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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Imagine running a factory where one input dominates the cost structure and suddenly, far richer buyers start paying more for the same supply. That is the pressure aluminium smelters are now facing which affacets the overall aluminium smelting outlook 2026. From Europe to Australia to the United...
AL Circle launches its latest industry-focused market research report—" Global Aluminium Industry Outlook 2026 ”— a concise, data-driven guide to a year that will deliver twists, turns, and transitions across the aluminium value chain. As cost curves reset, trade flows realign, and decarbonisation...
Aluminium is everywhere in Europe’s economy, from power transmission and renewable energy systems to transport, defence, construction and packaging. Its importance has led the European Union to classify aluminium as a critical and strategic raw material. The challenge now is whether Europe’s...
The Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC) has firmly rejected claims that the Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO) is being sold, clarifying that the government is instead pursuing a carefully structured strategic partnership to revive and expand the long-idled smelter. The...
Futures: Last night's session, SHFE aluminium closed at RMB 24,100 per tonne, up 0.77 per cent. The price stood above all key moving averages (MA5: 24,086; MA60: 24,083.08), with short-term MAs forming a bullish alignment, indicating a strong structure. In the MACD indicator, the DIF (0.9315)...
London Metal Exchange aluminium prices weakened across most contracts on January 21, reflecting a broad pullback from the previous session, while exchange inventories reflected significant improvement. The LME aluminium cash bid price continued to decline, reaching USD 3,112 on January 21 from USD...
A single smelter has had immense impact on the global trade scenario. Mozal’s closure hit the CBAM impacted nations, tightened the global aluminium supply chain scenario and now is influencing the Japan’s Q1 2026 aluminium premium with around a 127 per cent hike quarter-on-quarter. After a year of...
Angola President João Lourenço has inaugurated an electrolytic aluminium plant, marking a new development towards industrial diversification and job creation. Located in the Barra do Dande Free Trade Zone in Bengo province, Angola, the facility represents the first phase of a five-stage project...
SHFE aluminium 2602 fluctuated upward in the morning session, with the price centre slightly higher than the previous trading day. Today, overall market buying sentiment improved slightly but remained at a low level, with mainstream transaction prices mainly ranging from a discount of RMB 10 per...
At the 28th edition of Kalahandi Utsav – Ghumura 2026, India's largest aluminium producer, Vedanta Aluminium, showcased its key operations and community development activities while demonstrating a clear view of aluminium production and applications. To know more about the global primary aluminium...
London Metal Exchange aluminium prices weakened across most contracts on January 20, reflecting a broad pullback from the previous session, while exchange inventories continued to edge lower. The LME aluminium cash bid price slipped to USD 3,136.5 per tonne on January 20 from USD 3,168 per tonne on...
中文翻译附于新闻末尾，敬请继续阅读。 Nanshan Aluminium International Holdings Limited is all set to start off preparatory works in 2026 on a new electrolytic aluminium facility in Indonesia’s Galang Batang Special Economic Zone. The facility is planned to produce up to 250,000 tonnes of aluminium a year, with...
The full-year output in 2025 exceeded the 45 million tonnes per year capacity cap imposed on the domestic primary aluminium sector, Mysteel Global noted. This suggests that most domestic smelters operated at high utilisation rates for much of the year, allowing actual production to surpass the...
Reviewing the aluminium rod market in December, overall supply and demand improved, with processing fees bottoming out and returning to reasonable levels. According to SMM surveys, aluminium rod production totalled 323,800 tonnes in December, down 5.06 per cent M-O-M. On the supply side, production...
Gold and silver have been stealing the spotlight in recent weeks, pushed higher by a mix of geopolitical anxiety, tariff threats from the United States, and deepening supply - demand imbalances. But apart from these two precious metals, aluminium has been quietly moving in the same direction - less...
Brijendra Pratap Singh, Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO), observed that the Indian aluminium sector is not well-equipped for a full-fledged transition to green aluminium. It spikes concern, especially in the context of the Carbon Border Adjustment...
Futures: SHFE aluminium closed at RMB 23,945 per tonne in the night session last Friday, down 0.99 per cent. Prices traded above all key moving averages (MA5 23,939, MA60 23,924.17), but pulled back near the short-term averages, indicating high-level fluctuations in the near term. The MACD lines...
On January 16, the London Metal Exchange (LME) aluminium price dropped drastically from the previous day’s close, where LME cash and forwards contracts also slipped. There has been a dip in the inventory side, but the alumina platts remained unchanged. Both the LME cash bid and offer fell by USD...
