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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Accuride Corporation – a leading supplier of components to the North American commercial vehicle industry – today announced that two of its wheel-production facilities have received the Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) "Masters of Quality" Supplier Award for 2013. Accuride's Camden Operations aluminum wheel plant in Camden, S.C., and Accuride de Mexico steel and aluminum wheel plant in Monterrey, Mexico, both received the award for their performance in 2013. This is the third time that Accuride de Mexico has received the award, and the first year for the Camden plant. The annual program – now in its 27th year – recognizes outstanding suppliers that have received high scores on their quality, delivery, technology and cost performance as measured on a Balanced Scorecard. These suppliers...
China’s aluminum semis exports did not grow as much as expected in June, Shanghai Metals Market learned. Outbound shipments rose only 2.9% from a year ago to 280,000 tonnes. Overseas buyers continued to push for lower prices, squeezing Chinese producer margins. Besides, many processors preferred to maintain stable domestic sales as a hedge against interruptions in exports. Both factors constrained the growth in export volumes, SMM understood. Exports by segment in June are detailed as below: Segment Quantity (Tonne) YoY Extrusion 69,500 43.55% Foil 69,900 7.77% Plate/sheet 125,200 -13.99%
Novelis Inc., the world’s largest sheet aluminum producer, said today it expects to double its North American production of automotive aluminum by 2018 or so from 2014 levels. The company said it plans to produce 260,000 tons of automotive aluminum in North America in 2014, up from about 50,000 tons in 2013. That figure will rise to 365,000 tons in 2015 as Novelis supplies aluminum for the Ford F-150 pickup truck and other models. Demand is robust, and the company is already producing at full capacity, Tom Boney, general manager of automotive for Novelis North America. To keep up with demand, Novelis is in the third phase of a $500 million expansion of its aluminum plant in Oswego, N.Y. This year, the company announced plans to melt and re-use scrap aluminum from Ford Motor Co.’s stamping...
A lot of aluminium extrusions from Sapa are used offshore. System 2000 Group in England has just developed an extrusion-based application that protects employees during drilling operations and enables 100 percent drilling productivity. The development process began when one of Sapa’s long-standing customers, System 2000 Group (S2G), was approached by Rigmar Services of Aberdeen, to design and manufacture an automatic horizontal roller shutter door on the Rowan Norway drilling rig. Once installed, the system would allow the rig to drill via an offshore installation with zero downtime, by protecting the workforce on the lower deck during drilling operations. S2G called Sapa at an early stage to assist with their extrusion design. Rigmar Services, an innovative projects and service provider...
A Japanese auto parts manufacturer is expanding its presence in Blount County by building a new 76,000 square-foot facility and creating 32 new positions. The Blount Partnership and Koide Tennessee Inc. announced Friday the company is expanding its operations in the Stock Creek Development Technology Park in Rockford with a $10,106,000 investment. Koide is a worldwide corporation that specializes in precision cut-to-length steel and aluminum tubing used to manufacture anti-vibration devices for the automotive industry. This expansion allows Koide to expand its customer base while increasing productivity for its current clients. Koide currently employs 67 people on three shifts at its current facility where it operates a high speed cutting and chamfering machine. The new hires include 27...
Oman Aluminium Processing Industries (OAPIL), a joint venture between Oman Cables Company and Takamul Investment Company, is re-evaluating its plans to expand the company's present capacity. OAPIL earlier said that it was planning to double its capacity to over 100,000 tonnes per annum (tpa), from 48,000tpa now as per its master plan. OAPIL gets its feedstock — liquid aluminium — from Sohar Aluminium to produce rods and overhead conductors. The company has invested OMR15 million for the present plant. The plan was to add one more production line with the existing plant, which produces aluminium and alloy rods and overhead conductors for the power industry. The sales and profitability of Oman Aluminium Processing Industries for the six-month period was in line with the plan and has...
Rexam Plc, the world's No. 2 drinks can maker by revenue, posted a 2 percent decline in underlying pretax profit for the first half of the year, hit by high aluminium premiums in Europe and a strong pound. Underlying pretax profit fell to 166 million pounds ($280 million) for the six months ended June 30 from 169 million pounds a year earlier. Revenue fell 5 percent to 1.88 billion pounds. Analysts on average were expecting pretax profit of 156.6 million pounds on revenue of 1.85 billion pounds, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. ($1 = 0.5925 British Pounds)
With more than 20,000 Kentuckians working in it, the state aluminum business is booming, according to the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development. Earlier this year, Europe-based Constellium N.V. and UACJ Corporation, of Japan, announced plans to open a joint $150 million aluminum facility in Bowling Green. The announcement marks one of the largest investments in Southcentral Kentucky in the past decade. “We are really thrilled to mark the official start of the Bowling Green plant’s construction,” said Constellium’s CEO Pierre Vareille. “This project is highly strategic, and it is the first milestone of an ambitious strategy to become a major player in the U.S. aluminum body sheet market.” This is part of a growing trend in the Commonwealth. In the past year, a half dozen companies have...
Encore Wire Corporation announced today that the Company is building a 250,000 square-foot expansion to the existing aluminum manufacturing plant on its McKinney, Texas campus. The Company projects expenditures for this project, including related upgrades to Encore’s McKinney complex, will be approximately $41 million to $46 million. These expenditures will be made in 2014 and 2015. The plant expansion is part of the Company’s capital expenditure plan for 2014 and 2015 that will also include the purchase of manufacturing equipment to produce aluminum wire and cable. The Company estimates its total capital expenditures for 2014, including other projects, to be between $40 million and $45 million. Commenting on the announcement, Daniel L. Jones, President and Chief Executive Officer of...
