Canada’s H1’26 aluminium exports dip 12.57% amid US tariffs: What does H2 hold?
The first half (H1) of 2026 witnessed Canada’s exports of unwrought aluminium taking a deep plunge. The country supplied a total of 1.33 million tonnes of aluminium products to the world including unwrought aluminium, bars, rods and profiles, aluminium foil, pipes and tubes, plates, sheets and...
Aluminium extrusion 2035 demand nears 44.22Mt: Industry experts decode next decade drivers
Global aluminium extrusion demand is entering a phase with consumption projected to rise from 35.25 million tonnes in 2025 to 35.93 million tonnes in 2026 and 44.22 million tonnes by 2035, representing a 2.29 per cent CAGR. While building and construction will remain the largest end-use sector and...
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Uniprom plans to invest 20 million euros in aluminium slabs facility
Montenegro-based aluminium company Uniprom has planned to invest 20 million euros in the new manufacturing unit at aluminium smelter KAP's plant in Podgorica. The company will build a new plant for the production of aluminium slabs, SeeNews reported. The construction work of a new plant is expected...
European Commission introduces new monitoring system for aluminium imports
On 15 th May’20, the European Commission is introducing a new system to monitor the imports into the EU of certain aluminium products. The objective is to permit rapid analysis of import trends, ahead of official Eurostat statistics. The new monitoring system that has been commencing from 15 th...
‘‘We see no change in the importance of the sustainability issue or the necessity to move towards a Circular Economy because of the pandemic”- Guido Aufdemkamp, Executive Director, The European Aluminium Foil Association (EAFA)
The European Aluminium Foil Association is the international body representing companies engaged in the rolling and rewinding of alufoil and in the manufacture of aluminium closures, alufoil semi-rigid containers and of all kind of flexible packaging. With its more than 40 members, the organisation...
Trimet Aluminium SE in Hamburg settles new Anode Baking Furnace into operation
Trimet Aluminium SE’s aluminium smelter in Hamburg settles a new baking furnace for the production of carbon anodes, aiming to ensure greater energy efficiency. The new brick-lined ring chamber furnace with 48 chambers superseded an eight-year-old furnace, ensuring greater energy efficiency. An...
COVID-19 impact: Spanish Aluminium die-casting company RUFFINI S.A. resumes for production
RUFFINI S.A. resumes switching on the melting tower to re-start its production of casted components, after 30 days of shut-down due to COVID-19 epidemic. The customary die-casting firm based in Barcelona works aligned with the major customers located in Germany, so the supply to Europe has started...
The steady rise of Sweden’s Aluminium cans importation market during 2017-20
Sweden is a competitive and highly liberalized, open market economy. The vast majority of Swedish enterprises are privately owned and market-oriented, combined with a strong welfare state involving transfer payments involving up to three-fifths of GDP. The rise in canned beverages market has also...
Czech Republic’s Aluminium scrap import market reflects nose-up during 2017-20
The economy of the Czech Republic is a developed export-oriented social market economy based on services, manufacturing, and innovation that maintains a high-income welfare state and the European social model. The industry sector accounts for 37.5% of the economy. The principal industries are high...
Denmark’s import of Aluminium ingot remains variable during 2017-19: Dip by 2.55% projected for 2020
Denmark is one of the most prominent Scandinavian nations and an important part of the European Union since 1973. The country holds a prominent position in the world economy. Denmark is the world’s 60th largest economy in terms of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP). It has a diverse economy that is a...
COVID19 Measures: Aluminium France taken initiative to import over 1.2 million masks for its members and partners
Aluminium France has reportedly organised and joined forces to import more than 1.2 million surgical masks and FFP2 for its members to provide them with necessary sanitary protection against the COVID19, and thus, encourage the resumption of business activities in the best possible conditions. This...
France export market of Aluminium wire exhibits strong and steady during 2017-20
Aluminium wire in power transmission and distribution applications is still the preferred material today, aluminium conducts electricity safely. Utility companies use aluminium wire for electrical transmission in power grids as it has a cost and weight advantages over copper wires. Aluminium wire...
The “Corona” outbreak: German suppliers to Airbus might run out of business, including aluminium firms
The head of German Aerospace Industries Association (BDLI) has sent a warning that many of the country’s SME suppliers could run out of business unless Airbus maintains at least half its pre-crisis output over the next two years. Volker Thum, Managing Director of BDLI said: “Germany’s aerospace...
An AlCircle exclusive interview with Dr Mario Conserva, President of the International Aluminium Exhibition METEF
AlCircle is honoured to have had an opportunity to interract with Dr Mario Conserva, who is associated with the aluminium sector since 1963. He is currently the President of the International Aluminium Exhibition METEF, General Director of the International Magazine A&L Aluminium & Alloys, and...
Hydro Precision Tubing to close its plant by end 2020
Hydro announced that its business area Extruded Solutions will shut down Hydro Precision Tubing Remscheid GmbH (PT Remscheid) in Germany. The basis for continued operation is not present. The Remscheid plant, which employs 129 people, is estimated to close by end of December 2020. The facility...
Owners of Aluminium manufacturer “Aludium” to acquire Permasteelisa
Lixil Group Corporation, the Japanese owners of Permasteelisa has made public that it is selling the company to US firm Atlas holdings, the owners of Aludium. Lixil Group has been trying to offload the multinational – the UK’s largest envelope specialist by turnover – for several years, with...
The uneven movement of Finland’s Aluminium ingot importation market during 2017-20
Finland is a Northern European nation bordering Sweden, Norway and Russia. Its capital, Helsinki, occupies a peninsula and surrounding islands in the Baltic Sea. The economy of Finland is a highly industrialised, mixed economy with a per capita output similar to that of other western European...
Amid “Corona” crisis: Salzburger Aluminium’s long term contracts working as security, orders remain stable
The Salzburger Aluminium Group (SAG), the makers of aluminium tanks for commercial vehicles and producer of aluminium components, headquartered in Austria, is strongly unified into the international supply chains of OEMs, and therefore the close down on customer side also made it necessary to...
The express growth of Georgia’s aluminium scrap export market during 2017-20
Georgia strategically located at the crossroads of trade and commerce between East and West. The country is ideally positioned to access markets of Asia and Europe, as well as the Middle East and the CIS countries. Young talent pool, business-friendly regulations, a favourable tax and customs...
Impol Seval: Serbian aluminium rolling mill’s profit drops in 2019
The Serbian aluminium rolling mill Impol Seval has made public that its net profit has dropped to Serbian Dinar 504.9 million ($4.7 million/4.3 million euro) in 2019 from Serbian Dinar 895.8 million dinars in the preceding year. The company's revenue went up 10.4% to Serbian Dinar13.8 billion,...
