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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Estimated shipments of Aluminum Drawing Stock, Bare Wire and Rod & Bar by U.S. and Canadian producers totaled 101.4 million pounds during July 2014, a decline of 3.4 percent from the July 2013 total of 105.0 million pounds. Compared to the previous month, shipments were off 4.8 percent from the June 2014 revised total of 106.5 million pounds. Year-to-date shipments through July 2014 totaled 726.2 million pounds, down 5.8 percent from the 2013 year-to-date total of 770.9 million pounds. Shipments of Aluminum Extruded Products (extruded shapes, pipe & tube, and rod & bar) by U.S. and Canadian producers totaled an estimated 388.4 million pounds during July 2014, an increase of 7.3 percent over the July 2013 total of 362.1 million pounds. Compared to the previous month, shipments were off...
Sapa Chalco Aluminum Products Co., will invest to build a project in Xipeng Industrial Park in Chongqing, to produce 300 underground railway carriages annually, local media reported. The project is expected to start construction during Q3 2014, and to come online in 1H 2015, it added.
Fujian Minfa Aluminum INC. reported a 23.67% year-on-year fall in profits to 17.83 million yuan ($ 2.89 million) during the first six months of the year due to falling aluminum extrusion prices and rising costs, it said in its semiannual financial report. Margins of aluminum extrusions were squeezed as curbs in the property sector and growing anti-dumping intensified competition in domestic market. Capacity expansions and rising wages added to its costs. Business revenues, however, increased 6.91% from a year ago to 530.89 million yuan during H1, it added. The company put part of its 40,000-tpy aluminum extrusion project into service during the report period, and the rest is undergoing debugging process and scheduled to come online at the end of the year.
Carefully choreographed chaos is under way in and around Ford's historic Dearborn Truck Plant as the automaker races to get it ready to build a very different F-series truck. On Saturday morning the last steel-bodied 2014 Ford F-150 rolled off the line and workers were ripping up equipment behind it. Ford has just eight weeks to remove all the equipment and tooling and replace it with new machinery to make the all-new 2015 F-150 with an aluminum body. "We are doing things we have never done before," said Bruce Hettle, head of North American manufacturing for Ford, who must oversee a critical launch with speed and precision. Because Ford sells at least 60,000 F-150s a month now, returning to full production as quickly as possible is crucial to maintaining Ford's bottom line. "It is an...
Below are the three companies in the Aluminum industry with the highest dividend yields. Dividends can enhance returns for investors seeking income in addition to capital gains. Kaiser Aluminum is highest with a dividend yield of 1.8%. Kaiser Aluminum Corporation produces alumina, primary aluminum, and fabricated aluminum products. The Company also supplies alumina and primary aluminum in domestic and international markets. Kaiser Aluminum is currently priced 1.1% above its average consensus analyst price target of $79.33. Kaiser Aluminum shares have support at the 50-day moving average (MA) of $74.92 and additional support at the 200-day MA of $70.88. Following is Noranda Aluminum with a dividend yield of 0.9%. Finishing up the top three is Alcoa, with a dividend yield of 0.7%.
According to local media reports, the Inner Mongolia Chuangyuan Metal Co. proposes to build an aluminium fabricating project in 2015 around Inner Mongolia’s Huolingol region. The capacity of this new project will be around 800,000 tpy. The 800,000 tpy will be the first phase of the project where the aluminium will be in a liquid state as raw material for the fabricating project. From there, this 7.2 billion Yuan ($1.2 billion) project plans to develop 200,000 tonnes each of high-end aluminium alloy bars and aluminium alloy composite plate. Along with that there will be 300,000 tonnes of industrial aluminum extrusion and 5 million aluminium alloy wheel rims produced per year. The company is projecting an estimate of about 18.4 billion Yuan in revenues, profits and taxes of 2 billion Yuan...
The Society of Collision Repair Specialists (SCRS) has announced that Doug Richman, Technical Committee chairman of the Aluminum Transportation Group (ATG), will offer insight into the role aluminum will play in collision repair businesses now and in the future at the OEM Collision Repair Technology Summit on Wednesday, Nov. 5 at the SEMA Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center. "The ATG is eager to share with SCRS session attendees key insights on aluminum's long history in the automotive industry," said Richman. "Aluminum-intensive vehicles have been in the marketplace for many decades and are regularly repaired as needed. Within the next 10 years, seven out of 10 new pickups produced in North America will be aluminum-bodied, according to a recently released survey of automakers...
Novelis, based out of Atlanta, is the largest supplier of aluminum sheet to the auto industry, counting Ford, Audi and Jaguar among its clients. It's owned by Mumbai, India-based metals company Hindalco, the world's largest producer of aluminum sheet, and company reps see the aluminum market and their place in it expanding. In June, Novelis' VP of global recycling forecast carmaker demand for aluminum sheet to increase five-fold by 2020. The managing director at Hindalco said the company expected its own sales to rise three-fold, driven by the race to better fuel economy and lower emissions. The demand for more will increase after that, according to another Novelis exec, with the weight of all aluminum content – such as sheet, plate, extrusions, foil – in global light vehicle production...
Ess Dee Aluminium that opened at INR 472 slipped by 8% to INR 434, down to almost 20% lesser at INR 379, marking a bad phase of four days, and also hitting the 52-week low on the National Stock Exchange (NSE). The company had already reported disappointing results at the end of the June quarter (Q1FY15). Now with the recent fall in the stock market, as many as 128,942 shares were bought and sold on NSE and BSE till the noon deals. The net profits last year in the Q1FY15 quarter had been INR 18 crore which has fallen to a shocking INR 5.5 crore this year, a sharp decline of 69%. The stock had reached a 52-week high in February this year touching INR 767 standing at nearly half the rate. Starting August 18, when the stock was at INR 504, the stocks have fallen 14% in the next consecutive...
