Finland-based renewable heat technology developer Coolbrook has joined Australia’s Heavy Industry Low-carbon Transition Cooperative Research Centre (HILT CRC) as an affiliate partner, bringing its electrified heating technology into research aimed at decarbonising alumina refining and the wider aluminium industry. The collaboration would explore how high-temperature electric heating can support next-generation alumina refineries, reducing reliance on fossil fuels. Coolbrook would work alongside major alumina and aluminium producers, including Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), Alcoa, Rio Tinto, South32 and Hydro, as well as research organisations of CSIRO and Adelaide University. Initially, it would focus on HILT CRC’s Alumina Refineries’ Next-Generation Transition (AlumiNEXT) project,...
Qingdao Allheart Marine, established in 2012, is a high-tech aluminium boat manufacturer in Qingdao, China. Spanning 42,000 m, the facility produces over 60 vessel models from 4 to 30 meters, including fishing, work, patrol, pilot boats, tugs, water taxis, catamaran ferries, and landing crafts. Certified under ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, and CE, Allheart offers professional OEMper ODM solutions, exporting 50 per cent of its production to over 30 countries across Oceania, Europe, and the Americas. Qingdao, Shandongper China - November 11, 2026 Qingdao Allheart Marine Co., Ltd, a recognised leader in the maritime manufacturing sector, is reinforcing its commitment to international buyers seeking robust commercial watercraft and specialised marine solutions. Operating from an advanced...
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The US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose 10 per cent higher tariff on imported aluminium seems to now creating a positive impact on the domestic market as one of the renowned American aluminium producers Century Aluminium marks the ceremonial restart today, on August 22, at its Hawesville smelter. The smelter is reopening three potlines that were dormant since 2015. By the end of the year, the smelter is expecting to return to its full capacity with this recommencement and create nearly 300 new American jobs. The officials of the company believe that this could be possible because of the Trump administration’s higher tariff on imported aluminium that sparked the 115 million dollar investment into the Hawesville plant, which is Century Aluminium's largest location. Century’s...
The family company Achenbach Buschhütten will present itself at the ALUMINIUM 2018 show as specialist for rolling and foil slitting technology for the production of aluminum flat rolled products at the highest quality level. The strategic approach is to offer ‘everything from one single source’: layout, design, and manufacturing, assembly, commissioning; including product lifecycle management with services and consulting. Mastering the technology in every single detail and continuously developing the machines rank among the success factors of Achenbach. Pic: Achenbach Rolling Mill Simulator live This integrated approach is continuing with the new cloud-based platform Achenbach OPTILINK® targeted to provide the customers with an instrument for the optimization of the entire flat rolled...
After China and Australia, Brazil ranks as the third largest alumina producer in the world and plays a dominating role as alumina supplier. Hydro’s Alunorte that located at Para, Brazil, is known to be the world’s largest alumina refinery that exports almost 86 per cent of its total production to the world and the rest 14 per cent to Brazil’s domestic market. {newsStudioGallery} The United States is one of the major importers of alumina from Brazil and according to the international export-import data, it is found to import higher volume year-on-year. The below graph shows that in the first five months of the calendar year 2018, Brazil exported a total volume of 308,483 tonnes of alumina to the United States, up 40 per cent from 184,358 tonnes in 2017. The reason could be the rise in...
In June 2018, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) announced China will expand environmental inspections to more cities and regions from June till April next year, as a part of a three-year anti-pollution plan. Two hundred teams with a total of some 18,000 inspectors and support staff started the inspection in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and Shanghai, and continued to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, and some 11 cities in Shanxi, Shaanxi and Shandong provinces. Many city governments have ordered partial or temporay shut down of facilities after the inspection. According to a latest update from Shanghai Metals Market, the city government of Linyi, Shandong province, instructed local secondary aluminium producers to suspend or curtail production for about three weeks, starting from...
Bharat Forge, the largest forging company in India, has lined up capital expenditure of INR 1,250 crore for FY19 and FY20. The fund will be invested in opening new plants and securing defence contracts. The Kalyani Group-controlled company plans to invest US$55 million (inr 380 crore) on setting up an aluminium forging plant in the US for its automotive clients. The company will further invest INR 500 crore capex in FY19 and about INR 350 crore in FY20 in business expansion. Commenting on the expansion plan, Amit Kalyani, Executive Director, Bharat Forge, said, “We are now in the midst of Rs 500 crore capex where we are expanding our forging and machining capacities. This will start coming online from next year and will provide us substantial growth headroom. In FY19, our capex is about...
