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German power cost up even with 75% solar capture! Europe’s aluminium runs with 78% renewable
Sustainability01 SEPT 2025

German power cost up even with 75% solar capture! Europe’s aluminium runs with 78% renewable

Europe’s renewable boom has a two-faced economy. On long, bright, windless days, it floods grids with cheap or even negative-priced power; when the weather turns, capture prices, as in the money actually earned by wind and solar assets after weighting by when they produce, recover sharply. That...

Stories that travel from Brazil to the Moon: RECYCLING & SUSTAINABILITY recap
Recycled AL30 AUG 2025

Stories that travel from Brazil to the Moon: RECYCLING & SUSTAINABILITY recap

The aluminium industry’s sustainability journey in August 2025 has been exciting as ever. From the bustling can recycling networks of Brazil to futuristic waste conversion experiments on the Moon, and from India’s pandal aesthetics to Europe’s policy battles, the past month have shown how recycling...

EU top export destinations: Aluminium tube export rebalance as US slump & Norway-Türkiye rise
Downstream29 AUG 2025

EU top export destinations: Aluminium tube export rebalance as US slump & Norway-Türkiye rise

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The first five months of 2025 have brought a reshaping of the European Union’s export map for aluminium pipes and tubes (HS 7608). What had looked like a heavily US-driven trade in early 2024 has since shifted into a more balanced pattern, with the United States sharply pulling back, while Norway...

Between revolving funds & Russian oil: India’s energy security remains hostage to geopolitical churn
Sustainability27 AUG 2025

Between revolving funds & Russian oil: India’s energy security remains hostage to geopolitical churn

India’s energy transition is not a linear march from coal to renewables. It is a high-wire act where efficiency, geopolitics, and industrial decarbonisation collide. From the creation of a revolving fund for energy efficiency to the scramble for discounted Russian oil, and from solar and hydrogen...

RUSAL clears $760M legal cloud as court dismisses ‘destructive shareholder’, SUAL partners’ claim
Primary AL26 AUG 2025

RUSAL clears $760M legal cloud as court dismisses ‘destructive shareholder’, SUAL partners’ claim

United Company RUSAL has finally crossed over on the winning side of a long-running courtroom battle that threatened to saddle the world’s second-largest aluminium producer with hundreds of millions in potential liabilities. Image for representational purposes only The company announced that the...

LME aluminium inventory's truth: Numbers up, but metal missing!
Primary AL25 AUG 2025

LME aluminium inventory's truth: Numbers up, but metal missing!

The aluminium markets have just seen another twist in what’s become a long-running stocks carousel. But this time, the spin may be nearing its end. As reported by Reuters on August 20, over the past six weeks, a hefty 156 thousand tonnes of aluminium found its way into London Metal Exchange (LME)...

From €15.6B to €2.8B: Eurozone’s June trade surplus collapses under tariff pressure
SupplementAL22 AUG 2025

From €15.6B to €2.8B: Eurozone’s June trade surplus collapses under tariff pressure

The European Union’s vaunted export engine is sputtering under the combined weight of tariffs, softer demand, and eroding competitiveness. June 2025 marked a dramatic turning point: according to ING’s latest analysis, the bloc’s seasonally adjusted trade surplus collapsed to just EUR 2.8 billion,...

Tariff tsunami hits Karnataka’s aluminium extrusion industry
Downstream21 AUG 2025

Tariff tsunami hits Karnataka’s aluminium extrusion industry

Karnataka’s aluminium extrusion sector, once a steady contributor to India’s industrial ecosystem, is facing its toughest test in decades. A convergence of global trade shocks, inclusive of but not limited to the 50 per cent tariff imposed by the United States under President Trump, along with a...

Barter creeps back into trade as Russia and China rewrite the rules
Downstream20 AUG 2025

Barter creeps back into trade as Russia and China rewrite the rules

History has repeated itself as Russia, after the 1990s, has returned to barter deals owing to geopolitical predicaments. Not a generic practice yet, but the initiation of barter deals commenced at the Kazan Expo business forum. Chinese companies cited settlement issues and Russian demands that they...

