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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Sapa Extrusions-North America has completed a new casthouse facility at its Cressona, Pennsylvania plant. The facility is part of a $10M project that expanded casting pit operations in five cast houses, including Cressona, Spanish Fork, UT, Delhi, LA, Yankton, SD and Toronto, Canada. The project added 100 million pounds of additional annual capacity to Sapa’s total casting operations. Taking a little over a year to complete, the Cressona casthouse features casting equipment dedicated to specialty alloys that will allow for a faster, more efficient product changeover. The equipment includes a single melt furnace, a tilting holder, and cast pit. The Cressona plant produces speciality products for markets including commercial transportation, automotive, defence, industrial-consumer and...
This 2012 publication of Aluminum Sheet, Plate, and Foil Manufacturing Industry report is the comprehensive market research guide for the industry. It contains the latest information on the industry's key financial data, competitive landscape, cost and pricing, and trends during the current environment, including the output and shipment changes over the past months. This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) flat rolling or continuous casting sheet, plate, foil and welded tube from purchased aluminum; and/or (2) recovering aluminum from scrap and flat rolling or continuous casting sheet, plate, foil, and welded tube in integrated mills. This 6-digit NAICS industry (331315) is under the hierarchy of Alumina and Aluminum Production and Processing Industry (33131),...
Renewal of the Coca-Cola bottlers-Novelis deal and commencement of new domestic capacity should boost volumes. After touching a 52-week low on January 2, Hindalco shares got a boost, as its US arm, Novelis Inc, renewed its can-body sales agreement with global beverage giant Coca-Cola. Also, the agreement between the two companies, Novelis and Coca-Cola, to dismiss all pending litigation relating to the previous contractual terms acted as a catalyst. The stock, under pressure since February, today jumped nearly six per cent, the most among metal stocks. Novelis had burnt its hands in 2007 with the contract being fixed-price. The case is not the same now, as raw material price volatility has been taken care in the new contract, making Novelis more resistant to volatility at the London Metal...
Hindalco Industries climbed 4% to Rs 127.10 after Novelis Inc, also part of the Aditya Birla Group, renewed its can-body sales agreement with Coca-Cola Bottlers' Sales & Services Company (CCBSS). A Novelis statement released late on Tuesday said the two companies had signed a multi-year agreement for the supply of aluminium can sheet. "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," it said, without disclosing the terms. The contract continues a decades-long relationship between the two and maintains Novelis' role as the primary supplier of aluminum can sheet to Coca-Cola in North America. In 2007, a group of bottlers led by CCBSS filed a case against Novelis in Georgia,...
Influenced by property market regulation, restrictions on industry standard and rising of electrolytic aluminium cost, the surplus aluminum profiles industry sink into difficult position, as well the obstructed export market deteriorated this industry. The Status Quo and Difficult Position Firstly, the property market regulation obstruct the development of aluminum enterprises. Real estate developers postponed the announced date of new houses impact those aluminum doors and windows enterprises. Many aluminum doors and windows dealers said with less trading volume now. Secondly, anti-dumping limited the export of aluminum profiles. Owing to America imposed anti-dumping duties on Chinese aluminum products that the State Ministry of Finance were thinking about decreasing export rebate rate...
There are 5 development trends for aluminum profiles in th near future. First one is multicolour surfacing profiles. The silver and tawny color can not meet the demands at present, colors like champagne, golden yellow, golden, red may make the decoration better. This kind of profiles will perform better after chemical or mechanical polishing. Frosted profiles with smooth and soft surface favoured by the market very much ranks at the second place. The third one is plasma enhance electrochemistry with ceramic surface aluminum profiles. While this kind with the world most advanced processing technic and higher cost. The electrostatic powder spraying aluminum profiles armed with good pitting resistance, the acid and alkali proof also better than heat tinting profiles. The last one is...
Jinlin Liyuan Aluminum (002501), a maker of aluminum extrusion products, plans to issue a maximum of 72.8 million shares at 17.50 yuan per share in order to raise up to 1.5 billion yuan, reports nbd.com, citing a company filing. Proceeds raised will be used to diversify the product mix, and implement its strategy of improving its high-end products. According to the company, the maximum number of shares that can be purchased by a single investor is 20 million shares. The company plans to invest a total of 1.89 billion yuan for the processing of rail car materials, and will invest the total amount raised into this project, which will produce aluminum materials used in the production of automobiles, rail cars, and large components. The shortfall will be made up for by the company. The...
Novelis is to supply Coca-Cola Bottlers' Sales Services Company, the Coca-Cola group that buys aluminium can sheet for Coca-Cola in North America. The agreement covers the supply of aluminum can body stock, can end stock and can tab stock to the 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 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 Georgia State Court System, relating to previous contractual terms.
Oslo based private equity firm Norvestor has agreed to invest in Marine Aluminium, which designs, engineers and fabricates aluminium structures and products for the oil and gas and maritime industries. Following the deal, the firm’s Norvestor V fund will become the largest shareholder in Marine Aluminium with around 70% of the shares. The current owners, Jan Johannesen and Arild Frøkedal, will retain a 30% ownership. Marine Aluminium is located in Karmøy and Stord, on the West Coast of Norway, and in Ningbo, China. The company has 134 employees in Norway and 27 in China. Estimated revenues for 2011 are around NOK 300m (USD 51 million). The company’s main products are aluminium-based access and safety structures, such as helidecks and telescopic gangways. Historically, these products have...
