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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China reported decline in both volume and value of its aluminum alloy wheel exports in June, according to the China Association of Automobile manufacturers (CAAM). Export quantity fell 6.0% year-on-year (YoY) to 60,000 tonnes in June, and export value also dropped 5.9% YoY to $300 million, CAAM data showed. Export volume and value in H1 totaled 383,700 tonnes and $1.93 billion, respectively, up 1.5% and 2.4%, from a year ago. The US was top export destination in terms of export value during H1, followed by Japan, Mexico, India and Canada.
The Novelis Board of Directors today announced that it has named Steve Fisher as its President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Fisher previously held the position of Chief Financial Officer and has been serving as Interim President and Chief Executive Officer since April 2015. He will continue to serve as Chief Financial Officer until a successor is named. Steve Fisher has been named President and Chief Executive Officer of Novelis. "Following a period of rapid expansion, Novelis is now focusing on maximizing the performance of its business," said Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Novelis. "There is no better person to lead Novelis through this transition than Steve Fisher. Throughout his nine-year tenure, Steve has demonstrated extensive...
Reynaers Aluminium, the UK’s leading aluminium glazing systems maker has introduced all new aluminium curtain walling products as a part of its "At Home" range of glazing systems. Working in conjunction with CF 77 bi-folding doors and CS 68 aluminium doors and windows, Reynaers’ curtain walling product CW50 has been used to maximise the amount of light and space in the property. The property, named as Green Acres is constructed by Fusion Glazing; the fabricators have incorporated energy efficient materials, such as triple glazing in it. The products are strong and thermally efficient. Photovolatic panels can also be installed in them- a property which makes the glazing products even more versatile. Reynaers at Home offers a series of solutions for different projects. Its aluminium curtain...
Pennex Aluminum Company unveiled their new $38 million expansion of their extrusion and fabrication line at their Leetonia location last week. The facility now has two large aluminum press lines that company officials say are the most innovative of their kind in the world. The expansion was made possible through a 15 year tax abatement from Leetonia and a 45%, six-year tax credit from the state of Ohio. Ohio Lt. Governor Mary Taylor, says, "Being able to step in with a job creation tax credit certainly is helpful when you have businesses like this looking at various opportunities to expand knowing they could have expanded in Pennsylvania. Of course we want to be able to compete and I think that was very helpful." Pennex makes a lot of different kinds of parts for different kinds of...
A meeting of the Board of Directors of Bhoruka Aluminium Ltd will be held on August 13, 2015, to consider and take on record the Unaudited Financial Results for the First quarter ended June 30, 2015. Pursuant to provisions of SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015 "Code of Conduct to Regulate, Monitor and Report Trading by Insiders (Insider Trading Code) and Code of Fair Disclosure and Conduct- Practices and Procedures for Fair Disclosure of Unpublished Price Sensitive Information (Principles of fair Disclosure)" approved and adopted by the Board of Directors, the Trading Window for dealing in the securities of the company shall remain closed for the Directors and Others covered under the Code from the closure of business hours of August 03, 2015 and shall continue to...
Instacom Group Bhd ( Financial Dashboard)'s share price rises 4.35% this morning following a proposed a bonus issue of up to 657.1 million new shares on the basis of one bonus share for every three shares held to reward its shareholders. The company also announced the proposal to purchase a major stake aluminium fabrication company Neata Aluminium (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd for RM73.58 million yesterday. At 11.15am, the stock gained 0.5 sen to 12 sen. A total of 2.632 million shares were traded so far today. In a filing with Bursa Malaysia yesterday, Instacom (fundamental: 1.25; valuation: 0.9) had proposed to acquire 5.3 million shares, representing a 43.6% equity interest in Neata Aluminium RM73.58 million from Golden Oasis Resources Sdn Bhd. Instacom had said the purchase will be funded...
