Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced that Saint Jean Industries S.A.S has been certified against the ASI Performance Standard V3.1 (2023). The facility produces aluminium automotive chassis components, using melting, foundry, forging, machining and assembly processes, with annual...
Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (BALCO), a subsidiary of Vedanta Aluminium Metal Limited, has issued a public advisory urging citizens, employees, business partners and other stakeholders to remain alert to cyber fraud involving the unauthorised use of the company's identity. The company warned...
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According to a recent report, Alcoa Corporation has appointed Ms. Nicole Coutu as President of Alcoa Canada. The key job role of Ms. Coutu in Alcoa Canada will be the principal liaison for government and institutional relations for the company, on behalf of the Deschambault, Bécancour and...
Aluminium France has reportedly organised and joined forces to import more than 1.2 million surgical masks and FFP2 for its members to provide them with necessary sanitary protection against the COVID19, and thus, encourage the resumption of business activities in the best possible conditions. This...
On 1 st July’20, the new version of NAFTA to come into force and the Canadian aluminium industry is paying attention to following a recent decision of the US Commerce Department to execute a mechanism monitoring of aluminium exports to the United States. The movement initiated post the American...
Cherished Alcircle Readers Family, Greetings from AlCircle! We hope you all are staying safe and remaining healthy at this challenging time. The global COVID-19 pandemic is affecting all our families, businesses, communities, and our way of life. During this time, we wanted to reach out to all our...
On 22 nd April’20, the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) made a unanimous preliminary determination that unfairly-traded imports of common alloy aluminium sheet from Bahrain, Brazil, Croatia, Egypt, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Republic of Korea, Oman, Romania, Serbia,...
The Aluminum Extruders Council has reportedly announced the results of the annual election of officers and directors, which was decided at its 71 st Annual Meeting & Leadership Conference last month in San Antonio, Texas. Brook Massey was elected to serve as Chairman of the Aluminum Extruders...
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has started a preliminary anti-dumping investigation in regards to the imports of common alloy aluminium sheet from 18 countries, including Germany, Oman, Bahrain, Serbia, Croatia, Romania, Turkey and Slovenia. On 31st March’20, ITC stated that the...
On 23 rd March’20, Francois Legault ordered the closure of all non-essential businesses and businesses as early as 11:59 p.m. 24 th March’20, in the hope to cut off the widespread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The government has admitted the “strategic” nature of the aluminium industry, allowing it to...
The US commerce department’s International Trade Administration (ITA) confirms its recently published congressional budget estimate for the fiscal year 2021 plan is to “to develop a new system to track imports of aluminium products and provide an early warning system for import surges.” ITA details...
The Aluminum Association has added three new member companies- Audubon Metals, REA JET and Trinity Consultants. Audubon Metals joins the association as a producer member- a firm that makes or fabricate aluminium products. The two companies join as associate members – an organization that supplies...
On 14 th February’20, the European Commission declares the opening of an anti-dumping investigation into aluminium extrusions emerged from China. The investigation follows a complaint launched by European Aluminium whose member companies are negatively impacted by the dumping of Chinese exports of...
On Thursday, February 13, the Aluminum Association announced about the joining of Tom Dobbins as the group’s new president & CEO from March 16. Tom already spent 13 years as the head of the American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA), the largest trade association in the world that...
The EU3 triad of France, Germany and Italy is one of the European Union’s economic pillars. The EU3 triad demonstrates technological and financial development axes and, even after the exit of the UK from Europe, it still contributes 50% of the total budget of Europe’s 26 states. In the exchange...
The second edition of AlCircle’s flagship e-magazine “ Aluminium LeaderSpeak 2020 ” is getting ready to be published this month. Means, the time is near to hear from the key players of the aluminium value chain industry about the market trend and analysis of this year and beyond. The companies and...
The Canadian aluminium industry is in for a slump year as the demand for the metal is projected downswing. Mr Jean Simard, CEO and President, Aluminium Association of Canada communicated that global overproduction of the metal combined with a general economic slowdown around the world, and the...
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced Merit Aluminum Inc. has become a new Production & Transformation member of the ASI. This brings the total number of members working toward a responsible aluminium value chain to 111. Merit Aluminum delivers high quality extrusions within customers’...
On Wednesday, January 15, the US President Donald Trump signed a partial trade deal with China aiming to resolve prevailing American concerns about Chinese trade abuses. According to a text released by the White House, the deal included several steps to strike out some practices, such as...
The year 2019 saw the announcement of new campaigns and initiatives to encourage and raise awareness for aluminium recycling among consumers. New schemes have been launched in an effort to meet sustainability targets. Showa Denko Group collected about 4.79 million UBC for recycling or recovered...
