Vedanta Aluminium reported record quarterly production across aluminium, alumina and value-added products in Q2 FY27, supported by capacity expansion and efficiency improvements. Vedanta Aluminium Metal Limited, India’s largest aluminium producer, recorded its highest-ever quarterly aluminium production of 649,000 tonnes in Q2 FY27, up 5 per cent year on year from 617,000 tonnes in Q2 FY26. Aluminium output also increased 3 per cent quarter on quarter from 632,000 tonnes in Q1 FY27. For the first half of FY27, production reached a record 1,281,000 tonnes, up 5 per cent from 1,222,000 tonnes in H1 FY26. The company attributed the increase to new smelter volumes and efficiency improvements across existing production lines. Alumina output jumps 37 per cent Vedanta Aluminium’s alumina...
Bauxite is the starting material for alumina refining and primary aluminium production, but its route from mine to refinery is rarely as simple as a labelled shipment moving from one country to another. Unlike fabricated metal products, bauxite is usually traded as a loose bulk mineral. It is loaded into stockpiles, trucks, rail wagons, barges and bulk carriers, often passing through multiple handling points before reaching an alumina refinery. This logistics model keeps transport costs low for a high-volume commodity, but it also makes mine-level origin difficult to establish. The key question for traders, refiners and downstream buyers is therefore not only about where a cargo was loaded but where the ore was actually mined and whether that origin can be traced and documented along the...
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On February 9, 2023, the National Employment Fund (NEF) and the Australian mining company Canyon Resources' Cameroonian subsidiary Camalco engaged in developing the project to explore the Minim Martap bauxite deposit in the Adamaoua region, inked a partnership agreement in Yaoundé. André Henry, the Director General of Camalco, said, "We intend to be close to the NEF so that precisely when we want to start the work and hire, we can rely on them to have qualified employees." The NEF will have to provide Camalco with its database of job seekers when the time comes to facilitate the recruitment of skilled labour for the Minim Martap project within the framework of this collaboration. Whenever Camalco's human resources requirements change, the mining operator should contact the NEF. Initially,...
Hindalco Industries Limited has further reduced its aluminium ingot and aluminium products prices by INR 3,500 per tonne or 1.5 per cent with effect from Tuesday, February 14. That has brought the company’s aluminium ingot price to INR 226,750 per tonne versus INR 230,250 per tonne on February 10. Hindalco’s aluminium wire rod price has come in at INR 237,850 per tonne, compared to INR 241,350 per tonne last week. Aluminium billets price stands at INR 240,850 per tonne, in comparison with INR 244,350 per tonne on Friday, February 10. Hindalco links its aluminium ingot and aluminium products prices to the three-month futures of aluminium on the London Metal Exchange, which shrank by US$52.50 per tonne from US$2,435 per tonne on February 10 to US$2,382.50 per tonne on February 13. Aluminium...
The Moynihan Rail Hall train station in New York is decked up with an unusual form of artwork called The Hive, a set of up to nine-foot-tall models of skyscrapers made up of aluminium, inspired by a collection of 100 upside-down skyscraper models. Curated by the Berlin-based artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, which hang upside down like stalactites from the ceiling near the 31st Street entrance, the designers claimed that a mirrored base gives passengers the impression that they are projected into the metropolitan environment and produces an illusion of an imagined metropolis. "People are often in a rush when they go to the train. We thought of making something that you could get the sense of in one viewing, but if you wanted to have a full experience you could stop and look up...
According to the International Aluminium Institute (IAI), alumina production in South America grew by 4.83 per cent month-on-month to stand at 1.042 million tonnes in December 2022. That brought South America’s total output in Q4 2022 to 3.05 million tonnes, up by 3.35 per cent Q-o-Q from 2.951 million tonnes and 3.95 per cent Y-o-Y from 2.934 million tonnes. Going by the IAI data, South America’s alumina output in December 2022 edged a year-on-year hike of 3.78 per cent from 1.004 million tonnes. In the year's second half, alumina production in South America totalled 6.001 million tonnes, reflecting an increase of 6.53 per cent from 5.633 million tonnes in H1 and a hike of 4.11 per cent from 5.764 million tonnes in H2 2021. In the entire year of 2022, South America’s alumina output...
For Ontario soda users who prefer canned to bottled pop, grocery expenses are set to increase even more, if only marginally, this spring. As per reports, starting from April 1, a group backed by some of Canada's biggest food and beverage companies" will begin charging residents of the province a new recycling fee, touted as the pop can tax or the Container Recycling Fee (CRF). Consumers will start paying a fee of one cent on aluminium cans , two cents on small PET plastic bottles, and three cents on all other sealed, ready-to-drink non-alcoholic beverage containers in April under the CBCRA's proposed proposal. That covers everything from tetra packs to water in boxes to tomato juice in steel cans. The Canadian Beverage Container Recycling Association (CBCRA), an industry-funded...
