Cleaner aluminium depends on three things going right at once: scrap collection, melting it in a furnace without much carbon, and the electricity behind the whole chain not being coal-powered. Developments across North America, the UK, the European Union (EU), Egypt, Thailand, Malaysia and India depict how unevenly those pieces are falling into place. While some markets are losing recoverable metal at the sorting line, others are redirecting cargoes or writing scrap into industrial policy, and a few are lining up green projects to hold primary aluminium production together. Aluminium scrap trade: North America leads, Thailand bans, EU retains The international aluminium scrap market is facing a combination of changing trade flows and growing pressure to secure cleaner, more consistent...
ASSA ABLOY has agreed to acquire Brazilian aluminium solutions manufacturer Rometal, strengthening its manufacturing presence in Latin America while expanding its portfolio of door systems, furniture fittings and aluminium products. Announced on November 12, 2026, the proposed acquisition would bring an established Brazilian business with approximately 500 employees into the Swedish group's Americas Division. Rometal recorded sales of approximately BRL 332 million (USD 59 million) in 2025, equivalent to approximately SEK 580 million (USD 57.57 million) in ASSA ABLOY's announcement. The purchase price has not been disclosed. ASSA ABLOY described the company's EBIT margin in 2025 as strong and expects the transaction to be accretive to earnings per share from the start. Rometal acquisition...
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According to a Xinhua News Agency report, Shanghai has issued strict safety check against copper, aluminium and steel products manufactured by scandal-hit Japanese firm Kobe Steel Ltd and imported by China. After Kobe Steel’s revelation in October that about 500 of its customers had received products with falsified specifications, it lost quality certifications for its products at a number of domestic plants. According to the News Agency, Kobe shipped in 451,000 tonnes of metal products to China through its Shanghai units over September 2016 to August 2017. Of that, data on 1,420 tonnes of aluminium sheet and 116 tonnes of copper sheet had been tampered, as shown by data from Shanghai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau. While Kobe’s Shanghai units have been in touch with their...
In the line of electromobility campaign in India, another Japanese carmaker Honda has recently announced plans to set up a lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility in India. Honda Cars India, the Indian arm of the Japanese automotive giant, is currently researching on the type of electric vehicles that would be best suitable for Indian roads. According to an announcement by Honda earlier this year, electric vehicles will account for up to 65% of the company’s overall sales by 2030. Out of the electric vehicles, 15% would be pure electric and the rest would be hybrid, plug-in hybrid and fuel-cell powered cars. Commenting on the strategy, Honda Cars India Senior Vice President Jnaneswar Sen said, “Recently, on the global front, Honda has tied up with Hitachi for electric motors and we...
Soon Lian Holdings, a supplier of aluminium alloy has signed a deal with Halliburton Far East to buy a single-storey deserted factory at Tuas for S$7.8 million. The property has a built-in area of about 4,800 square meters and a land area of about 9,800 square meters. The company is planning to vacate its existing premises and its directors are of the view that the new property would be an appropriate substitute to serve as a facility for the group's storage and fabrication of aluminium alloy materials as well as to house their administrative and sales offices. Since, the previous premises was too big for its business, they feel the new property is perfect for their current business. "The built-in area of the (new) property, which is approximately 39 per cent smaller than the existing...
As a significant step towards Government’s mission to switch to all-electric cars by 2030, the Ministry of Heavy Industries has approved the introduction of EV-based public transportation systems in 11 cities across the country. The cities include Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Jaipur, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Indore, Kolkata, Jammu and Guwahati. Ministry of Heavy Industries selected these 11 cities after screening 47 proposals from 44 cities, requesting nearly 3,144 electric buses, 2,430 electric four-wheeler taxis and as many as 21,545 electric three-wheelers. This would have required about US$632.2 million (INR 4,054.6 Cr) of financial support from the centre. Considering limited funds under the FAME schemeonly 11 cities have been shortlisted currently. The selection was made based on...
IBC Advanced Alloys and NioCorp Developments Ltd. announced the successful manufacture of several aluminium-scandium alloy ingots. These test-pours occurred at IBC's Wilmington, Massachusetts Engineered Materials facility using scandium purchased commercially by NioCorp. The ingots, representing a range of scandium content, will now undergo chemical analysis and other metallurgical testing to confirm the microstructure and performance of the alloys. This testing is the basis for commercializing Aluminum-Scandium alloys. "I am very pleased with the successful execution by Chris Huskamp and his team of this initial production campaign, and we look forward to reviewing the results of follow-on testing to confirm material specifications," said Major General Duncan ("David") Heinz (USMC,...
