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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Alcan Engineered & Automotive Solutions, part of Alcan Engineered Products – a business unit of Rio Tinto – is becoming a key player in the growing market for greener car components, having been awarded a total US$750 million worth of multi-year contracts over the past 12 months for its innovative, lightweight aluminum solutions. "These contracts with several leading original equipment manufacturers, in both premium and mass production markets, represent significant market share gains for our business," said Christel Bories, president and CEO, Alcan Engineered Products. "As a result of our growth strategy of focusing on select markets over the last three years, we are becoming the preferred development and production supplier of advanced lightweight solutions during a high-growth period...
Aluworks Limited, an aluminium manufacturing company, has raised GH¢7.23 million through the sale of 144.64 million new shares to its shareholders. The amount was raised from a rights issue that ran from February 25 to March 22 on the Ghana Stock Exchange. A circular from Strategic African Securities, the sponsoring broker and financial advisor to Aluworks during the offer, said the amount raised represented about 24 per cent of the total amount – GHC30 million – that the company sought to raise. Aluworks has since listed the new shares on the First Official List of the Ghana Stock Exchange and that brings its ordinary shares on the bourse to about 268.7 million, a separate circular from the exchange indicated. On the amount raised from the offer, the Managing Director of the company, Mr...
A-FAB Initiatives, Inc., a fabrication services provider for aluminum extrusions in the United States, is launching a brand new web platform to build greater connectivity with manufacturers and producing mills across the country. At the platform, manufacturers, production mill workers and potential clients will have access to multiple features and information that was previously harder to explore. In addition to brand new content from A-FAB Initiatives, Inc., visitors will be able to navigate the website by the different services they’re looking for. A-FAB Initiatives, Inc. offers more than 10 different fabrication services in their three facilities, using advanced technology and machinery. Individual capability pages on the site give visitors expanded information on exclusive project...
HELUKABEL®, one of the world's leading cable manufacturers, will be participating in the American Wind Energy Association's WINDPOWER Conference and Exhibition in Chicago, IL (booth #1765) on May 5 - 8, and showcasing their complete range of cabling products capable of equipping the entire turbine - rotor tip to tower base. On display will be their latest cable lug crimp technology to connect cable lugs to aluminum conductor cables, such as the flexible-aluminum WK-POWERLINE ALU. The C8 crimp cable lug technology, which has been IEC 61238-1 Class A High-Voltage tested and approved, can withstand the warming caused by an electric current flowing through aluminum, which has a higher resistance level than copper. This allows HELUKABEL® to be the only company capable of delivering an aluminum...
Crown Architectural Aluminium Ltd has been bought by Epwin Group, it has been confirmed. The window company, based in Newton Abbot, was founded over 30 years ago and supplies, builds and installs a range of products including windows, shop fronts, fire doors and curtain walling. The firm works across the South West on commercial offices, as well as on residential contracts. Epwin, meanwhile, was founded in 1976 and is a leading supplier of low maintenance, sustainable and energy efficient products. The acquisition of Crown should help the company to expand its services to meet the growing requirements of its customer base. Brian Webb, managing director of Epwin Group Building Products Trade Division, commented: “This is a successful acquisition for the Epwin Group; giving us the...
German forging, extrusion and ring rolling company Otto Fuchs KG is partnering with TPS Technitube Röhrenwerke GmbH to enter the aluminum drill pipe market. “Based on some very special extrusion technologies, Otto Fuchs is able to produce high-strength seamless tubes with very special dimensional features, which enables us—together with our partner company, Technitube—to produce aluminum drill pipes,” Bernd Velten, head of technical sales and marketing at Otto Fuchs, told AMM on the sidelines of this week’s Offshore Technology Conference in Houston. Velten noted that aluminum pipes have some considerable advantages over conventional carbon steel. “The major advantage, of course, is the lower weight of the pipe, which allows the user of it to drill deeper (and) handle longer pipes with...
