Germany’s aluminium scrap exports rebound 4.58% in H1 2026: Which countries are buying the most?
Germany’s aluminium scrap trade showed signs of recovery in the first half of 2026, with exports to the world reaching 616,000 tonnes, up 4.58 per cent from 589,000 tonnes in H1 2025. The increase was even more pronounced against the second half of 2025, with H1 2026 shipments rising 7.50 per cent...
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...
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Albania's aluminium bar rods and profiles export to grow 20% YoY in 2017
<p>Albania, the mineral resource rich country in South-eastern Europe's Balkan Peninsula has opened up to the global investors only very recently. The free trade zone of Albania's city of Koplik was declared open for manufacturing, industrial and agro-processing activities as well as trading and...
Montenegrin mining company plans 3 million euro investment in bauxite mine
<p>Uniprom Metali, a Montenegro based mining group in Europe, has devised a plan of US$3.2 million (3 million euro) investment in Rudnici Boksita bauxite mining complex to scale up production in the first half of 2017.</p> <p>The funding will be mobilized for upgrading the belt conveyors of the...
Reynaers provides aluminium glazing systems for the Channel Islands
<p>Reynaers Aluminium, a European developer of aluminium products for the building sector, has supplied multiple aluminium glazing systems to the largest single office development in the Channel Islands.</p> <p><img style="vertical-align: middle; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right:...
Flexible packaging adds significant value in a circular economy
<p>Following the completion of the FIACE project, which highlighted the significant contribution flexible packaging makes to a circular economy and identified opportunities to optimize end of life solutions, it has been announced that the project will continue with a wider scope under the new name...
Bosnia's Hifa Oil acquires German aluminium door, window profiles maker
<p>Bosnian oil and oil derivatives trader Hifa Oil has acquired a German manufacturer of aluminium door and window profiles, LB.Profile GmbH, local media reported.</p> <p>Last year, Hifa's unit Euro Roal concluded a strategic partnership with LB.Profile paving the way for the acquisition. This is...
European Aluminium reacts to Circular Economy vote in ENVI
<p>European Parliament’s ENVI Committee has voted on the amendments to the Circular Economy Package on Tuesday January 24. Gerd Götz, Director General of European Aluminium, has expressed the association’s stand on the outcome of the vote.<br /><br />• Calculation method<br...
Austria's aluminium alloy ingot exports set to rise in 2017 after 3 years of marginal YoY decline
<p>Aluminium downstream products comprise a key export commodity of Austria. The country ships extruded aluminium ingots of both alloyed and non-alloyed varieties to the European as well as global product manufacturers. According to a recent market report, automotive industry followed by packaging...
Rolls Royce to supply MTU diesel engine for SAR vessels made of aluminium
<p>Rolls Royce has secured a contract to supply MTU diesel engines for six new search and rescue (SAR) vessels for the Turkish Coast Guard, the company said on 19 January. The search and rescue (SAR) vessels are made of aluminium. MTU is the core brand of Rolls-Royce Power Systems.<br /><br /><img...
Italy's aluminium scrap imports hold steady driven by rising demand from remelt rolled product manufacturers
<p>Italy is the second largest aluminium market in Europe just after Germany with consumption amounting to 2 million tonnes per annum. As pointed out by Mr. Fabrizio Ciampoli, CEO of All Metal Services, Italy, in the recently held Aluminium and New Materials roundtable at the Bengal Global Business...
Global primary aluminium market ends in a 970,000-tonnes deficit in 2016, reports WBMS
<p>According to the data published by the World Bureau of Metal Statistics (WBMS) in their Metals Balances Report for the first eleven months of 2016, the global primary aluminium market recorded marginal deficit during January-November 2016. There was a deficit of 970,000 tonnes compared to the...
European Aluminium to closely follow the case at WTO on Chinese subsidies
<p>Last week the US filed a World Trade Organization (WTO) case on Chinese aluminium subsidies. European Aluminium through a press release has confirmed that as firm proponents of free and fair trade, the association will closely follow the case as it develops and expects the European Commission to...
Spain's Alucoil raises stake in Moroccan aluminium alloy profile manufacturing firm
<p>Spanish aluminium composite panel manufacturer Alucoil has raised its stake in Aluminium du Maroc- a Casablanca-listed company, reported industry sources. The aluminium fabricator for the construction, transportation and industry is learnt to have acquired, in a block transaction, 20,160...
Italy’s foundry and extrusion industries import bulk of primary aluminium from Middle East and Russia
<p>Italy is the world’s largest consumer of aluminium after USA, Japan, People’s Republic of China and Germany. The aluminium market is concentrated almost exclusively in the north of the country. The large part of aluminium is used by extrusion plants and foundries to supply to the...
Outlook 2017: How end- user will drive aluminium market in 2017
<p>The automotive, aerospace, construction, electrical and packaging sectors emerged as the largest aluminium end users in 2016. These sectors will continue to drive aluminium consumption in the foreseeable future as well as in 2017. Let’s explore:</p> <p>{newsStudioGallery}</p>...
Auto hub Austria's aluminium plates, sheets and strips exports to grow 4.15% YoY in 2017
<p>Automotive industry is a key resource generator for the Austrian economy. Rightly known as the 'land of cars,' the European country boasts the existence of a large number of major car manufacturers who have flourished here leveraging on the availability of a number of ancillary industries. The...
EC directs Imerys to divest its La Bathie alumina operations
<p>Imerys S.A, the French multinational behemoth dealing in industrial mineral production and processing, will divest one of its newly purchased fused alumina operations in La Bathie in Savoie, France, reported sources familiar with the development. The move comes after the European Commission set...
ALUMINIUM of GREECE wins awards for its Health and Safety campaign in their production plants
<p>ALUMINIUM of GREECE (AoG), a MYTILINEOS Group subsidiary carried away two awards during the Health & Safety Awards 2016 event organized by Boussias Communications. ALUMINIUM of GREECE is currently Europe’s most modern vertically integrated alumina and aluminium production and trading...
Italy's aluminium wire imports to grow 7.8% YOY supported by rising cable demand
<p>According to a recent market research report, the global low voltage cable market by overhead (conductors, fittings & fixtures, others), by underground (PVC cables, XLPE cables, cable transmission, cable joints, and others), by end user and by region is estimated to reach US$147.3 billion by...
