Australia could turn more of its aluminium and copper resources into higher-value battery components, with a new report from national science agency CSIRO identifying opportunities to strengthen the country's domestic battery manufacturing capabilities. The report, The Future of Australian Battery Manufacturing: Cell Cans and Current Collector Foils, examines how Australia could use its existing industrial expertise, materials and manufacturing capabilities to produce key components for lithium-ion and emerging sodium-ion batteries. Rather than focusing solely on the country's critical mineral resources, the analysis explores practical ways to move further downstream and capture more value through local manufacturing. The opportunity comes as global demand for batteries continues to grow,...
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...
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(China Aluminium Network) China Zhongwang Holdings Limited announced that it had successfully win the bid for the land use right of Liaoning Panjin with 642.6million RMB. The total area of the land was 4.4317million and it would be used for expansion of new aluminium extrusion facilities. The company believed that this purchasing would help it reach the high-end aluminium extrusion market and enhance its sustainability.
French aluminium producer Constellium has announced plans to invest €28m in production processes across French and German sites in response to ‘growing customer demand’. The plan includes the building of a new pusher furnace that the company said would consolidate its leading position within the “growing can packaging market”. This investment forms part of a €13m euro investment by the firm, headquartered in Paris, at its Neuf-Brisach site near the German border - to modernise its pre-heating processes. The company said that this French site – which produces aluminium coils and sheets – was a major supplier of rolled aluminium products to the food and beverage packaging (foodstock and canstock), as well as automotive markets. A further €4m investment at a site in Singen (Germany) would be...
Furukawa-Sky Aluminum Corp. engages in the production and sale of aluminum products in Asia. The company offers functional material; processed aluminum products, such as aluminum industrial products, preribbed plate, falcover, aluminum handrail, road signs, and aluminum case; and heat sink and cooling products. Its products are used in various applications consisting of transport carriers, including automotive heat exchangers, automotive bodies, turbocharger impellers, railroad cars, ships, and aerospace; consumer goods, such as beverage cans, foil for foodstuffs, foil for medicines, household electrical appliances, and sports and leisure goods; industrial application comprising lithographic sheets, copier drums, electrolytic capacitors, heat sinks, memory discs, and vacuum chambers; and...
The company will expand shipments to traditional destinations and explore new regions. Under efforts to increase exports, CNBM International Corp. is strengthening presence in Europe and North America. This is complemented by plans to roll out products with higher technology levels in the coming months. In an interview with Global Sources, aluminum product department manager Hu Zhifan discusses the company’s objectives amid the gloomy forecast ahead. Below are excerpts of the discussion. What new products will be launched next year? We will improve our present selection to introduce products with higher technology levels, profits, and fewer competitors. Besides aluminum products, are there plans to release other items? Yes, of course. These include silk screen, tires, and aluminum doors...
The company will expand shipments to traditional destinations and explore new regions. Under efforts to increase exports, CNBM International Corp. is strengthening presence in Europe and North America. This is complemented by plans to roll out products with higher technology levels in the coming months. In an interview with Global Sources, aluminum product department manager Hu Zhifan discusses the company’s objectives amid the gloomy forecast ahead. Below are excerpts of the discussion. What new products will be launched next year? We will improve our present selection to introduce products with higher technology levels, profits, and fewer competitors. Besides aluminum products, are there plans to release other items? Yes, of course. These include silk screen, tires, and aluminum doors...
Furukawa-Sky hereby announces its conclusion of an agreement to purchase a site within the Amata City Industrial Estate in Rayong Province in eastern Thailand and its decision to provide 100% of the investment to build an aluminum rolling mill on the site. The objective for constructing the new plant is to manufacture and sell aluminum sheet materials-used in such items as beverage cans, automotive heat exchangers and electrical components-in the Southeast Asian market, which is expected to grow. The company will begin (Phase I) by providing raw materials from its plants in Japan, using cold-rolling machines lying idle after the discontinuation of upstream processing at its Nikko Plant to commence cold-rolling and later processes. Thereafter (Phase II), the Company plans to smoothly...
SMM sources report that aluminum plate, sheet and strip producers faced growing difficulties in destocking. Finished product inventories at many aluminum plate, sheet and strip producers account for 50% of or even exceed their current monthly output, and few producers can keep inventories below 33% of monthly output. Tight cash flows force most producers to accelerate the destocking, but declining exports and weakening domestic demand greatly affected sales of aluminum plate, sheet and strip. Many aluminum plate, sheet and strip producers are pessimistic toward the market outlook given sluggish construction and home appliance sectors and the destocking activity will continue for a long term.
Fenestration Days China 2011 was hosted in Beijing Media Center Hotel on Oct 31-Nov 1. More than 600 foreign and domestic representatives gathered together to discuss development trend of the world’s door window and curtain wall industry and display their newest technological achievements. As a technological innovation representative of the aluminium industry, HaoMei Aluminium’s chief engineer Xiong Jianfu made a keynote speech which was highly appreciated by other attendants. HaoMei Aluminium has always working to promote the development of China’s door window industry by making use of its technological achievements.
