The aluminium industry is entering the second half of 2026 with demand signals moving in different directions. Beverage cans are finding new consumption opportunities in Brazil, extrusion demand remains resilient in key markets, and aluminium producers are benefiting from firmer prices. At the same...
Alurion Resources has started infill drilling and bulk-sample trenching at its Amargosa Bauxite-Gallium Project in Bahia, Brazil, as the newly listed company advances the asset toward a targeted mid-2027 pre-feasibility study. The field programme marks a shift from defining the project’s resource...
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China’s alumina imports soared 63% month-on-month to 443,327 tonnes in November 2014, customs data showed. SMM attributes the growth to winter stocking by domestic aluminum smelters, tight domestic supply, and bullishness over alumina prices. Brazil and Venezuela were major contributors to the...
The primary aluminium output in Brazil in November has fallen by 31.4% year-on-year once again proving that the major players in the industry are taking deliberate steps to curtail production. Compared to the 101,000 tonnes of the metal produced in November, 2013, last month the production was a...
The latest Chinese custom data reveals that the country’s month-on-month alumina imports in November have gone up by 63% to 443,326 tonnes although when compared to November 2013, the imports have fallen 40.9%. Brazil is one of the major suppliers, exporting 98,400 tonnes of alumina which is twice...
By revenue, Rexam Plc is the second-largest beverage can maker in the world but the rising aluminium premiums and high energy costs in Brazil are pushing the company to contemplate raising the price for their customers. On Thursday, Rexam came out as one of the biggest losers in the FTSE-250 Midcap...
Brazil, which was once the sixth largest aluminium producer in the world has now slipped two spots down to the eighth position primarily due to their severe bout of drought which has made electricity a scarce commodity. While the world primary aluminium production has increased by 3% from 2012 to...
Novelis, the global leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, announced today that consistent with its corporate strategy it will focus its operations in Brazil on its core business of aluminum rolling and recycling. As a result, it will cease operations at its Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, primary...
The European Union is investigating whether they need to renew the import duties imposed on the Chinese and Brazilian aluminium-foil exporters making it as high as 30 percent on companies like the Companhia Brasileira de Aluminio and Shanghai-based Alcoa Aluminium Products Co. The tariffs are...
Fata Aluminum, a leading company in the global market for Automated casting systems for cylinder heads, blocks, pistons and Sand Regeneration systems with companies in the US, Italy and Mexico, and Eco Sand a leading company in the Brazilian market for no-bake system, sand handling and reclamation...
The European Union threatened to renew tariffs on aluminum foil from China and Brazil for another five years while letting lapse a similar levy against Armenia. The EU said it would examine whether to re-impose the duties as high as 30 percent on Chinese and Brazilian aluminum-foil exporters such...
South Africa’s leading beverage can manufacturer, Rexam is making inroads in the Brazilian aluminium bottle market which has been established recently. The company had earlier launched the Smirnoff Ice limited addition in 2013, this year they are back with Germânia 55 beer in Fusion bottles. It is...
An Alcoa Inc. smelter has been idled as producing aluminium in Brazil has become very expensive. The Pocos de Caldas smelter has stopped producing aluminium and selling the facility’s power instead to combat the high electricity prices. With the worst drought seen in decades, the water reservoirs...
Novelis, the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, today announced the commissioning of a new coating line for beverage can end stock and an expanded recycling center at its Pindamonhangaba (SP), Brazil complex. The company invested approximately $106 million in the combined projects that...
The global aluminum market will swing into a deficit this year for the first time since 2006 as cuts in output deepen and demand from automakers grow, according to trading house Sumitomo Corp. Global consumption will outpace supply by 61,000 metric tons in 2014, flipping from a surplus of 580,000...
China has witnessed a 39.8% decline in June’s imports from a year ago, down to 19.5 million tonnes. The fall is attributed to last year’s high base following large stockpiling and the preference to consume on-hand stocks. Except for one shipment of Indonesian ore in May, no arrivals of Indonesian...
Maxion Wheels, a producer of wheels for passenger cars, light trucks, commercial trucks and trailers, has announced that it will open a new light vehicle aluminum wheel manufacturing facility in Limeira, Brazil. The new facility will join an existing steel wheel plant on the same site and create...
Inbound shipments of bauxite to China grew 37.91% from May to 2.93 million tonnes in June due to increased imports outside Indonesia, Shanghai Metals Market learned. Except one shipment of Indonesian ore from bonded area in May, no arrivals of Indonesian goods have been reported since this April...
AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. announces that AMG Aluminum has sold its 25% equity interest in Bostlan S.A. ("Bostlan") to Bostlan's majority shareholders for cash. This is the next step in AMG Aluminum's strategy to divest non-core assets, reposition its global operations, and streamline...
Norsk Hydro ASA's underlying earnings before financial items and tax (EBIT) declined to NOK 544 million in the second quarter from NOK 772 million in the first quarter. Seasonally lower power production and prices weighed on underlying results, partly offset by higher all-in metal prices and...
