Researchers at Trinity College Dublin are testing a new type of concrete made using red mud, a residue from alumina refining. The project, supported by Enterprise Ireland and carried out with Gannon Eco and McGrath Quarries, has progressed from laboratory research to trials using industrial batching equipment. The university reported on 22 October that the geopolymer concrete formulations reduced the carbon footprint by 67.8–79.8 per cent against a CEM II-A/L cement reference. The comparison included raw material supply, transport and manufacturing. To know the futuristic market and value proposition of red mud, explore the report " A Comprehensive Analysis of Bauxite Residue (Red Mud): Sustainability, Resource Recovery and Strategic Recommendations " Laboratory tests also found that the...
The London Metal Exchange (LME) aluminium price chart recovered in the October 26 trading session across the pricing and near-term contract segments compared to the October 23 close. Longer-dated contracts, inventories, and the alumina price, however, edged lower. The LME aluminium cash bid price gained 0.13 per cent on October 26, advancing from USD 3,042.5 per tonne to USD 3,046.5 per tonne. The offer price surged from USD 3,043 per tonne to USD 3,047.5 per tonne , up 0.15 per cent day-on-day. Explore- Most comprehensive and forward-looking industry-focused report — Global Bauxite & Alumina Market Forecast to 2036: Supply–Demand, Trade Flows & Price Outlook The LME aluminium three-month bid price reported a 0.27 per cent rise from USD 3,017 per tonne on October 23 to USD 3,025 per tonne...
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Germany’s aluminium scrap trade showed signs of recovery in the first half of 2026, with exports to the world reaching 616,000 tonnes, up 4.58 per cent from 589,000 tonnes in H1 2025. The increase was even more pronounced against the second half of 2025, with H1 2026 shipments rising 7.50 per cent from 573,000 tonnes. However, exports remained 4.05 per cent below the 642,000 tonnes recorded in H1 2024. Among Germany’s leading destinations, Italy retained the top spot, Austria and France gained the most, Poland lost ground, and the Netherlands saw only limited growth. If we look at the percentage of the share, Italy took 15.58 per cent of Germany’s scrap exports, followed by Austria at 13.64 per cent, the Netherlands at 10.06 per cent, Poland at 8.12 per cent and France at 6.17 per cent....
Alcoa Corporation has set the price for a USD 2.6 billion senior notes offering to help finance the cash consideration for its proposed acquisition of South32’s bauxite, alumina, and aluminium assets . Along with the cash on hand, this debt is expected to provide permanent funding for the approximately USD 3.1 billion cash part of the transaction. The offering consists of USD 1.5 billion of 6.63 per cent Senior Notes due in 2034, to be issued by Alumina Pty Ltd, and USD 1.1 billion of 6.88 per cent Senior Notes due in 2036, issued by Alcoa Nederland Holding BV. Both of these companies are fully owned by Alcoa. The notes will be backed by Alcoa and some of its subsidiaries on a senior unsecured basis. The deal is expected to finalise on September 23, 2026, depending on usual closing...
SuperAlloy Industrial is pushing into semiconductor equipment components as it seeks to build a second growth engine alongside its established automotive wheel business, with customer validation of aluminium chamber components now under way. The Taiwanese aluminium manufacturer reported consolidated revenue of TWD 550 million (USD 17.44 million) in August, up 2.46 per cent year on year. Revenue for January - August 2026 reached TWD 5.052 billion (USD 160.22 million), an increase of 6.34 per cent from the same period a year earlier. The automotive business continues to provide the company's core revenue base. August shipments held up despite the seasonal summer slowdown among European and US automakers, supported by demand from global supercar and luxury brands including JLR and BMW....
Emirates Global Aluminium has completed its acquisition of an 80 per cent stake in Italy's Eco Green, strengthening its aluminium scrap collection, sorting and recycling network across Europe. Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) is expanding its aluminium recycling business in Europe with the completed acquisition of an 80 per cent stake in Italian recycler Eco Green, adding scrap collection, sorting, casting and dross-processing capabilities to its growing recycled aluminium network. The deal, first announced in April, has cleared all required regulatory approvals and closing conditions. Eco Green will now be rebranded EGA Eco Green, while the Scappini family will retain a minority stake and remain involved in management. The acquisition gives EGA access to a wider pool of aluminium scrap in...
