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LEGO, lean and the next generation: How Bonnell Aluminum is helping build future manufacturers
Downstream29 SEPT 2025

LEGO, lean and the next generation: How Bonnell Aluminum is helping build future manufacturers

For most high school students, LEGO means playtime. For 18 seniors from Michigan this October, LEGO bricks will mean lessons in efficiency, waste reduction, and manufacturing mastery. Bonnell Aluminum, in partnership with Berrien RESA, is turning the Bertrand Innovation Center in Niles into a...

Odisha's AL renaissance: Angul Aluminium Park sets the stage for a global manufacturing hub
Sustainability29 SEPT 2025

Odisha's AL renaissance: Angul Aluminium Park sets the stage for a global manufacturing hub

Odisha today sits at the commanding heights of India’s aluminium industry, contributing nearly 72 per cent of the country’s primary metal output. Yet this dominance has long carried a paradox. The state has remained a smelter powerhouse without building the deep downstream ecosystem that converts...

3.4% drop: Alcoa’s stock does not agree with CEO Bill Oplinger’s caution
Primary AL26 SEPT 2025

3.4% drop: Alcoa’s stock does not agree with CEO Bill Oplinger’s caution

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Alcoa’s stock came under pressure on Tuesday after Chief Executive William (Bill) F. Oplinger alerted that President Donald Trump’s steep tariff regime risks making aluminium prohibitively expensive and deflating demand for domestically produced steel and aluminium. Shares of the...

EU plans to be back at talk with the US! Here’s who we think needs it more…
Downstream25 SEPT 2025

EU plans to be back at talk with the US! Here’s who we think needs it more…

On Wednesday, the European Union announced its intention to resume discussions with the United States regarding the reduction of Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium. This move comes as various nations seek to address ongoing trade tensions. EU Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic is scheduled...

Apt Group's sustainable FY24: Focus on business impact & pathways for European AL leadership
Sustainability24 SEPT 2025

Apt Group's sustainable FY24: Focus on business impact & pathways for European AL leadership

“2024 was an important year for the apt Group in many respects, characterised by strategic decisions and operational development. Our path toward achieving climate neutrality by the end of 2044 continued,” wrote Manon Gahmann, Director of CSR Compliance. This statement comes amid the European...

Japan’s aluminium can demand holds at 2.09 billion units in 2025
End User23 SEPT 2025

Japan’s aluminium can demand holds at 2.09 billion units in 2025

Japan’s aluminium can industry is treading water. According to the Japan Aluminium Can Recycling Association (JACRA), total demand for aluminium cans (including both domestic and imported volumes) will remain at about 2.091 billion units in 2025, unchanged from the previous year. Domestic demand is...

Queensland’s 52,000 km copper-to-aluminium cable shift planned due to security purposes
End User23 SEPT 2025

Queensland’s 52,000 km copper-to-aluminium cable shift planned due to security purposes

Queensland’s state-owned electricity distributor Energex, has announced plans to replace about 52,000 kilometres of copper cabling with aluminium across its Southeast network. The move comes as copper theft continues to rise in the region, costing the utility approximately AUD 4.5 million annually...

Alumina refining fuel consumption hit 1 million TJ in 2024 — Fuel mix transition weighs in
Alumina22 SEPT 2025

Alumina refining fuel consumption hit 1 million TJ in 2024 — Fuel mix transition weighs in

The International Aluminium Institute (IAI) has reported that the global alumina refining industry has had an annual consumption of 1,188,250 Terajoules (TJ) of fuel in 2024. Between 2023 and 2024, global alumina output climbed from 133.54 million tonnes to 138.59 million tonnes, a 3.8 per cent...

Pankaj Jain of the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas: LNG, biofuels & hydrogen to aid the long-term energy transition
Sustainability19 SEPT 2025

Pankaj Jain of the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas: LNG, biofuels & hydrogen to aid the long-term energy transition

At the Financial Times organised Energy Transition Summit in India, Pankaj Jain, Secretary of the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, mapped out India’s evolving energy roadmap. His intervention cut through partisan mottos and international pressure with a pragmatic reality check of hydrocarbons...

