The London Metal Exchange (LME) aluminium price graph contracted on September 10 across cash and contracts, with longer-dated contracts reporting nearly 1 per cent decline. The aluminium opening stocks, however, remained stable. The LME aluminium cash bid price shifted from USD 3,351.5 per tonne on...
Our current approach can win economic skirmishes, but not the geopolitical conflict. – Part 2 Impact #5 of ad hoc industrial policy: Failing to use all required tools Industrial policy is often caricatured as just tariffs and subsidies. Mis-framed debates that evaluate the merits of tariffs in...
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Olav Magnus Linge has been appointed new Executive Vice President (EVP) for Communication & Public Affairs, effective April 1, 2026. Linge succeeds Therese Rød Holm who, after five years, has decided to step down from her current role as EVP for Communication & Public Affairs to take on the new...
Image source: EGA Emirates Global Aluminium, the largest ‘premium aluminium’ producer in the world, and the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside the oil and gas sector, today announced the closing of a $5 billion multi-tranche debt financing. The transaction supports EGA’s...
The aluminium value chain moved through a week shaped less by routine output numbers and more by structural forces - environmental accountability, resource nationalism, tariff recalibration and fresh capacity ambitions. Across continents, governments and producers alike signalled that aluminium is...
Global aluminium producers have proposed higher premiums of USD 220-250 per tonne to buyers in Japan for primary aluminium shipments, scheduled between April and June. For the global aluminium value-chain 2026 outlook, book our exclusive report “ Global ALuminium Industry Outlook 2026 " These...
The UK’s last remaining primary aluminium smelter has just demonstrated how tariff asymmetry reshapes global metal flows faster than any policy white paper ever could. Alvance British Aluminium, operating out of Lochaber since 1929, has begun exporting to the United States for the first time in its...
SHFE aluminium 2602 fluctuated downward in the morning session, with the price centre lower than the previous trading day. Affected by the decline in aluminium prices, the spot-futures price spread, and the price spread between futures contracts, spot premiums/discounts in the market moved higher....
Note: This image is AI generated and for representation purpose only Momentum around Century Aluminum Company has picked up sharply in recent months, with a mix of operational progress and market enthusiasm driving attention towards the aluminium producer. The company’s shares recently touched a...
Image generated by AI for representational purpose Aluminium prices on the London Metal Exchange (LME) moved higher on February 26 compared to the previous session, with both cash and futures contracts registering gains, while exchange inventories declined marginally. The LME aluminium cash bid...
Note: This image is AI-generated and for representation purpose only At Kotak Institutional Equities’ Chasing Growth 2026 conference, Sumangal Nevatia, analyst at Kotak Institutional Equities, set out a clear hierarchy within the metals space, and aluminium, in his view, sits firmly at the top. The...
Image generated by AI for representational purpose The image of leadership in heavy industry is changing. Where blazing potlines and control rooms were once seen as unlikely spaces for women, today they reflect a broader transformation underway across the aluminium sector. From smelters and power...
The National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) has launched a new IA91 grade aluminium alloy ingot. IA91 grade aluminium alloy ingot is a high-profile, silicon-based aluminium casting alloy. It is manufactured in ingot form (metal that has been cast into a solid, standardised bar shape) for use in...
Aluminium prices on the London Metal Exchange (LME) registered gains on February 25 compared to the previous session, with both cash and futures contracts moving higher. The LME aluminium cash bid price increased to USD 3106.5 per tonne on February 25 from USD 3075 per tonne on February 24, marking...
Aluminium smelters are increasingly being repurposed as data centres. Following an update from Century Aluminium about transforming its Hawesville smelter into a digital infrastructure campus, news has surfaced from Alcoa Corp that it is turning its ten aluminium facilities into data centres. These...
中文翻译附于新闻末尾，敬请继续阅读。 On a warm afternoon in Abuja, conversation turned to an industry many had long written off as dormant. Nigeria’s steel and aluminium ambitions, often discussed, rarely realised, were back on the table as the Minister of Steel Development, Shuaibu Abubakar Audu, received a...
Local firm US Aluminum Company has signed an agreement with EGA and Century Aluminum, the companies behind the planned primary aluminium production plant in Inola, Oklahoma, to explore the development of an aluminium fabrication plant near the new smelter. Explore- Most accurate data to drive...
One of the UK’s leading foundries has reinforced its commitment to the Black Country, with the purchase of the Moxley Industrial Estate. Alucast, which provides high-pressure, low-pressure, sand and gravity casting services, has spent GBP1.8m on the site in Wednesbury, protecting the future of the...
LME aluminium prices recorded a modest increase on February 24 from the previous trading session, even as exchange inventories registered a decline. On February 24, the LME aluminium cash bid price stood at USD 3,075 per tonne, up from USD 3,068 per tonne on February 23 - a rise of 0.23 per cent....
When Century Aluminum Company finally shut the ledger on 2025, the numbers told only one part of the story. The other half of Century Aluminum’s 2025 tale has been written in transformer failures, hurricanes, inventory write-downs and energy volatility. It was a year in which aluminium prices and...
