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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Jaguar is proving the fuel-saving benefits of reducing the weight of its cars, with new figures showing that its forthcoming XE compact executive saloon should average more than 75 mpg and emit less than 100 g/km of CO2. Using recycled aluminium, Jaguar has invented a new alloy from which it is building its fifth generation bodyshell technology to deliver world-beating eco-performance, as well as what it says will be class leading refinement and handling. Bonded and riveted aluminium structures are not new – it is how the aerospace industry has been making planes for years – but Jaguar leads the field among mass producers and uses the technology in its XJ, XK and F-Type models. Dr Mark White, Jaguar's Chief Technical Specialist, said: "The Jaguar XE body uses over 75 per cent aluminium...
A new transport interchange in the UK – the first in Europe to use integrated hydropower – has been built with an energy-efficient aluminium-and-glass façade solution developed by the aluminium building systems brand Wicona. Designed by architects Aedas and built by Kier Construction, the £11.5m project for Transport for Greater Manchester and Rochdale Council has replaced an outdated bus station built in the 1970s. The project is part of a wider redevelopment of the Rochdale town center. Fundamental to the scheme’s design was to construct a fully enclosed single concourse with a high degree of transparency – creating a striking gateway into the town and a statement building, and improving safety and security for bus passengers. Fabricated and installed by Glassolutions Installation,...
The European Aluminium Foil Association, EAFA, has reported half year results which continue to show a modest, but steady, recovery in demand for both thin and thicker gauges. This is largely led by a strong showing from exports, which are 28% ahead of 2013. European* deliveries remains flat with demand showing a very small decline of 0.2% compared with last year. In the six month to June overall production was 434,100t, 2.5% above the 2013 figure (423,000t). Thinner gauges, used mainly for flexible packaging and household foils, held steady with growth of just 0.9%, but continuing the increases seen for the last 5 quarters. Thicker gauges, used typically for semi-rigid containers and technical applications, held on to the gains seen in the first quarter, with deliveries running 6.3%...
The Port of Oswego says its working toward a record year, thanks to an increase in shipments of aluminum coming in through the St. Lawrence Seaway for use at Oswego's Novelis aluminum plant. Port Director Zelko Kirincich says it's been a great year, and that the facility is expecting to receive about 20 barges of aluminum from facilities in Quebec and Ontario. "We made some improvements in the way we handle aluminum, and the market has been rather positive with our local consumer," Kirincich explained. "So the season has actually been above average in terms of our prediction, and we expect the season overall, for us, to be a record season. Somewhere in the neighborhood of plus 25 percent over last year's." Kirincich says increasing demand, combined with Novelis’ expansion, will help the...
Five years after its transformational $1.9 billion acquisition of Alcan's packaging assets, Amcor is eyeing potential acquisitions worth $3 billion as the global packaging giant seeks further growth in both emerging and developed markets. Amcor chief executive Ken MacKenzie said the pipeline for potential acquisitions had grown from about $2 billion a year ago as the group identified new targets and as vendors took advantage of historically high asset valuations. However, Mr MacKenzie said Amcor, which made four bolt-on acquisitions last year, would maintain a disciplined approach to growth. "We have a 20 per cent pre-tax return on investment hurdle and we have to make sure the acquisitions we make are going to create solid returns for shareholders," Mr MacKenzie told The Australian...
AAR’s Nordisk Aviation Products announced today it has started delivery of 400 Nordisk AluLite AKE air cargo containers to Korean Air. The Nordisk AluLite AKE weighs 65 kg and is the lightest-weight full-aluminium airfreight LD3 container in the industry. “Korean Air continues to favour aluminium because of its simplicity in maintenance and greater recycling benefits. With the Nordisk AluLite, Korean Air also gets the lightest full aluminium AKE container available,” says Boon Yang Sim, Nordisk's Vice President of Sales and Business Development, Asia Pacific and the People’s Republic of China. “Nordisk’s relationship with Korean Air began in 1979 and has leveraged Nordisk’s development of lighter containers for the past 35 years without compromising durability and quality.” Nordisk is the...