In a letter to Treasury Department Under Secretary David Malpass, the Aluminum Association called on the Trump administration to address China’s structural aluminum overcapacity when meeting with Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce Wang Shouwen this week. Malpass will lead the U.S. delegation in trade talks with China in Washington on August 22 and 23. Illegal government subsidies in China for both primary aluminum and semi-fabricated aluminum products have resulted in significant overcapacity in the market, hurting U.S. workers and threatening the industry’s continued health. Chinese smelters can now make nearly 11 million more metric tons of primary aluminum than China actually consumes. This excess capacity alone is equal to nearly all U.S. aluminum demand. Subsidized overcapacity...
The preparations for building a new plant to produce alloy wheels for the automotive industry at Fort William aluminium smelter are reportedly progressing well. GFG Alliance, the expertise of world-class industrial, natural, and financial resource, was granted the responsibility to plan for the project early this year. It now reports that the plan is right on track and the building work should be initiated soon. A spokesman for the multinational firm said: “We’ve erected project offices next to our aluminium smelter, with five full time project-management staff already in post and a further eight due to join the team over the coming months. He also updated that the site clearance work is under process and is steadily working through conditions attached to the planning approval....
The dollar weakened on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump criticised central bank's interest rate hikes. The dollar index settled at 95.238 after it fell to 95.07, its lowest since August 9. LME aluminium closed the day’s trading at US$ 2040.50, higher than last closing and later strengthened to finish Tuesday at US$2,064.5 per tonne overnight. The contract is expected to trade at US$2,060-2,080 per tonne today. As on August 21, LME aluminium cash (bid) price stands at US$ 2040 per tonne, LME official settlement price stands at US$ 2040.50 per tonne; 3-months bid price stands at US$ 2064 per tonne, 3-months offer price is US$ 2065 per tonne; Dec 19 bid price stands at US$ 2108 per tonne, and Dec 19 offer price stands at US$ 2113 per tonne. The LME aluminium opening stock dropped to...
Aluminium alloys (ADC12) price in the Chinese spot market was found to record a significant hike of RMB 100 per tonne on August 21, 2018, to gain back the scale it had before a plunge on August 16, 2018, according to Shanghai Metals Market. The price thus, hovered at RMB 15650 per tonne on August 21, after displaying a restraint from August 17 to August 20, 2018. As of today, August 22, the alloys (ADC12) price has shown no further movement and still hovers at RMB 15650 per tonne. Aluminium alloy (A356) and aluminium alloy (A380) prices neither laid back to register a hike on August 21 but showed no progress as of today, August 22. While the price of aluminium alloy (A356) is standing at RMB 15250 per tonne for past two days in a row after climbing RMB 200 per tonne, the price of...
thyssenkrupp Schulte (TKS), a part of TK's Materials Services business unit, has developed a special aluminium alloy, which is used in making new fan blades by Siemens. thyssenkrupp group claims their Materials Services business unit is the biggest materials distributor and service provider in the western world. TKS supplies custom sized materials for over 70,000 customers in industry, construction and the trades. According to TKS, the aluminium alloy is used in making blades for generator cooling fans. The material is claimed be offering 'significant cost benefits' to the customer. Since aluminium is much more durable and lightweight, the company thinks it will save significantly on maintenance. "The switch from steel to aluminium will provide Siemens with the same functionality at...
Dr. Camynta Baezie, a former Chief Executive Officer of the State Enterprises Commission suggests the Ghana government should review the US$2 billion worth of bauxite agreement that it recently inked with China. Late July, Ghana’s Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta had announced a US$2 billion deal with Chinese engineering firm, Sinohydro Group Limited, in the parliament. The deal says the Chinese company would fund the infrastructure projects in Ghana, including roads, bridges, interchanges, hospitals, housing, rural electrification in exchange for refined bauxite. This means Ghana would leverage its bauxite reserve at Atewa forest for the amount from China. However, Dr. Camynta Baezie thinks that this deal is poorly negotiated and is not in the interest of Ghana. He shared this observation...
One of two potlines at Century Aluminum's 218,000 mt/year Sebree smelter in western Kentucky idled by a power outage May 29 is mostly restarted and should be fully operational soon, United Steelworkers officials said Monday. According to one USW official, the potline is about 75% restarted and should reach 100% in the next couple of weeks. A second union official agreed. Both asked not to be identified because the Chicago-based company has not released an official restart update. Century officials could not be reached for comment Monday. During the company's second-quarter 2018 earnings call, CEO Michael Bless said both the Sebree potline and the first of three restarting potlines at the company's 252,000 mt/year Hawesville smelter -- also in western Kentucky -- should be in full...
