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Global aluminium scrap tracker 2025: A 41.7Mt backbone under pressure as demand rises 3.87%
Recycled AL23 FEB 2026

Global aluminium scrap tracker 2025: A 41.7Mt backbone under pressure as demand rises 3.87%

If 2024 was the year aluminium demand normalised, 2025 is the year scrap becomes the pressure valve. Global cumulative aluminium consumption reached 100.8 million tonnes in 2024, with 28.4 million tonnes supplied by recycled aluminium. That share, already above 28 per cent, is not a marginal...

Punch-ing above its weight: Tata Motors to unveil the Tata Punch EV Facelift today
End User20 FEB 2026

Punch-ing above its weight: Tata Motors to unveil the Tata Punch EV Facelift today

Today’s the day. Tata Motors has officially rolls out the refreshed Tata Punch EV, and it’s not just a cosmetic dab of powder. It’s a sharper, tech-smarter, range-confident upgrade to one of India’s most successful electric micro-SUVs. Visually, the facelift keeps its upright, boxy charm but adds...

Hydro maintains 16th percentile cost position with 2.1 Mt aluminium production capacity despite downstream retrenchment
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19 FEB 2026

Hydro maintains 16th percentile cost position with 2.1 Mt aluminium production capacity despite downstream retrenchment

Norsk Hydro has grabbed headlines during the entire 2025 calendar year for its job cuts, plant closure and among other relatively positive news pieces. And this time, it is the financial results that has pulled eyeballs and rightfully so as the global business has managed to affirm positive...

790 Mt of emissions and counting: China’s 18 tCO₂e aluminium production in a 1.5°C world
Sustainability18 FEB 2026

790 Mt of emissions and counting: China’s 18 tCO₂e aluminium production in a 1.5°C world

China is greening its aluminium, a trending statement for the past year. But while greening its onshore production, is it dumping its carbon footprint elsewhere? China's primary aluminium production (exceeding 44 million tonnes in 2025, while some report the production volume has exceeded 45...

Global aluminium capacity to grow 4.58% with an additional 20.9 Mt coming by end-2026
Primary AL13 FEB 2026

Global aluminium capacity to grow 4.58% with an additional 20.9 Mt coming by end-2026

中文翻译附于新闻末尾，敬请继续阅读。 Though a plethora of speed breakers hit the aluminium industry in recent times, global primary aluminium operating capacity is set to rise sharply. SMM, through one of its recently held webinars, projects an increase of about 20.9 million tonnes by the end of 2026, taking total...

Indonesia’s aluminium industry to be hit by 317% inflated power hunger, with a potential 9.5 GW demand by 2028
Sustainability12 FEB 2026

Indonesia’s aluminium industry to be hit by 317% inflated power hunger, with a potential 9.5 GW demand by 2028

Indonesia’s aluminium industry is growing fast, tackling all the stalled sites and upgrading technology at processing units. The RKAB structure has made sure that the ore and the subsequent production process are streamlined. But what about the electrons? Globally, electricity alone accounts for...

Global EV sales 2025: Volume expansion up 20%, but growth paths diverge sharply by regions
End User10 FEB 2026

Global EV sales 2025: Volume expansion up 20%, but growth paths diverge sharply by regions

The 2025 global EV sales data point to a newly aligned market than even two years earlier. Growth is no longer limited by consumer acceptance or product availability. Instead, it is being rationed by three quantifiable constraints, such as entry price dispersion of more than EUR 20,000 (USD 23,600)...

Ball Corporation’s 2025 performance: Volume-led growth, margin discipline and a reset capital structure
End User07 FEB 2026

Ball Corporation’s 2025 performance: Volume-led growth, margin discipline and a reset capital structure

Ball Corporation exited fiscal 2025 as a structurally leaner aluminium packaging company, delivering double-digit revenue growth, region-wide volume expansion and record free cash flow, while headline earnings declined from an aerospace-inflated 2024 base. The year marked a reset in Ball’s earnings...

Gränges AB posts fifth straight year of record profit as volume growth offsets pricing, FX and scrap pressure
Downstream04 FEB 2026

Gränges AB posts fifth straight year of record profit as volume growth offsets pricing, FX and scrap pressure

Gränges closed 2025 with its strongest operating performance on record, extending its streak of all-time-high operating profit to a fifth consecutive year, even as currency headwinds, weaker HVAC demand and tighter scrap margins weighed on profitability across regions. The year was defined by...

