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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The ET Foundation (The Extrusion Technology for Aluminum Profiles Foundation) has announced the winners of the 2019 Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition. More than 90 students from high schools and universities submitted entries for the cash award sponsored by Bonnell Aluminum. The award is...
The Aluminium Association of Canada (AAC) brings together Canada’s three primary producers of aluminium, Alcoa, Aluminerie Alouette and Rio Tinto. A non-profit organization, it represents the Canadian primary aluminium industry. AlCircle had an opportunity to interact with Jean Simard, President...
On May 7, the Aluminum Association released a new policy roadmap called “The Aluminum Agenda” for a sustainable and competitive U.S. Aluminum Industry. The agenda includes principles and policy goals for a U.S. aluminium industry in the 21st century. The document prepared in consultation with the...
Aluminum Association released a new white paper, Targeted Trade Enforcement in Action: Aluminum Foil AD/CVD One-Year Later yesterday. The paper highlights the progress made after the Commerce Department’s final application of antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders on imports of...
The Aluminum Association has released its first new material registration record in nearly 20 years. The record called “purple sheets” will provide chemical designations for aluminium powder used in 3D printing or additive manufacturing. The purple sheets are addition to its “rainbow sheet” series,...
The Aluminum Association released a joint letter with the Aluminium Association of Canada and IMEDAL urging for quota-free exemptions from the aluminium tariffs for Canada and Mexico before the implementation of United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Addressed to the Presidents of the US,...
Amafond and Indo Italian MilanHub (IIMH) have promoted a meeting with the new Consul General of India in Milan, Dr. Binoy George, on Monday 25 March. Amafond is Italy's leading industrial association for aluminum machinery, innovative metal and the foundry sector. Many of its associated companies...
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an order on March 21 in the latest appeal regarding whether curtain wall units are included in the scope of the trade case against the Chinese aluminium extrusion industry. The case filed by Aluminum Extruders Council demanded a collection of...
The Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC) has released the latest edition of the AEC Buyers Guide. The Buyers’ Guide is a comprehensive directory of AEC Extruder Members, featuring such information as company headquarters, plant locations, contact information, maximum press circle size, forms produced,...
The second annual Global Recycling Day was celebrated yesterday, March 18, in Washington, DC. Communities and individuals around the world gathered together to celebrate the Global Recycling Day. On the occasion, the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) urged businesses, communities,...
According to the latest report from Aluminum Association aluminium demand in the United States and Canada (shipments by domestic producers plus imports) was up 4% over the 2017 to an estimated 12.8 million tonnes in 2018. Demand for semi-fabricated (mill) products was also up 4% to 9.2 million...
According to the latest report from Aluminum Association, aluminium net shipments (including exports) by domestic U.S. and Canadian facilities totalled an estimated 982,481 tonnes during January 2019, an increase of 4.3 per cent over the January 2018 total of 941,657 tonnes. Shipments of aluminium...
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative announced that Slim Aluminium S.p.A. has become a new Production & Transformation member of the ASI. Slim Aluminium S.p.A, located in Cisterna di Latina, near Rome,is a vertically integrated plant with cast house, rolling mills and finishing lines, manufacturing...
The Aluminum Association has added four new member companies – Brunswick Corporation, Consolidated Engineering Company, Shapiro Metals and Vesuvius USA. Brunswick Corporation joins the association as a producer member – a firm that makes or fabricates aluminium products. The three companies join as...
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) is a global, multi-stakeholder, non-profit standards setting and certification organisation that aims to recognise and foster the responsible production, sourcing and stewardship of aluminium. ASI is the result of producers, users and stakeholders in the...
Gränges, leading global supplier of rolled aluminium products for heat exchanger applications and other niche markets, announced that it has become new member of Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI). The company agrees to seek certification against the ASI Performance Standard for at least one...
As showed by Brazil’s national aluminium association Abal’s figures, Brazil produced 48,800 tonnes of primary aluminium in November 2018. It is the lowest aluminium production recorded in 2018. November aluminium output was 26.70% lower Year on Year than the 66,600 tonnes produced in November 2017...
Semi-finished aluminium export from China is creating concern among other south Asian countries as well. Vietnamese aluminium producers fear cheap aluminium products imported from China would make their domestic products un-competitive. Nguyen Hong Linh, owner of an aluminium manufacturing firm in...
