.47%, to a three-day low of 97.03. Base metals closed mostly higher. LME aluminium advanced 1.62% and SHFE aluminium grew 1.05%. The news of closure of Aluminij Mostar smelter buoyed LME aluminium. As the US dollar weakened, three-month LME aluminium advanced 1.62% to finish at US$1,850 per tonne overnight, after climbing above all the moving averages to highs around US$1,852.5 per tonne. The three month contract is likely to hover around US$1,800-1,860 per tonne today. As on July 10, Wednesday, LME aluminium cash (bid) price stood at US$ 1811 per tonne, LME official settlement price stands at US$ 1811.50 per tonne; 3-months bid price stands at US$ 1830 per tonne, 3-months offer price is US$ 1832 per tonne; Dec 20 bid price stands at US$ 1933 per tonne, and Dec 20...
After recording a continued decline over the months, the social inventories of primary aluminium across eight consumption areas in China, including SHFE warrants, have gained 14,000 tonnes from a week ago to stand at 1.042 million tonnes, as of Thursday, July 11, found Shanghai Metals Market. The major markets that have witnessed the increase in aluminium inventories are Nanhai, Guangdong; Gongyi, Henan; Hangzhou, Zhejiang; Linyi, Shandong; and Tianjin. The inventories there have grown by 12,000 tonnes, 5,000 tonnes, 2,000 tonnes, and 1,000 tonnes respectively. Other markets like Wuxi, Jiangsu and Shanghai have witnessed a dip in inventories by 4,000 tonnes. The below chart indicates the current status of primary aluminium inventories in more details: Amidst the rise in primary aluminium...
According to the Statistical data from ABAL, the aluminium industry association of Brazil, the country’s total bauxite production from January to December 2018 dropped 16% to 32 million tonnes from 38 million tonnes in 2017. It was mostly driven by production drop in Norsk Hydro’s bauxite mine at Paragominas, PA. While the mine produced 11.4 million tonnes of bauxite in 2017, it dropped to 6.2 million tonnes in 2018, due to the disruptions that happened because of the leakage in red mud pond at Alunorte refinery. From March2018, the Paragominas mine and the Alunorte refinery started to operate with 50% of its capacity due to a court order. The bauxite mines that contributed to the total production are Alcoa’s Poços de Caldas (MG) and Juruti (PA) mine, Companhia Brasileira de Alumínio’s...
Madison County in Illinois is expected to go greener soon as it is about to receive new carts from the Recycling Alliance of North Alabama (RANA) for expanding recycling service in the area. Doc Holladay, Executive Director of the Solid Waste Disposal Authority, said: “Those who have registered for carts before June 28th should start seeing them delivered this week. We started yesterday and over the next few weeks, folks will have their carts delivered so they’ll be ready when they start recycling in August using the carts.” Replacing the existing 18-gallon bins, the new 95-gallon carts will start collecting recyclable items, such as paper bags, plastic bottles, and aluminium and metal cans, from early August. No glass product is allowed. As per the report, more than 53,000 households...
Ford has adopted a “mixed materials” strategy to shed weight on the 2020 Explorer SUV available on sale this summer. “Weight was a factor in every decision we made,” Explorer chief engineer Bill Gubing said. The SUV’s structure includes steel, aluminium, magnesium and plastic to keep the weight low. The new Explorer dropped about 200 pounds in comparison to its old model notwithstanding the added features. It's also 36% stiffer than the old Explorer, which is likely to offer a comfortable and stable ride. That’s less than one third of the 700-pound plus weight loss claimed by the 2015 F-150’s all-aluminium body. However, it is to be noted that the preceding F-150 was much heavier. It’s also such a popular vehicle that it could withstand the higher cost of a wholesale change and Ford...
Sales of passenger vehicles in China stood at 1.73 million in June, a decrease of 7.8 per cent year on year, according to data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) released on Wednesday July 10. In May, CAAM data showed that sales of passenger vehicles shrank 17.4 per cent on the year, to some 1.56 million units. Total sales of automobiles came in at 2.06 million units in June, a drop of 9.6 per cent from the same month a year earlier, data from the CAAM showed. The China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) said that retail sales of sedans, sport utility vehicles, multipurpose vehicles and minivans across China stood at 1.8 million units in June, marking the first year-over-year increase in the last 13 months. That was up 4.9 per cent year-on-year. New energy...
France is one of the key growth markets in the European aluminium industry. Packaging, building, and automobile are some of the key sectors that drive the aluminium consumption in France and generate a substantial amount of scrap every year. The highest recycling percentages can be seen in the construction and transport sector of up to 95%, while the packaging sector is equally growing as well, due to the increased uses of foils and cans. The average European car contains over 130 kilograms of aluminium and this level is increasing which is also boosting the amount of end-of-life aluminium scrap generation from the automotive sector. So, if we take a look at the trend of aluminium scrap export by France, we can see that the country has been recording an incessant rise in its scrap export...
China issued the 10th batch of quotas for restricted metal scrap imports for 2019. The batch allows 306,930 tonnes of aluminium scrap imports for companies mostly from Guangdong, Jiangsu and Liaoning, according to the list released by the Solid Waste and Chemical Management Centre under the Ministry of Environmental Protection on July 10. This and the 9th batch of import quotas allow a total of 361,186 tonnes of aluminium scrap to enter China, compared to imports of 349,510 tonnes registered in the third quarter of 2018, Shanghai Metals Market reported. On June 20, China had issued the 9th batch of quotas for metal scrap imports, allowing 54,256 tonnes of aluminium scrap to enter China. That covered 16 companies in Zhejiang province.
