What does the building and construction market mean for aluminium extrusion industry? The answer may depend less on how much the world builds and more on where it builds and what those buildings require. As construction activity picks up across regions, aluminium extrusion is set to follow - but...
Metra North America, leading manufacturer of engineered architectural systems specialising in custom fenestration, curtain wall, and building envelope solutions, has announced that Meagan Lalonde has joined the company as Architectural Sales Manager. Lalonde brings more than a decade of experience...
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Bengaluru, an Indian city known as the Silicon Valley of India, has pulled several eyeballs of aluminium manufacturing and supplying businesses. Bengaluru’s transformation from a pure‐play IT powerhouse into a specialised aluminium manufacturing hub is due to its fast rise in infrastructure,...
Presenting an interview excerpt of Abhijit Pati, two times gold medallist from prestigious institutes like Calcutta University and International Management Institute (IMI), New Delhi. Abhijit Pati worked in an aluminium complex (Odisha) with a 2 million tonne annual capacity, 3615 MW Power...
Capral Aluminium is on a roll – from developing Shop.Capral the online gateway for premium quality aluminium solutions to launching its latest cutting-edge Revit 3D Library, the company is going everyway to empowering architecture. Developed in collaboration with IGS BIM Solutions—Australia’s...
Hulamin Operations (Pty) Limited has achieved ASI Performance Standard V3 (2022) with Provisional status for their facilities in South Africa. This includes the Richards Bay Casthouse (Facility 1) part of the Hulamin Rolled Products Division for the production of ingots, and the Pietermaritzburg...
US President Donald Trump announced on April 16 a tariff escalation from the previously announced 145 per cent to a whopping 245 per cent that has evidently caught the global construction industry off-guard and, in turn, caused a ruffle in sourcing downstream (semi-finished) metals from the world’s...
In the 7th edition of LeaderSpeak 2025 , AL Circle chats with Judit Jeney, the Managing Director of Austin AI Europe, to explore the intersection of cutting-edge technology and aluminium recycling. From LIBS-based sensor systems to redefining what AI really means in aluminium sorting, Judit offers...
Fábio Martins is the CEO of Billets at Vedanta Aluminium, India’s largest aluminium producer and a key player in the global metals sector. With over 25 years of experience in operations, sales, and strategic management across the aluminium value chain, Fábio brings deep industry expertise and a...
Construction Éco-bâtiment, in partnership with ACAL System, unveiled the world’s first aluminium volumetric apartments in Québec, Canada. The project, named Lofts de l’Aluminium, also called ‘a world-first’, was developed to promote sustainable and efficient housing solutions. The six-unit,...
Here's an excerpt of an interview with REEL from our flagship e-Magazine ' LeaderSpeak 2025 ', an annual publication designed and tailored to highlight the market prospect for the year under review. In this interview, Bruce Roger Wilson, Director of Aluminium Division – REEL International,...
Ajay Balakrishna, Founder and CEO of Schon Doorways, is an engineer by training, a passionate designer at heart and an entrepreneur by choice. With a deep-rooted passion for design innovation and engineering excellence, Ajay brings over a decade of experience in the architectural and building...
Azerbaijan, increasingly recognised as an emerging player in aluminium production but still a newbie now, produced 15,500 tonnes of aluminium (including semi-finished products) during the first quarter of 2025. That marked a 5.8 per cent rise compared to the same period last year, reinforcing its...
On April 18, at the AICE 2025 SMM (20th) Aluminum Industry Conference and Aluminum Industry Expo - Industrial Aluminium Extrusion Forum, Yao Kexin, senior analyst of aluminium products at SMM, analysed the Chinese industrial aluminium extrusion market. According to him, China's aluminium extrusion...
Jiangsu Dare Aluminum Industry Co., Ltd. has earned ASI Performance Standard V3 (2022) Certification for the manufacture of aluminium foil with main processes including rough rolling, middle rolling, coiling, finishing rolling, cutting, annealing and packaging at Jiangsu Dare Aluminum Industry Co.,...
In a dramatic turn of events straight out of a crime thriller, the Sangareddy police cracked down on an aluminium theft racket that had been quietly siphoning aluminium electric wires from burgeoning seven different real estate sites. Yes, you heard it right! Sangareddy, situated in the northern...
One metal consistently stands out in a world navigating towards decarbonisation, resource efficiency, and circularity: Aluminium . Lightweight, endlessly recyclable, and a strategic material across sectors, aluminium is now central to global sustainability transitions—and the recently published...
North America (US and Canada), which is currently embroiled in the ongoing trade war, is otherwise a key aluminium market, with demand consistently reaching millions of pounds annually, primarily driven by semi-fabricated and mill product. Although the demand decreased in 2023 to 26,087 million...
As Expo 2025 Osaka begins, the UK Pavilion welcomes visitors with the theme 'Come Build the Future—a tribute to British creativity'. Wrapped in a pixelated skin of folded, perforated aluminium panels, the pavilion's façade shifts gently with the changing daylight and transforms after dark to reveal...
Aluminium—sleek, strong, and stunningly versatile—has long been the silent hero of modern outdoor living. It resists rust, shrugs off storms, and stands firm through sun-drenched summers, making it the perfect backbone for structures that live under open skies. Guess what and how this green metal...