Sapa has sold its 100-percent-owned company Autocar Tecnologie Srl to the Italian firm Il Telone. Autocar produces components, mainly in steel for roofs, doors and side pillars, for trailer OEMs and distributors in Europe. Acquired by Sapa in 2010, Autocar has annual turnover of approximately EUR 9 million and employs 48 people. The company is located in northern Italy, in Dubino. Il Telone, a privately owned company, purchased all the shares in Autocar from Sapa Profili, which is Sapa’s Italian subsidiary. The transfer of shares was effective on August 4. “Autocar is non-core business for Sapa, and therefore it makes sense for us to find a new home for Autocar and its employees,” says Luca Bertola, who is responsible for Sapa’s aluminium extrusion activities in Italy. “Our aim has been...
Summit Racing has launched a new Brodix BR Series of aluminum cylinder heads for LS3 and LS7 engines. Brodix BR7 cylinder heads feature 262cc CNC-ported rectangular port intake runners that flow over 360 cfm of air. The BR7 STS cylinder heads are a step up from the standard BR7s. They have 264cc CNC-ported intake runners that flow over 375 cfm, plus CNC-machined 71cc combustion chambers and 1.350 inch diameter valve springs rated to .700 inches of valve lift. Assembled heads come with valve locks, retainers, and seals. A 4.125 inch minimum cylinder bore size is recommended for the BR7 and STS BR7 cylinder heads. They are also available as bare castings. The new aluminium cylinder heads are engineered to give more horsepower to the GM LS engines.
Following Ford’s lead, GM is turning to aluminum and lightweight steel for its next-generation of pickup trucks and SUVs. The American automaker has announced that it will be investing $877 million to overhaul its factory in Flint, Michigan, that is in charge of producing pickup trucks. The investment is part of a plan to expand a trio of U.S. truck plants, installing new assembly lines, body welding shops and paint operations to accommodate future generations of Silverado pickups and SUVs including the Chevrolet Tahoe and Cadillac Escalade. People familiar with the automaker’s plans revealed that GM’s next-generation trucks and SUVs will use various materials, including aluminum and lightweight steel to help drop weight and improve fuel economy, similar to a move Ford made with its...
West Bromwich-based William King and Winsford-based Snelsons are the latest companies to join the Aluminium Federation. William King, which employs around 150 people, began life as an ironmongers in the 1820s, expand during the nineteenth century to incorporate iron and steel warehousing, trading and tinplate production. Today William King supplies metal products globally, and is an industry leader in the supply of steel strip mill and aluminium products. The company supplies all the major metal consuming sectors, including the automotive, consumer durable, packaging and construction industries. While the company’s success was traditionally founded on steel, in recent years aluminium has become an important part of its business especially that connected with automotive Tier 1 stampers and...
Constellium N.V. reported results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2015. Highlights below are in comparison to the second quarter of 2014. • Shipments of 386 thousand metric tons, up 38% • Revenue of €1.375 billion, up 49% • Adjusted EBITDA of €93 million, including €19 million from Muscle Shoals adjusted for Midwest premium impact • Strong Adjusted Free Cash Flow of €72 million and liquidity of €690 million • Automotive rolled shipments up 18%; Automotive extruded shipments up 16% • Muscle Shoals operational integration progressing well, still working through metal management issues • Q2 2015 Diluted EPS of (€0.45), EPS excluding unrealized gains on derivatives of (€0.61) Constellium’s second quarter 2015 results include a record Adjusted EBITDA in our AS&I segment and better than...
Aluminum processing industry is developing in full swing in Huolingol Industrial Park, Inner Mongolia. Inner Mongolia Jinlian Aluminum Co. has partially finished construction of its 3 million-tpy aluminum plate, strip & folil project, whose investment totals 100 billion yuan ($16 billion). Main body of workshop for 2.5 billion yuan ($400 million) light gauge aluminum foil project is scheduled to be completed later this year. The project is co-invested by Inner Mongolia Jinlian Aluminum Co. and Zhejiang Dingsheng Aluminium Industries Co.
