AL Circle Analysis: Rising bauxite supply, India’s alumina surplus and US policy reshape the aluminium industry
The bauxite and alumina industry has been busy repositioning itself on several fronts. Companies are expanding mining and smelting capacity, exploring new resource regions and moving towards higher-value products, while governments are stepping in to protect strategically important alumina assets....
GM invests $40m in US aluminium casting operations for truck, SUV transmissions
Explore how GM is expanding aluminium casting capacity in Indiana to support 10-speed transmissions and strengthen its US manufacturing footprint. General Motors is investing more than USD 40 million in its Bedford Casting Operations in Indiana, expanding aluminium casting capacity to support...
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LME aluminium climbs to $2,860/t, up 1.2%; alumina Platts slips 1.6%
The London Metal Exchange (LME) price on December 1 significantly increased from the previous day’s close. However, the opening stock and cancelled warrants declined along with the cost of alumina platts. Both the LME cash bid and offer rose by USD 34 per tonne or 1.2 per cent, where the bid stood...
New cold rolling mill for the aluminium industry
Fives, an international engineering group, has recently installed a new 4Hi cold rolling mill for the aluminium industry at Compañía Valenciana de Aluminio Baux, an aluminium coil producer in Spain, part of Jupiter Aluminium Group. The new mill, with a production capacity of 60,000 tonnes per year,...
Beyond compliance: building a culture of quality in aluminium packaging
Across the aluminium packaging sector, quality control has often been seen as a compliance exercise, a necessary process to ensure product safety and meet regulatory standards. Yet, as the global metal packaging market is projected to surpass USD 190 billion USD by 2032, and consumer demand for...
New Valencia–Nestlé pact aims to recover thousands of small aluminium items long lost in sorting
Instead of recycling, millions of worn-out coffee capsules and other minuscule aluminium items are deemed to pose crucial environmental challenges. Loss of these aluminium items mainly happens when they undergo the conventional sorting systems, which then ends up in the waste. For this, a new...
AL Circle x Mayank Jain: On India’s evolving Façade market and VIVA’s foray into 0.7 mm aluminium Louvre & Baffles
Mayank Jain, the Director of VIVA ACP, holds a total experience of 6 years within the organisation. He focuses mainly on driving innovation in the future of façade architecture. His vision is to expand Viva ACP’s footprint to more than 100 countries in the coming time. He focuses on embedding both...
Harman faces $11.8m payout after decade-long duty evasion on Chinese aluminium imports comes to light
An agreement to pay USD 11.8 million by Harman International Industries, Inc., has surfaced for settling the allegations of violating the False Claims Act and other statutes. This allegation came by evading the antidumping and countervailing duties on goods which are made of extruded aluminium from...
Rio Tinto to invest $50 million to improve waste handling at Tiwai Point
Rio Tinto’s New Zealand Aluminium Smelter is preparing for a major shift in how it handles spent pot lining, confirming a USD 50 million investment in a new processing facility for the aluminium byproduct at Tiwai Point. The facility will tackle spent cell liners (SCL) that have, until now, been...
Samsung T7 Resurrected: Where 100% recycled aluminium meets high-speed reliability
A refreshed version of the T7, with the Portable SSD T7 Resurrected, as introduced by Samsung, widens the firm’s sustainable approach whilst maintaining the same performance as the previous model. The body of the new drive is made of 100 per cent recycled aluminium, which is certified by TUV...
The most-traded aluminium alloy contract rebounds, year-end demand supports spot price resilience
Futures: On Friday night, the most-traded cast aluminium alloy 2601 contract opened at RMB 20,615 per tonne, fluctuated between RMB 20,535-20,865 per tonne, and finally closed at RMB 20,715 per tonne, up RMB 120 per tonne or 0.58 per cent from the previous trading day. In the KDJ indicator, the...
China’s aluminium cable exports surge 42 per cent y-o-y in Jan–Oct, on track to exceed 250,000 metric tons for the full year
Customs data shows that China’s aluminium cable exports in October 2025 reached 17,200 tons, down 25.2 per cent month-over-month but up 20.3 per cent year-over-year. Cumulative exports from January to October 2025 totalled 215,000 tons, a 42 per cent increase compared to 151,600 tons during the...
India aims for 68% renewable and nuclear power capacity by 2032 - what should aluminium smelters do about energy mix?
India is exactly in the middle of energy transition, with its non-fossil fuel capacity exceeding 50 per cent of the national power mix. By 2032, the aim is to achieve 68 per cent of renewable and nuclear power capacity of the total energy mix. With this, the wake-up call for energy-intensive...
Alcore secures full funding for its Bell Bay hydrogen fluoride plant
ABx Group’s subsidiary ALCORE has secured full funding to go ahead with its hydrogen fluoride pilot plant in Tasmania. The plant, planned for the ALCORE Technology Centre beside Rio Tinto’s aluminium smelter in Bell Bay, will demonstrate a process to extract hydrogen fluoride from the by-products...
Premier-Green Aluminium to invest INR 600 million in a strategic solar frame expansion
Premier Energies’ joint venture, Premier-Green Aluminium, is on the road to invest INR 600 million (USD 6.7 million). This investment will be rolled out in rounds of funding to push the use of aluminium frame projects, aiming to enhance the country’s solar module manufacturing. To achieve this...
SMM SME 2025: Top 10 high-quality aluminium traders released
In the aluminium industry chain, traders serve not only as the "lubricant" connecting the smelting end with the consumption end, but also as the "buffer" balancing market supply and demand, and even as the "catalyst" driving industrial upgrading. In 2025, China's aluminium industry entered a...
AI’s power hunger is turning aluminium into America’s new strategic weak spot
The United States should be living through a renaissance in aluminium. Data centers, electric vehicles and the wider clean-energy buildout are pulling unprecedented volumes of the metal into server racks, cooling systems, power grids and vehicle frames. Prices have strengthened, and shares of Alcoa...
20-13 aluminium recycling initiative by Alspec to promote circularity within Australia
Alspec, Alspex, and Rio Tinto have recently come together to enhance a closed-loop aluminium recycling programme, aimed at supporting local industry with raw materials, help them reduce emissions, and strengthen low-carbon supply chain in Queensland. The initiative is called 20-13 as the aluminium...
Off-season atmosphere deepens, proportion of liquid aluminum expected to drop further in December
According to SMM statistics, domestic aluminium production in November 2025 (30 days) increased 1.47 per cent YoY, but decreased 2.82 per cent MoM. Starting in November, aluminium gradually transitioned from peak consumption season to off-season, downstream operating rates showed a downward trend,...
Indonesia’s rising aluminium output threatens the $3,000 price outlook for 2026
JPMorgan expects aluminium price may get close to USD 3,000 per tonne in early 2026, helped by stronger copper prices and a market that, for now, looks reasonably tight. But several analysts say the outlook becomes much less straightforward once Indonesia’s new supply starts landing, and that may...
