ABB has secured two orders from China’s Southwest Aluminum to supply integrated automation and digital technologies for two six-high aluminium cold rolling mills, supporting the manufacturer’s wide-strip production expansion and upgrade. The projects involve a 2,500 mm two-stand mill and a 3,000 mm single-stand mill, with both lines expected to be fully commissioned and operational by the end of 2027. Chongqing-based Southwest Aluminum is a subsidiary of the Aluminum Corporation of China (Chinalco). The orders build on the longstanding cooperation between ABB and the aluminium producer, with the latest projects focusing on process stability, control precision and production performance. Explore insights and forecasts for the aluminium flat rolled products (FRP) market from our...
India-based PG Foils Limited plans to establish a downstream aluminium manufacturing facility in Bahrain, focusing on electric vehicle (EV) battery foil and pharmaceutical foil production. The proposed investment is expected to expand the kingdom’s aluminium downstream capabilities and strengthen its manufacturing base. Bahrain’s Ministry of Industry and Commerce signed a letter of intent with PG Foils for the project. The agreement was signed by Industry and Commerce Minister Abdullah bin Adel Fakhro and PG Foils Joint Managing Director Sahil Shah during the fourth edition of the Gateway Gulf expo, which opened on November 1 in Manama. Explore: The most comprehensive and forward-looking industry-focused report – Aluminum Foil Market Report Forecast Till 2035 Hosted by the Bahrain...
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Japan is one of the top 3 car producing countries in the world. Some of the globally renowned car brands such as Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Subaru, Daihatsu, Fuso, Hino, Mazda, and Lexus belong to the Japanese automotive industry. Auto parts manufacturing accounts for over 600,000 jobs in the sector, and another 390,000 jobs are allocated to the production of raw materials and basic equipment used in automotive manufacturing, according to a 2016 Japan Industry News report. Driven by the continuously growing domestic auto parts manufacturing sector, Japan’s aluminium plates, sheets and strips import has been rising year-on-year. The global export-import data shows, Japan imported 78669 tonnes of aluminium plates, sheets and strips in 2016. The total import was valued at US$389...
Tubes and pipes are two aluminium extruded products that have wide uses across a number of sectors. The most common aluminium alloys used for tubing and pipe are 2024, 3003, 5052, 6061, 7075. USA has a big demand for aluminium pipes and tubes which has a flourishing end use market in aerospace, automotive and industrial sector. The US produces a good amount of extruded tubes and pipes and also imports a large amount from Asian countries for the domestic use. Since recently the country is getting extra protective about imports of aluminium extrusions and rolled products and is on the verge of imposing anti-dumping duties on a number of aluminium products, it becomes imperative to assess how the country has fared in last two years in the foreign trade sector for these products. We are...
India’s Rockman Industries Limited has announced that it will invest INR 652 crore to set up an aluminium alloy wheels and die casting component manufacturing unit in Andhra Pradesh. The project, planned to come up in Chittoor district of Rayalaseema region of AP, is expected to create 1,000 direct and 500 indirect employment opportunities. On Tuesday October 17, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, at a meeting of the State Investment Promotion Board (SIPB) on Tuesday, October 17, approved of five new investment proposals- all relating to setting up of various industries across the State. Rockman Industries’ aluminium alloy wheels and die casting component unit was one of these proposals. A part of India’s iconic Hero Group, Rockman Industries specialises in the...
On Tuesday October 18, Braidy Industries announced that the location for its $1.3 billion aluminium rolling mill would shift from South Shore to the EastPark industrial site in Greenup and Boyd counties. As said by Braidy officials, this decision was based on an analysis of the South Shore property, which revealed that it could not accommodate the deep foundations necessary to support Braidy's mill. EastPark industrial site "In our diligent efforts, we discovered a risk that our peculiar needs for deep foundations for the mill could not be met without incurring material delays to our planned groundbreaking in the second quarter of 2018," said Braidy Industries Executive Vice President of Engineering, Alan Blankshain. "Our site will ultimately have to sustain the type of deep-bore...
Nalco is in talks with Almex and Rusal to form joint ventures at the upcoming Angul Aluminium Park in Odisha for the production of high-grade aluminium. Nalco Chairman and Managing Director T K Chand told PTI that the aluminium will be used in in metro trains, e-vehicles, aerospace and automobile sector. Angul Aluminium Park is a joint venture between Navratna firm National Aluminium Company (Nalco) and state-owned Odisha Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO). US-based Almex is a leading supplier of commercial and aerospace aluminium billet and slab casting technology and equipment. Russia’s RUSAL's main products are primary aluminium, aluminium alloys, foil and alumina. Chand said, “We will form JVs with Almex and Rusal as technology partners and another Indian entity...