The LME aluminium price moved higher on September 9 compared with the previous trading day, with cash and three-month aluminium prices recording gains, while total warehouse stocks remained unchanged. On September 9, the LME aluminium cash bid price stood at USD 3351.5 per tonne, up USD 27.5 per tonne, or 0.83 per cent, from USD 3324 per tonne on September 8. The LME aluminium cash offer price rose to USD 3353 per tonne from USD 3325 per tonne, marking an increase of USD 28 per tonne, or 0.84 per cent. The LME aluminium 3-month bid price stood at USD 3336 per tonne on September 9, compared with USD 3318.5 per tonne on September 8, representing a gain of USD 17.5 per tonne, or 0.53 per cent. The 3-month offer price increased to USD 3338 per tonne from USD 3319 per tonne, up USD 19 per...
US aluminium fabricators, extruders and finished-product manufacturers have launched the American Aluminum Alliance. This is a new trade association representing companies at the downstream end of the country’s aluminium value chain. The alliance brings together manufacturers that use aluminium to produce products including fence and gate systems, accessibility ramps and stairs, windows and doors, as well as components for the aerospace and automotive industries. Its members also manufacture boats, trailers, RVs and other aluminium products in the US. The group was formed around concerns that the current aluminium tariff structure is increasing costs for US manufacturers that purchase aluminium, without creating equivalent costs for imported finished products. The American Aluminum...
US primary aluminium production reached 167,000 tonnes in Q1 2026, slightly above a year earlier but 1.2 per cent below the previous quarter. US primary aluminium production remained broadly stable at the start of 2026, with output edging higher from a year earlier even as it slipped slightly from the final quarter of 2025. According to the aluminium supply data provided, US primary aluminium production reached 167,000 tonnes in Q1 2026, compared with 169,000 tonnes in Q4 2025 and 166,000 tonnes in Q1 2025. That translates to a 1.2 per cent quarter-on-quarter decline from Q4 and a 0.6 per cent year-on-year increase from Q1 2025. Production remains broadly stable The quarter-on-quarter decline amounted to just 2,000 tonnes, suggesting that primary aluminium output was largely steady rather...
Mexico and Argentina are moving in different directions on aluminium imports from China. Mexico has imposed a new anti-dumping duty on aluminium bars, rods and profiles, while Argentina has dropped its existing anti-dumping order on certain aluminium tubes. Mexico has issued an anti-dumping duty order covering Chinese mainland aluminium bars, rods and profiles classified under HTSMX 7604.10.02, 7604.10.99, 7604.29.01, 7604.29.02 and 7604.29.99. Imports of the subject products will face an anti-dumping duty of USD 1.58 per kg for the next five years. Meanwhile, Argentina has rescinded its anti-dumping duty order on certain Chinese mainland aluminium tubes following sunset and changed-circumstances reviews. The measure covered aluminium tubes, whether alloyed or non-alloyed, produced...
Our current approach can win economic skirmishes, but not the geopolitical conflict. – Part 1 After decades during which the very concept was taboo and the reality swept under the rug, the US has now rediscovered industrial policy. But this rediscovery remains incomplete, as too much of it is reactive, scattered, and driven by whichever crisis has the attention of the moment. This ad hoc approach can win a few economic skirmishes, but it will not be enough to win Cold War II. Simply scaling up more and more ad hoc policies, the trajectory we are now on, will never produce a coherent strategy. This is because what counts is not the number of policies, their aggregate budget, or even how widespread they are. What counts is whether they fit together, effectively support each other, and serve...
Ball Corporation, a global producer of sustainable aluminium packaging, has appointed Darlene J. Nicosia and Sherry L. Buck to its board of directors. The appointments bring additional experience in manufacturing, operations, procurement and finance to the board. Stuart A. Taylor II, Chairman of the Board of Directors, said, “ They are both proven executives with strong financial expertise grounded in operations.” Nicosia is the Chief Executive Officer of Maker's Pride, a US contract packaged food manufacturer, and has more than 30 years of experience in the food and beverage industry. She spent much of her career at The Coca-Cola Company, where she held leadership roles including President of Canada and the Northeast US and Chief Procurement Officer. She started her career at PepsiCo and...
Aluminium cans are under the spotlight among consumers and beverage manufacturers looking for more recyclable packaging, with the material already holding a strong circularity position against plastic and glass. Recorp tunes it further with ReCan85, an aluminium beverage can containing 85 per cent recycled aluminium , aimed at giving manufacturers a higher-recycled-content packaging option. From recycling advantage to higher recycled content The conversation around beverage packaging has already highlighted aluminium’s recycling advantage. Aluminium beverage cans recorded a 74.8 per cent recycling rate , compared with 47 per cent for PET bottles and 41.9 per cent for glass bottles in 2023. With a 75.6 per cent collection rate, aluminium cans are placed at the forefront of recycled...