Today, there are different types of wires available in the market. Such as copper wires, aluminium wires, steel clad copper wires, tinsel wires, tin coated copper wire, silver plated copper, and copper clad aluminium. Copper clad aluminium wire, commonly abbreviated as CCA or CCAW, is simply an aluminium wire or numerous strands of aluminium wire that is coated with a layer of copper. In other words, it is an electrical conductor made of an inner aluminium core with outer copper mesh shield layers. The main aim of this invention was to avoid some of the problems with aluminium wire such as oxidation and causing fires but to retain the cost advantage. The advantages of using Copper clad aluminium wires are that it is lighter than pure copper wire. The combination of the two metals copper...
Investors with medium-term perspective can consider buying the stock of Ess Dee Aluminium (Rs 148.4), one of the largest domestic aluminium-packaging producers. After encountering a key resistance at Rs 525 in June 2010, the stock started trending downwards. In August 2011, the fall accelerated and the stock experienced steep declines, after breaking through its long-term support level at Rs 350. Since then, the stock has been on an intermediate-term downtrend. However, the presence of the stock's long-term support zone between Rs 110 and Rs 112 arrested its decline in mid-December 2011. Subsequently, the stock reversed its direction, triggered by positive divergence in the daily as well as weekly indicators and oscillators. The stock has been on a short-term uptrend since then. While...
Cardinal Aluminum has started up a new extrusion press that is expected to boost capacity at the company's manufacturing complex in Louisville, Kentucky, Cardinal's owner, Chip Edwards, said in an interview. The newly completed project leaves Cardinal with one press in each of its two plants at the Louisville complex -- the new 2,350 st press and an 1,800 st press. Two older and smaller 1,250 st presses are being replaced. "The (new) presses are much larger and much faster and have specific pressure and there's a lot of productivity enhancement," Edwards said Thursday. As a result, the company's tonnage is expected to "increase considerably," he said, although he did not offer a specific forecast for 2012. Edwards said Cardinal is "very encouraged" about business this year. "We have...
Norwegian conglomerate Orkla saw slow demand for its Sapa unit's aluminium profiles towards the end of last year and it now looks like 2012 has started roughly in line with the start of 2011, its chief executive said. "The business in aluminium profiles in Sapa is very strongly affected by the economic development in the world, and there the markets are weak in southern Europe and in North America even though the latter has stabilised somewhat," Chief Executive Bjoern Wiggen told Reuters on the sidelines of a conference on Thursday. "The development towards the end of last year was that everybody wanted to take down their inventories and perhaps run on somewhat long stoppages in connection with the Christmas holidays, so we are very keen to see how the year will start, and there it looks...
Semiconductor foundry United Microelectronics Corporation has announced a specialised 0.11um aluminium process manufactured in its 8-inch fabs. The A+ platform consists of a blend of technology offerings, which include logic/MM, RFCMOS, eFlash, eE2PROM, eHV and CIS to address customers' integration, performance, and cost requirements. UMC said it is the only foundry to offer the most complete 0.11um full aluminium BEoL (Back End of Line) process, providing customers with a cost effective alternative to mainstream 0.13um and 0.11um copper technologies. Steve Wang, vice president, Asian sales and corporate marketing, UMC, said, "There are many applications still enjoying a comfort zone within 8-inch manufacturing facilities due to the attractive cost vs. performance benefits. For...
Last year, Accuride significantly enhanced its capacity to make aluminum wheels for the commercial vehicle industry. This was made possible by a combination of strategic acquisitions, key process technology investments and transfers of aluminum wheel machining lines within its operations. These actions were part of a $35 million strategic initiative to boost the company's ability to meet the growing demand from the commercial vehicle industry for aluminum wheels. In June, Accuride acquired all of the assets of Forgitron Technologies LLC, and those assets included an 80,000-square-foot aluminum wheel manufacturing facility in Camden, S.C. The addition of this facility increased Accuride's aluminum wheel manufacturing capacity in North America by 21%. In November, Accuride launched its...
PACKAGING COMPANY Ardagh has acquired the European division of Exal Corporation, the world’s biggest aluminium can producer, for €85 million. The acquisition of the Boxal group of companies, which are owned by Exal, will mark Ardagh’s first foray into the European aluminium can market. Ardagh, which makes glass and metal containers for some of the world’s best-known food and consumer products, currently operates an aluminium can business in Australia. The Dublin-based company will acquire two aluminium can plants in France and the Netherlands as part of the deal, as well as Exal’s share in a slug-making (aluminium stamped disc) joint venture in France, and its Hungarian business, Boxal Hungary. Exal, which is retaining its aluminium slug-making operation in Switzerland, said the disposal...
Atlanta-based Novelis, a producer of rolled aluminum products, has announced plans to invest about $50 million to install a coating line for beverage can end stock at its operations in Pindamonhangaba, Brazil. The company forecasts aluminum beverage can demand in South America to grow by 7 percent per year until 2020. Phil Martens, Novelis president and CEO, says, "This expansion is the most recent step in an ongoing program to expand our leadership position in supplying Brazil and South America with high-quality beverage can sheet for this growing region. "This investment will help round out our can sheet offering for our customers in the region and allow us to keep pace with the surging demand for our products," says Marco Palmieri, senior vice president of Novelis and president,...
Aluminium that is majorly used in Automobiles can be influenced by ordinary China automobile numbers. Recently, statistics from China Association of Automobile Manufacturers showed that the automobile sales were down by 7.3% in October 2011 compared with September 2011. The automobile sales were down by 1% compared to October 2010. Among the gainers, passenger car sales were up by 1.4% to 1220779 on a year on year basis in October. However, sales of commercial vehicles were down by 10% to 304043 units. On a cumulative basis, sales of automobiles in Jan-Oct 2011 were up by 3.1% from Jan-Oct 2010. Sales of passenger cars climbed by 5.8% in Jan-Oct 2011 while Commercial vehicles declined by 5.2% from a year earlier. MCX Aluminium is unchanged on Monday trading at Rs. 106.9 per kg. LME...