Visiongain's analysis indicates that the world aluminium foil packaging market will reach a value of 3.82MT in 2013, with the majority of growth being derived from the developing markets. The global aluminium foil packaging market will exhibit solid growth over 2013-2023, and the majority of growth will be seen in the developing markets. These markets are characterised by strong economic growth and a burgeoning middle class, which has resulted in increased demand for packaging. These consumers are enjoying higher levels of disposable income and, as a consequence, have increased their packaging consumption. This will extend to the aluminium foil packaging market. The visiongain author of the World Aluminium Foil Packaging Market 2013-2023 report commented that 'There have also been changes...
Hydro Aluminum will put aluminum in the spotlight at its Intersolar North America exhibition stand, booth 9129. The company says many of the technical qualities of the light metal are relevant for a range of applications linked to the solar industry, making aluminum highly competitive in comparison with other metals and other materials. Hydro is a provider of extruded aluminum solutions in North America, including supply sourcing, extrusion, finishing and fabrication of components, as well as contract manufacturing services, for a variety of industries, such as solar. Hydro’s precision-extruded aluminum framing systems are being utilized at the largest concentrated photovoltaic solar facility in Latin America, in Durango, Mexico. Extruded aluminum offers efficient material utilization,...
To meet the growing demand for light, durable, and recyclable aluminum sheet for automotive production, Alcoa announced last week that it will expand its rolling mill in Tennessee. The expansion represents a $275 million investment over the next three years and will add 200 permanent full-time jobs upon completion, as well as 400 jobs during the construction phase. “Our Tennessee expansion is a great example of how Alcoa’s edge in technology and innovation is capturing growth opportunities in our value-added mid- and downstream businesses,” Alcoa CEO Klaus Kleinfeld said. “More and more auto producers are turning to aluminum to increase the fuel efficiency and quality of their vehicles – we anticipate a quadrupling of auto sheet volume by 2015 and a tenfold increase by 2025,” Kleinfeld...
The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service has announced that it has terminated the antidumping investigation regarding aluminum zinc coated steel imports from Taiwan. The ACBPS has found that there has been no dumping by Yieh Phui Enterprise Co. Ltd of aluminum zinc coated steel exported from Taiwan and there has been no dumping by any other exporters of aluminum zinc coated steel from Taiwan and therefore the volume of aluminum zinc coated steel exported to Australia from Taiwan that have been dumped is negligible. Dumping securities are no longer required from May 2, 2013 for imports of aluminum zinc coated steel exported from Taiwan. Dumping securities already collected for the relevant imports from these exporters will be cancelled. In September 2012, Australia initiated an...
The stretched 777-9, the biggest twin-engine model Boeing Co. is planning to build, may be partly fabricated from a new breed of aluminum-lithium alloys, lighter and stronger than the aerospace-grade aluminum now used. Boeing gave the green light to the model on Wednesday. Yes, these new alloys do include lithium, the highly reactive metal that caused Boeing such problems with the 787’s lithium-ion batteries The promise of aluminum lithium alloys is so interesting to the aerospace industry that an entire panel was devoted to the subject at the Pacific Northwest Aerospace Alliance annual conference in Lynnwood, in February. Executives from Dutch aluminum company Constellium and from Alcoa Aerospace updated the audience, mostly made up of aerospace suppliers. “As aircraft design...
Gulf Extrusions, a leading global manufacturer of extruded aluminum products, has announced that it has received the Green Industry Award 2013 from Dubai Municipality in recognition of the company's exemplary environmental achievements over the past years. The award, which was presented to Gulf Extrusions in the large industry category, specifically recognised its high-impact environmental efforts, following Dubai Municipality's thorough assessment of the company's Environment Management System and waste management practices. Modar Al Mekdad, General Manager of Gulf Extrusions, received the award from Engineer Hamdan Al Shaer, Director of Environment Department at Dubai Municipality, during an award ceremony held recently at the Al Bustan Rotana Hotel in Dubai. Commenting on the award, Al...
