For decades, aluminium windows and doors were largely viewed as functional elements of construction. Today, advances in extrusion technology, precision engineering and architectural design have transformed their possibilities. What once required bulky frames and conventional openings can now be achieved through remarkably slender profiles, expansive glass surfaces and sophisticated systems that bring together structural strength, durability and understated luxury. As Indian architecture becomes increasingly ambitious, aluminium is no longer simply framing spaces; it is helping redefine how they are designed, experienced and connected. Market data According to ALUMEX India 2025: Extruding the Future, India is the world’s second-largest primary aluminium producer and third-largest consumer,...
Two recent Tesla stories sit at opposite ends of the range. Tesla Model 3 is set to benefit from cost-focused Cybercab inverter technology, announced on November 1 2026. The flying car, Tesla Roadster, uses aluminum in its battery cells and underbody protection, reinforcing power delivery, thermal management and lightweight construction. The two models reveal how aluminum can serve very different engineering priorities, from making electric vehicles (EVs) more affordable to helping them deliver extraordinary performance. Tesla Model 3: the everyday car gets Cybercab hardware Nick Verzini, Tesla’s Head of Drive Unit Engineering, mentioned on a Munro Live factory tour that a new printed circuit board assembly and power stage from the Cybercab’s inverter will enter Model 3 production in...
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As Canada has imposed retaliatory import duties on U.S. aluminum product imports in the busy summer season, Canadian microbreweries are facing a shortage of beverage cans and higher costs leading to beer production cut to a certain extent, a Reuter report says. Though Canada is the world’s third biggest aluminium producer and they produce cans domestically, beer makers also rely on the import of more than 2 billion cans, mostly from USA. When Canada included cans in the list of products imported from USA to be imposed an import duty, some craft brewers received notices of higher prices due to the duties while others failed to procure their usual supply of aluminium cans. “It seems like no one has cans to sell,” said Steve Beauchesne, co-founder and chief executive of Beau’s Brewing Co in...
Recyclability of metal is one of the key factors that has been constantly driving the consumption of the metal cans in the market, including aluminium cans because this particular non-ferrous metal is nontoxic by nature and can be easily processed, handled and distributed. In 2017, the metal cans market was valued at US$46.35 billion and is expected to reach a value of US$ 56.38 billion by 2023 at a CAGR of 3.32 per cent. Germany, being one of the largest aluminium exporting countries, supplies a lion share of aluminium cans all over the world. But unfortunately, it has been noticed that over the two years the country’s aluminium cans export volume is incessantly decreasing. In 2016, Germany had exported a total volume of 95,543 tonnes of aluminium cans, while in 2017, the volume stood at...
Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals (GACL) has commissioned its new poly aluminium chloride (PAC) plant with a capacity of 32,000 tonne per annum. This is second such plant of the company after the commissioning of it first plant at Dahej complex in 2007, with a capacity of 40,000 TPA, as told by GACL’s Managing Director Prem Kumar Gera. Gera added that there is heavy demand for PAC in India, which is primarily used in municipal and industrial water treatments, waste water treatments, separation of slurry in industrial processes, sizing in paper and pulp industry, decontamination of dyes in textile industry and sewage water treatments. Mr. P K Gera flagged off the first shipment from the new Poly Aluminium Chloride Plant from its Coelho Complex, Vadodara. The Company has taken initiatives to...
Shanxi province in China is about to set up a fund of RMB 4 billion which will be used for the development of the automobile industry. This action plan has been issued by the municipal government this week, according to Shanghai Metals Market. Each city in the province will receive around RMB 120 million for boosting 100,000 units of vehicles. Taxpayers who are identified as a high-tech enterprise will pay a lower rate of corporate tax, at 15%. Additional 30 per cent of allowance will be paid by the province, on top of the current national subsidy for replacing vehicles designated for use in the public sector with new-energy vehicles. Against every purchase of a locally-manufactured car or heavy truck that runs on clean fuels, buyers will get a subsidy of RMB 10,000, while against the...
