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Aluminium Vision 2047 vs Reality in 2025: Ambition, progress, and the gaps in between
Primary AL16 JAN 2026

Aluminium Vision 2047 vs Reality in 2025: Ambition, progress, and the gaps in between

To set the context of this piece, it is necessary to understand that India’s Aluminium Vision 2047 and Viksit Bharat are intrinsically aligned and they complement each other’s ambition. Truth be told, achieving the milestones outlined in the Aluminium Vision 2047 can place India on course to...

From peak to plunge: What puts Australia alumina FOB price under pressure in 2025 and what it looks like in 2026
Alumina13 JAN 2026

From peak to plunge: What puts Australia alumina FOB price under pressure in 2025 and what it looks like in 2026

For over a year now, the Australian alumina market has rarely stayed out of the headlines. Sometimes due to capacity curtailment at refineries and sometimes because of the volatile Free On Board (FOB) price, which swung dramatically within a span of a year from as high as USD 700 per tonne in Q4...

Oil, Energy Security, or Fiscal Relief - what Venezuela means for US
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SupplementAL
07 JAN 2026

Oil, Energy Security, or Fiscal Relief - what Venezuela means for US

At the start of 2026, the Trump administration once again dominates global headlines—much as it did at the beginning of 2025. Then, the flashpoint was tariffs on aluminium and steel imports; now, it is the US military strike on Venezuela. In the early hours of January 3, 2026, around 2 a.m. local...

LME aluminium contract crosses $3000/t as supply deficit deepens with China’s 45-MT cap, smelter cuts, and US tariffs
Primary AL05 JAN 2026

LME aluminium contract crosses $3000/t as supply deficit deepens with China’s 45-MT cap, smelter cuts, and US tariffs

Tightened supply outlook and long-term demand bets have taken the three-month LME aluminium contract to USD 3,015.50 per tonne for the first time in more than three years, as of Friday, January 2, 2026. Perhaps, this is the beginning of price rally as projected by many market analysts for 2026....

The other side of energy transition with rising solar waste – how circular economy matters
Sustainability02 JAN 2026

The other side of energy transition with rising solar waste – how circular economy matters

Who knew renewable energy, particularly solar, which itself is a cornerstone of the global energy transition and the most effective pathway to sustainability would trigger hazardous waste generation concern? The irony is hard to miss that as the world ramps up the share of renewable power in energy...

45MT cap in name only! China’s influence on the global aluminium market lives on through Asia
Primary AL26 DEC 2025

45MT cap in name only! China’s influence on the global aluminium market lives on through Asia

As China edges closer to its self-imposed primary aluminium production cap of 45 million tonnes, a set of billion-dollar questions is reverberating in air. Is the global market counting days for supply deficit? Will anybody step in to bridge the gap? If yes, then who can do so at scale? While these...

Fifteen years, over 95% recycling, 18MT GHG emissions avoided - Brazil turns aluminium cans into a climate asset
Recycled AL23 DEC 2025

Fifteen years, over 95% recycling, 18MT GHG emissions avoided - Brazil turns aluminium cans into a climate asset

Brazil’s aluminium can industry is deeply interwined with the country’s economy and lifestyle, and this is not any recent development but the outcome of consistent, decades-long journey that began in 1989 with Latasa’s first factory in Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais. Since then, there is no looking...

AL Circle x Dr Mandy Glew from Ball Corporation: “Global demand for aluminium cans is projected to grow steadily to 470 billion units by 2026”
Downstream22 DEC 2025

AL Circle x Dr Mandy Glew from Ball Corporation: “Global demand for aluminium cans is projected to grow steadily to 470 billion units by 2026”

Dr Mandy Glew serves as President of Beverage Packaging EMEA and Asia at Ball Corporation. She holds a wealth of experience with over two decades of expertise in commercial operations, sales, marketing, and manufacturing within the FMCG industry. AL Circle: Ball Corporation has just celebrated the...

AL Circle X Göksal Güngör from EAFA Roller Group: “Packaging will continue to be the primary driver of demand for aluminium foil in Europe”
Downstream18 DEC 2025

AL Circle X Göksal Güngör from EAFA Roller Group: “Packaging will continue to be the primary driver of demand for aluminium foil in Europe”

In conversation with Göksal Güngör, the newly elected Chair of the Roller Group at the European Aluminium Foil Association (EAFA), wherein the industry veteran outlines a clear roadmap for the Association’s next phase. Güngör, who also serves as General Manager of Assan Alüminyum , emphasises...