The export of the 0.2 mm aluminum foil from the Republic of Armenia to the U.S. during the first three months has recorded a growth of about 24 percent in comparison with the same period of the previous year. The State Revenue Committee of the Government of the Republic of Armenia informed "Armenpress" that during the first three months of the current year 6,830,500 kg aluminum foil have been exported to the U.S. This amount equaled to 5,516,800 kg in the same period of 2012. The total customs value of the aluminum foil exported to the United States during the first three months of the current year exceeded USD 21 million. The total amount of Armenia's export of aluminum foil during the first three months of 2013 equals to 6,984,100 kg. In a conversation with "Armenpress" the Press...
A study of analyst recommendations at the major brokerages shows that Kaiser Aluminum Corpis the #16 broker analyst pick, on average, out of the 50 stocks making up the Metals Channel Global Mining Titans Index, according to Metals Channel. In forming this rank, the analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses were tallied, and averaged; then, the underlying components of the Metals Channel Global Mining Titans Index were ranked according to those averages. Investors often interpret analyst opinions from different angles — a popular analyst pick could mean that many sharp minds individually came to the same bullish conclusion, and therefore the stock should do well, but it could also mean that if the company stumbles, that would come as a negative surprise. KALU makes up 2.75% of the...
When Newtown Underwater Search and Rescue members respond to aquatic emergency calls, they soon will be doing so in a new custom-built dive boat designed to maximize the volunteer organization’s effectiveness on the water. NUSAR recently acquired the 20-foot-long aluminum dive boat, which replaces its 19-foot fiberglass dive boat, said NUSAR Chief Mike McCarthy. Viking Welded Boats of New Hampshire fabricated the boat to NUSAR’s specifications, Chief McCarthy said. The flat-hulled vessel is eight feet wide, creating for a more stable platform for diving operations. The boat has a 90-horsepower outboard engine. The new boat would hold up to ten to 12 people, Chief McCarthy said. The fiberglass boat had a capacity of five to six people. The new vessel will aid NUSAR conduct its aquatic...
US-based aluminium products producer Alcoa said it would invest $275-million over the next three years to expand and convert capacity at its rolling mill in Alcoa, Tennessee, to support automotive producers’ plans to use more aluminium sheet to increase fuel efficiency, safety, durability and performance of cars and light trucks. Alcoa said it wanted to meet the growing demand for light, durable and recyclable aluminium sheet for automotive production. Alcoa had previously announced a $300-million expansion of its Davenport, Iowa plant, which was expected to be complete by the end of this year. “More and more auto producers are turning to aluminium to increase the fuel efficiency and quality of their vehicles – we anticipate a quadrupling of auto sheet volume by 2015 and a tenfold...
Noranda Aluminum Holding Corporation will begin trading ex-dividend on May 02, 2013. A cash dividend payment of $0.04 per share is scheduled to be paid on May 29, 2013. Shareholders who purchased NOR stock prior to the ex-dividend date are eligible for the cash dividend payment. This marks the 5th quarter that NOR has paid the same dividend. At the current stock price of $3.81, the dividend yield is 4.2%. The previous trading day's last sale of NOR was $3.81, representing a -64.85% decrease from the 52 week high of $10.84 and a 19.81% increase over the 52 week low of $3.18. NOR is a part of the Basic Industries sector, which includes companies such as Aluminum Corporation of China Ltd and Century Aluminum Company. NOR's current earnings per share, an indicator of a company's...
The aluminium rolling mill plant in Sohar is close to completion of construction and the commissioning of all process equipment has started and liquid metal sourced from Sohar Aluminum has been introduced in the furnaces. The plant is being built on behalf of the Oman Aluminium Rolling Company, a subsidiary of Takamul Investment Company, by FATA EPC. Initial production and provisional hand over of the facility is foreseen by fourth quarter 2013, said a company release. The company's primary objective is to promote and invest in value-added economically viable projects that feed off local upstream industries that include metals, petro-chemicals and minerals. FATA EPC, a division of FATA S.p.A. is the prime contractor responsible for the engineering, procuring and construction of the...