Average operating rate at major Chinese aluminum plate/sheet, strip and foil producers fell by 1.49% to 59.58% in July, Shanghai Metals Market survey reveals. The decline in rate, also a year-on-year 2.12% drop, was due mainly to poor orders and shorter production times during hot days, according to SMM survey. The offseason demand, liquidity conditions and stiffer competition are major problems facing those surveyed FRP producers, SMM understands.
The Aluminum Association’s “Index of Net New Orders of Aluminum Mill Products” for July was up 4.8 percent over June. Orders for flat roll products (sheet, plate, can stock and foil) rose 5.9 percent over the previous month, orders for extruded products were up 4.4 percent, while orders for redraw rod were off 7.3 percent. Compared to July 2013, total orders increased 8.1 percent over the previous year. On average, orders recorded by domestic producers through July 2014 were up seven-tenths of one percent over last year. Excluding domestic can stock, year-to-date orders are up 3.2 percent over last year. Estimated shipments of Aluminum Foil by U.S. and Canadian producers totaled 88.1 million pounds during July 2014, down 2.9 percent from the July 2013 total of 90.7 million pounds....
China Zhongwang Holdings Limited, the second largest industrial aluminium extrusion product developer and manufacturer in the world and the biggest one inAsia and China, announced the unaudited results for the six months ended 30 June 2014. China Zhongwang recorded steady growth in product sales during the review period. Revenue rose 13.2% year-on-year to approximatelyRMB7.95 billion while gross profit margin slightly increased by 0.2 percentage points to 28.2%. Profit attributable to equity shareholders increased 18.6% toRMB1.27 billion. To reward shareholders’ longstanding support for the Company, the board of directors has proposed an interim dividend ofHK$0.08 (approximately RMB0.06) per share to the holders of ordinary shares and convertible preference shares, equivalent to a...
Recently expanded production facility capabilities and a positive outlook for American manufacturing are positioning Patriot Aluminum Products for long-term growth. But first, said Tom Click, Patriot Aluminum’s president and CEO, the company still has a few more boxes to unpack. Patriot Aluminum moved into a newly constructed 30,000-square-foot production facility at the end of May. The building project broke ground last August. “Business has been very good, and it’s nice that we were able to make the move and the transition without any kind of disruption,” Click said. “It’s kind of like moving your house if you had a 30,000-square-foot-house. We still have a lot of things in boxes — some of the non-critical pieces of equipment, some of the inventory and small tools, things like that.”...
Novelis, a global aluminum supplier, is seeing a 45-year-old dream come true as the auto industry is on the cusp of making the lightweight material mainstream. Novelis is supplying aluminum for the 2015 Ford F-150 that goes on sale later this year. The supplier is expanding its Oswego, N.Y. plant, for a third time and Ford can use everything it can make. For 40 years prior to 2009, the amount of aluminum on vehicles increased by about seven pounds a year, said Tom Boney, a general manager for Novelis North America. First it was hoods, then doors and liftgates. A few luxury automakers were bold enough to offer aluminum frames and body panels on selected models. But when it came to the full body, steel remained the metal of choice. “We just kept plugging away,” Boney said. “We were always...
World's largest aluminium rolling company Hindalco Industries missed street expectations with the first quarter net profit falling 30.9 percent year-on-year to INR 327.5 crore dented by higher power and fuel, finance, and raw material costs. Profit in the corresponding quarter of last fiscal was INR 474.1 crore. The profit base was also high in Q1FY14 due to other income, which included non-recurring income of INR 203 crore. In the April-June quarter of current financial year, other income was INR 216.30 crore as against INR 427.94 crore in corresponding quarter of last fiscal. Analysts had expected the Aditya Birla group company to report net profit of INR 327.5 crore on revenue of INR 8,100 crore for the quarter, according to CNBC-TV18 poll estimates. Total income from operations jumped...