Vietnam’s rare earth export ban – imitating China, developing import-substitution, or laying the foundation for energy transition
SupplementAL16 DEC 2025

Vietnam’s rare earth export ban – imitating China, developing import-substitution, or laying the foundation for energy transition

Vietnam is recently being portrayed as “following China’s playbook” on rare earths after it introduced a ban on exports. But if studied closely, they are structurally different with two distinct objectives. While China has restricted its rare earth exports, effective April 4, 2025, using licensing,...

AL Circle x Patrice L’HUILLIER from Nimba Mining: "We are targeting China and India, which are the major bauxite consumers for alumina production”
Bauxite15 DEC 2025

AL Circle x Patrice L’HUILLIER from Nimba Mining: "We are targeting China and India, which are the major bauxite consumers for alumina production”

Patrice L’HUILLIER is a seasoned mining & metals executive with more than 30 years’ global experience in project development & operations across the resources sector. He has led development, and operation of projects in France, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Africa and Canada, with expertise across a...

AL Circle x Benjamin Pope from Sortera: “Scrap is necessary to support a competitive aluminium market”
Recycled AL12 DEC 2025

AL Circle x Benjamin Pope from Sortera: “Scrap is necessary to support a competitive aluminium market”

Benjamin Pope’s career spans over 20 years in the metals industry, with a concentration in non-ferrous materials, primarily aluminium. His experience encompasses the full spectrum of aluminium products, including billet, flat-roll, secondary ingot, and various scrap streams, all within the context...

Aluminium Fluoride’s dual reality - indispensable to aluminium, burdensome to producers
Primary AL11 DEC 2025

Aluminium Fluoride’s dual reality - indispensable to aluminium, burdensome to producers

Aluminium fluoride (AlF3) has long been a critical ingredient in aluminium production – vital for efficient electrolysis yet scrutinised for its environmental and economic costs. On one hand, it is a necessity, on the other, a dilemma. Functionally, aluminium fluoride is a cornerstone of the...

AL Circle x Edgardo Gelsomino from Wood Mackenzie: “I am afraid aluminium supply in the coming years is not going to get greener”
Primary AL10 DEC 2025

AL Circle x Edgardo Gelsomino from Wood Mackenzie: “I am afraid aluminium supply in the coming years is not going to get greener”

Edgardo Gelsomino has been a Subject Matter Expert in aluminium at Wood Mackenzie since 2010. Before joining Wood Mackenzie, Edgardo worked for an aluminium producer other leading London-based research and consulting firms. His work has spanned the entire aluminium value chain, including carbon...

UK aluminium squeezed by weak production, soaring demand, and high energy costs – What's the way forward? What UK Budget indicates?
Primary AL09 DEC 2025

UK aluminium squeezed by weak production, soaring demand, and high energy costs – What's the way forward? What UK Budget indicates?

The United Kingdom’s aluminium industry has two options ahead to survive - one is by remaining reliant on imported aluminium cast, rolled, extruded, or forged semi-fabricated products with little or no control over embedded carbon, and the other is by developing a domestic recycling-based supply...

One month to CBAM: what’s in, what’s out, who pays, and how the aluminium industry must prepare
Sustainability03 DEC 2025

One month to CBAM: what’s in, what’s out, who pays, and how the aluminium industry must prepare

When the European Union rolled out its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) in 2023, a few energy-intensive industries felt the tremors more. Aluminium was one of them, while the rest were iron and steel, cement, fertilisers, hydrogen, and electricity industries. For them, CBAM appeared not...

Strong metal packaging market in North America and Europe reflects through Ardagh’s Q3 earnings
End User02 DEC 2025

Strong metal packaging market in North America and Europe reflects through Ardagh’s Q3 earnings

Ardagh Group, a global supplier of packaging solution, has turned in a solid set of numbers for the third quarter of 2025 ended September 30, riding on resilient demand for packaging across Europe and the Americas. Here metal packaging was star of the show overlooking glass that let Ardagh saw an...

India aims for 68% renewable and nuclear power capacity by 2032 - what should aluminium smelters do about energy mix?
Sustainability30 NOV 2025

India aims for 68% renewable and nuclear power capacity by 2032 - what should aluminium smelters do about energy mix?

India is exactly in the middle of energy transition, with its non-fossil fuel capacity exceeding 50 per cent of the national power mix. By 2032, the aim is to achieve 68 per cent of renewable and nuclear power capacity of the total energy mix. With this, the wake-up call for energy-intensive...