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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Garmco gets EU export certificate
Bahrain-based Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill Company (Garmco) said its locally-manufactured products have received the CE (European Conformity) mark thus paving for their exports to European Union. The CE (Conformité Européene- which literally means European Conformity) is a mandatory conformity...
Hydro creates additional apprenticeships for refugees
European countries are receiving an increasing number of refugees. German authorities are working with the industry to facilitate jobs for some of the refugees, where Hydro is contributing with additional apprenticeships. Hydro will establish eight apprenticeship positions in Grevenbroich, Neuss...
IFC to lend €15m to Belarusian Alutech
The International Finance Corporation (IFC, part of the World Bank group) will lend €15 million to the group of companies Alutech, the largest privately owned manufacturer of aluminum sections in Belarus, told IFC representatives. The IFC said that the money will be granted to help bolster and...
Outotec inaugurates dewatering technology centre in Finland
Outotec has established a dewatering technology centre in Lappeenranta, Finland to develop new products, processes and services for solid-liquid separation and raw material reuse for the entire life cycle of processing plants. Tailings are the materials left over after the process of separating the...
Aluminum premiums in Europe seen mired at low levels on big supply
Surcharges for physical aluminum in Europe are due to remain weak after retreating in recent weeks, weighed down by overproduction, new rules that force more outflows from warehouses and difficult conditions for financing. A constant flow of metal out of warehouses registered by the London Metal...
AMAG reports increase in operating profit of 30 % in H1 2015
AMAG Austria Metall AG reported significant growth in its key operating earnings results during the first half of 2015 compared with the previous year's first six months. Revenue grew by 15.9 % – from EUR 406.7 million to EUR 471.5 million. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and...
CME throws down gauntlet to LME with new aluminum premium contract
The CME Group has taken another step towards challenging the London Metal Exchange's dominance of base metals trading outside China with a new European aluminum premium contract due to launch later this month. The new 25-tonne contract will trade on the global CME Globex platform from Sept 21. The...
Danieli receives FAC for plate stretcher at AMAG AG
AMAG rolling GmbH and Danieli signed a contract in April 2012 for the design, manufacture and on-site installation of a plate stretcher with all its auxiliaries. This job has been a challenge from many points of view, given the high quality standards requested by the customer and the demanding...
Budweiser Budvar celebrates 120th anniversary with limited edition Rexam cans
Rexam has collaborated with Czech brewer, Budweiser Budvar, to create a limited edition can design celebrating 120 years of the Budvar brewery. Rexam and Budvar worked together to create a unique design that encapsulates Budvar’s history and communicates the premium nature of the beer. Using value...
Vimetco announces interim financial results for H1 2015
Vimetco N.V., the global producer of primary and processed aluminium products announced its interim financial results for the six months ended 30 June 2015. Sales stood at USD 855 million while EBITDA improved at USD 129 million compared to USD 90 million during the similar period of 2014. Gheorghe...
Manufacturer puts Bolton on the map with worldwide export success
BOLDMAN, the Bolton manufacturer of aluminium structures, is flying the flag for the town across the world with over 50 per cent of its business now coming from overseas sales. Set up in 1996, the manufacturer now employees 22 people in its workshop on the Britannia Way Industrial Estate and ships...
Portuguese component makers start aluminium frame production
Rodi, Miranda, and Ciclo-Fapril, the three leading component makers of Portugal announced they will invest € 12 million in aluminium frame production in Agueda, Portugal. Construction of the frame making facility is to start this September. The aluminium frame factory that Rodi, Miranda, and...
Sims Metal Management earnings up in fiscal 2015
Australia’s Sims Metal Management (SMM), one of the world’s largest recycling companie, has reported lower revenue but increased profits in its annual financial report for its fiscal year, which ended June 30, 2015. In a presentation delivered Aug. 21 and posted on the company’s website, the...
WBMS: primary aluminum market in deficit during Jan - June 2015
The latest report published by the World Bureau of Metal Statistics (WBMS) indicates that global primary aluminum market has recorded a deficit during the initial six months of the year. As per the report, the market turned into a deficit of 380,000 tons when matched with the deficit of 716,000...
Alufoil Trophy 2016 - Search for the best innovations in aluminium foil and closures begins
EAFA, the European Aluminium Foil Association has announced that entries for the 2016 Alufoil Trophy competition are now open and will be accepted until 20 November 2015. The Alufoil Trophy is now recognised as the most highly valued award in the sector, with categories covering every aspect of...
A new, simpler PRN system under way for 2016
Advisory Committee on Packaging (ACP) chairman Phil Conran said a simpler accreditation process for the Packaging Recovery Note (PRN) system will be introduced from 2016 onward. The changes proposed therein will hopefully encourage more secondary aluminium businesses (as well as other metal...
High Purity Alumina Market - APEC to exhibit the fastest growth by 2014 - 2020
Extensive market research has revealed that Asia Pacific is the largest market of high-purity alumina (HPA) attributed mainly to the high concentration of allied industries such as semiconductor and electronics equipment manufacturing industries in China, Taiwan and South Korea. It is then followed...
Aluminium producer Alro recovers 2014 loss and turns profit in 2015
Romanian aluminium producer Alro S.A. posted an adjusted net profit of RON 113 million (EUR 25.58 million) as a result of cost cutting and increase of income during the first half of 2015, shows a company financial report. In H1 2014 the company had registered an adjusted net loss of RON 80 million...
