Storvik and Charl-Pol have launched Alumotion to bring proven robotic solutions, local engineering and lifecycle support closer to Canada's aluminium smelters. Canadian aluminium smelters are set to gain a new source of automation expertise as Storvik and Canadian technology company Charl-Pol...
Canada imported 195,000 tonnes of aluminium plates, sheets and strip in the first half of 2026, down from 214,000 tonnes during the same period of 2025. Total imports were therefore lower by 8.9 per cent year-on-year, although the second quarter saw a stronger volume of shipments than the first....
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Alcoa Corporation is likely to reach an agreement with United Steelworkers as the management of the Aluminerie de Bécancour Inc. (ABI) smelter in Québec, Canada offered a revised labour contact to the United Steelworkers yesterday. ABI smelter is owned by Alcoa (74.95%) and Rio Tinto Alcan Inc....
According to the preliminary estimates of Aluminum Association, aluminium demand in the United States and Canada, including shipments by domestic producers plus imports, stood at an estimated 4.3 million tonnes through April of 2019, a slight increase from YTD 2018. Through the first four months of...
According to the latest report from Aluminum Association, shipments of aluminium extruded products (extruded shapes, pipe & tube, and rod & bar) by U.S. and Canadian producers stood at 210,920 tonnes during May 2019. This registered a 5.2 per cent drop from the May 2018 revised total of 222,623...
Government of Canada has always been supportive of the country’s steel and aluminium sectors; they being the key driver of the economy. Jean-Yves Duclos, Canada’s Minister of Families, Children and Social Development on behalf of the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development,...
The Australian firm Pure Alumina Limited is on track to acquire Canada-based Polar Sapphire that owns one of the world’s most efficient and effective processes for making high purity alumina (HPA). Scott Nichol, the founder and chief executive of Polar Sapphire, who is soon becoming the Pure...
The U.S. total exports of aluminium including scrap were essentially unchanged during the first three months of 2019 compared with those of the same period in the previous year. Total exports came in at 741,000 in the mentioned period, according to the latest Mineral Industry Survey report from US...
The lifting of tariffs on aluminium imports from Canada has been a breather for Oswego, which was under pressure due to the tax increase that affected the city’s two prime businesses. Aluminum is the key product that gets shipped through the Port of Oswego and a large number of jobs are dependent...
Donald Trump’s decision to end the aluminium import tariff on Canada last month seems to have brought in relief to Oswego, as two of the city’s largest businesses were affected by the tariff. Since aluminium is one of the major sources of daily wages for the people in Oswego, President Donald...
The U.S. total imports of aluminium for consumption during the first 3 months of 2019 stood at 1.44 million tonnes, 20% less than 1.81 million tonnes in the same period in 2018, according to the latest Mineral Industry Survey report from US Geological Survey. The U.S. imported 509,000 tonnes of...
According to the preliminary estimates from Aluminum Association, aluminium demand in the United States and Canada, including shipments by domestic producers plus imports stood at an estimated 3.25 million tonnes from January to March 2019, slightly up from the same period of 2018. Demand for...
Patrice L’Huillier, CEO of Aluminerie Alouette, located at about 550 km northeast of Quebec City said that American tariffs on Canadian aluminium cut into profits but didn’t affect production or employment. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the plant after the lifting of tariffs on Canadian...
Canada’s Finance Minister Bill Morneau declared on Monday, May 20, that the country lifted the retaliatory tariffs on aluminium and steel, as well as more than 70 other products including licorice, coffee, sleeping bags and ketchup from the United States. “The removal of tariffs and countermeasures...
The Aluminum Association, in cooperation with the Aluminium Association of Canada, reported primary aluminium production in North America (U.S. and Canada) in April stood at 330,667 tonnes. Production is Canada was 235,778 tonnes, down about 2% YoY. US produced about 94,889 tonnes of aluminium in...
The US administration has announced the complete and permanent lifting of tariffs on aluminium imports from Canada, as well as a commitment to jointly address potential issues of transshipment, dumped or subsidized metal and surges that could impact the North American value chain. According to Jean...
A press release from Mecfor confirms that its 1st electrical autoguided vehicle (AGV) is in operation in a Quebec aluminium smelter. Ms. Éloïse Harvey, President of Mecfor announced this during the ‘Forum Manufacturier innovant’ in Montreal in the presence of Minister of the Economy and Innovation,...
According to a Canadian media report a top Trump administration cabinet member has said the punitive steel and aluminium tariffs on Canada and Mexico will be lifted very soon. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the U.S. is close to reaching an “understanding” with Canada and Mexico in the...
STAS Inc. announces through a press release that the company, a high-technology equipment supplier for the global aluminum industry based in Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada, has acquired SERMAS Industrie, located in St Quentin Sur Isère, near Grenoble in France and which employs around forty employees....
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...
