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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In the process of complying with CAFE requirements automakers will essentially need to spend about $157 billion to double their fleet’s fuel efficiency. This will likely lead to years of rising sales for makers of aluminum body panels, turbochargers and other light weight components. Based on a Bloomberg report posted on the Pittsburgh Tribune's website, most of this will be achieved by making internal-combustion-engine vehicles lighter and more efficient – even for brands with considerable sales of hybrids and EVs, according to Zoe Lipman, senior manager for transportation solutions at the National Wildlife Federation Climate and Energy Program. Automakers will use turbochargers to add power and efficiency to smaller engines – as Ford has done with their EcoStar engines – and stop/start...
Liton Technology is set to expand capacity for medium- to high-voltage formed aluminum foil to meet customer demand in 2012, while Laser Tek is expected to report a good first quarter thanks to rising orders for materials used to make chip resistors, according to industry sources. Liton's factory has an existing monthly production capacity of 450,000 square meters of low-voltage formed aluminum foil, the sources indicated. Liton will gradually set up 36-54 production lines mainly for medium- to high-voltage formed aluminum foil, with related monthly capacity to reach up to 310,000 square meters, the sources pointed out. Liton plans to install 30 new production lines for medium- to high-voltage formed aluminum foil at its factory in Sichuan Province, western China, the sources indicated....
Novelis Inc. reported net income attributable to its common shareholder of $120 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2012 compared to net income of $62 million for the same period in fiscal 2011. Shipments of aluminum rolled products totaled 720 kilotons for the second quarter of fiscal 2012, a decrease of 2 percent compared to shipments of 737 kilotons in the second quarter of the previous year. This slight decrease in shipments was driven by economic uncertainty in the United States and Europe and unseasonably cool and wet weather across a number of the Company’s operating regions which resulted in customer destocking in the quarter. Net sales for the second quarter of fiscal 2012 were $2.9 billion, an increase of 14 percent compared to the $2.5 billion reported in the same period a...
Japan Aluminium Association said that Japanese monthly output of rolled aluminium products, including flat and extruded products, decreased by 6.1% to 171,267 tonnes in November from a year earlier while the shipment decreased by 6% to 172,576 tonnes. Both of the production and the shipment represented year to year minus for six straight months. The shipment largely decreased for flat products, especially for the export. Both of the production and the shipment showed year to year minus for six months in a row for aluminium flat products. Especially the export dropped by 35.7% to 14,540 tonnes. The figure represented wide-range minus since the export hit the monthly record high in November 2010. Meanwhile, the actual export demand also weakened due to suspension of the users' factories...
Central Jersey based home remodeling and design contractor Somerville Aluminum announces opening of their newly remodeled home design center and showroom in Somerville. Additionally, interior designer Sue Schertl has joined the Somerville team. Bringing with her over two decades of home design knowledge, insight and experience, Sue will be available to assist customers bring their home remodeling dreams to life. The showroom, located in downtown Somerville, offers homeowners a streamlined and convenient way to touch and feel the most popular and up-to-date home remodeling products and design trends. Featuring a broad selection of cabinetry and tile, bathroom and kitchen fixtures, the showroom and design center will help homeowners launch their remodeling projects with as much ease...
One of the northeastern Louisiana Delta’s largest private employers is set to create more jobs in 2012 as Sapa Extrusions continues construction on an expansion in Delhi. The company is installing equipment this week in a second facility that will allow Sapa to expand its profile in the stadium and oil and gas platform business, creating about 30 new jobs. Sapa, which extrudes aluminum products such as stadium seats, auto and construction parts and makes aluminum logs for raw material at its existing operation on U.S. 80, will open a fabrication center in a former boat plant just north of the town on Louisiana 17. “Everything is on track,” Delhi Sapa plant manager Ron Ballman said. “It’s coming along very well and is very promising.” Ballman said one piece of equipment, a press, was so...
Once again an aluminum wire loaded cargo truck has been hijacked by robbers on Sambalpur –Rourkela Express highway .This type of incidents are happening again & again in this industrial corridor route. This time the materials in the truck was about 30 lakhs .Till now after after Three days the police could not found any clue on this matter. According to information received on last Sunday at midnight in Sambalpur - Rourkela Express Highway robbers hijacked a cargo truck, this truck came out from Vedanta Alumina plant situated at Jharsuguda & was going to Union Territory Daman – Diu’s capital Silvassa & was loaded with Aluminum of cost around 30 lakhs. When this truck was passing near to Rengali the robbers in a Bolero overtook it & forcefully stopped the truck. After this took control...
There was not so much change in anti-theft doors market over years. While carved aluminum doors, carved copper doors and casting aluminum doors may be the new favorite for this market and become another high-end metal door. Now many anti-theft door enterprises were trying to turn their focuses on high-end market. Compared with the traditional anti-theft doors the carved aluminum doors, carved copper doors and casting aluminum doors were much more outstanding both in grade and taste. These products were the most popular products in Taiwan market, but inland market still no large scale products. On the other side, parts of casting aluminum doors also appeared in some domestic markets. This metal doors come from Taiwan with excellent appearance and texture received great attentions from...
ET reported that the Aditya Birla Group after a closely fought contest with global biggies, bought out Canada's Novelis one of the world's largest rolled aluminum makers, for USD 6 billion. But what caught attention in the Novelis deal was that Essel Mining & Industries, a little known, unlisted, closely held company within the Birla fold, had extended USD 300 million in equity, to fund the acquisition of the Canadian major. Soon it emerged that Essel has been driving most of Aditya Birla Group's transactions serving as a holding company for the group and leading the business family's efforts to ramp up promoter holding in companies that were as diversified as aluminum and telecom and financial services. One of the members of the team involved in the Novelis acquisition said that "Essel...