Alpart Alumina refinery which was reopened by its new owner Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company (JISCO) Limited in June is set to make its first shipment today December 29, 2017. The first shipment from St. Elizabeth plant after reopening will leave from Port Kaiser in Jamaica today. A release from the operators, JISCO Alpart said that the ship, Wuchow, steamed into the port on Wednesday afternoon to pick up its cargo of 35,000 tonness of alumina. The shipment is also significant because it is after eight long years that alumina is being exported from Alpart. Chairman of JISCO Alpart Jamaica, Liu Wanxiang says this first shipment marks a significant milestone for the company and is a testimony to the management and the workers of Alpart. He also added that the employees worked beyond the...
According to the latest USGS release on Bauxite and Alumina in the Second Quarter 2017 , imports of alumina by the U.S. in the third quarter of 2017 were 364,000 tonnes, 19% more than the amount of 307,000 tonnes imported in the second quarter of 2017 and 17% more than the amount of 315,000 tonnes in third quarter of 2016. This shows growing consumption by the local aluminium smelters in the U.S. in Q3 2017. The amount is however, 8% less than the amount in the third quarter of 2015. The leading sources of imported alumina in the third quarter of 2017 were Brazil (41%), Australia (27%), and Jamaica (15%). The sources remain unchanged from Q2 2017. Exports of alumina during the third quarter of 2017 were 103,000 tonne, 32% less than those in the second quarter of 2017, which exported about...
SHFE aluminium is following the movement of its western counterpart and growing despite the growing inventories in China. According to SMM statistics, offsetting all the efforts of winter capacity cut, China’s social inventory of refined aluminium including SHFE warrants surged to near-10-year high at 1.76 million tonnes on Thursday December 28. This was up 22,000 million tonnes from a week ago. However, primary ingot prices are trending high despite higher invenotory. Today’s increase in A00 ingot price in the major Chinese markets can be seen in the following table: Average A00 ingot price stands at RMB 14,700 per tonne today and expected to move within a range of RMB 14,680-14,720 today. Spot discount is set to widen further to RMB 400-360/t. Aluminium ingot price in the South China...
LME aluminium is nearing a stupendous 2017 close. The light metal contract which has been seen rising from the lows of US$1,700 per tonne in the beginning of this calendar year to US$2,175 per tonne in October closed at US$2,246 per tonne yesterday, December 28. The bullish trend is influenced by improved marginal demand in the international market. This is expected to add positions today. Technical analysis suggests that LME aluminium will rise further and stay strong at US$2,255-2,290 per tonne on Friday, December 29- the highest in last 12-month period. Source: www.lme.com As on December 28, LME official cash buyer aluminium price (Bid Price) stands at US$2,245 per tonne, cash seller & settlement aluminium price (Offer price) is US$2,246 per tonne, 3M Bid Price is US$2,256 per tonne,...
One of the reasons China’s total aluminium capacity has not seen a substantial drop despite the winter cut is because China’s smelters are making use of ‘capacity swap quotas’. While announcing winter closure, smelters were directed to close excess/unused capacity or sell it as a quota to others seeking to expand. Morgan Stanley analysts said in a note. “While the strategy constrains capacity growth and boosts the industry’s utilisation rate, it is likely to see China’s total output lift too.” According to SMM senior analyst Liu Xiaolei there would be little impact on the capacity of primary aluminium in Binzhou, Shandong province even though the city was said to have exceeded its allowed capacity. The smelters used the capacity swap quotas and the total capacity remained almost same. On...
According to aluminium recycling statistics published by the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of Interior, the U.S. aluminium industry purchased an estimated 367 thousand tonnes of aluminium scrap during October 2017, slightly off from the October 2016 total of 735 million. USGS estimates that recovery of aluminium and aluminium alloys totalled 303 thousand tonnes in October 2017, a slight drop from that in September 2017 and October 2016. Of this amount, 172,000 tonne of aluminium was recovered from new scrap and 131,000 tonne was recovered from old scrap. Through October of 2017, preliminary data indicate that recovery of aluminium from scrap totalled an estimated 3.36 million tonnes, up 2% over the 2016 YTD total of 3.30 million tonnes. U.S. exports of scrap, not included in the...