SIFCO Industries has declared that it has closed the purchase of the business and associated assets of GEL industries, an Orange, California-based supplier of aerospace components doing business as Quality Aluminum Forge, on October 28, 2011. The Quality Aluminum Forge business offers precision machined and forged aerospace components for an extensive range of military and commercial aircrafts. The company supplies components to both the OEMs and aftermarket segments of the aerospace industry. With this purchase, SIFCO Industries has expanded its product offering by including a new metal capability and augmented its finish machining capability for the energy and aerospace industries, its major market segments. Under the ownership of SIFCO Industries, all executives and workers of the...
MEED’s Aluminium conference gathers together the key aluminium producers and downstream fabricators to discuss the opportunities connected with the massive expansion of the regional aluminium sector. Middle East Aluminium 2012 will be held from 5 to 7 March 2012 in Dubai and will discuss the region’s progress towards becoming the leading player in the global aluminium market through updates on production capacity, demand dynamics and downstream developments across the Middle East. The comprehensive agenda will also look at the forward pricing of aluminium and the market opportunities and challenges ahead.
Emirates Aluminium, or Emal, one of the largest aluminium companies, has set up a plant in this industrial zone. Also, it wants to offer at least 30% of its production in liquid metal to downstream units, thus saving them additional costs involved in first purchasing billets, re-melting them and then making aluminium products. The rest of the production will be in the form of billets, slabs and rods — both as pure aluminium and as alloys. This could accelerate the export of bauxite to Kizad, as making aluminium there will be that much cheaper. It could also mean that some large producers of downstream aluminium products in India may opt to shift base to Kizad, he says.
China’s Shandong Nanshan Aluminum plans to spend RMB6.19bn ($973M) on constructing a production line for aluminium alloy with a 200kt/y capacity. The plan also includes three casting production lines in a casting workshop, a hot-rolling production line, and facilities that will manufacture aluminium plates and strips as well as thin boards. The annual production capacities of this program are expected to 50kt/y of aluminium plates, 50kt/y of thin boards of aluminium alloy, and 100kt/y of aluminium strips. The plates manufactured by the plant are used in aviation products, ships, tools, container tanks and trains. The thin boards are used in aviation, automotive and tanks. It is expected to take three years to build.
As per China Customs,in September total aluminum export amounted to 230 thousand tons,an increase of 37.3% yoy;aluminum profiles were 67.9 thousand tons,an increase of 67.8% and aluminum plate were 100.9 thousand tons,an increase of 31.63%. On a monthly basis, compared with August,aluminum export reduced 40 thousand tons in September, drop of 17.4%.While aluminum profiles and aluminum plate/strip reduced 10 and 27.9 thousand tons respectively. And in September aluminum foil reduced 5 thousand tons as compared to August. As September started,export had deteriorated like never before. Weak overseas demand is also another factor to tighten aluminum export.During the on-going Canton Fair large number of aluminum profile enterprises gave less orders.Some of the foreign customers chose other...
The Aluminium Frame Company are pleased to announce the launch of their new website http://www.aluminiumcurtainwalling.com.The new website was built to stress the Aluminium Curtain walling side of the business, and works hand in hand with the company’s ongoing policy to strengthen and expand the Curtain walling side of the business. The Curtain walling Division specialises in providing commercial Aluminium Curtain Walling systems to architects and building contractors, and are proud to have worked on projects for apartments, schools, offices blocks, shop fronts, and supermarkets. All work comes with a no quibble 12 month guarantee, alongside the standard 10 year manufacturers warranty. Based in Leeds West Yorkshire The Aluminmium Frame Company Ltd’s Curtain walling Department specialises...
SIFCO Industries, Inc.announces the acquisition of the business and related assets of GEL industries, Inc. (DBA Quality Aluminum Forge) ("QAF"), an aerospace component supplier located in Orange, California. The QAF business is principally known as a supplier of precision forged and machined aerospace components for use on a broad range of both commercial and military aircraft models. QAF is a supplier to both the aerospace OEM and aerospace aftermarket segments. The transaction, which includes essentially all of the operating assets and liabilities of QAF, closed on October 28, 2011. This acquisition enhances SIFCO's product offering by adding a new metal capability and increasing the company's finish machining capability in both of its main market segments - aerospace and energy. The...
Alucoil America Corp., a European manufacturer of aluminum composite material and other wall cladding products, today announced new operations in Clarendon County through the purchase of Intrabond USA. An investment of more than $5 million is expected to generate 18 new jobs. The company plans to begin hiring for the new positions in the latter half of 2012. Alucoil will import its own technology to enhance current operations at the plant in Manning. The company will continue to employ all existing personnel in the plant and plans to double the number of jobs over the next two years. Intrabond products will be migrated to Alucoil brands in the future and further enhanced by technology and product line additions from its home operations in Spain. “With this acquisition, we are committed to...
China's HEC Aluminium Co hopes to raise up to 1.48 billion yuan ($233 million) in a private placement. The company wants utilize the funds generated from this private placement to expand and upgrade its foil production facilities and repay loans.
Liaoning Zhongwang Group imported two automatic round ingot sawing machines to cater to casting rods cutting work.Installation work had been started with assistance from technicians. The new machines were supporting equipments for the aluminium profile production line. They were used for continuous cutting work for casting rods in large quantities.Their manual operation function was suitable for every moving part.Through the perfect controlling system,operators could grasp the overall production status.Besides, the machines could automatically collect and recyle waste materials produced during operation.
