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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...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)...
...In 2001, Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd. (Sterlite) won a bid in response to an auction by the Government of India, the ownership of 51 per cent of Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd. (Balco), an unlisted public limited company. As was the wont of the government’s disinvestment programme, the government retained the res-idual stake in public sector companies when it sold a controlling stake..
...Russia's Sual partners could sell their 15.8 percent stake in aluminium firm RUSAL , Moscow's Vedomosti daily reported on Monday, citing two sources...
... SHFE 1105 aluminum contract prices opening slightly higher at RMB 17,085/mt. Since the Shanghai Stock Exchange composite index kept fluctuating, and spot consumption was sluggish, ...
... LME aluminum prices opened at USD 2,560/mt, and later climbed continuously, with prices finally closing at an intraday high of USD 2,565/mt, up USD 24/mt compared with the previous trading day. ...
...Russian aluminum giant United Co. Rusal (0486.HK) sees the ruble strengthening in the short term and expects prices for aluminum to rise in response to the instability in the Middle East and North Africa...
...Aluminium packaging manufacturers in Germany have "recovered from the economic crisis more quickly and better than expected in 2010," according to a report Wednesday by the GDA, the federation of the aluminium producing and processing industry in Germany...
...February 22, VP of Aluminium Corporation of China (Chinalco) Zhang Chengzhong met Daniel • Pella, governor of Santa Cruz in Argentina...
...According to data released by the International Aluminum Institute, the global aluminum output in January 2011 increased by 4,000 tonnes to 2.126 million tonnes in comparison of 2.122 million tonnes in last December...
...ET reported that in restricted movement, Indian aluminum traded higher by 0.70% to INR 115.40 per kilogram in futures trading largely supported by firm spot demand amid short covering by speculators...
...Aditya Birla group owned Hindalco is raising Rs 8000 crore rupee loan for its Mahan Aluminium project. The lenders include SBI Caps, Kotak Mahindra Bank , Citibank & Royal Bank of Scotland. The average interest rate for the rupee is loan is 10.25%. Hindalco is expected to sign the deal with the banks before the end of this financial year...
...Manaksia Ltd, Asia’s largest maker of container caps, could be carved up under a succession plan. Lines have been drawn to demarcate management responsibilities within the extended Agrawal family, which controls Manaksia with a 59% stake...
...Entry of institutional investors into aluminium would push up prices of the metal further up, believes D Bhattacharya, managing director, Hindalco & vice-chairman, Novelis. In a conversation with Dilip Kumar Jha, he also said rising prices would help Hindalco. Excerpts:..
...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. The new increases, according the Company’s Chairman Sayed Abdul Wahab, are the result of the Company’s increased productivity over the past few months. Further increases in wages are to take place in April and July 2011, he added...
...Aluminium yesterday traded with the positive node and settled 0.83% up at 114.45 tracking LME aluminum prices opened at USD 2,535/mt, and later rebounded after falling to a low of USD 2,498/mt, and finally closed at USD 2,541/mt, up USD 11/mt compared with the previous trading day...
... SHFE 1105 aluminum contract prices briefly climbed to RMB 17,090/mt after opening slightly lower at RMB 17,030/mt on Thursday, and later kept fluctuating narrowly above RMB 17,000/mt. ....
... LME aluminum prices opened at USD 2,535/mt, and later rebounded after falling to a low of USD 2,498/mt, and finally closed at USD 2,541/mt, up USD 11/mt compared with the previous trading day. ...
...Thai importers of primary aluminum are bracing themselves for a possible $2-3/mt increase in their second quarter term contract prices, as a reflection of robust global demand, and higher freight and insurance rates from the Middle East, industry sources said this week...