It’s all about the American aluminium industry in 2025 as it should have been!
Sustainability19 AUG 2025

It’s all about the American aluminium industry in 2025 as it should have been!

The American aluminium industry is standing at a decisive moment. In 2025, producers, policymakers, and end-users are all wrestling with a dual reality, wherein on one hand, tariffs, energy volatility, and demand slowdowns are weighing heavily; on the other, a push for green metals and recycling is...

Why is ENERGY MIX the decisive factor for aluminium’s cradle-to-gate footprint?
Sustainability19 AUG 2025

Why is ENERGY MIX the decisive factor for aluminium’s cradle-to-gate footprint?

The aluminium industry has long sold itself as the ‘metal of the future’, well known for being lightweight, infinitely recyclable, and indispensable for decarbonisation in transport, construction and packaging. Yet, when scrutinised from a life-cycle perspective, the path from bauxite to ingot...

PCs and Smartphones prone to being hit hardest: Vietnam and India step into the spotlight to battle the tariff quake
End User12 AUG 2025

PCs and Smartphones prone to being hit hardest: Vietnam and India step into the spotlight to battle the tariff quake

No one in the global tech supply chain has a clear read on where US tariffs will finally land, but one truth is already cementing, that the deepest fault line will be between Washington and Beijing. The biggest casualties? Companies welded to China’s tightly integrated technology manufacturing...

Century Aluminum Q2 profit falls on one-off costs; Tariffs and capacity restart to support Q3
Primary AL09 AUG 2025

Century Aluminum Q2 profit falls on one-off costs; Tariffs and capacity restart to support Q3

Century Aluminum Co. (NASDAQ: CENX) reported a Q2 2025 net loss of USD 4.6 million (USD 0.05 per share), reversing a USD 29.7 million profit in Q1 and down from USD 20.2 million in Q2 2024. The swing was driven by USD 35 million in one-off costs, including derivative losses, an Iceland inventory...

India dethrones China in US smartphone exports, but the real story is aluminium
End User04 AUG 2025

India dethrones China in US smartphone exports, but the real story is aluminium

In a historic pivot that stresses the tectonic shifts in global electronics manufacturing, India has overtaken China as the top source of smartphones sold in the United States. According to Canalys, in the second quarter of 2025, India accounted for a staggering 44 per cent of US-bound smartphone...

EU-US to forge a common shield, a metals alliance as industrial sovereignty in action
Primary AL01 AUG 2025

EU-US to forge a common shield, a metals alliance as industrial sovereignty in action

When the European Union and the United States announced the formation of a new “metals alliance” on July 28, 2025, it signalled more than just tariff alignment. It marked a turning point, a coordinated effort to shield their domestic metals sectors from a common adversary: China’s state-driven...

Amcor Rorschach clears ASI V3.1 re-certification assessment
Sustainability30 JUL 2025

Amcor Rorschach clears ASI V3.1 re-certification assessment

Amcor Flexibles Rorschach in Switzerland has once again secured re-certification under the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative’s (ASI) Performance Standard V3.1, reaffirming its leadership in responsible aluminium packaging. As of July 29 2025, ASI confirmed that the Rorschach facility met all...

Volker Hoffmann from CeraNovis and AL Circle converse on the aluminium market’s shift from cost and quality to sustainability
Downstream29 JUL 2025

Volker Hoffmann from CeraNovis and AL Circle converse on the aluminium market’s shift from cost and quality to sustainability

Volker Hofmann is the Head of Sales and Product Management at CeraNovis GmbH, a Saarbrücken-based specialist in high-performance coatings for foundries and casthouses. A qualified engineer in Foundry and Materials Technology (Dipl.-Ing. FH), Hofmann brings over three decades of experience across...

The US-UK deal just ahead of August 1 hits pause on a TRADE TUSSLE. Triumph or Compromise?
SupplementAL29 JUL 2025

The US-UK deal just ahead of August 1 hits pause on a TRADE TUSSLE. Triumph or Compromise?

The August 1 deadline looms just around the corner, and countries across the globe are preparing last-minute either to crack a deal with the US ahead of the reciprocal tariff implementation or to combat the ripple effect of the tariff across supply chains. In the meantime, when the world’s two...