UK energy technology developer JDR has inked a order with contractor Siem Offshore to deliver more than 70km of new-look aluminium core inter-array cabling for RWE Innogy's Nordsee One wind power development off Germany. Under the terms of the deal, JDR will supply two lengths of cable – one 240mm-square diameter and a 800mm-square diameter aluminium conductor – both of which will be XLPE insulated for North Sea conditions. Alongside the inter-array cables, which will be manufactured at JDR's facility in Hartlepool, northeast England, the order will include a range of accessories including cable-pulling grips and hang-offs, cable cleats, power-core termination connectors and fibre optic splice boxes. "This project is a strategically important development for the European offshore wind...
Aluminum, which is a material that modern diesel engine pistons have been using may get replaced by steel. Mercedes Benz and Renault are two such big automaker who are replacing aluminum pistons in diesel engines with steel ones. This change will make diesel engines more fuel efficient to the tune of 3% with CO2 emissions also being reduced by 3%. The specific output of modern day turbo diesel engines are rising due to improved common rail injection systems and turbocharging. More power means more stress on materials uses to build engines. Steel is stronger than aluminum. So the metal may replace aluminum in pistons.
Bhoruka Aluminium swung to a loss for the quarter ended June 2014. During the quarter, the company reported a loss of INR 1.44 million compared with a profit of INR 376.00 million in the same quarter previous year. Net sales for the quarter declined 99.43% to INR 0.39 million, compared with INR 68.27 million for the prior year period. Earnings per share stood negative at INR 0.03 compared with INR 6.84 in same quarter last year. Quarterly Results - Standalone (INR in mn) As at Jun - 14 Jun - 13 %Change Net Sales 0.39 68.27 (99.43) Net Profit (1.44) 376.00 - Basic EPS (0.03) 6.84 - Shares of the company declined INR 0.04, or 3.7%, to trade at INR 1.04. The total volume of shares traded was 5,171 at the BSE.
The St. Clair County Economic Development Council announced today that Groom’s Aluminum Processing has begun construction on their new facility in Ashville. Their new facility will be located on Industrial Park Drive in the Ashville Industrial Park. Groom’s Aluminum Processing is a new venture headed by Dwayne Grooms. Grooms has years of experience in the aluminum processing and smelting industry. The plant will process aluminum that will be sold to various clients from their Ashville facility. The new 20,000 sq. ft. facility will bring 10-15 new jobs to Ashville and is expected to open in November. “The City of Ashville is proud to welcome Groom’s Aluminum Processing to our city. We are always happy to see new investment and new jobs come to Ashville. We look forward to their growth and...
DuPont has published the results of a new survey conducted with WardsAuto that asks the automotive design and engineering community what technologies they are working on to reduce emissions and improve fuel economy. Topping the list was lightweighting, engine efficiency programs, vehicle electrification and adoption of diesel for engines. Sixty six percent of the nearly 900 respondents said again this year that the 2017-2025 CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards) could get more stringent as a result of the upcoming mid-term reviews. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards require, on an average industry fleet-wide basis, 163 g/mile of CO2 in model year 2025, which would be equivalent to 54.5 mpg (4.3 L/100km) if this level were achieved solely through...
Over the past decade the total beverage can market in Europe further increased and is now well above 50 billion cans per year. The aluminium share rose steadily and today more than 70% of all beverage cans consumed in Europe are made of aluminium. As per Beverage Can Makers Europe study, last year was a good year for aluminium cans, as some 60 billion were produced throughout Europe for growth of 3% compared to 2012. Nearly 20% of Europe's beer market relies on aluminium as a packaging material. This was only 14% at the start of the century. "The strong growth in aluminium cans exports is believed to have been a main factor in the can production increase. This positive momentum is hailed as a clear sign that leading soft drinks producers and breweries have become aware of the advantages...
