Bahrain’s aluminium wire exports continued to gain momentum in the second quarter of 2026, with shipments rising significantly compared with the corresponding periods of 2025 and 2024. The country exported 80,895 tonnes of aluminium wire in Q2 2026, taking its total shipments during the first half of the year to 143,518 tonnes. The export data covers aluminium wire under HS code 7605, excluding stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and similar products, electrically insulated wires and strings for musical instruments. Export volume registers strong Y-o-Y growth Comparing the quarterly figures, Bahrain’s aluminium wire export volume increased by 23.76 per cent Y-o-Y in Q2 2026, against 65,366 tonnes shipped during Q2 2025. The latest quarterly volume also marked a considerable rise from Q2...
India-based KEC International Limited is pushing ahead with Phase II of its aluminium conductor capacity expansion, even as a difficult second quarter dragged consolidated profit down. The Q2 FY27 investor presentation, dated November 2, lists the expansion as underway in its Cables & Conductors business, one of the few segments that grew in the quarter. The update comes over a year after KEC’s commissioning of the first phase of the plant in Vadodara in February 2025, marking an investment of about INR 600 million (USD 6.33 million). The company has not disclosed the capacity to be added, the investment or a completion date. Explore AL Circle’s report ALuminium Wires & Cables - Insights & Forecast to 2030 for insights into aluminium applications, industry developments and opportunities...
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Specialist aluminium fabricators Dudley’s Aluminium has secured a £400,000 contract to provide essential glazing and fixtures for the Friars Walk project in Newport. The company are creating and installing custom-made aluminium curtain walling and glazing at the new Friars Walk shopping centre. To complete the contract, the company is designing bespoke aluminium fixtures for a number of different outlets across the 390,000 sq ft site. Colin Shorney managing director at Dudley’s Aluminium, said: “Friars Walk is an exciting development in the heart of Newport, and we are very happy to be providing our expertise at the site. “The challenge of developing and installing custom aluminium glazing and curtain walling across multiple outlets, each with their own specifications, is one that we feel...
Owing to the increased use of aluminium in the automotive and beverage packaging industries, demand for aluminium in South Africa has positive long-term prospects, says Aluminium Federation of South Africa (Afsa) executive director Mark Krieg. “There is tremendous growth opportunity in South Africa’s aluminium industry and Afsa believes that South Africa can double its aluminium demand,” he states. He adds that Afsa regards the demerger of base metals and coal mining company South32 from global mining major BHP Billiton, which came into effect in May, as positive. The demerger signalled to Afsa that more focus and priority would be given to aluminium assets, such as the Hillside smelter in Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, as it forms a much bigger percentage of South32’s assets than of BHP...
AluSolutions, the one of a kind, free-to-attend international exhibition and conference addressing the challenges and opportunities of sustainable aluminium use, will be held in Abu Dhabi on 10-11 May 2016. AluSolutions will demonstrate how the aluminium industry is making continuous improvements in the environmental efficiency of producing aluminium, as well as its sustainability benefits in end-use applications. Conference Theme- "The Sustainability Story" While the primary process of aluminium production is energy-intensive, the industry has recently been promoting aluminium's use-phase benefits as outweighing these environmental disadvantages. Alongside this 'new look' for aluminium, recent environmental legislations mean that the primary industry is monitoring the impacts of bauxite...
GZ Industries, the aluminium can maker from Nigeria and Golden Era Packaging from South Africa have entered into a joint venture to set up a can manufacturing plant in Johannesburg to meet the rising packaging demand in southern Africa. Valued at R1 billion, the newly formed Gayatri GZI Beverage Cans company will commence operations in the second quarter next financial year, and will churn out 1.2 billion cans per year. Golden Era's supply chain network and customer base spans across the whole of southern Africa. The new facility will produce two-piece aluminium beverage cans in multiple sizes with the help of state-of-the-art technology. People from South Africa will be trained to operate the facility. GZI CEO Motti Goldmintz said, "GZI is committed to its strategy of becoming...