ALG Aluminium Inc. (ALG), a modern state-owned joint stock company invested in and controlled by Guangxi Investment Group Co., Ltd., has reportedly received ASI Performance Standard Certification for manufacturing aluminium alloy products at a facility in Nanning, China. The news came on Monday, February 13, after ASI officially announced it successfully acknowledged ALG’s casting, extrusion, hot-rolling and cold-rolling operations against Performance Standard. ALG’s Nanning facility has an annual capacity of 200,000 tonnes. The company’s aluminium plate, sheet, strip, coil and large-scale extrusion products are destined for use in the aviation and transportation industries. Fiona Solomon, Chief Executive Officer at ASI, said: “We congratulate ALG Aluminium Inc. for achieving Performance...
According to the Shanghai Metals Market, A00 aluminium ingot price in China has dipped by RMB 10 per tonne, marking the fourth consecutive fall. The data suggests though the price has lost only RMB 10 per tonne on Tuesday, February 14, it has registered a week-on-week fall of RMB 540 per tonne. The price has come in at RMB 18,460 per tonne today, with average prices estimated to range between RMB18,440 per tonne and RMB 18,480 per tonne. The spot contract will likely trade at a discount price of RMB 50-10 per tonne. SMM data also shows that except for Foshan, all the Chinese provinces have uniformly experienced a downfall of RMB 10 per tonne. Thus, in Gongyi, Wuxi, and Hangzhou, primary aluminium ingot price has pegged at RMB 18,370 per tonne, RMB 18,455 per tonne, and RMB 18,470 per...
LME aluminium opened at $2,459.5 per tonne on Monday and closed at $2,421.5 per tonne, a decrease of $26.5 per tonne or 1.08 per cent. On Monday, February 13, aluminium prices reached five-week lows as rising stockpiles in LME-approved warehouses dampened investor mood. As per the data, both LME aluminium cash bid price and LME aluminium official settlement price plunged by US$52.5 per tonne or 2.19 per cent and 2.15 per cent to come in at US$2,381.50 per tonne and US$2,382.50 per tonne. 3-month bid price and 3-month offer price dropped by US$42 per tonne or 1.70 per cent to close at US$2,423 per tonne and US$2,424 per tonne. December 24 bid price and December 24 offer price slipped by US$37 per tonne or 1.40 per cent to settle at US$2,598 per tonne and US$2,603 per tonne. LME aluminium...
The partners of DADA Holdings, LLC, announce that their affiliate, Niche European Holdings, LLC, has acquired a controlling stake in Niche Fusina Rolled Products S.r.l., which operates an aluminium rolling mill and related facilities in Fusina, Italy, just outside of Venice. Invitalia, the Italian government agency responsible for promoting inward investment and enterprise development throughout the country, is Niche Fusina's other remaining shareholder. DADA first acquired a minority stake in Niche Fusina in March 2022, in a sale approved by the Court of Venice in an insolvency proceeding. Niche Fusina is DADA's second foray into the aluminium rolling business; their first was Wise Metals Group, which they transformed into the world's third largest producer of can sheets for the beverage...
The Saudi state-owned mining company headquartered in Riyadh, Ma'aden, has reported a more than 87 per cent leap in its full-year 2022 net profit, enhanced by higher sales and higher average prices. On February 13, 2023, the largest multi-traded mining company in the Middle-East region, Ma’aden, during filing to the Tadawul stock exchange, stated that the company posted $3.23 billion (Saudi riyals 12.13 billion) in net profit in 12 months to the end of December. Ma’aden is also in the aluminium business, and its move into aluminium production is to maximize the minerals and metals value chain. Ma’aden established a joint venture with Alcoa to build the world’s most efficient and integrated aluminium complex in Saudi Arabia. This USD$ 10.8 billion project includes a bauxite mine, an...
The ferroalloy smelting plant of the vertically integrated manganese and silicone metal company OM Holdings Ltd (OMH) in Malaysia’s Samalaju Industrial Park, Bintulu, will incorporate higher value-added silicon metal. The OM Materials (Sarawak) Sdn Bhd, the group's flagship smelter complex, successfully modified and converted two ferrosilicon (FeSi) furnaces into metal silicon (MetSi) furnaces to produce silicon metal. According to OM Holdings, "The first MetSi furnace is undergoing hot commissioning and performance testing." However, the MetSi furnace has a production capacity of 35 tonnes to 40 tonnes per day. The modification and conversion process involved dismantling two idle FeSi furnaces, followed by civil works and equipment installation carried out by contractors from China in...
