
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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<p>The Government of India is finally considering imposing a minimum import price (MIP) on aluminium to help address the issue of surging cheaper aluminium shipments from overseas markets, especially China and Middle East. The surge has been such that the even biggest names in the primary aluminium...

<p>Indian aluminium industry giants have once again come forward to nudge the government to take some decisive steps against cheap aluminium imports that have been flooding the Indian market for a while now. <br /><br />After the Centre gifted the domestic steel industry some relief from the...

<p>The Aluminum Association and the Aluminum Association of Canada reported a total primary aluminium production at an annual rate of 3,967,688 tonnes in North America during July 2016. The rate reports an increase of 9,837 tpy (+0.2%) from 3,957,851 tonnes in June 2016. The production rate in the...

<p>The Aluminum Association has announced the addition of three new member companies – UC RUSAL, Tri-Star Glove and MAGNECO/METREL.<br /><br />In addition, the Association introduced a new member category and announced its first ever individual membership for Professor Diran Apelian of...

<p>Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) is aiming at launching its certification program by the end of 2017. The ASI was launched in 2012 to promote sustainability and transparency throughout the aluminium industry. The organization is now working on developing required normative documents and...

<p>Tom Boney, chairman of the Aluminum Association's Aluminum Transportation Group (ATG) and vice president and general manager, Automotive Value Stream, Novelis North America applauded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and California Air...

The Aluminum Association’s Index of new can stock (class) scrap receipts totaled 61.3 million pounds during June 2016, an increase of 4.2 per cent over the June 2015 total of 58.8 million pounds. Compared to the previous month, class scrap receipts rose 1.5 per cent over the May 2016 total of 60.4...

The Manufacturers for Trade Enforcement, a coalition representing more than one million workers in the aluminium, steel, chemical, textile and other manufacturing industries, supports the U.S. government in its contention that China continues to operate as a non-market economy. According to...

AEGIS Europe, a consortium of about 30 European manufacturing associations said at a recent meet that it is looking ahead to receiving enhanced support from the European leaders in guarding domestic industries and workers against Chinese dumping onslaughts. This follows the discussions held at the...

The Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC), has joined Manufacturers for Trade Enforcement, a coalition of leading U.S. industry trade groups opposed to the automatic granting of market economy status for China at the end of 2016. AEC joins The Aluminum Association, American Iron & Steel Institute,...

Jan Homan, Supervisory Board Member of Constantia Flexibles, has been re-elected President of the European Aluminium Foil Association (EAFA) at the organisation’s summer conference held in Hamburg. The European Aluminium Foil Association is the international body representing companies engaged in...

<p>India is at the threshold of emerging as the next biggest demand driver for aluminium- the strategic metal of tomorrow. Although, presently, the per capita consumption of the metal here stands at 2.2 kg against the world average of 8.4 kg, rapid urbanisation, improving automobile story of the...

The Centre on Thursday, July 30, announced to set up Aluminium Development Council in the lines of Steel Development Council to address various issues of aluminium industry including effect of global slowdown, promoting per capita use and raw material linkage. "The proposed Aluminium Council...

Aluminium Association of India (AAI) is organizing a national seminar on 'Aluminium: The Strategic Metal' in Bhubaneswar on Thursday June 30, 2016. A number of companies and associations along with key professionals from across the country's aluminium industry value chain are expected to attend the...

The Aluminum Association released yesterday the fourth edition of the Guidelines for Handling Molten Aluminum. The first edition was published in 1980. With previous updates in 1990 and 2002, this latest revision represents the hundreds of years of collective expertise in managing molten metal...
We agree that “the UK’s decision to leave the EU has sent shockwaves through the continent, and the secondary aluminium industry has no idea how this decision will affect business – even among those in the UK who voted for Brexit”. Industry participants across Europe echoed these sentiments...

The International Committee for Study of Bauxite, Alumina & Aluminium is organizing their 2016 edition of the international event in the period 3 - 6 October, 2016 in the Palace Royal hotel, Quebec, Canada. Since 1963 ICSOBA has organized 33 international events in different places of the world....

Hilde Merete Aasheim, executive vice president of the primary metal business for Hydro, headquartered in Norway, has been appointed chairman of the London-based International Aluminium Institute (IAI) at the 89th meeting of its board of directors in Shanghai. Aasheim takes over from Abdulla Kalban,...