Chinese producers of semi-finished aluminium products are likely to boost exports in the second half of the year, taking advantage of strong international prices as small customers face tight credit at home, industry sources said. Strong Chinese exports of semi-finished products could be used to replace primary aluminium, traders said, weighing on record premiums for the metal. In China, mounting exports could boost demand of primary aluminium in the world's top consumer and producer of the metal. "A lot of firms have been looking to export focusing on aluminium plates and strips," said a trading manager at a state-owned maker of primary aluminium and semi-finished products. He declined to be named as he was not authorised to talk to media. "Exports are likely to rise in the second half."...
JW Aluminum Company announced today that it has posted its 2014 Quarterly Report for the Three Months Ended June 28, 2014 on JW Aluminum’s secure investor website at 3:00 PM Eastern Time on Thursday, August 21, 2014. The quarterly report is being furnished pursuant to the Indenture governing JW Aluminum’s Senior Secured Notes due 2017 (the “Notes”). The quarterly report will be made available to holders and beneficial owners of the Notes, qualified prospective investors in the Notes, and certain security analysts and market makers. JW Aluminum will post all of its annual reports, quarterly reports and current reports that are required to be delivered pursuant to the Indenture governing the Notes on JW Aluminum’s secure investor website maintained by Intralinks. JW Aluminum’s management...
Nordic Installations, originally an architectural aluminium firm, is now preparing to grow further by acquiring larger premises and new businesses. The supplier of high quality aluminium windows, doors, curtain and door products is now moving into manufacturing by purchasing Plym Valley Manufacturing. They are shifting bases to tackle this new role, out of their Forresters Business Park in Estover to Darklake Close, on the outskirts of the city which was Plymouth to Plym Valley’s former premises. The company that started in 2007 with two founders and directors, Graham Shaddick and Chris has now grown to 30 staff. Their impressive growth was bolstered by relationships built with architects and quantity surveyors and reliably supplying to reputed names like Midas, Interserve, Ryearch,...
Representatives of the world’s aluminium industry will gather in Gloucestershire in September for a meeting to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the sector globally. The meeting will be hosted by the Aluminium Federation (ALFED), the trade body which represents the UK’s aluminium manufacturers and suppliers, and will be attended by heads of the aluminium associations, including The Aluminum Association (USA), the Gulf Aluminium Council, the European Aluminium Association, Aluminium Federation of South Africa, the Japan Aluminium Association, the Aluminium Association of Canada and AMS, which represents the Nordic countries, along with the International Aluminium Institute. The meeting, which is one of two that happen each year, will take place at Tortworth Court Hotel on...
Sapa President & CEO Svein Tore Holsether will take part as one of the speakers at ONS Conference 2014 in Stavanger, Norway. He will discuss how aluminium solutions contribute to a more sustainable future with focus on energy-positive buildings. Holsether will take part in the featured event on August 27, a plenary session entitled Sneak peek into the future: What will happen in the next 40 years? He will share examples of technology and solutions available today that will help change the future, and in particular, energy-positive buildings by the Powerhouse partnership. Sapa is a partner in Powerhouse, delivering innovative and energy-efficient aluminium solutions. Holsether will be joined by: • Dr. Gunhild A. Stordalen (Chair of the Stordalen Foundation and Director of EAT) • Henrik O....
Nampak, Africa's biggest packing firm, is considering doubling the capacity of its Nigerian beverage can factory to meet fast-growing demand in Africa's biggest economy, its chief executive said on Thursday. Johannesburg-based Nampak, a major supplier of plastic milk bottles in Britain, paid more than $300-million for Lagos-based can maker Alucan earlier this year. Alucan, which competes with unlisted GZ industries and imports, has the capacity to make 1.1-billion cans a year. "We have the ability to double the capacity of that facility with relatively modest incremental investment and we are seriously considering that," Andre de Ruyter, CEO told Reuters in an interview. "I am quite bullish on the Nigerian market. It is Africa's largest economy, it is showing rapid economic growth." The...
Constellium N.V. will announce its second quarter financial results on Thursday, August 28, 2014. A conference call and webcast to present the results will take place at 11:00 a.m. (Eastern Day Time) on the same day. The conference call will be hosted by Pierre Vareille, Chief Executive Officer, and Didier Fontaine, Chief Financial Officer. Details of the conference call, webcast and accompanying presentation will be available on the Constellium Investor Relations page. An archive recording of the conference call and accompanying text version will also be available at the above noted web address for three weeks.
Officials from Greco Aluminum Railings announced the official launch of the company's newly developed website. The site targets and engages architects, designers, contractors and industry professionals with a focus on the building envelope and architectural railings. The new site provides a variety of useful information for the design professional including an extensive project gallery, product details, CAD drawings, videos, continuing education and sustainable design. To support the design process, the resource page includes: warranties, test standards, product specifications, welding certificates, color charts and much more. Additionally the site offers detailed information on the powder coat process and Greco’s color management program. The site is compatible with PCs and Macs and...
Kaiser Aluminum traded today at a new 52-week high of $80.43. So far today approximately 92,000 shares have been exchanged, as compared to an average 30-day volume of 197,000 shares. Kaiser Aluminum is currently priced 1.1% above its average consensus analyst price target of $79.33. The stock should discover initial support at its 50-day moving average (MA) of $74.08 and subsequent support at its 200-day MA of $70.58. Kaiser Aluminum Corporation produces alumina, primary aluminum, and fabricated aluminum products. The Company also supplies alumina and primary aluminum in domestic and international markets. In the past 52 weeks, shares of Kaiser Aluminum have traded between a low of $40.12 and a high of $80.43 and are now at $80.20, which is 100% above that low price. The 200-day and...