Canada and China remain two major exporter of semi-finished aluminium to the US. With the on-going trade disruptions between the US and its exporting countries, and the imposition of 10% tax on imported aluminium, the dynamics are seeing a multi-dimensional change. The countries have already started imposing retaliatory tariffs on the US on various products. We are analysing the export figures for aluminium Plates, sheets, bars for May and January to May 2018 from both the countries. {newsStudioGallery} The data shows, Canada exported about 21,300 tonnes of aluminium Plates, sheets, bars to the US in May and for the period from January to May the amount stood at 115,000 tonnes. For Canada, the export volume remained almost flat month on month in the first five months of 2018. For China,...
According to the latest report from a trade group on Monday, August 20, Turkey has urged the World Trade organisation (WTO) for dispute consultations with the United States regarding the doubling of duties on certain imported aluminium and steel products. The WTO said, “Turkey claims that the measures are inconsistent with a number of provisions of the WTO’s Agreement on Safeguards and the General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade [Gatt] 1994.” On August 10, the Trump administration had declared to double the import tariffs from Turkey from 10 per cent to 20 per cent on aluminium products and from 25 per cent to 50 per cent on steel products. On August 13, the duties went into effect. The WTO also reported if Turkey and the US failed to resolve the dispute in next 60 days from August 20 then...
According to a report from Proactiveinvestors Australia, Canyon Resources Ltd has raised $5 million from institutional and sophisticated investors. They raised the fund through a heavily oversubscribed share placement comprising of more than 32.2 million shares at a price of 15.5 cents each. The placement price represents an 8.3% discount to the 30-day Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) and a 16.9% discount to the 15-day VWAP. The money will be used to develop Canyon’s Minim Martap Bauxite Project in Cameroon. Canyon managing director Phillip Gallagher welcomed the new investors in the company. Commenting on the fund raising, Canyon managing director Phillip Gallagher said, “The investors have the capacity to support the company as we advance the Minim Martap Bauxite Project in...
Backed on continued price growth of alumina and steady movement of other input costs, A00 aluminium ingot spot price today, on August 21, has recorded a sweeping surge to RMB 14550 per tonne, Shanghai Metals Market found. Yesterday, on August 20, the price had shown a little bearish sentiment plunging RMB 40 per tonne from RMB 14360 per tonne to RMB 14320 per tonne. That could be because of the limited arrivals to the inventories but active consumption among the downstream consumers over the weekend. However, today in contrast, the price has recorded a significant growth of RMB 230 per tonne. The average prices are expected to range between RMB 14530 per tonne and RMB 14570 per tonne, with spot discounts to settle at RMB 70 to 30 per tonne. All the major markets in China have witnessed a...
The US dollar index fell below 96 to the lowest in almost one week at 95.76 on Monday after Federal Reserve took decision to raise interest rates. LME aluminium closed the day’s trading at US$ 2033 per tonne yesterday. Then the contract hit a high of US$2,084.5 per tonne during the European session before it finished1.3% higher at US$2,058.5 per tonne during Monday night. We expect LME aluminium to trade at US$2,050-2,070 per tonne today. As on August 20, LME aluminium cash (bid) price stands at US$ 2032 per tonne, LME official settlement price stands at US$ 2033 per tonne; 3-months bid price stands at US$ 2065 per tonne, 3-months offer price is US$ 2065.50 per tonne; Dec 19 bid price stands at US$ 2110 per tonne, and Dec 19 offer price stands at US$ 2115 per tonne. The LME aluminium...
The Egyptian Mint Authority is working on a project to locally manufacture aluminium number plates for vehicles. The authority wants to use the locally made aluminium to manufacture the plates and to replace imported equivalents. This would also save hard currency for the country. The Finance Ministry said in a statement on Sunday that the project will also help create new jobs for the country’s youth. After a meeting with chairman of the Mint Authority Abdel Raouf el Ahmedi, an advisor to the finance minister said that they have started lab-producing aluminium. About 600 kilograms of aluminium have already been manufactured and tested at European factories to guarantee high quality. Sherif Hazem, the advisor to the finance minister said that the experiment was successful. The Mint...