The promising results and earnings outlook from Japan’s No. 3 automaker Honda Motor stands in stark in contrast to the bearish forecasts from several other automakers hurt by rising raw material costs due to additional US metal tariffs and possible higher duties on imported vehicles. Resisting the impact of US aluminium and steel tariffs, Honda could record a surprising jump in quarterly profits to their highest in more than a decade. The improvement in North American sales could be attributed to this positive result. About 7.7 per cent sales grew in North America and 3 per cent grew across the globe in Q1 FY2018-19 that drove Honda’s operating profit to US$ 2.69 billion, highest since early 2006. Honda Senior Managing Director Kohei Takeuchi said at an earnings briefing on Tuesday, July...
Galuminium Group, one of the leading companies in the aluminium sector in Guangzhou, China, has recently added a brand new product to its range, aiming to meet the needs of customers living overseas. It is an aluminium casement door this time with special wind resistance capability. Expressing the mighty pride, the head of International Marketing Department of Galuminium Group Kenny Ye said, “A common saying is that no one ever made a difference by being like everyone else. The same is true for a company. It should from time to time make an impact when launching new products. So this time we adopt the new technology to improve product's air-tightness and water-tightness and introduce the new Aluminium Casement Door." This newly-launched aluminium casement door is made of alloy and...
On Thursday, July 26, Nissan Motor Co. echoed Detroit’s concerns over material costs hike due to higher aluminium and steel tariffs. Increased prices of the metals on the face of heavy tariffs were the biggest drag on Nissan’s profitability in the first quarter of FY2018-19 ended on June 30. More than half of the US$396 million declined year-on-year in operating profit, while the net profit shrank 14 per cent to stand at US$ 1042 million, in contrast to US$ 1214 million in the last financial year. Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. also reported on Wednesday, July 25, that increased commodity prices led to a fall in their quarterly results by US$ 300 million, compared to year earlier. Nissan’s dip in profit could also be attributed to investors’ higher price bid for the metals in...
Donald Trump’s aluminium tariffs have already started showing colours in the end user segment. After a series of can makers, automakers and construction companies expressing concern over cost increase and possible price increase on consumers, now is the turn for Coca-Cola, one of the most iconic American beverage brands to announce a price rise in the domestic market to compensate for the tariffs on imported aluminium. On Thursday, Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey told The Wall Street Journal that the company will raise prices of its products on increasing costs for shipping and metal driven by duties of $50 billion on the metal imported from China. “There is some broad-based push on input costs that have kind of come in and affected ours and many other industries as well,” Quincey said....
After a meeting at the White House on July 25, US President Donald Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker appeared to reach a deal to quell all the trade barriers between the two countries. Trump agreed to ease sweeping tariffs on the EU-assembled cars, while Jean-Claude intended to remove heavy retaliatory duties on the US exports. “We had a big day, very big,” said the US President standing alongside Jean-Claude in the White House rose garden, adding that they also discussed to resolve US tariffs on steel and aluminium – marking a step back from Trump’s signature import protections for American metal producers. Trump told reporters, “We agree today, first of all, to work together toward zero tariffs, zero, non-tariff barriers, and zero subsidies on non-auto...
Home appliance manufacturer Whirlpool, an early supporter of tariffs to protect US washing machines, said that US tariffs on aluminium and steel were raising sharply the costs of raw materials, contributing to a slump in second-quarter earnings, and shares fell 15 per cent to a two-year low. The Michigan-based washing machine maker could be forced to modify its current business practices, it said in a quarterly filing on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST), without giving details. Whirlpool said rising raw material costs hurt results in three out of four of its regional markets in the second quarter, including North America, Asia and its struggling Europe, Middle East and Africa division. The only region where it did not cite input-cost inflation was in Latin America, which faced its own problems in...
12 bungalows at Killymoon Crescent in Cookstown, Northern Ireland have been refurbished by the Housing Executive at a cost of £300,000. The residents are now looking forward to a more convenient and comfortable winter after the renovation. The prefabricated aluminium bungalows were built in 1950. The buildings have been transformed with what is known as a ‘thermal comfort scheme’. These renovations are expected to add the value for money and thermal efficiency of the aluminium bungalows. Since the buildings were old, the thermal comfort scheme is designed to improve the condition of the bungalows to match up to the current building standards and to meet the needs of existing tenants and future applicants. The roofs, external doors and walls, windows, guttering and down pipes of the 12...
