Guinea is looking to expand its partnership with Glencore beyond bauxite exports, with the two sides discussing potential investments in alumina refining, energy and other strategic projects as Conakry seeks to build more processing capacity at home. The discussions follow a more than USD 300...
For aluminium recyclers, managing profitability is no longer only about securing scrap, improving recovery rates or controlling operating costs. The timing of purchases, inventory holding, price fixation and customer sales can also influence the final margin that must be achieved. When aluminium...
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As per the data of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), a steady growth is seen in the Indian automobile industry in the first 9 months of the calendar year 2025. With the rise in the overall consumption, a direct implication is seen within the demand for aluminium for the automobile...
Kaiser Aluminum Corporation has completed a USD 25 million expansion at its Trentwood rolling mill in Spokane Valley, marking another step in the company’s two-decade-long investment programme at the site. The project follows a pause during the pandemic and brings the total investment in the plant...
ABx Group’s Deep Leads rare earth project has taken another technical step forward, with new impurity-removal tests confirming an Al:TREE ratio of less than 0.005 under near-optimum pH conditions (5.9 and 6.2). The results reinforce confidence in ABx’s ability to produce a high-value, low-impurity...
Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology (IWU) and Amsted Automotive have developed a new electric vehicle (EV) battery using aluminium foam sandwich (AAS) structures. The battery uses two sheets of aluminium covering a small closed-cell aluminium foam. It is developed to...
A year’s gap and the performance of Century Aluminum, the US-based leading primary aluminium producer, has gone opposite ways. Though the aluminium manufacturer is still in the safe zone in terms of financials, the shipments and sales figures tell an altogether different tale. Image source:...
Ukraine’s State Property Fund is again selling a 97.5458 per cent stake in the Zaporizhzhia Aluminum Plant (ZAlK), which is 100 per cent state-owned. The auction is scheduled to start at UAH 75.93 million (excluding VAT; USD 1.81 million). The plant is located in the city of Zaporizhzhia, near the...
Tianshan Aluminium obtained a mining license for a 1 million tonnes per year bauxite mine in Guangxi through its wholly-owned subsidiary Jingxi Tiangui Aluminium, according to its official announcement. The mine, located in Jingxi, a county-level city under Baise city in the western part of...
Commodity trader Trafigura has delivered significant amounts of aluminium to London Metal Exchange (LME)-approved warehouses in Malaysia, reportedly to take advantage of a financial arrangement, according to sources familiar with the matter. Surge in the aluminium stocks Aluminium inventories in...
Futures: The most-traded cast aluminium alloy AD2601 futures contract opened at RMB 21,090 per tonne overnight, rose to RMB 21,165 per tonne in early trading, then pulled back, and finally closed at RMB 20,965 per tonne, down slightly by 0.05per cent, showing a fluctuating trend of "retreat after...
On Thursday, November 6, the London Metal Exchange (LME) aluminium price rose after a sharp decline the previous close. However, the LME aluminium 3-month Asian Reference Price continued to show a declining trend. Both the LME cash bid and offer contracts rose by USD 23 per tonne or 0.81 per cent,...
Hindalco Industries Ltd, the flagship metals company of the Aditya Birla Group, is facing twin challenges this quarter. Its US-based subsidiary, Novelis Inc ., reported weaker-than-expected earnings, prompting several brokerage downgrades. At the same time, the company has rolled out a 100-day...
Macro front, internationally, mid-week this Wednesday, US Supreme Court justices expressed significant doubts about former President Trump's authority to unilaterally impose comprehensive tariffs, questioning whether Trump could bypass Congress to initiate trade conflicts. However, government...
The red soils of Guinea are continuously drawing the world’s gaze with their mining power. As 2026 nears, the country’s bauxite sector remains on a record-setting path, reshaping its role in global supply chains. In the first three months of 2025, Guinea exported 48.6 million tonnes of bauxite —...
All eyes are on Novelis’ New York (Oswego) unit reopening in December, which halted production after the September 16 fire incident. Why? Stakeholders are hit financially on both ends of the Atlantic. Hindalco, the parent company of Novelis, is suffering a negative free cash flow from the...
Last week, according to Mysteel's assessment, the benchmark 5,500 kcal per kg NAR thermal coal dipped from RMB 768 per tonne (USD 107.9 per tonne) on Monday to RMB 766 per tonne on Tuesday. After staying at this level in the following two days, it rebounded to RMB 769 per tonne on Friday. Explore-...
Boksit, a Bosnian bauxite mining company, suggested an outstanding surge in its net profit at BAM 13.1 million or USD 7.7 million in the first nine months of 2025. During the same period last year, this surge marked a leap from BAM 603 thousand. In the first 9 months of 2025, the firm achieved a 14...
Ola Electric launches its new model S1 Pro+ with its advanced 4680 Bharat cell battery pack. The battery pack uses aluminium to enhance its conductivity. In this new design the Ola Electric has mainly focused on several new areas, including the use of a new die-cast aluminium grab handle. The use...
After several strong months of production, Metro Mining Limited saw a modest slowdown in October, shipping 735,000 wet metric tonnes (WMT) of bauxite from its Bauxite Hills Operation in northern Queensland. Image source: Metro Mining To know more about the global bauxite industry, read “ A...
