Germany and France share one of Europe’s busiest downstream aluminium corridors, and the metal flows in both directions. In the first seven months of 2026, aluminium flat rolled products (FRP), which cover aluminium plates, sheets and strips (HS code: 7606), as well as aluminium foil (HS code: 7607), crossed the border each way, amounting to a total of around USD 692 million. However, the bilateral trade flow is tilted towards Germany, which remains France’s largest FRP supplier. Nonetheless, the inter-dependence remains as the countries do exchange the same products but engage in cross-border trade of specialised high-value products and alloys, feeding the demand on either side. The trade figures for January–July 2026, as compiled from the International Trade Administration, highlight...
KAP Minerals and Cymat Technologies are exploring a partnership to produce scandium-aluminium master alloy in Ontario, following the signing of a memorandum of understanding. The partnership would use scandium oxide from KAP’s Kapuskasing critical minerals project and Cymat’s aluminium-processing technology to produce alloys for aerospace, defence and manufacturing applications. To know the global production, demand and consumption forecasts of aluminium extrusions, explore our report " The World of Aluminium Extrusions to 2035 " Scandium-aluminium alloys can improve strength, performance and weldability while reducing weight. The companies aim to use the proposed venture to establish a domestic supply chain, converting Canadian critical minerals into value-added industrial materials....
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Sunidhi Securities is bullish on Parekh Aluminex (PAL) and has recommended buy rating on the stock with a target price of Rs 390 in its March 6, 2012 research report. "Parekh Aluminex (PAL), during Q3FY12, net profit surged by 42.3% to Rs 22.2 crore (Rs 15.6 crore) on 50.0% higher sales of Rs 345.0 crore (Rs 230.0 crore). OP and NP margin stood at 18.0% and 6.4% as against 18.2% and 6.8% respectively in Q3FY11. (YoY) During 9MFY12, net profit advanced by 24.7% to Rs 60.0 crore on 43.2% higher sales of Rs 953.2 crore. OP and NP margin stood at 17.9% and 6.3% Vs 17.5% and 7.2% respectively in 9MFY11. 9MFY12 EPS works out to Rs 46.5 Vs Rs 37.3 in 9MFY11." "PAL manufactures these products with various sizes, shapes and microns. Aluminium Foil containers are utensils, pans, trays, packing...
Saudi Arabian Mining Co. (Maaden) and Alcoa announced yesterday the commencement of work to extend the product mix of their aluminum complex currently under construction at Ras Al-Khair in Saudi Arabia. This latest milestone will enable the two companies to include capability for producing about 100,000 metric tons of a wide range of products suitable for further downstream manufacturing in the complex's product lines. They include automotive heat-treated and non-heat-treated sheet, building and construction sheet and foil stock sheet. "Depending on demand, the line will start production at the end of 2014...this step will further place Saudi Arabia among the world's foremost aluminum producers by combining the highest standards of quality with the exceptional cost competitiveness of this...
Interfax reported that UC Rusal, the world largest aluminum producer, will invest USD 6 million in the modernization of foil producer Rusal Armenal in 2012-2014. The money will be invested in order to increase the plant production to 33,600 tonnes of aluminum foil per year. The plant produced 25,313 tonnes of foil in 2011, 2.7% more than in 2010. Exports edged up 0.9% by volume to 25,041 tonnes, but rose 10.8% in value to USD 86.984 million. Armenal said overall investment in the modernization and development of the plant exceeded USD 120 million in 2000-2011. Over this period, the plant produced more than 130,000 tonnes of product, almost all of which was exported to the United States, Europe and the Middle East. The US accounts for 80% of foil exports. Armenal set up on the basis of the...
Kobe Steel, Ltd. has signed a technical transfer agreement with Swedish Sapa AB under which Kobe Steel will provide Sapa with production technology for high-quality aluminium extrusions to be used in Sapa's 50 extrusion plants in Europe, North America and Asia. Both companies excel in aluminium extrusions and this combination of Kobe Steel technology with Sapa's global foot-print and technology, will provide even greater value to customers in automotive, office equipment, mass transportation and other product areas. The agreement covers the full range of processes ranging from melting and casting to extrusion, including Kobe's proprietary aluminium alloys that have received high evaluation in the market. Sapa will be able to use Kobe Steel's technology at its more than 50 profiles plants...
