Across Europe, aluminium extrusion has become closely woven into some of the region’s biggest industrial and construction markets. From automotive and transport to buildings and industrial applications, extruded profiles are finding demand across a wide range of sectors. This is reflected in...
Taber Extrusions has launched a $70 million expansion in Russellville featuring North America’s largest aluminum extrusion press, with production scheduled to begin Wednesday and 70 new jobs expected at the facility. The company marked the grand opening of the expanded facility Tuesday, unveiling...
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MRT, the die-casting company based in Hampshire is enhancing its production space by around 50% and opening a new foundry with the help of the MTC. A team from the MTC’s manufacturing support services operation worked with managers and operators from Queens Award-winning die-casting supplier MRT...
The businesses in the USA are opening slowly amid COVID-19, though lacks in liquidity. The President of Norwegian Aluminium maker Norsk Hydro’s North American extrusion unit, Charlie Straface has been assembling a COVID-19 task force every other day to draw up the cost-cutting measures to balance...
Hydro has announced the re-opening of recycling plants and extrusion plants amid coronavirus to fulfill backlog and meet customer demand in different segments. Recyclers Azuqueca in Spain, Lucé in France, Rackwitz in Germany and Deeside in UK restarted this week after being temporarily closed. “US...
Novelis Inc., the world leader in aluminium rolling and recycling, announced on April 14 that it completed the acquisition of Aleris Corporation, a global supplier of rolled aluminium products. Thus, Novelis is now better positioned to meet customers’ demand for aluminium, with a wider product...
According to the latest export-import data released by China's General Administration of Customs, total unwrought aluminium and aluminium products exports by China stood at 518,600 tonnes in March 2020, a decrease of 5% from a year earlier. In the first three months of 2020, exports of unwrought...
The American import of aluminium crude, metals and alloys from Australia shows stability as the total import was recorded at 45,300 tonnes during Nov'19 - Jan'20. The total import of aluminium crude, metals and alloys of the US from Australia during Jan’19 – Dec’19 stood at 268,000 tonnes....
On surveying 41 major aluminium processors in 12 provinces across China last week, Shanghai Metals Market found their average operating rate dropped marginally by 0.6 percentage point on a weekly basis to 74.4 per cent. Backlog orders could be a reason behind this overall steady operating rate, in...
Canada’s exports of total aluminium including scrap to the US stood at 220,000 tonnes in January 2020, an increase of 32.53% or 54,000 tonnes year-on-year. Canada had exported 166,000 tonnes to the US in January 2019, according to the latest Mineral Industry Survey report from the US Geological...
The latest data from US Geological Survey indicates that the total aluminium (crude metal and alloys, semi-finished products, and scrap) imports in the US stood at 386,000 tonnes in January 2020, a decrease of 20.9% or 102,000 tonnes from 488,000 tonnes in January 2019. Aluminium imports decreased...
Hydro has provided updates on its business operations amid the coronavirus pandemic. While the situation is leading to closures and reduced production at many sites, Hydro has reopened some facilities to meet customer demand. The company has reopened some sites at extrusion solutions operations in...
Extrusion manufacturing facility based outside Toronto, Spectra Aluminium, has reportedly ordered a 28-MN front-loading direct extrusion press and 5,000 kg/h, high-efficiency gas billet oven from Danieli Brada for producing industrial profiles starting from 8” to 9” aluminium billets. The new...
According to Shanghai Metals Market, aluminium billet inventories in China have declined today, on April 9, for the fifth consecutive week, as stocks in east China have begun to shrink. The data shows the stocks of 6063 aluminium billets across five major consumption areas in China have totalled at...
Atlanta-based world-leading aluminium rolling and recycling firm Novelis Inc. announced today, on April 8, about the receipt of the final clearance needed to complete the acquisition of Aleris Corporation, a global supplier of rolled aluminium products. Thus, it will now move expeditiously to close...
The latest data from the US Geological Survey shows the United States’ exports of aluminium plates, sheets and bars increased in January 2020 after two consecutive months of decline. From 56,100 tonnes in December 2019, the export amount increased by about 22 per cent to 68,200 tonnes in January...
The National Investment Commission (NIC) of Iraq has announced five new investment opportunities in Iraq and it includes aluminium. Iraq’s import of aluminium bar rod and profiles during 2017-19 has shown very positive growth for the industry as the total importation volume stood at 92,972 tonnes,...
The latesty data from the US Geological Surve showed the United States started the year 2020 with month-on-month growth in aluminium (including FRPs and scrap) exports. From 213,000 tonnes in December last year, the United States’ aluminium exports grew 8.45 per cent in January 2020 and came in at...
Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant (NCCP) has signed a 10-year contract with the Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority for the supply of low-enriched nuclear fuel components, such as aluminium and uranium items, for the ETRR-2 research reactor. NCCP is a subsidiary of Russian nuclear fuel...
The US imports of crude metal and alloys rose 16.44% or 49,000 tonnes year-on-year to 347,000 tonnes in January 2020. The US had imported 298,000 tonnes in January 2019, according to the latest Mineral Industry Survey report from the US Geological Survey. Crude metal and alloys imports increased by...
