Novelis has supplied approximately 100,000 m² of aluminium façade materials for six construction projects across the UK, highlighting the metal's growing role in architectural design, infrastructure modernisation and urban regeneration. The materials have been used across developments in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham and London, covering applications ranging from transport infrastructure and residential refurbishment to commercial and mixed-use buildings. The projects demonstrate the versatility of aluminium in modern building envelopes, with Novelis supplying architectural materials designed to combine durability, aesthetic flexibility and performance. Aluminium supports diverse architectural applications Commenting on the projects, Michael Hahne, Vice President Commercial of Novelis...
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...
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Rico Auto Industries has divested its entire 50% stake in FCC RICO, its erstwhile joint venture with FCC Company, Japan, on December 23, 2014, by way of sale of its entire stake to affiliates of FCC Company, Japan which are FCC Group Companies. FCC RICO is now entirely a FCC Group held company. Rico Auto Industries is a world-class engineering company supplying a wide range of high precision fully machined aluminum and ferrous components and assemblies to automotive OEMs across the globe.
CCL Industries Inc., a world leader in specialty label and packaging solutions for global corporations, small businesses and consumers, announced today that it will invest in a new plant to produce aluminum slugs used in the impact extrusion process to make aerosol cans, tubes and bottles for consumer packaged goods companies. The facility in Clinton, North Carolina, will be jointly owned by CCL and Rheinfelden Semis GmbH, a leading European producer of aluminum slugs based in Germany. The partners will initially invest approximately $18 million financed by $4.5 million in equity between them and the balance in debt, to create the plant and to build up capacity to a planned 25,000 tons by 2018. The new business will trade as Rheinfelden Americas LLC and Mr. Bernard Ecker from Rheinfelden,...
The Madras high court has declined to terminate the investigation against car major Hyundai Motors India Ltd in connection with imposition of anti-dumping duty on import of cast aluminium alloy wheels from China, Korea and Thailand. Justice V. Ramasubramanian dismissed four petitions from Hyundai Motors, challenging the orders of the Union government and designated authority, directorate general of anti-dumping and allied duties, which included imposition of provisional anti-dumping duty. Visakhapatnam-based Synergies Castings limited, involved in the manufacture of cast aluminium alloy wheels, lodged a complaint with the designated authority that some importers like Hyundai were importing into India cast aluminium alloy wheels at less than its normal value and that they incur a liability...
The Marion Chamber of Commerce announced Monday that AISIN Light Metals is the 2014 Business and Industry of the Year. AISIN is in the REDCO Industrial Park area in Marion. The company manufactures aluminum parts for the automotive industry. The company began construction in Marion in October 2003, and by the following year it was open for business. Since that time, AISIN has become part of the Marion community. “AISIN Light Metals is contributing to a better global environment through the manufacturing of light metal products for vehicles,” said Ryoju Tsuji, president of AISIN. “The goal of ALM is to become a leading manufacturer of aluminum extrusion automotive parts. We will meet the expectations of our team members, local community, and those with a shared interest in ALM by being...
The Aluminum Association announced its 99th and 100th member companies today – The Schaefer Group, Inc. and Aluminum Shapes, LLC. One hundred members is a record for the 80-year trade Association, which represents the North American aluminum industry. The additions come at a time when the broader industry continues to thrive – in the United States alone, aluminum companies have committed to more than $2.3 billion in domestic plant expansion since 2013 to capture anticipated demand growth. "This is an exciting time for aluminum, as the industry continues to see sustained expansion and transformative growth," said Aluminum Association Chairman Layle "Kip" Smith, President of Noranda Aluminum. "Customers as diverse as automakers, high-tech firms and the U.S. military recognize the potential...
Brady plc (BRY.L), the leading supplier of trading and risk management solutions for metals, recycling, energy and soft commodities, announced today that it will deliver its new Hedge Manager solution to Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill Co. (GARMCO). The new software has been designed to meet the risk management objectives of metal fabricators, rolling mills, cable manufacturers and extruders. It is delivered via a dedicated Cloud environment, guaranteeing the highest level of auditability and security and can be deployed in less than two months. The Hedge Manager solution provides an up-to-date picture of physical and hedge positions, including accurate mark-to-market, risk and margin figures to ensure that risk managers can implement the organisation’s hedging policy and measure and control...
Ducab Aluminium Company is setting up a news aluminium rod and conductor facility in Kizad, announced the Abu Dhabi Ports Company (APDC). In May this year, the Musataha lease agreement was signed between Ducab and APDC and now the foundation is laid to start the construction of the facility so that it can open in the fourth quarter of 2015. A 50,732-sqm plot of land has been selected for the Dh220-million project located near Emirate’s Aluminium (Emal), the anchor tenant of the region. The close proximity with the world’s fifth largest aluminium producer means that an optimum supply chain connection can be created allowing Ducab to make use of molten aluminium coming directly from the Emal smelter. This not only cuts down transporation costs but also energy costs as there would be no...
A new aluminium die casting plant opened today at Montgomery County, Tennessee owned by Shiloh Industries Inc., a solution provider in terms of lightweighting, noise and vibration. In August, 2013, the brownfield site was acquired by Shiloh which is now to undergo a host of renovations, upgrades and addition of new equipment implying an investment of over $20 million and an addition of 150 new jobs, over the course of the next five years. The plant is one of five Shiloh large tonnage, high-pressure die casting facilities in U.S. spread across 125,000 sq. ft. The Clarksville plant has been undergoing renovations ever since Shiloh took control over it, with upgrades in the quality lab, die cast cells, x-ray systems and employee facilities. There is also the inclusion of a 2,500-ton die cast...