Aluminium price forecast: $3,000 ascent in January demands a global price recalculation
Primary AL03 FEB 2026

Aluminium price forecast: $3,000 ascent in January demands a global price recalculation

The London Metal Exchange (LME) aluminium contract entered 2026 with a bang of a hike, as in early January, the three-month contract crossed USD 3,000 per tonne for the first time since 2022, trading at USD 3,015.50 before extending gains later in the month. The move was not the product of...

India-Canada’s energy reset with signing of joint statement: Trade, gas, nuclear and the math behind
SupplementAL29 JAN 2026

India-Canada’s energy reset with signing of joint statement: Trade, gas, nuclear and the math behind

The first two days of India Energy Week (IEW) 2026 were not short on announcements, but one development cut through the noise — India and Canada quietly reset their energy relationship, anchoring it in trade, supply security and investment logic rather than political symbolism. Explore- Most...

India’s transport energy balance: why petroleum, diesel and electricity must move in parallel, not in opposition
SupplementAL27 JAN 2026

India’s transport energy balance: why petroleum, diesel and electricity must move in parallel, not in opposition

India’s transport transition is often framed as a contest between internal combustion engines and electric mobility. The data, along with the lived reality of energy demand, suggest something far less binary. As Dr Chanchal Samanta, DGM of Bharat Petroleum, made clear in his remarks at the ongoing...

Metro Mining’s 2025: tidy execution, but how durable is the payoff?
Bauxite27 JAN 2026

Metro Mining’s 2025: tidy execution, but how durable is the payoff?

Metro Mining finished 2025 with a set of neat operational checkboxes, including a reported 6.2 million wet metric tonnes (WMT) shipped for the calendar year (December volumes were 543,000 WMT), a year-end cash position of AUD 57 million, and the grinding down of junior liabilities that management...

Swisstek Aluminium opens a new design studio to rev architectural solutions
Downstream26 JAN 2026

Swisstek Aluminium opens a new design studio to rev architectural solutions

Swisstek Aluminium, a leading Sri Lankan aluminium extrusion manufacturer in Sri Lanka and part of Vallibel One PLC, has opened a dedicated ‘Design Studio’ to support modern aluminium solutions for both homes and commercial building projects. Uncovered at Swisstek’s headquarters on Nawala Road in...

Japan’s Q1 2026 aluminium premium of $195 likely to continue in the same bracket in Q2
Primary AL21 JAN 2026

Japan’s Q1 2026 aluminium premium of $195 likely to continue in the same bracket in Q2

A single smelter has had immense impact on the global trade scenario. Mozal’s closure hit the CBAM impacted nations, tightened the global aluminium supply chain scenario and now is influencing the Japan’s Q1 2026 aluminium premium with around a 127 per cent hike quarter-on-quarter. After a year of...

Alumina’s journey through 2025: A year known for ambition, friction and recalibration
Alumina20 JAN 2026

Alumina’s journey through 2025: A year known for ambition, friction and recalibration

The story of alumina in 2025 saw every up and down possible and at the same time raced to re-engineer itself to minimise shortfall. The global alumina industry moved in jolts with a plethora of incidents like capacity added in one geography while written off in another, environmental scrutiny...

Can US rebar duties, in reality, become aluminium’s next demand engine?
Downstream16 JAN 2026

Can US rebar duties, in reality, become aluminium’s next demand engine?

The US’s latest countervailing duty action against rebar imports from Algeria, Egypt and Vietnam is definitely a steel story. But in the layer under, it is shaping up to be a structural aluminium demand event for the North American construction ecosystem. In January 2026, the US Department of...

Role of energy prices 2025 and outlook in aluminium’s next 25 years, considering three likely distinct scenarios
Sustainability14 JAN 2026

Role of energy prices 2025 and outlook in aluminium’s next 25 years, considering three likely distinct scenarios

Call it destiny or plain arithmetic, aluminium’s decarbonisation story now hinges on energy prices. The Hall-Héroult smelting process is evidently electricity-intensive, so swings in oil, gas, coal and (crucially) electricity prices feed directly into producers’ margins, and definitely into the...