The Aluminium Association’s “Index of Net New Orders of Aluminum Mill Products” for September reports that orders for mill products dropped in September month on month. Orders for flat roll products (sheet, plate, can stock and foil) dropped 5.4%. Estimated net shipments of Aluminum Sheet and Plate by U.S. and Canadian producers dropped 4.9% YoY to 698.8 million pounds during September 2017. On a month on month comparison, shipments were down 5.8% from the August 2017 total of 741.7 million pounds. YTD shipments through September 2017 stood at 6,475.5 million pounds, up 1.2 per cent over the same period of 2016. Shipments of Can Stock dropped 8.6% YoY to 324.5 million pounds during September 2017. On a month on month comparison, shipments decreased 9% from the August 2017 total of 356.5...
Tokyo’s Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC) has announced plans to invest in the Italian automobile component manufacturer and seller CPC S.R.L. The decision can be seen as part of Mitsubishi Chemical’s efforts to strengthen business position in the U.S. and European markets. MCC subsidiary Mitsubishi Chemical Carbon Fiber and Composites GmbH recently acquired a 44 per cent equity stake in the carbon fibre and aluminium composite auto component making enterprise from its founder. Globally, the demand for carbon fibre and aluminium composites is increasing for making fuel-efficient, lightweight cars. MCC being a player in this promising sector aims to capture the top share of the market by providing optimal solutions to customers through an expansive coverage across its entire business...
apt Extrusions GmbH & Co. KG, Monheim, Germany opened its doors to visitors to experience their plant and facilities during the "Long Night of Industry". The participation is free and visitors thronged the Monheim site with goggles, hearing protection plugs and headsets to see the processes. apt Extrusions is a leading manufacture of complex and multifunctional extruded aluminium profiles and products in Germany. Their processing capabilities cover the entire value chain for the manufacture of products – from raw material to the end product. "Aluminum is pure passion for us," says Managing Director Thomas Boddenberg at the start of the company's visit. The company was founded in 1972 and their products are used in automotive and mechanical and electrical engineering and in household,...
Hindalco Industries has drawn up plans to expand the capacity of its aluminium rolling mill at Hirakud, Odisha. The company will invest INR 4,000 crore to ramp up the capacity to 3,75,000 tonnes per annum from the current 1,35,000 tonnes per annum. It is looking for 100 acres of land in the adjoining areas to complete the expansion. Most of the aluminium flat-rolled products manufactured at the Hirakud plant are exported. “We are witnessing a very good demand for such products and this is driving our expansion", said Hindalco Industries head (Sambalpur cluster) R K Gupta. Hindalco is also in talks with Apar Industries for setting up an aluminium wire rod conductor making unit in the vicinity of its smelter at Lapanga in Odisha’s Sambalpur district. It runs an FRP facility that...
The Government of Odisha is intensifying efforts to build an inclusive environment for ancillary and aluminium downstream units in the state. Following the success of the last month’s meet organized in collaboration with Tata Steel and Jindal Stainless (JSL) in Kalinganagar, the state government is now organizing a workshop for the aluminium industry in the same line. The event to be held on October 16, in partnership with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), is expected to witness a turnaround of about 100 ancillary and downstream aluminium companies. Investments in Odisha aluminium downstream sector are gaining momentum. Over the past five years, the state has attracted investments worth INR 893 crore, including: Midal Cables’s proposal to build an aluminium rod and wire...
Aluminium bar rods and profiles export by Oman is nearing a year-on-year decline in 2017. The Middle East country with a promising downstream aluminium manufacturing base is projected to ship around 2822.5 tonnes of aluminium extruded products internationally by this year end, global trade data revealed. The total value of aluminium bar rods and profiles export by Oman is estimated to reach US$5.2 million in 2017, down 20.33 per cent year-on-year. Oman is home to some of Middle East’s leading aluminium extrusion manufacturers. National Aluminium Products Company SAOG (NAPCO) is the biggest aluminium bar rods and profiles producer with annual production capacity totalling 42,000 tonnes. It has four state-of-the-art extrusion presses from Europe. The extrusion presses are complemented by...
