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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Furukawa-Sky Aluminum Corp. and Sumitomo Light Metal Industries Ltd. said they plan to integrate their operations on Oct. 1 to survive intensifying competition from Chinese and South Korean rivals in aluminum rolling business. The two nonferrous metal companies said they have reached a final agreement on the merger plan, which they expect to be approved at shareholders' meetings in late June. Furukawa-Sky Aluminum is the world's eighth largest maker of aluminum rolling products, while Sumitomo Light Metal Industries is ranked 12th. The company after the merger will be capitalized at 45 billion yen ($461 million) and named UACJ Corp.
Noranda Aluminum Holding had its target price trimmed by Barclays Capital from $7.00 to $5.00 in a report released on Thursday, Stock Ratings Network reports. Barclays Capital currently has an equal weight rating on the stock. Several other analysts have also recently commented on the stock. Analysts at Bank of America downgraded shares of Noranda Aluminum Holding from a buy rating to a neutral rating in a research note to investors on Thursday. They now have a $5.00 price target on the stock, down previously from $8.00. Separately, analysts at Zacks upgraded shares of Noranda Aluminum Holding from an underperform rating to a neutral rating in a research note to investors on Tuesday, April 23rd. They now have a $3.40 price target on the stock. Finally, analysts at Citigroup downgraded...
Motor Wheel Service Distribution will give its two new xlite super single forged aluminium wheels their show debut on stand A28 at Truckfest Peterborough. The company claims the wheels are among the lightest on market, and a change in profile by manufacturer Wheels India has enabled the load index to be increased to 5,000kg from 4,500kg. John Ellis, managing director of MWSD, said: "It is important that we have direct contact with the end user and have the right products on show, so with Truckfest Peterborough and the new super singles we go to the event with a very strong wheel offering indeed." xlite wheels are forged from a single aluminium billet using a computerised numeric control machine to produce a higher degree of production accuracy. Benefits over steel wheels include unique...
Helukabel will have their vast array of wind turbine cables for show, which have been developed and tested to provide more than 20 years of operation service time. Cable manufacturer HELUKABEL will participate in the American Wind Energy Association’s WINDPOWER Conference and Exhibition in Chicago, IL from May 5 to 8, and will showcase its complete range of cabling products capable of equipping the entire turbine – from rotor tip to tower base. The company will display its 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 has been IEC 61238-1 Class A High-Voltage tested and approved, and can withstand the warming caused by an electric current flowing through aluminum, which has a...
Palmer Foundry, the leader in providing dimensionally stable and vacuum tight aluminum castings for complex applications, has just announced the launch of a new highly ductile aluminum alloy called HyDuct5 and also that the company has been awarded ISO 9001:2008 certification for the manufacture and sale of aluminum castings. This new alloy is perfect for applications where high ductility is required. Compared to the widely known 356-T6 and 356-T51 alloys, HyDuct5 has a higher ultimate tensile strength of 35,000 versus 33,000 and 25,000 respectively; and an elongation value of 9% versus 3% and 2% respectively. HyDuct5 is added to Palmer Foundry’s suite of specially developed alloys which also includes the proprietary Vapore 6 and Stable-Cast series. “An important part of our business...
Shipments of rolled-aluminum products by Japanese fabricators to domestic and overseas markets decreased at a slower pace in March, supported by demand from beverage-can makers, according to an industry group. Volume fell 1.5 percent to 171,163 metric tons last month from a year earlier, the Japan Aluminium Association said in a report today. The pace of decline slowed from February’s 8.2 percent rate. The decrease was led by the auto sector as vehicle sales in Japan declined 11.3 percent in March because of an end to subsidy payments by the government to buyers of fuel-efficient models. The weakness was partially offset by 4.9 percent growth in demand for flat-rolled products from beverage-can makers. The association expects shipments for the year through March will expand 3.2 percent to...
Japanese car manufacturer Honda Motor Company has announced that it has developed a technology that allows steel and aluminium to be joined. Honda says the innovation will allow it to manufacture weight-saving vehicle doors that combine a steel structure with an aluminium outer skin. Joining together dissimilar metals may sound simple, notes the company, but requires a combination of no fewer than three separate new technologies to enable the production of doors with aluminium outer panels. These include, firstly, a proprietary ‘3D Lock Seam structure’, which involves mechanically joining steel and aluminium panels through twice-over layering and hemming. In addition, Honda had to use a highly anticorrosive steel for the inner panel, while developing a different panel shape that would...
ESS DEE Aluminium shares surged nearly nine percent to touch a new 52-week high of INR509.90 on Thursday. Trading volumes also shot up by 2.5 times to 1,65,623 equity shares as against its five-day average of 65,693 shares. At 12:11 hours IST, the stock was up 7.84 percent to INR 505 on Bombay Stock Exchange. Earlier the share touched its 52-week high INR 493.00 and 52-week low INR114.20 on 22 April, 2013 and 13 September, 2012, respectively. Market capitalisation of the company currently stands at $299 million. In the previous trading session, the share closed down 2.64 percent or INR 12.70 at INR 468.30.
The Jaguar BMW 3-series rival will be styled to be “off-centre” of the class standard, according to design boss Ian Callum, but he has conceded that entering such a well-established segment of the car market makes his job of producing a car, that stands out from the crowd particularly, difficult. The baby Jaguar is expected to be launched in 2016 and be based on Jaguar Land Rover’s Premium Lightweight Architecture, a platform that would also underpin the next generation Jaguar XF and XJ. The combination of smaller turbocharged engines and aluminium body construction is said to be key to the Jaguar establishing a unique selling point as a low emission but fun-to-drive car. “It is part of Jaguar’s core values to be slightly off-centre wherever it goes,” said Callum. “But at the same time...