Metallurgical plant and rolling mill technology provider SMS Group has identified the automotive industry as a crucial target market for the company where its aluminium rolling technology can be applied, says SMS Group technical services South Africa executive VP Michael Schäfer. In its 2015 newsletter, published in May 2015 , SMS Group GmbH - SMS Group South Africa’s parent company – noted the high investment from aluminium producers in preparation for increased aluminium demand. The company also highlighted that it was developing new rolling mills and heat-treatment facilities, with existing mills increasingly being modernised to meet the demand of the automotive industry. Schäfer explains that the automotive sector is one of the fastest-growing sectors in terms of aluminium flat-rolled...
Crown Holdings, Inc. a leading supplier of metal packaging products worldwide, announced it is investing in a second line at its Osmaniye plant, in central southern Turkey, to produce aluminum beverage cans. The plant currently produces 800 million beverage cans, serving customers in Turkey and neighboring markets. Crown operates two beverage can plants in Turkey, in Izmit and Osmaniye, manufacturing a wide range of aluminum can sizes. Crown is installing the new capacity in response to growing demand in Turkey, where sales of empty beverage cans exceeded 2.6 billion units last year, and surrounding countries. The new line is expected to be operational in the first quarter of 2017 and have initial annual production capacity of approximately 900 million two-piece aluminum beverage cans in...
Granco Clark, the world leading extrusion equipment manufacturer, will be exhibiting at the Aluminum USA Nov 11-12, at Cobo Center, Detroit, Michighan. Like the Cobo Center, named “Best in Class”, it is very fitting that Granco Clark exhibits at the Aluminum USA show. “Aluminium USA is the place to be to get a comprehensive overview of the entire aluminum industry. With Aluminium USA, Reed Exhibitions expands its world leading brand Aluminium to one of the most important markets for the global aluminum industry. It is the meeting place for suppliers of raw material, semi-finished and finished products, surface treatment and producers of machinery, plant and equipment for aluminum processing and manufacturing," says an executive from Granco Clark. "The United States is the world's third...
Alcoa, the lightweight metal leader, announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously approved a plan to separate into two independent, publicly-traded companies. The separation will launch two industry-leading, Fortune 500 companies- the Upstream Company and the innovation and technology-driven Value-Add Company. The Value-add Company will include Global Rolled Products, Engineered Products and Solutions, and Transportation and Construction Solutions. The transaction is expected to be completed in the second half of 2016. Both independent companies will attract an investor base best suited to their unique value proposition and operational and financial characteristics. Both entities will be capitalized prudently, with the Value-Add Company targeting an investment grade rating and...
The growth of global demand for aluminium foil is estimated to rise by more than 4% CAGR until 2019, according to the data released by CRU International in a recently published report. The additional worldwide demand will add up to one million tons by the end of that period. The economic growth in China, which is fast becoming the leading market for production and demand, has been identified as the key growth driver. Reflecting the buoyant outlook for the industry, the Global Aluminium Foil Roller Initiative (GLAFRI) has recently welcomed new foil roller members on board: Gujarat Foils and Raviraj Foils with operations in India and UACJ Foil based in Japan and Malaysia. Otto Junker, the leading furnace manufacturer has also joined as a supplier member. Commenting on the aluminium foil...
Bahrain based Midal Cables will set up an aluminium conductor unit in Odisha at a cost of INR 358 crore. The project was recently cleared by the State Level Single Window Clearance Authority (SLSWCA). The facility with a production capacity of 60,000 tonne per annum (tpa) would come up at the aluminium park at Angul developed jointly by National Aluminium Company (Nalco) and state owned agency for land acquisition and industrial infrastructure development, Odisha Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd (Idco). "The project by Midal Cables will create employment opportunities for 350 people. We are encouraging micro and small enterprises (MSEs) to set up downstream units at the park,” said a government official. The aluminium park has so far drawn 11 proposals for...
The 3rd Automotive Lightweight Procurement Symposium to be focused on automotive lightweighting, supply / process chain and procurement management, will take place in Detroit from the 9th – 11th of Nov 2015. At this year North America Automotive Lightweight Procurement Symposium, delegates will have the chance to listen and interchange with executive speakers and delegates from the aluminum, magnesium, steel & composite industry. Lightweighting, supply chain and procurement management will be the main theme and localization. "Best buy country" and "Make or buy" are some of the topics to be presented. OEMs will express their needs & expectations from the supplier and technology as well as lightweighting side while Tiers will showcase their leading weight reduction solutions, joining...