The European Tube Manufacturers Association (etma), an association of producers of flexible aluminium, plastic and laminate tubes for packaging purposes, achieved growth of two per cent in tube production in the first half of 2017 than the corresponding figure in 2016. Members of etma produced approximately 5.4 billion tubes during the first half of 2017. “Aluminium tubes put in an above-average performance, having increased by a good three percent. The aluminium tube sector benefited from stable demand from its main markets, namely cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, as well as considerable increases in the household and food segment,” according to etma press release. The new etma President Oliver Höll said: “Tubes continue to gain ground and the end-use markets are quite stable by and large....
The Aluminum Association recently announced membership growth, additions to its Board of Directors and the election of its first woman chair. The association also announced the winner of the 2017 Marlan A. Boultinghouse Award, the highest award given by the North American industry. The announcements were made during the Aluminum Association’s recently concluded annual meeting – “Aluminum Moves America” – in Washington, DC. “We’ve accomplished a lot in recent months and years by working together and speaking with one, cohesive voice as an industry,” said Michelle O’Neill, Senior Vice President of Global Government Affairs & Sustainability at Alcoa and newly elected Chair of the Aluminum Association. “This is a pivotal point for American manufacturing in general and aluminum specifically....
China’s unwrought aluminium and aluminium products export volumes dropped for three straight months in September, according to the latest numbers reported by China Customs. China’s exports of unwrought aluminium and aluminium products fell 10 per cent to 370,000 tonnes in September. The country exported 410,000 tonnes of unwrought aluminium and aluminium products in August. The country exported 3.62 million tonnes of aluminium during the first nine months of this year. China exported 4.59 million tonnes of aluminium in 2016, from 4.761 million tonnes in 2015. CRU analyst Jackie Wang said, “The (Chinese currency) actually appreciated a lot during September and that definitely impacted exports as well.”
According to the preliminary estimates from Aluminum Association Monthly report aluminium demand in the United States and Canada (shipments by domestic producers plus imports) totalled an estimated 7.2 million tonnes through the first seven months of 2017, up 4.2% over the same period last year. Demand for semi-fabricated (mill) products was up 6.0% to stand at 5.2 million tonnes. Apparent consumption (demand less exports) in domestic markets totalled an estimated 6.4 million tonnes, up 5.2% YoY. Aluminium net shipments (including exports) by domestic U.S. and Canadian facilities stood at an estimated 952,544 tonnes during August, off 2.1% from August 2016. Shipments of aluminium mill products increased slightly YoY to 643,647 tonnes, while shipments of aluminium ingot for castings,...
The demand for aluminium wire is increasing day by day. The automotive, transportation and construction drive the market for aluminium wire worldwide. {newsStudioGallery} Malaysia, the 20th largest exporter in the world, is estimated to witness an increase in exports of aluminium wire this year. The top aluminium wire importer from Malaysia is India. India imported about 15354 tonnes of aluminium wire in 2016. The country exports its major chunk of aluminium wire to Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Germany. As per global export-import data, Malaysia’s aluminium wire export reached an estimated total of 39742 tonnes in 2015. In 2016, the volume dropped noticeably to stand at 36025 tonnes. In 2017, the estimated aluminium wire export volume is expected to reach 40041 tonnes. Revenue from...
Base metals diverged further in China market, with copper and nickel relatively stronger, and price divergence is expected to continue in the near term. The average price of A00 Aluminium Ingot drops from RMB 16,220/t on October 11 to stand at RMB 16,130/t today. The average price of A00 Aluminium Ingot would range between RMB 16040 – 16080/t. SMM expects SHFE 1712 aluminium prices to range within RMB 16,200-16,450/t after a fall of nearly 2%. In east China’s spot aluminium market, spot discounts are expected to narrow down to RMB 120-80/t over SHFE 1710 aluminium contract on Thursday, October 12. Average Aluminum Alloys Ingot (ADC12) price has dropped about RMB 50 per tonnes to RMB 16600/t today. The monthly average price stands at RMB 16652.78/t. Prices of some of the Aluminium alloy...
The aluminium bar rods and profiles sector is a well-established, worldwide industry. Major international exporters of aluminium profiles operate out of China, the European Union, Canada, USA, and Japan. Among the top importing regions are the European Union and the USA- these two markets have traditionally fared high as major aluminium bar rods and profile importing regions due to their massive infrastructural advancements and refurbishment. Global export-import data reveals that Germany, United Kingdom, Belgium, France, and Italy are the top five aluminium bar rods and profiles importing countries in the EU. They are closely followed by other European countries like Austria, Greece, and Switzerland. Germany imported the highest quantity of aluminium bar rods and profile in 2016. The...