Industrial city of Ludhiana is all set to manufacture aluminum alloy cycle parts for the first time in a fully automatic plant that would start operations within a month. Customers from European countries have given their ascent for buying these aluminum parts that are used in high-end bikes. Charanjit Singh Vishivkarma, president of United Cycle and Parts Manufacturer Association (UCPMA), on Friday said they would set up the plant within a month. The plant has been partially imported from Taiwan and some of its parts have been procured from within the country. “We have received the plant and it would take at least a month for setting it up for manufacturing,” said Vishivkarma. The unique plant would have robotic arms to manufacture cycle parts completely on assembly lines. It would be...
Dawson College student Nicholas Parent has won the 2014 Sapa Sustainable Design Award for an extruded aluminium wall bracket system that helps bring new life to old skateboards. More than 80 entries from 13 universities around the world were received for the 2014 Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition held by the Extrusion Technology Foundation (ET Foundation). Nine students were recognized for their designs showcasing the versatility of aluminium extrusions. Extrusion Technology FoundationScholarship awards of USD 12,500 in total were presented to the winning students. Each student winner also received an invitation to attend a Sapa Profile Academy event, an advanced course designed to demonstrate opportunities with extruded aluminium. Versatile design The Sapa Sustainable Design Award,...
General Motors Co. (GM) has pushed forward the launch of its next-generation full-size pickups by about nine months to fall 2018, hoping to narrow rival Ford Motor Co.'s still-sizable lead in meeting future US fuel-economy standards, supplier sources said on Monday (July 28). Redesigned versions of GM's full-size sport-utility vehicles are expected to follow about a year later, the two sources said. GM officials declined to comment on future product plans. Like Ford with its all-new 2015 F-150, GM is dramatically lightening the next versions of its Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups, which are being developed under a program known to suppliers as T1XX, or T1 for short. The first versions of the current redesigned pickups debuted last year, and GM is introducing sport utility...
Novelis Inc. will report its earnings for the first quarter of fiscal year 2015 on Thursday, August 7, 2014. Following the release, President and Chief Executive Officer Philip Martens and Chief Financial Officer Steve Fisher will discuss the results via a live conference call for investors at 9:00 a.m. ET the same day. The conference call will also be webcast live via the Novelis website, with presentation materials available online at Novelis website The audio portion of the meeting will be available via telephone at: U.S. and Canada Toll-Free Number: 800 732 5617 India Toll-Free Number: 0008001007928 International Toll Number: + 1 212 231 2900 Following the meeting, the webcast will be available for replay at Novelis website.
Renowned scientist and historian Adam Hart-Davis has been announced as chair of a special discussion in Birmingham this autumn on aluminium’s growing role in the automotive sector. The polymath broadcaster, who presented hit documentaries like What the Victorians Did For Us and Local Heroes, will preside over the Technology and Innovation Session of ALFED’s Aluminium in Road Transport Conference in November. Panelists in the session will include Prof. Geoff Scamans, of Brunel University, and Geraint Castleton-White, of Lotus Lightweight Structures, alongside others from both industry and academia. The conference takes place at the Thinktank Science Museum in Birmingham on November 11 and 12, with the Technology and Innovation Session running on the afternoon of day one. Speaking ahead of...
The average operating rate at Chinese aluminum fabricators is expected to slide in July, Shanghai Metals Market foresees. FRPs The average operating rate will likely inch down to 60% at plate/sheet, strip and foil segments in July. The arrival of the traditional off-season has caused orders to contract across the FRP sector. This has been exacerbated by the central government’s anti-corruption efforts, which are deterring end users, such as power companies, from purchasing larger volumes of aluminum FRPs, SMM has learned. Weaker demand should drag down operating rates across the sector. Operating rates, however, are unlikely to fall dramatically as some fabricators are taking orders with thin to no margins to maintain stable output, SMM understands. Extrusions The average operating rate...
Superior Industries International, Inc. , the largest manufacturer of aluminum wheels for passenger cars and light-duty vehicles in North America, today announced it will close its manufacturing facility in Rogers, Arkansas, as part of an initiative to reduce costs and enhance its global competitive position. The company said it expects to cease operations at Rogers by the end of this year. The closure will result in scheduled production being shifted to other Superior manufacturing facilities, including those in Fayetteville, Arkansas and Chihuahua, Mexico, and is anticipated to generate a net $15 million labor cost savings year-over-year, resulting from a workforce reduction of approximately 500 employees. “This action follows a comprehensive review of the company’s cost position in...
Aluworks Limited, the aluminium products manufacturer, says its market share has shrunk as cheap imported substitutes continue to undercut its business. Kwadwo Kwarteng, board chairman, told the B&FT in Accra on the sidelines of this year's annual general meeting that the company’s market share has dropped from 25 percent in 2012 to 15 percent currently. He blamed this on the inability of government to introduce countervailing measures that local manufacturers have proposed against cheap and poor-quality imports. "The influx of cheap aluminium imports from the Far East into the Ghanaian market is seriously affecting our business; the situation is seriously eroding our market share and we want it to be stopped. "We have asked government to increase the duty on cheap imports as a...
Hulamin Limited’s plans to bank on its growing profitability as a recovery in its manufacturing figures continue. “Our manufacturing performance showed some improvement with recoveries increasing off a low base. Sales of rolled products are up by 9 per cent from the second half of last year which, together with a slight improvement in conversion margins, underpinned our earnings growth, supported by the weaker rand,” David Austin, acting CEO of Hulamin, said in a statement. “This improved profitability, together with sound working capital management, produced strong cash flows that we used to pay down borrowings. Our efforts to improve operational performance are ongoing and should contribute to increased volumes and profitability in the second half.” Hulamin -2.08% is an international...