The Huawei Mate50 Pro is one of the patented products by the Chinese mobile maker that flaunts an aluminium alloy chassis having intricate details engraved by CNC machines. The new Huawei Mate50 Pro displays a consistent Space ring Design and a very attractive Clous de Paris step-patterned pathology. The use of aluminium resonates with the increasing need for introducing more sustainable options in creating electronic devices. This happens partially because electronic devices end up in landfills without the slightest chance of being recovered. Huawei has developed a very interesting way of carving precise designs on the surface of a single aluminium alloy slab by using computer numerical control (CNC) and fine engravings. The lenses, decorative rings and the bottom crater of the Huawei...
Trivium Packaging has been the recipient of three Pack Global Awards that can be divided into two broad genres: One for Best-in-Class in the Package Innovation Technical Design category and the other two for distinction in the Package Innovation Sustainable Design category. Trivium bagged the Best-in-class title for its intense craftsmanship in making Rexona Now United Aerosol Antiperspirant. This win can be regarded as the third time same category victory for Trivium in successive order. Trivium had worked in partnership with Rexona to create a unique aluminium aerosol can that displays snippets from the Now United pop group citing their members. The packaging group's main concern was putting up the faces of the Now United group members and keeping Rexona's advertising quality intact....
On Monday, February 13, Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced the joining of Deco Australia as a Downstream Supporter member. Deco is a family-run firm in Australia that produces superior surface treatments and architectural construction materials made of aluminium. In addition to their premium DecoWood® aluminium finish, which they introduced to the architectural market in 2004, Deco Australia now offers a variety of cutting-edge and long-lasting aluminium building systems, such as cladding, battens, decking, and fencing, as well as an expanded selection of architectural finishes, such as rust-look, concrete-look, solid colour, and anodised finishes. "DECO Australia is an innovative manufacturer of quality aluminium building products and protective finishes. At DECO we are...
From January 2023, the exclusive partnership between Nordmann UK and Toyal Europe for aluminium effect pigments distribution in the UK and Irish markets came into effect. The Toyal Group, an international production and supply chain with its headquarters in Japan, established by Toyo Aluminium K.K., includes Toyal Europe. The Toyal Group, a renowned industry pioneer in creating advanced aluminium effect pigments and atomizing powders, is dedicated to developing new products to meet market demands and offer cutting-edge services to clients. The aluminium-pigmented coatings are sprayed on the components using a standard spray technique. Following application, the layer is polymerized between 180°C and 200°C. The main benefit of this method is the partial spray coating of particular...
BorgWarner has declared recently that the company will supply a prime order of aluminium cooling plates used in battery making to a leading German automobile provider. This delivery of aluminium cooling plates would be done to the German carmaker's European and US manufacturing units, where they'll be used for creating batteries for the company's patented electronic vehicles. These battery cooling plates that BorgWarner excels in producing are usually formulated out of extruded aluminium profiles that squeeze their way between the rows of cylindrical battery cells, intruding less in the construct but maintaining an overall presence inside the battery’s internal design. These plates are then netted into a web by a pipe nearing their ends, through which uninterrupted coolant flows to handle...
Under its Responsible Products Framework, the Green Building Council of Australia's Green Star (GBCA) acknowledged Aluminium Stewardship Initiative's V3 Performance Standard certification (ASI V3). This was carried out after a benchmarking review with GBCA in 2022. Green Star uses industry-standard programmes and efforts to validate how environmentally friendly a product is. As a result, ASI-certified members can now contribute to Green Star credit points for the structure of a project (under the "Green Star Building" category: Responsible Structure, Responsible Envelope, Responsible Finishes, and Responsible Systems). Green Star, an internationally renowned grading system that establishes the benchmark for healthy, resilient, and positive buildings and settings, was established by the...
National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) has cut its aluminium ingot and aluminium products prices for the second time in a row within a week. With effect from Saturday, February 11, NALCO has reduced its aluminium ingot price by INR 4,300 per tonne or 1.8 per cent to INR 231,850-235,350 per tonne. The previous cut was on February 7 when NALCO’s aluminium ingot price experienced a plunge of INR 7,800 per tonne to INR 236,150-239,650 per tonne. On February 11, NALCO reduced its aluminium wire rod price by INR 4,300 per tonne to sell the product at INR 236,350-240,700 per tonne versus INR 240,650-245,000 per tonne on February 7. The company’s aluminium billets price is no exception but has also been cut by the same amount to INR 236,300-238,950 per tonne as of February 11, compared to INR...
