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Aludium resumes its Alicante plant operation a year after the massive fire incident
Just one year after the massive fire at the factory that erupted early on April 3, 2021, Aludium resumed operation of its Alicante plant with the L2, its primary rolling mill. Given the difficulty of organising the work and the global circumstances impacting the supply of components, the repair and...
LME aluminium price hits 18-month low as market braces for hefty interest rate rise; SHFE price inches down by US$1/t
LME aluminium opened at US$2,250.5 per tonne on Wednesday and closed at US$2,203 per tonne, down US$52 per tonne or 2.31 per cent. On Wednesday, September 21, aluminium prices dropped to their lowest in 18 months since March 2021 as markets prepared for another significant increase in US interest...
AlCircle launches 12th edition of e-Magazine "Digital Transformation in the Aluminium Industry: Drivers & Change Makers of 2022"
Around the world, the effects of digital transformation are notable and pervasive. Digitalization has substantially advanced through time and given rise to cutting-edge technologies like AI, robotics, IoT, and many more. Aluminium is one of the top worldwide sectors adopting these advanced digital...
Hydro-owned Vianode to invest NOK 2 billion in its first industrial-scale plant for sustainable battery material at Herøya
Elkem, Hydro, and Altor-owned firm Vianode, the producer of sustainable engineered battery materials, has decided to invest NOK 2 billion in its first industrial-scale facility for sustainable battery materials in Herøya, Norway. By 2024, the industrial facility in Herøya will generate enough anode...
A00 aluminium ingot price in China slumps by RMB140/t; Average alumina spot price dips by RMB4/t
On Wednesday, September 21, A00 aluminium ingot price in China slumped by RMB 140 per tonne to halt at RMB 18,550 per tonne, with the average prices ranging between RMB 18,530 per tonne and RMB 18,570 per tonne. The spot contract price is expected to be traded at a discount price of RMB 70 to RMB...
Collaboration between Silicon Ranch Corp. and SOLARCYCLE to provide recycled aluminium
Collaboration between Silicon Ranch Corp., a sizable independent power producer based in Nashville, Tennessee, and SOLARCYCLE, a tech-driven solar recycling platform, will recycle obsolete solar modules from Silicon Ranch projects using SOLARCYCLE's high-recovery recycling technology. The...
Turkey's VIG Metal Aluminium division marks 10 years of production
Vig Metal, which completed 10 years in 2022, increased its production capacity to 40,000 tonnes thanks to new investments, including annealing furnaces, a casting line with a production width of 1500 mm, and a new, high-tech cut-to-length line with a production width of 2000 mm. Since 2012, Vig...
ISRI Commodity Roundtables: Both recycled and primary aluminium demand witnesses a ‘marked turnaround’
Greg Wittbecker, an advisor to London-based CRU International, reported that aluminium experienced a "marked turnaround in primary demand" since scrap processors and traders gathered in Las Vegas for the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) Convention & Exposition (ISRI2022) in late...
LME aluminium price slips by US$27/t to US$2,232/t; SHFE price descends to US$2,677/t
LME aluminium opened at US$2,284 per tonne on Monday and closed at US$2,249 per tonne, down US$34 per tonne or 1.49 per cent. On Monday, September 19, both LME aluminium cash bid price and LME aluminium official settlement price dipped by US$26 per tonne or 1.15 per cent and US$27 per tonne or 1.19...
Recycled aluminium recap: Romco Metals to expand output leaning towards green hydrogen production; Alutrade recovers 99% pure aluminium using X-TRACT™
Alutrade produced 99.9 per cent pure aluminium for secondary aluminium production using TOMRA's most advanced x-ray metals sorting apparatus, the X-TRACTTM. The UK-based aluminium recycling business used the powerful new sensor-based sorting system from TOMRA, X-TRACT, for the first time. The...
Primary weekly recap: Yunnan orders aluminium producers to reduce power usage in the coming weeks; Russia-Ukraine's geopolitical crisis may enhance Egyptalum's financial performance
According to sources, the Yunnan province in southwest China gave this week's directive to aluminium companies to use less energy. In addition to its captive power plant (CPP) at its Mahan facility, Hindalco Industries, the largest manufacturer of aluminium in India, started producing energy from a...
Gerhardi AluTechnik GmbH achieves ASI Performance Standard V2 (2017) Certification, with emphasis on Material Stewardship
On Friday, September 16, Gerhardi AluTechnik GmbH received ASI Performance Standard V2 (2017) Certification at their facility in Luedenscheid, Germany, emphasising Material Stewardship for the manufacturing and sale of semi-finished aluminium profiles. According to the ASI statement, Gerhardi...
Aluminium billet inventories in China slump by 2,700 tonnes W-o-W to 114,900 tonnes
On Thursday, September 15, the domestic social inventory of aluminium billets dropped by 2,700 tonnes or 2.29 per cent across three major consumption areas to close at 114,900 tonnes. This month, the orders received by downstream businesses had hardly improved. Since downstream producers are...
Discarded PV cells a new medium for extracting aluminium and silver, say Leicester University researchers
By dissolving iron chloride and aluminium chloride in brines, researchers at the University of Leicester have created a brand-new technique for recovering aluminium and silver from discarded photovoltaic cells (PV cells) nearing the end of their useful lives. They claim that the inexpensive...
Hydro, Elkem and Altor finalise transaction to establish Vianode as a leader in sustainable battery materials
According to a partnership announced on April 6, Elkem would retain 40 per cent of Vianode while Hydro and Altor Equity Partners would each purchase 30 per cent. As per the latest reports, the acquisition has received approval from the competition authorities, in which Vianode will have...
A00 aluminium ingot price in China grows by RMB80/t; Low carbon aluminium price hikes by RMB95/t
On Friday, September 16, A00 aluminium ingot price in China went up by RMB 80 per tonne to settle at RMB 18,870 per tonne. The average price for the same is expected to range between RMB 18,850 per tonne and RMB 18,890 per tonne, with spot contracts to be traded at a discount price of RMB 70 to RMB...
LME aluminium price mounts to US$2,272/t; SHFE price hikes by US$35/t
LME aluminium opened at US$2,276 per tonne on Thursday and closed at US$2,315 per tonne, up 1.83 per cent. On Thursday, September 15, both LME aluminium cash bid price and LME aluminium official settlement price surged by US$44 per tonne or 1.97 per cent and US$44.5 per tonne or 1.99 per cent to...
Zhejiang Huashuo Technology Co., Ltd joins ASI as new Production and Transformation member
On Wednesday, September 14, Aluminium Stewardship Initiative announced the joining of Zhejiang Huashuo Technology Co., Ltd as its new Production and Transformation member. Zhejiang Huashuo Technology Co., Ltd. is based in the Beilun district of Ningbo City, Zhejiang province of China, and is...
