LME aluminium prices strengthened across cash, three-month and December 27 contracts on November 11, 2026, as declining exchange inventories and constraints on immediate metal availability continued to support the market. The cash offer price rose 2.76 per cent to USD 3,223.5 per tonne , compared with USD 3,137 per tonne on November 10. The cash bid price also increased by 2.81 per cent, reaching USD 3,223 per tonne from USD 3,135 per tonne in the previous session. The LME aluminium three-month bid price advanced 1.22 per cent to USD 3,062 per tonne from USD 3,025 per tonne, while the corresponding offer price climbed 1.22 per cent to USD 3,064 per tonne from USD 3,027 per tonne. Similarly, the December 27 bid price rose 0.96 per cent to USD 2,930 per tonne, compared with USD 2,902 per...
A potential easing of trade tensions between the United States and Canada could reshape the North American aluminum market, with European buyers facing the risk of stronger competition for Canadian metal. Import data from ITC Trade Map shows that US purchases of Canadian unwrought aluminum fell sharply in 2025, while imports from Canada increased across six European markets, highlighting how trade flows have evolved amid tariff uncertainty. The United States imported approximately 2.03 million metric tons of unwrought aluminum from Canada in 2025, down 25.9% from 2.74 million metric tons in 2024. The decline amounted to around 711,494 metric tons over the year. Import value also decreased, falling 22.2% from $7.82 billion to $6.09 billion. The figures come as the possibility of a...
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...Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) saw sales figures reach $1.9 billion last year as compared to $1.5 billion in 2009 while net income was $368 million as against a loss of $220 million in 2009...
...Aluminum Corp. of China Ltd., or Chalco, expects a strong but challenging 2011 as the global economy continues to regain momentum and demand for aluminum increases due to government spending on mass transit...
...Mr Viktor Vekselberg chairman and shareholder of the world's largest aluminum producer RusAl said that a USD 12.8 billion offer for RusAl's 25% stake in Russia's largest nickel maker Norilsk Nickel is worth serious discussion...
...The Hungarian metals plant responsible for a massive spill of toxic red sludge which killed 10 people last year has switched to a safer technology to process its caustic waste, officials said Monday...
...Select base metals prices rose at the non-ferrous metal market here today on good buying by stockists as well as higher demand from industrial users. Meanwhile, copper utensils scrap, copper sheet cuttings, aluminium utensils scrap eased on subdued demand from consumer industries. ..
...The exhibition and conference marked the 125th Anniversary of the Hall-Heroult Process with a plenary session devoted to the subject. Claude Vanvoren of Rio Tinto Alcan opened proceedings with a look at The Early Days of the European Aluminium Industry and examined Paul Heroult's role as the co-inventor of the electrolytic process...
... SHFE 1105 aluminum contract prices opened slightly higher at RMB 17,160/mt on Monday, and later moved below the daily moving average in the morning session due to weak stock markets, with prices hitting a low of RMB 17,080/mt ....
... LME aluminum prices opened at USD 2,549/mt, and later climbed continuously, with prices finally closing at a record high of USD 2,600/mt, up USD 35/mt compared with the previous trading day. Positions increased by 2,211 lots to 712,601 lots. Today, ...
...According to report of the Ministry of Commerce, the aluminum prices rose slightly in China’s domestic market driven by increasing purchase from downstream buyers and high prices in international market...
...AHMEDABAD (Commodity Online): MCX Aluminium Feb contract yesterday traded with the positive up by 0.83% and finally settled at 114.45. The US Labor Department announced on Thursday that the initial jobless claims fell to 390,000 last week, slightly lower than the expected 400,000. In addition, the US Commerce Department announced that the US new home sales in January declined by 12.6%...
...Publicly owned Egypt Aluminum company has announced increasing workers’ incentives by 15%, in addition to increasing the workers’ meal allowance, effective March 2011, Al-Ahram daily reports...
...Workers at the Ormet Plant in Monroe County were celebrating that their factory is running again at full-production. "As we're seeing the economy improve, we've restarted some shutdown capacity," said Mike Griffin, Ormet's vice president of operations.
...One hundred and twenty five years ago this month, Mr Charles Martin Hall discovered a method by which to produce aluminum commercially transforming it from a precious metal to an everyday material. It was a development that would change the course of human history...
...According to the GDA, the federation of the aluminum producing and processing industry in Germany, aluminum packaging manufacturers in Germany have recovered from the economic crisis more quickly and better than expected in 2010...
...IANS reported that Mr BL Bagra finance director of National Aluminum Company Limited has been given additional charge of CMD following suspension of Mr AK Srivastava on graft charges...
...Over 250 invited aluminum industry leaders will be gathering in Dubai on March 3rd 2011 in one of the unique settings and unparalleled occasions that is being organized by Gulf Aluminium Council...
...National Aluminium Co., India’s second-biggest producer, fell the most in more than two years in Mumbai trading after federal investigators said they arrested the company’s chairman in a bribery investigation...
...Further demonstrating its corporate commitment to excellence through innovation, Dubai Aluminium Company Limited (Dubal) — the entirely state-owned enterprise whose Jebel Ali operation ranks among the world's largest single-site primary aluminium smelters — will again participate in the industry platform offered by the TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition (TMS 2011)...