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has started building a new plant in China for producing high-purity aluminum foils for electrolytic capacitors. A ground-breaking ceremony was held on March 2 at a site in Nantong Economic & Technology Development Area, Jiangsu Province. This project is part of the business expansion plan decided in August last year. At the new plant in China, the subsidiary Showa Denko Aluminum (Nantong) Co. Ltd will finish rolled foils supplied from the company's Sakai Plant (Sakai City, Osaka, Japan). Final products will be provided to customers in China. The plant will start up in the second half of 2013. Aluminum electrolytic capacitors are used widely in electric appliances and transport machinery. Demand for aluminum electrolytic capacitors in China is expected to grow,...
Aluminum products maker Novelis Inc is selling three foil-manufacturing plants in Europe to focus on premium product markets such as beverage cans and automobiles, it said on Monday. The company, which is the U.S. unit of India's Hindalco Industries Ltd, said the buyer was American Industrial Acquisition Corp. According to its website, AIAC is a group of 35 manufacturing facilities with revenue of more than $1 billion a year. It has specialized in buying and turning around distressed manufacturing units of major companies. Novelis gave no details of the value of the transaction, which it expects to close in the next few months. "These foil operations are well-established businesses with strong customer bases; however, they are not aligned with the Novelis growth strategy, and therefore we...
Saudi Arabian Mining Co (Maaden) plans to add a new production line at its aluminum joint venture with U.S firm Alcoa to produce sheets used in the automotive and construction industries, the firm said on Monday. The new line will have a capacity of 100,000 tonnes per year and also produce foil stock sheets when it comes online by the end of 2014, Maaden said in a statement on the Saudi bourse website. Financing for the project will be announced at a later date. The Aluminum complex is owned 74.9 percent by Maaden, and 25.1 percent by Alcoa.
Coca-Cola Bottlers’ Sales & Services Company LLC (CCBSS), the Coca-Cola entity purchasing aluminum can sheet for the Coca-Cola System in North America, and Novelis Inc., a producer of aluminum rolled products, have announced the signing of a multi-year agreement for the supply of aluminum can sheet. The agreement took effect January 1, 2012. The agreement covers the supply of aluminum can body stock, can end stock and can tab stock to the various producers of beverage cans for Coca-Cola in North America. The contract continues a decades-long relationship between the two companies and maintains Novelis’ role as the primary supplier of aluminum can sheet to Coca-Cola in North America. In the context of the new contract, the companies have also agreed to dismiss litigation pending in the...
Two aluminium buyers in Japan have agreed second-quarter premiums to be paid to producers of $115 per tonne, slightly higher than for the current quarter, while most other Japanese firms are still negotiating for lower premiums, two sources directly involved in the matter said. The agreed figure is sharply below Rio Tinto Alcan's initial request for $132, and suggests there is not yet a recovery in Japanese demand that Australian and U.S. aluminium producers have been hoping for to drive a rise in the premium. Aluminium spot market premiums were rising both in Europe and the United States at the start of the year, underpinned by a healthy demand outlook and smelter shutdowns. Three-month futures price on the London Metal Exchange have risen more than 15 percent this year. The two Japanese...
Hydro, a global supplier of aluminium, has been a major supplier of aluminium body sheet for the Bluecar production in Paris. Pininfarina, an Italian car design firm, and Bolloré, a French investment and industrial holding group, have launched Bluecar, an electric vehicle, at the 2008 Paris Motor Show. Hydro has manufactured and supplied the sheets from its rolled products facility in Grevenbroich, Germany. In 2011, approximately 3,000 Bluecar vehicles included side wall panels produced using Hydro’s aluminium . The entire Bluecar fleet is mobilizing Autolib, the new car-sharing scheme, which was introduced in December 2011. Bolloré have placed an additional order to Hydro for 200 metric tons of rolled aluminium, which will be used to build the second generation Bluecar electric vehicles...
The International Aluminium Institute (IAI) has launched the latest in the series of product-related sustainability websites, highlighting the advantages of the use of aluminium in packaging. The site is designed to demonstrate the economic, social and environmental benefits of aluminium packaging solutions. It features interactive content based on the IAI’s life cycle research and examples of the full range of aluminium packaging applications. The website has been created by Interstruct Berlin for the International Aluminium Institute, in cooperation with national and regional aluminium associations around the world.