A rendition of what Johannes Zutt of World Bank divulged: BRICS push renewables to forefront, but India faces harder questions
Sustainability18 SEPT 2025

A rendition of what Johannes Zutt of World Bank divulged: BRICS push renewables to forefront, but India faces harder questions

At the Financial Times Energy Transition Summit in India, Johannes Zutt, Vice President for South Asia at the World Bank, offered a candid assessment during a keynote interview session of how emerging economies are recalibrating their growth strategies around clean power — and why the aluminium...

Scotland’s circular economy adds £7B to GVA but methodology constraints cloud comparisons
Recycled AL17 SEPT 2025

Scotland’s circular economy adds £7B to GVA but methodology constraints cloud comparisons

Scotland’s circular economy has been quantified in hard numbers for the first time, with a new economic study placing its contribution at GBP 7.11 billion in gross value added (GVA) in 2021. The valuation represents 4.7 per cent of Scotland’s total GVA, or 3.9 per cent of GDP when including...

Scrap export tax: European Aluminium advocates for the litmus test in aluminium policy
Recycled AL15 SEPT 2025

Scrap export tax: European Aluminium advocates for the litmus test in aluminium policy

As Brussels pushes forward with the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and doubles down on its climate ambitions, the European aluminium sector is sounding the alarm on another missing piece in the policy puzzle: aluminium scrap. The call is not new, but it is urgent. As downstream...

Deepfakes and aluminium: Warning mock-up of a new risk in a metal-heavy world
Sustainability11 SEPT 2025

Deepfakes and aluminium: Warning mock-up of a new risk in a metal-heavy world

The aluminium industry has spent years wrestling with geopolitical turbulence, energy volatility, and erratic trade regimes. In the same breath, it has leaned on technology and artificial intelligence to squeeze out efficiencies and carve a path toward a greener future. But the same digital tools...

Indian brands to slash prices: Almost all AL-inclusive goods are cheaper with 'GST 2.0' revised rates
End User09 SEPT 2025

Indian brands to slash prices: Almost all AL-inclusive goods are cheaper with 'GST 2.0' revised rates

Goods and Services Tax, rather commonly known as GST, was first introduced in India by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on July 1, 2017. It was said to have replaced a complex web of central and state taxes such as excise duty, service tax, VAT, octroi, and entry tax,...

China’s aluminium trade contradiction: Export peaks but import grows, too!
Primary AL08 SEPT 2025

China’s aluminium trade contradiction: Export peaks but import grows, too!

China’s aluminium story has always been a study in contradictions. On paper, the country dominates the industry. It produced nearly 43 million tonnes of primary aluminium in 2024, more than half the world’s supply. Yet in the same year, it imported over 3 million tonnes of primary aluminium,...

Electricity behind aluminium’s price tag? Then, why does Europe’s “green” metal costs so much?
Primary AL04 SEPT 2025

Electricity behind aluminium’s price tag? Then, why does Europe’s “green” metal costs so much?

Whenever there is a question of pricing, the aluminium industry has pointed towards a single influx inducer — electricity. If you’ve ever toured a smelter or skimmed an investor deck, you’ll hear the same refrain, “power is king, and aluminium is electricity in solid form”. But, as Maros Durka,...

China, a decade-old ally, unharmed in Guinea’s bauxite game. But why?
Bauxite03 SEPT 2025

China, a decade-old ally, unharmed in Guinea’s bauxite game. But why?

Over 100 mining licences were cancelled in Guinea, where big names like EGA have made headlines. But how many China-owned firms have been the target of Guinea’s ‘mine here, refine here regime’? The answer is a big-n-bold ZERO. The only report that deep search found when AL Circle was investigating...

FORECAST DATA: US & Europe slowed, Asia-Pacific's aluminium future shot to frontline
Primary AL02 SEPT 2025

FORECAST DATA: US & Europe slowed, Asia-Pacific's aluminium future shot to frontline

Asia-Pacific, where labour is affordable, setup costs of plants are cheaper and regulations are more friendly for business owners and stakeholders, have grown to become the focal point of the aluminium industry in the past decade. But what seems like a regional jump is a fruit of longstanding...