Anheuser-Busch plans to increase the production of aluminium bottles for Budweiser and Bud Light and is preparing to invest $150-million for the same, the company announced at its Metal Container Corp. facility in Arnold, Mo. The proposed expansion will create 70 new jobs at the plant while doubling its aluminium-bottle capacity in the US. The $130 million project was completed in 2013 that added the capability of aluminium-bottles production to the Arnold facility. The new investment would be the second phase in the expansion for producing the popular aluminium bottles and reflects Anheuser-Busch’s focus on strategic investments in its operations. Metal Container Corp., a subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch, operates seven facilities in the U.S. The operation also produces cans and lids for...
First Aluminium Nigeria plc continues to grow amid environmental challenges buffeting the performance of firms operating in the sector, analysis of the third quarter (Q3) financial statement shows. For the first nine months through September 2014, the company’s revenue increased by 5 percent to N6.56 billion from N6.24 billion the same period of the corresponding year (Q3) of 2013, while net income surged by 74 percent to N32.54 million. Nigeria’s roofers have been pressured by what analysts refer to as the peculiarities of the challenging macroeconomic environment, such as huge energy costs fuelled by unreliable power supply from the grid, and unfavourable competition from Asian countries like China. It should be noted that the influx of cheap and substandard products into the country...
Sapa has extruded the first aluminium multi-port extrusion (MPE) from its new press in India. Its aim is to become the preferred supplier of MPEs and drawn tubes for heat transfer applications to automotive and industrial customers in India. The operational milestone comes ahead of schedule, some five months after Sapa announced its decision to invest in a new aluminium tubing facility in Kuppam and become the first manufacturer of such products in India. The new operations are being installed on the same site as Sapa’s extrusion plant in Kuppam, which is about 100 kilometers from Bangalore in India’s southeastern region. Coiling operations at Sapa tubing plant in Kuppam, IndiaSapa extruded its first test batch of aluminium MPEs at the new facility on December 11. “Having reaching this...
Alcoa Australia Rolled Products permanently closed its Point Henry and Yennora rolling mills this week, after five decades of operation. “There is no doubt it is a sad week for our 430 employees, their families and the Geelong and Yennora communities,” said AARP Managing Director Malcolm Murphy. “I am thankful for the dedication that our people have shown across their Alcoa careers, particularly in recent months when the closure was imminent. A significant amount of change has occurred in our business this year, and our employees have responded in the best way they knew how; by working more safely than ever and delivering a high quality product to customers.” In February 2014 Alcoa announced it would permanently close its Point Henry and Yennora facilities. The two rolling mills serve the...
Researchers from North Carolina State University and Qatar University have developed a new "high-entropy" metal alloy that has a higher strength-to-weight ratio than any other existing metal material. High-entropy alloys are materials that consist of five or more metals in approximately equal amounts. These alloys are currently the focus of significant attention in materials science and engineering because they can have desirable properties. The NC State research team combined lithium, magnesium, titanium, aluminum and scandium to make a nanocrystalline high-entropy alloy that has low density, but very high strength. "The density is comparable to aluminum, but it is stronger than titanium alloys," says Dr. Carl Koch, Kobe Steel Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering...
National Aluminium Products Company (Napco), a leading extruders of aluminum profiles in the GCC, has posted strong performance for the first three quarters of the year, with net profits worth more than RO486,000 ($1.2 million). Its revenues totalled to RO13.5 million, reflecting a continuing quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) growth over the last nine months, said a statement. According to the company’s senior executives, Napco’s continued growth and excellent market performance can be attributed to the continuously growing number of residential and commercial property developments in the region, which in turn has driven an increased demand for aluminium based building materials. The firm’s board also acknowledged the strong support and encouragement given by Qaboos Bin Said Al Said, Sultan of...
Aleris announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its aluminum extrusions business to Sankyo Tateyama, Inc., a Japanese building products and extrusions manufacturer. The sale includes four production facilities in Europe and one in China. The facilities specialize in the production of medium and hard alloy extrusions, serving the rail, automotive and aerospace industries. Sankyo Tateyama has agreed to pay a purchase price of €35.5 million for the business and assume approximately €46 million of pension liabilities. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2015. "The sale of our extrusions business represents the last step in our strategy to position Aleris to become a pure global rolled products business focused on serving a diverse set of...
Highlights: • Rolling mill and casthouse in mid-December already exceed last year’s record shipments • Successful start of large-scale investment in hot-rolling mill and plate production center • Employees instrumental in ensuring success by submitting record number of suggested improvements (CIP) The ongoing year, 2014, was characterized by the prior year’s record shipments figures achieved at the Ranshofen location being exceeded yet again. For instance, the rolling mill’s shipment volumes of about 168,000 tons achieved to date are already well in excess of 2013’s record value of 157,600 tons. The main reason for this development is the growing demand for AMAG-produced special sheet and plate, which comes predominantly from the automotive and aircraft industries but also from the...
BMW Group and Nestlé Nespresso are among 28 organisations to have collaborated on a new standard to improve the environmental, social and governance performance of the aluminium industry. The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) Performance Standard, due to be released in early 2015, will address key issues around the production and maintenance of aluminium throughout its value chain and includes plans to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The Standard uses detailed criteria to address 11 sustainability issues: business integrity; policy and management; transparency; material stewardship; greenhouse gas emissions; emissions; effluents and waste; water; biodiversity; human rights; labour rights; and occupational health and safety. Industry players along the aluminium value chain...
China will enter a “golden era” of HUV development in coming five years, which will allow the country’s wire and cable market to grow at 8-9% annual pace, CNMN reported on December 16. The boom in power transmission systems will be driven by increasing investment in smart power grid, ongoing power transmission from energy-rich western regions to electricity-hungry eastern coastal areas, accelerated urbanization, as well as power grid upgrades, it added. The market share of aluminum alloy wire and cable is expected to increase along with technological progress, it reported.