Earlier this week a report surfaced on the Internet that contained a scathing series of allegations against China Zhongwang Holdings Ltd, which is reportedly the second largest extruder in the world. The report, from Dupre Analytics, contends that Zhongwang’s chairman, Liu Zhongtian, and his family have developed a “network of proxies and intermediaries outside of China, and used them to secretly set up entities and aluminum processing facilities that span the globe.” AEC Director of Operations, Jeff Henderson, said, “If proven to be true, these allegations make it clear that Zhongwang investment and penetration into North American and Asian markets has been built on a house of cards. Our industry has read about and seen the pictures of the one and a half billion pounds of extrusions that...
A joint venture steel plant AM/NS Calvert, in Alabama is preparing to produce the latest generation of ultra high-strength steel for the North American auto industry. Ford's decision to make the body of one of its best sellers F-150 pickup out of aluminum is pressing the steel industry to respond to the escalating struggle to cut vehicle weight. The Calvert partners, Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal and Japan-based Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp., are investing $80 million to improve the Calvert plant. ThyssenKrupp sold the plant to the two partners in February 2014. Shipments of ultra high-strength steel from Calvert to carmakers are expected to begin in early 2017. Despite all the efforts from steel industry players to position steel ahead of aluminium for automotive body making, the...
A Meeting of the Board of Directors of Manaksia Aluminium Company Ltd will be held on August 13, 2015, to consider, approve and take on record the Un-audited Financial Statements of the Company for the quarter ended June 30, 2015. In terms of provisions of the Company's Code of Conduct to Regulate, Monitor and Report Trading by Insiders, the "Trading Window" for trading in the equity shares of the Company shall remain closed from August 03, 2015 and will open 48 hours after the announcement by the Company of the Results to the Stock Exchanges on August 13, 2015.
Aleris Corporation today reported results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2015. Except as otherwise indicated, all amounts reflect the divested recycling and extrusions businesses as discontinued operations. Second Quarter Summary • Adjusted EBITDA of $60 million, up 53 percent compared to second quarter of 2014 • Global automotive volumes up 23 percent compared to prior year • Global aerospace volumes up 13 percent compared to prior year • Improved North America results driven by higher margins and wider scrap spreads • Solid productivity in North America led by Nichols integration and supply chain optimization efforts • Stronger U.S. dollar positively impacted Europe profitability • Asia Pacific achieved break even Adjusted EBITDA • Steep decline in regional premiums led to...
According to the Aluminum Association reports Aluminum net shipments (including exports) by domestic U.S. and Canadian facilities totaled an estimated 1,941 million pounds during June, up slightly (0.4 percent) over the June 2014 total of 1,933 million pounds. Shipments of aluminum mill products increased 4.1 percent over the previous year to 1,363 million pounds, while shipments of aluminum ingot for castings, exports and destructive uses decreased 7.4 percent year-over-year, totaling 578 million pounds. Preliminary year-to-date producer shipments for 2015 totaled 11,579 million pounds, essentially unchanged from the 2014 total of 11,575 million pounds. June inventory levels totaled an estimated 2,977 million pounds, down 6.0 percent from the previous month and up 6.7 percent...
The 2nd International Asia Automotive Lightweight Procurement Symposium, organized by AluMag from the 6th – 8th of July 2015 at the Jumeirah Himalayas Hotel in Shanghai, China, turned out to be a great success. With the number of participants growing and level of internationality surpassing that of the previous year, it set an all new benchmark for events of the same caliber. Over a hundred professionals from numerous OEM, Tier 1, Tier 2 equipment manufacturers and independent consultants attended the event. AlCircle as the official online media partner was privileged to cover the whole event. From Day 1 till the end of the symposium, the team was witness to all the activities and insightful presentations that were made there. The conference was formally started on July 7 with a short...