Alcoa Inc will raise prices on some of its coil and flat sheet products by 5 percent starting March 1, the aluminum producer said late on Thursday. The aluminum giant sent a note to its global aerospace, ground transportation and industrial and specialty products customers this week announcing the price increase on all new orders received on or after March 1. The following product prices will be increased: 2xxx, 7xxx HT Coil & Flat Sheet 5% price increase Alcoa said, it will honor all existing orders and firm agreements confirmed prior to March 1. An Alcoa spokesman said the company raised these high performance alloys, because of their strong demand in the aerospace industry.
Equity Bulls reported that Flex Art Foil Private Limited, the wholly owned subsidiary of Ess Dee Aluminum Limited has commenced the operations at its new manufacturing unit at Bangalore to carry out the activities of printing aluminum foils based packaging products. The Ess Dee Aluminum Limited stock was trading at INR 155.50 down by INR 0.90 or 0.58%. The stock hit an intraday high of INR 157 and low of INR 155.50. The total traded quantity was 1072 compared to 2 week average of 36271.
Aluminum hit its highest price on the London Metal Exchange in more than five months, profiting from a recovery and growing demand in key consumer countries, said Commerzbank in a research note. “The Japan Aluminum Association, for instance, believes that demand in the country has already seen its lowest point and is now likely to climb again following eight months of continuous decline,” Commerzbank added. “This view is backed up by the fact that Japanese consumers will once again be paying higher premiums for aluminum from April, for the first time in three quarters. The premium on the LME price reflects the regional supply/demand situation and covers freight and insurance costs. The country is recovering from the natural disasters it suffered last year--this is confirmed by the growth...
The Azerbaijani government has unveiled plans to stop importing finished products from aluminum. "So why do we continue importing products made of aluminum? Because only part of the work has been done. To develop manufacture of finished products from aluminum it is needed to create a technology park to operate under the Ganja aluminum plant. I appeal the Ministry of Economic Development to involve the private sector in creation of such a technology park to enhance the level of processing of aluminum in the country," Aliyev said. Azerbaijan has two aluminum plants - in Sumgait and Ganja, and its own raw material base (alunite). President Ilham Aliyev has claimed that a new aluminum plant opened in Ganja manufactures 50,000 tons of high quality aluminum per year and is able to produce...
Japan's 69 rolling aluminum mills shipped a total 156,455 mt of sheets and extrusions in January, in line with the 156,643 mt shipped in the same month a year earlier, Japan Aluminum Association data showed Tuesday. Sheet shipments fell 8.2% year on year to 84,732 mt in January, but this was offset by extrusion shipments rising 11.5% over the same period to 71,721 mt, the data showed. Sheet shipments were impacted by heavy snow and low temperatures that slowed beverage canstock demand, as well as a general decline in Japanese exports on the back of global economic uncertainty, the association said. January canstock shipments totaled 27,364 mt in January, down 1.8% year on year, and sheet exports 13,232 mt, down 14.7% over the same period. Extrusion shipments were supported by new housing...
The Pininfarina Bluecar, a product of the car design factory Pininfarina in collaboration with the French industry group Bolloré, was introduced at the 2008 Paris Motor Show. It's no longer a concept: In 2011, about 3,000 cars were produced. 3,000 Bluecars drive around the capital of France, with visible aluminium from Hydro as side panels. All have deep-drawn side wall panels made of aluminium body sheet, developed and delivered from Hydro's rolled products plant in Grevenbroich, Germany. You can't buy the car, though. Not yet. The entire fleet is mobilizing the new Parisian car-sharing system Autolib, which was launched in December 2011. The program is based on Vélolib, the bicycle-sharing system in Paris that has 20,000 bikes ready to rent and ride at more than 1,200 stations across...
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) welcomed a group of 23 students from Hamad Town Intermediate Boys’ School for a site visit on Monday, February 27, 2012. Members of Alba Public Relations met the students accompanied by their advisor Mohammed Jaber Sabt. The purpose for their visit was to gain more insights on the aluminium production process, to learn more on the company’s credentials as a corporate citizen, environmental commitment, safety policies as well as its role as an industrial powerhouse in Bahrain. Commenting on the visit, Alba’s Chief Executive, Laurent Schmitt, said: “It was a privilege to welcome the students to the Alba plant, and share with them our expertise in the production of high-grade aluminium. The students were able to learn of Alba’s growth for the past forty-years...