Gerakan Hentikan Pencemaran Bauksit (Geram) chairman Ali Akhbar Othman said recently in Pahang that Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) must first finalise the proper standard operating procedures (SOP) before deciding on the withdrawal of moratorium on bauxite mining. MACC’s recent decision to withdraw the seizure order on 10 million tonnes plus bauxite stockpiles has raised renewed concerns of environmental degradation. "Since the government imposed the moratorium in 2016, residents here have enjoyed a cleaner environment with no dust and presence of lorries transporting the mineral from Felda Bukit Goh, through Jalan Pintasan Kuantan-Pelabuhan and Gebeng area, to Kuantan Port. "As long as there are no improvements and introduction of a more concrete SOP, I believe there is no...
Dudley’s Aluminium has begun work on a new project with Willmott Dixon Construction Ltd to construct the new Village Urban Resort Hotel in Bristol. The new hotel, which will be located in the North of Bristol, will be a business class hotel with a business and events hub as well as a state-of-the-art health and fitness club. Dudley’s secured the contract with Willmott Dixon, a contract in excess of half a million pounds, and will install high-quality Kawneer capped curtain walling, windows, doors and patio doors throughout the hotel’s bedrooms, as well as automatic doors at the entrances. It is the second VUR Hotel that Dudley’s has undertaken with the Willmott Dixon team, following on from the successful completion of the new VUR Hotel in Portsmouth. The hotel is predicted to create more...
Preliminary estimates from Aluminum Association indicate that aluminium demand in the United States and Canada (shipments by domestic producers plus imports) totalled an estimated 11.5 million tonnes through October 2017, up 3.3% over the same period last year. Apparent consumption (total demand minus exports) in domestic markets through October totalled an estimated 10.2 million tonnes, up 4.4% over the same period of 2016. Demand for semi-fabricated (mill) products totalled 8.3 million tonnes, up 5.7%. Exports of aluminium ingot and mill products from the U.S. and Canada (excluding cross-border trade) totalled 1.2 million pounds through October, down 4.4% from last year, while imports were up 24.6% to 3.8 million tonnes. Apparent consumption in domestic U.S. and Canadian markets...
Alcoa, a global industry leader in bauxite, alumina and aluminium products, announced that the company will release its fourth quarter and full-year 2017 financial results on Wednesday, January 17, 2018 after the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Alcoa will also host conference call that day at 5:00 p.m. ET to review its financial results. The live webcast of the conference call can be accessed at www.alcoa.com. Roy Harvey, President and Chief Executive Officer and William Oplinger, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer will host the conference call to discuss the results. The press release with financial results, and a related presentation, will be available on the “Investors” section of Alcoa’s website, www.alcoa.com. A link to the press release will also...
Major aluminium scrap commodity prices in India edged higher on Wednesday as spot market witnessed a sudden uptick in demand. The prices of aluminium wire scrap rose from INR 147 per kg to INR 150 per kg, and that of aluminium utensils scrap from INR 122-126 per kg to INR 148 per kg on December 27. Previously, as on November 27, aluminium scrap prices in Indian domestic market were standing as below: Source: www.scrapregister.com Except aluminium wire scrap and aluminium utensils scrap, all other aluminium scrap commodities are putting up a fairly flat performance on ScrapRegister due to tepid demand. On the other side, aluminium contract at Multi Commodity Exchange is currently (December 28, 12:34 PM) trading at INR 144.40 per kg (up 1.29 per cent from the previous day price). The...
Weak alumina prices have not much affected the primary ingot prices in China as the A00 ingot prices have seen another rise across all markets today. Average A00 ingot price stands at RMB 14,380 per tonne today and expected to move within a range of RMB 14,360-14,400 today. Christmas trading holiday in LME has temporarily improved the market in China lifting the aluminium prices. The momentum of average A00 ingot price in last one month can be seen in the following graph. SMM predicted SHFE aluminium would test the RMB 15,000/t level, trading at RMB 14,700-15,000/t. Spot discount, on the other hand, is set to go deeper at RMB 370-330/t today. However, in the short and medium term aluminium prices in China would be under pressure because of growing inventory despite the capacity cut...
The Dak Nong Aluminum Company has produced 501,000 tonnes of aluminium from its Nhan Co AluminIum Plant so far this year. The Dak Nong Aluminum Company is a part of the Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin). The Dak Nong Aluminum Company has earned approximately 185 million USD from aluminium exports in 2017. The company expects to produce 580,000 tonnes of aluminium in 2018. The plant was constructed with total cost of VND16.8 trillion (739 million USD) with a designed capacity of 650,000 tonnes of aluminium per year. It was operational in November, 2016 at Nhan Co industrial park. Most of the products are sold to Japan, the Republic of Korea, Hong Kong (China), Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and Switzerland.