Copper wire producer Encore Wire Corp. will slowly ramp up aluminum wire production at its new plant in McKinney, Texas, this year. Staying competitive in this industry will be challenging as competitors are willing to cut prices in order to keep customers, Encore said. "We are trying to be really careful with how we go to market with that product," Encore president and chief executive officer Daniel Jones said of aluminum wire. "The first line of defense of our competitors is price. They will cut the price to protect an order or a customer. That is just not our style." The McKinney-based company started aluminum wire production in the fourth quarter, and expects the final equipment to be installed in the second quarter of 2013. "From a timing standpoint, it is going to be a gradual ramp...
Volvo realizes it can’t continue on the same path forever. Now 11 years old, the XC90 is one of the oldest production cars on sale today, according to an Autocar report. Accordingly, Volvo engineers are hard at work on a new Scalable Product Architecture platform, which it claims is “flexible and scalable,” allowing for multiple derivations. The new platform, which will be 90-percent new, incorporates an aluminum front structure, including doors and drivetrain components. The use of lightweight aluminum should shave around 200-350 pounds off the present vehicle. From there, Volvo will do away with its five, six, and eight-cylinder variants and sell only its new four-cylinder engines based upon its Volvo Engine Architecture or “VEA.” These frugal fours will be mated with hybrid technology...
Franklin-based Noranda Aluminum Holding Corp.'s earnings were down 96 percent in the first quarter compared to a year ago, according to the company's latest earnings report. Earnings were $600,000, or 1 cent per diluted share, on revenue of $338.4 million. Analysts, on average, had estimated a loss of 6 cents per share on revenue of $339 million, according to Thomson Reuters. "We are pleased with our first quarter 2013 performance, which demonstrated improved operating reliability across our integrated upstream platform," said Layle Smith, Noranda`s president and CEO, in a press release. "We saw stable overall demand with improved value-added and fabrication premiums for our key aluminum products during first quarter 2013."
Guangzhou Alufront Aluminium Co., Ltd., a professional manufacturer of aluminium products in China, announced that it will present at the 15th China (Guangzhou) International Building Decoration Fair from July 8-11, 2013. Alufront will display its best-selling and new items, including the Aluminium Sun Room and integrated window design with burglar-proof and insect screen. Mr. Cheng, GM of the company, will extend his welcome to guests from all over the world. Ms. Michelle Wang, another GM of the company, said, "What we want to do is to build up our own brand with good quality products and professional service."
Showa Denko K.K. has developed high-performance aluminum reflector for crystal liquid displays for use in personal computers and television sets. Sample shipments started last month. This product is an extension of SDKs ST-60 aluminum alloy with high thermal diffusivity comparable to that of pure aluminum, which is used increasingly as heat sinks for plasma displays and LCDs. Specifically, the newly developed reflector is manufactured by providing proprietary white coating on ST-60 sheet. Compared with conventional product (aluminum alloy to which white film of polyethylene terephthalate is attached), the newly developed reflector offers higher heat dissipation efficiency and light resistance, as well as reflectivity of more than 95%. As the current trends in LCDs are toward larger...
Emirates Aluminium is looking to provide liquefied aluminium to downstream industry very soon, Salman Abdullah, Vice President Operation at Emal, told Gulf News. “With the remarkable expansion of the aluminium industry across the emirates and especially in Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi, we are looking to provide the liquefied aluminium to the downstream industrials,” he said. “Currently, we produce aluminium in liquefied form and we solidify it to be transported to factories who in turn work on liquefying this aluminium for industrial usage.” To save time and efforts as well as to reduce cost, we are going to transport the liquefied aluminium directly after production to the factories, Abdullah said. “Liquefied aluminium will be transported in a vessel at a temperature of 800 degree...
Noranda Aluminum Holding was upgraded by Zacks from an “underperform” rating to a “neutral” rating in a report released on Tuesday, Stock Ratings Network reports. The firm currently has a $3.40 target price on the stock. Shares of Noranda Aluminum Holding traded down 2.09% during mid-day trading on Tuesday, hitting $3.28. Noranda Aluminum Holding has a one year low of $3.18 and a one year high of $10.95. The stock’s 50-day moving average is currently $4.1. The company has a market cap of $222.2 million and a P/E ratio of 4.65. Noranda Aluminum Holding last released its earnings data on Wednesday, February 20th. The company reported $0.06 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.03) by $0.09. The company had revenue of $332.90 million for the quarter,...
Kaiser Aluminum yesterday reported net income of $34 million for the first quarter of 2013 compared to $27 million, or $1.38 earnings per diluted share for the first quarter of 2012. Excluding the impact of non-run-rate items and an $8 million Canadian tax benefit, adjusted net income was $20 million for the first quarter, compared to adjusted net income of $21 million for the prior year first quarter. The current-year quarter reflects the benefit of revenue related to a $4.5 million payment from a customer in lieu of fulfilling minimum volume obligations under a multi-year contract. Value added revenue of $187 million for the first quarter of 2013 declined from $195 million in the prior year first quarter reflecting mild headwinds. Weaker demand during the quarter driven by modest...
Novelis today announced price increases on its automotive aluminum sheet products in North America. The fabrication price will increase by $0.13 per pound for 5182-series and 5754-series automotive alloys, and by $0.09 per pound for 6000-series automotive alloys. The price changes are effective immediately for all new orders on or after April 23, 2013. Novelis fabrication pricing for specified volumes under current supply agreements will be honored for the contract period. “This increase reflects the prevailing tight supply situation and strong demand,” said Tom Walpole, President, Novelis North America. “Given the market dynamics, we also expect to see an upward trend in metal premiums and production costs.” “We are on track with our 200,000 tonnes/year automotive capacity expansion that...