Germany-based diversified industrial group ThyssenKrupp plans to set up a resource office in India for sourcing of metals such as aluminium and zinc for its projects related to aerospace and defence among others spread across the globe. The group has 1,55,000 employees across 80 countries with a turnover of around $45 billion. “Our plan is to focus on sourcing materials, which India is highly resourceful in and which have not been previously sourced by us, like aluminium, zinc and ore. We are also exploring options to form a resource office that will look more intensively into opportunities like these,” ThyssenKrupp India CEO Michael Thiemann told PTI. India, which is its third largest market in Asia Pacific, has sales of about ?3,300-3,700 crore and a headcount of 5,700. It is present in...
The Aluminum exports from the US and Canada declined sharply by 23.5% during the initial seven-month period of the year. The exports totaled 1.671 billion lb during this period. Meantime, imports surged higher by 19.3% year-on-year to 3.563 million lb. The above figures are in accordance with the latest trade data released by the Aluminum Association. As per trade data, the aluminum demand in the US and Canada were up by 2.4% during Jan-July ’15. The demand, inclusive of domestic producer shipments plus imports, totaled 15.158 billion. The demand for semi-fabricated mill products were up by 7.2% over the previous year to total 10.927 billion lb. Meantime, apparent aluminum consumption during the seven-month period totaled 13.487 billion lb, up by 6.9% when matched with the previous year....
Hydro's Rolled Products is working to establish aluminium foil as an important part of power-storing lithium-ion batteries. With Swiss battery producer Leclanché, this battery foil is now being used in the Azores. It looks and feels like typical aluminium foil used at home, but is a product of ultimate cleanliness and high-precision manufacture – and is being used in the fabrication of special lithium-ion-titanate battery cells at Hydro's customer Leclanché in its plant in Willstätt, Germany. Up to now, those batteries mainly come from Asia. “So we are quite pleased about our customer Leclanché succeeding in expansion of their own production,” says Rolled Products sales manager Willli Schenkel. Foremost, the current project on the island of Graciosa, the second-smallest of the Azores in...
The Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow (LIFT) consortium has announced its first two technology accleration projects to develop lighter cast iron and harder die-cast aluminum. The consortium is operated by the public/private American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute (ALMMII). The institute, which opened the doors of its research facility in January, aims to help move existing, innovative lightweight metals into mature processes that can then be quickly scaled up for production. At the same time, projects will also focus on reducing the design and integration time for implementing new metals in new products, as well as devising more affordable automated manufacturing processes. The institute will also verify and validate products via testing and pilot production...
CM Truck Beds announced all of their aluminum truck beds, except that of the ER model, will now come standard with extruded aluminum floors, at no price change. This new flooring system, according to CM Truck Beds, will give the users maximized hauling capacities in comparison to aluminum treadplate floors and provides a bed that is more application friendly when used on work trucks. When it comes to the company's new extruded aluminum floors, customers will already be accustomed to these floors as they have used them in over the road trailers, horse, livestock, and many other heavy duty units. When considering its tongue-and-groove connecting system, the extruded aluminum floors are clearly the strongest and most durable flooring system on any truck bed and aluminum side of the market....
The regional environment inspectorate of Bulgaria’s Ruse has ordered Montupet EOOD, a part of France-based Montupet SA group’ to suspend operations at its Carousel 1 aluminium casting installation in the city suspecting the plant is creating excessive air pollution. The inspectors before commencing a probe into the matter will seal off the installation with immediate effect. Operation will remain suspended until it is brought in compliance with the region’s environment protection permit. Montupet group specialises in the design and production of cast aluminium parts for the automotive industry. The company has invested more than EUR 100M in its plant in Ruse since its entry into Bulgaria in 2006, according to data from Bulgaria’s investment promotion agency. Ruse citizens have been...
Ulrich Schridde is joining Aludium on the 1st of October as Director of Metal Management. With over 30 years of experience in the industry and over 20 years in metal management, planning, procurement and sales of primary aluminum and aluminum products, he will be developing Aludium’s capacity to achieve its strategic objective of becoming a fully independent company. He will be responsible for developing and executing this strategy and for optimizing Aludium`s metal system and related costs, thereby minimizing working capital. At Rusal Marketing GmbH he was the Director of European Sales and was responsible for leading and developing Rusal’s export sales in Europe with a total portfolio of over 2 million tons. He started his carrier in the aluminum industry in 1981 holding marketing and...