Midas Holdings announced the subsidiary Jilin Midas obtained three metro project contracts with totally 0.142 billion yuan. Two of them are inland contracts one is CSR Nanjing Puzhen Co., Ltd. and the other one is CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co., Ltd, worth 44,800 thousand yuan and 38,000 thousand yuan respectively. While the first company will provide aluminum alloy extrusions for the 144 cars of Shanghai Metro Line 13 and the other one will offer aluminum alloy extrusions for the 150 cars of Zhengzhou Metro Line 1. The last contract was signed with Brazil worth 59,400 thousand yuan, will supply aluminum alloy extrusions and assembling parts for the 371 cars of Sao Paulo Expresso Tiradentes.
RUSAL/RUAL, MICEX: RUALR, RTS: RUALR), the world’s largest aluminium producer, is pleased to announce its plans to increase the total production volume of its Packaging Division by 25% until 2014, from 80,000 to 100,000 tonnes per annum, amounting to 5.3% of the world’s total foil production (excluding China). The Division will also review its production portfolio, to focus on converter foil. Total investment in the project will amount to about USD17 million. The production increase will be achieved by modernizing the three largest CIS foil and foil packaging plants: SAYANAL, Ural Foil and ARMENAL. Ural Foil’s production capacity will increase from 16,000 to 24,000 tonnes per annum, with investments amounting to USD7 million. ARMENAL’s production capacity will increase from 26,000 to...
Demonstrating both sustainability and thermal efficiency, Reynaers Aluminium will be showcasing a number of thermally improved systems at EcoBuild 2012 including its market leading window and door system, CS104, ideal for passive construction. Also featured on the stand will be CF77 Concept Folding sliding doors, CS38 slimline, steel replacement windows, Airmax parallel opening windows, CW50 Hi thermally improved curtain walling and examples of the company’s sunscreening products. A high insulation, triple glazed window system, meeting the exacting passive construction standards, Reynaers CS104 has a market leading Uw value of 0.77 W/m²K, for a complete window. On show for the first time at EcoBuild is the new Reynaers Concept Folding 77, a sliding, folding system with unique features...
Aluminium or steel? Which is the superior material for use in the transportation industry and for building machinery? The debate among engineers continues. Historically, steel has been perceived to be the stronger and more easily maintained metal, but with modern day technology and an environmentally conscious society, aluminium may yet prove to be the better alternative. Mr Vincent Cheung chief financial officer of China Zhongwang Holdings said that “In the past, steel has always been the material of choice, but light weight, non corrosive and recyclable aluminium is becoming increasingly popular.” China Zhongwang was established as an aluminium construction product manufacturer in 1993 focusing on producing soft aluminium parts for the construction industry. According to Mr Cheung there...
Armenia’s ArmenAl Foil-Rolling Plant—which is a part of the Russian RusAl Company—in capital Yerevan, for the first time surpassed its planned production level, which is 25 tons of foil per year. Ever since the Plant’s establishment in 2000, it has produced and sold more than 130 thousand tons. RusAl has invested around US$ 120 million in the Plant. And from 2012 to 2014, close to $6-million investment is envisioned in order to modernize ArmenAl, and this will allow the Plant to produce up to 33,600 tons per year, the Company’s statement reads.
Jiaozuo Wanfang Aluminum Manufacturing (000612) plans to issue up to 282 million shares at 10.64 yuan per share in order to raise a maximum of three billion yuan for the construction of thermoelectric units and to boost operating capital, reports Oriental Morning Post, citing a company filing. According to the company, it will invest 2.33 billion yuan to build two 300 MW extraction condensing turbines, and two 1,110 t/h pulverized coal-fired boilers. It will also build stack gas desulfurization, denitrification equipment and other ancillary facilities. The entire project has a construction period of two years, with an internal rate of return of 9.59 percent and a break-even period of 11.42 years. Being a maker of electrolytic aluminum, power bills account for 50 percent of its total cost....
The most active SHFE aluminum prices rose after opening lower on Tuesday, with an attempt to regain losses from the previous trading day. However, transactions in spot aluminum markets remained weak due to limited prices increases. Spot aluminum supply in South China was stable, and buying interest among downstream buyers was low. Meanwhile, cargo holders were unwilling to move goods and held prices firmly, with spot prices stabilizing between RMB 16,010-16,030/mt, more resilient to declines compared with East China. Transactions were waning in general.
Russian aluminum giant UC RUSAL plans to boost its packing division’s annual production of foil to 100,000 tonnes by 2014, up from 80,000 tonnes per year, the company said Tuesday. The production increase is to be achieved through upgrades at RUSAL’s three largest foil and foil packaging plants, comprising Sayanal, Ural Foil and Armenal. Ural Foil’s production capacity is to rise to 24,000 tonnes from 16,000 tonnes per year, with investments amounting to U.S. $7 million. Armenal’s production capacity is to increase to 33,600 tonnes from 26,000 tonnes, with investments at $6 million Sayanal’s production capacity is to rise to 42,000 tonnes from 38,000 tonnes, with investments at USD 4 million. RUSAL also plans to review the production portfolio of the division to focus on converter foil....
Anyone driving past the construction site on US 52 and Veterans Memorial Parkway will see that this plant is well underway to completion. NewsChannel 18 spoke with the project director and it seems the hiring process is well underway already, and operations should begin as soon as mid-2012. He said the Nanshan Aluminum Extrusion plant in Lafayette will employ around 150 employees by summer of next year. 100 of those positions are still open, and the company is looking to fill those spots with local labor. "We're looking for a variety of candidates at the moment. And we have a website set up to accept candidate applications. We're also working with the local community educational system," said Jamie Beardsley, project director for the Lafayette facility. The Nanshan group, based in China,...