Local breweries in the US that rely heavily on aluminium cans are starting to feel the pinch of import tariffs on aluminium products imported from Canada. Winnipeg is home to over 20 different local beer breweries that now have no other choice than to pay the tariff in order to continue producing beer. “Everything is expensive enough as it is – why are we adding more expenses to everything?” said Tyler Birch, co-owner of Barn Hammer Brewing. Birch started a beer canning company in the beginning of 2018, Mammoth Mobile Canning, which cans beer for five local breweries in Winnipeg including his own. In his last shipment of aluminium beer cans, 160,000 cans costed him an average of 20 cents per can. With the tariffs and mark-ups from retailers, he is expecting a 20% increase, adding over...
The US automotive industry pleaded President Donald Trump on Thursday, July 19, to reject higher tariffs on vehicle imports, saying that these additional tariffs could cripple domestic manufacturing and cause job loss. The pleas came followed by the European Union’s announcement of preparing a list of retaliatory measures in response to possible US tariffs on foreign vehicles. In May, the Trump administration called for an investigation into auto imports that could lead to tariffs of up to 25 per cent on foreign vehicles and parts. Economists warn these automobile tariffs, on top of aluminium and steel tariffs along with heavy retaliation from US trading partners could harm the global economy. Former Missouri governor Matt Blunt, head of the American Automotive Policy Council that...
The European Union has already started preparing a ground for its retaliatory move against the United State in case the 20 per cent tariff on EU-assembled cars is levied. On Tuesday, July 17, European Union Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom announced that a list of counter-measures to potential US-tariffs is almost ready. While delivering a speech at a conference in Brussels, she said the potential US tariffs on EU car exports would be extremely unfortunate. Hence, along with member states, the country is preparing a list of rebalancing measures as a counter move, she added. Nonetheless, Malmstrom expressed hope if her visit to Washington, accompanied by EU Commission President Jean Claude Juncker could help ease tensions. They will visit next week to discuss transatlantic trade with...
Aparna Enterprises Limited (AEL), a reputed building materials manufacturing company, has declared to diversify its business into aluminium windows and structural frames by setting up a manufacturing unit near Hyderabad. The company said it would roll out the products soon. Part of the diversified Aparna Group, AEL is engaged in the manufacture of tiles, uPVC windows and frames and 17 Ready Mix Concrete units in the country. Now intending to double its turnover, the company has decided to plunge in this diversification and invest around INR 200 crore. P Ashwin Reddy, Managing Director of AEL said, “About ₹200 crore investment is likely in expansion which will include another extrusion facility for aluminium profiles, expansion of the ceramic tiles manufacturing facility at Peddapuram near...
Aluminum prices climbed 18% in the US in the second quarter of 2018, after the tariffs were announced by Trump. The tariffs are expected to affect prices of a range of end use products from beer cans, to cars to building and construction products. A local news update reported that the price of aluminium hurricane shutters is going up in in Northwest Florida. Suppliers of aluminium shutters said their prices have already started to rise. "At least the talk of the tariff has even accelerated the pricing," said Scott McCartney, the Vice President of First Choice Home Improvements. "Because you can't wait until the day the prices increase. You have to anticipate that in the industry at least 30 days in advance." The company sells and installs hurricane shutters and windows and the supplier...
As part of an initiative to develop next-generation advanced materials and manufacturing processes, Lockheed Martin and Arconic, a global technology, engineering and advanced manufacturing leader, today announced a two-year Joint Development Agreement (JDA). Together, the companies will develop customized lightweight material systems and advanced manufacturing processes, such as metal 3D printing, to advance current and next-generation aerospace and defense solutions—including new structures and systems not currently in existence. This agreement expands the longstanding relationship between Arconic and Lockheed Martin. The companies currently collaborate on advanced materials and manufacturing projects such as the development of process modeling, simulation tools and lightweight,...
Arconic, the world’s sixth largest aluminium producer with corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, announced yesterday, July 16, 2018, that it signed a long-term multiyear contract with Boeing. According to the contract signed, Arconic will supply aluminium sheet and plate for all models produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It is the largest contract till date and captures growth in the build rate increased of the Boeing 737 program. Tim Myers, President of Arconic Global Rolled Products and Transportation and Construction Solutions said, “This agreement demonstrates Arconic’s commitment to deliver quality and innovation to our customers.” “We’re proud of our more than 40 years of collaboration with Boeing, and we look forward to playing a role in their continued success.”...