Vedanta is expanding aluminium, copper and other metals capacity as electric mobility and India's demand for critical minerals reshape the domestic materials market. Vedanta Group is putting INR 210 billion (USD 2.21 billion) into metals production and capacity through FY2026, building a broader materials portfolio aimed at sectors such as electric vehicles, batteries and charging infrastructure. The investment spans aluminium, zinc, copper, steel, nickel, ferrochrome and value-added alloys, while the group has also secured 10 critical mineral blocks covering commodities including copper, nickel-chromium-PGE, tungsten, graphite, vanadium, rare earth elements and potash. The expansion comes as India seeks to reduce its reliance on overseas supplies of critical minerals. Vedanta estimates...
Chinese researchers show that a few extra hours of CO2 curing can roughly double the wet-dry service life of red mud–CFB ash–MgO backfill, while keeping leaching of hazardous elements low even after weeks of exposure to alkaline red mud liquor. Red mud remains one of the aluminium industry’s largest unresolved waste streams. Global bauxite residue generation has been running well above 175 million tonnes a year, against roughly 140-155 million tonnes of alumina output, and only a small fraction of that residue, commonly cited at around 2-5 per cent, is currently converted into a saleable by-product. The rest continues to swell tailings dams that, by some industry estimates, already hold more than 4 billion tonnes of accumulated material worldwide. Turning red mud into cemented backfill...
India’s aluminium smelters operate with some of the highest margins in the value chain, at around 10 per cent, but this profitability is not reflected among downstream manufacturers, where margins are closer to 5 per cent. These companies convert the metal into finished products such as heat sinks, enclosures, connectors, frames and other aluminium components for electronics manufacturers, but are finding it increasingly difficult to compete with imports. This matters because India's electronics industry is growing rapidly, creating a much larger market for aluminium components. Electronics production has increased nearly six-fold to around INR 147 billion in 2024-25, from about INR 24.7 billion in 2014-15, while the sector has created around 2.5 million jobs over the past decade. The...
China's producer inflation accelerated in August as higher energy and non-ferrous metal prices pushed industrial costs higher, while weak domestic demand kept consumer inflation subdued. China's factory-gate inflation accelerated in August, with non-ferrous metal smelting and processing prices rising 20.8 per cent year on year as higher international crude oil and metal prices fed through the industrial economy. The country's Producer Price Index (PPI) rose 3.8 per cent year on year in August, up from 3.5 per cent in July and ahead of the 3.6 per cent increase expected in a Reuters poll, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The increase was accompanied by a more modest rise in consumer prices, highlighting the contrast between stronger industrial input costs and...
Alcoa Corporation is acquiring South32’s key aluminium assets in a USD 3.1 billion deal in cash plus 17,008,960 Alcoa shares, expanding its upstream aluminium portfolio across Australia, Brazil and South Africa. The transaction will also give South32 and its shareholders an equity interest in the enlarged Alcoa business, while backing South32’s broader shift towards copper and other base metals. The update follows Alcoa’s decision to acquire South32’s aluminium value-chain assets with an implied enterprise value of up to USD 5.6 billion. Under the proposed transaction, South32 will initially receive about 6 per cent of Alcoa’s outstanding common stock. At least half of these shares are expected to be distributed to South32 shareholders through an in-specie dividend. Depending on South32’s...
Commodity price volatility continues to create a significant commercial challenge for aluminium recyclers, affecting inventory valuation, purchase decisions, sales commitments and margins. As businesses navigate increasingly dynamic metal markets, understanding how to identify and manage price exposure is becoming an important part of commercial risk management. Against this backdrop, AL Circle is bringing back its specialised “ Hedging for Recyclers: Become an Expert in 6 Hours ” programme for its fourth edition, designed to help recyclers, scrap traders and other metal-market professionals build practical capabilities in commodity price risk management. Price volatility puts recycler margins under pressure For aluminium recyclers, exposure to aluminium prices can emerge at several...
China’s aluminium industry is running close to its limits in 2026. As Shanghai aluminium prices near a three-month high, historically low raw material costs and strong smelter margins encourage producers to operate at maximum capacity. National aluminium output remains above Beijing’s 45-million-tonne cap, projected to reach 46 million tonnes by the ned of 2026. But with the ceiling still firmly in place, Chinese producers are taking projects overseas to Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Angola and Saudi Arabia, strengthening China’s position in the global aluminium supply chain. Domestic capacity leaves little room to grow In August, Chinese smelters were operating at 99.7 per cent of effective capacity, estimated by AZ Global Consulting at 45.26 million tonnes. This is in line with AL Circle’s...
