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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Rusal reviews trends in the global aluminium industry
Rusal, the largest aluminium producer in the world makes observations in the global aluminium demand and supply in the current year, making note of the strongest players in the industry during the period. The global aluminium demand During the first nine months of 2014, global primary aluminium...
Novelis to convert all of its beverage can sheet to high-recycled content evercan™ aluminum by 2017
Novelis, the global leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, today announced a new commitment to convert all of its beverage can body sheet production to its evercan™ sheet, the world's first certified high-recycled content aluminum for beverage cans, by the end of 2017. Novelis President and CEO...
Competitive challenges hallmark aluminium market
'The global aluminium recycling business continues to grow as more and more of the metal is consumed in packaging, transport, construction and other applications,' notes Metal Bulletin. The market implications of latest developments will be discussed at Metal Bulletin's International Recycled...
Statistics Q3 2014: Aluminium foil demand remains stable
Results issued by EAFA, the European Aluminium Foil Association, for the first nine months of 2014 reflect continued sluggish demand in European markets of aluminium foil. But these have been more than offset by the continued strong recovery in export deliveries, resulting in overall sales of...
France’s Imerys to absorb Greek’s S&B Minerals, excluding bauxite operations
Imerys, a world leading industrial minerals company has signed an absorption deal on Thursday, for the Greek company called S&B Industrial Minerals. The deal is supposedly one of the biggest international mergers in the history of Greek industry. The deal is said to be worth 558 million euros...
Aleris’ performance in the downstream segment in Q3 2014
Aleris released its report for the 2014 third quarter earnings with a statement that spoke about the company’s intension of focusing on rolled product capabilities among other things. The company has already faired well in the department and is planning to grow further to deliver more value-added...
Aleris reports update on Recycling and Specification Alloy Business
Aleris Corporation reported results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2014. The company updates the following about their Recycling and Specification Alloy Business: Recycling and Specification Alloys North America ("RSAA") RSAA's segment income and segment Adjusted EBITDA increased...
The ninth European Aluminium Award 2014 is being held at Coppenhagen
This is the ninth European Aluminium Award and each time it has become a more obvious showcase for innovative design and architecture. On 7 October, the winners of the six categories were announced: Aerospace & Automotive, Production Techniques, Tools & Machinery, Lighting & Interior, Building &...
Sapa sells paint operation in Finland
Sapa has sold its painting and aluminium fabrication operation in Finland to Salko Painting Oy. The sale of the Forssa-based plant is part of the restructuring within Sapa’s aluminium extrusion operations in the Nordic countries, following the merger of Sapa’s and Hydro’s extrusion activities in...
Norsk Hydro: Hydro and RTA closes Søral deal
Aluminium company Hydro and Rio Tinto Alcan (RTA) have closed the deal for Hydro to take over RTA's shares in the aluminium smelter Sør-Norge Aluminium AS (Søral) in Norway. Hydro and RTA announced the plans for Hydro to take over Søral in July. Following approval from competition authorities in...
Norsk Hydro: Hydro and RTA closes Søral deal
Aluminium company Hydro and Rio Tinto Alcan (RTA) have closed the deal for Hydro to take over RTA's shares in the aluminium smelter Sør-Norge Aluminium AS (Søral) in Norway. Hydro and RTA announced the plans for Hydro to take over Søral in July. Following approval from competition authorities in...
Hydro’s Alunorf wins energy ‘Oscar’
Alunorf, the world's largest aluminium rolling plant and a 50-percent Hydro joint venture, has won an Energy Award 2014 from the German Energy Academy. The Energy Awards 2014 were recently presented at a ceremony in Berlin, with more than 300 guests from politics, economy and science present. The...
Auto parts maker Wheels India to focus on exports to sustain growth
Wheels India Ltd, an automotive wheel manufacturer, is depending on the export market to sustain its growth. The company’s investments of ?80-85 crore in the current year will focus on exports including capacity additions in aluminium-forged wheel production, other export-oriented products and...
Hydro’s Alunorf wins energy ‘Oscar’
Alunorf, the world's largest aluminium rolling plant and a 50-percent Hydro joint venture, has won an Energy Award 2014 from the German Energy Academy. The Energy Awards 2014 were recently presented at a ceremony in Berlin, with more than 300 guests from politics, economy and science present. The...
Hydro’s Alunorf wins energy ‘Oscar’
Alunorf, the world's largest aluminium rolling plant and a 50-percent Hydro joint venture, has won an Energy Award 2014 from the German Energy Academy. The Energy Awards 2014 were recently presented at a ceremony in Berlin, with more than 300 guests from politics, economy and science present. The...
Diehl Ako, Sapa share benefits from technical expertise
Sapa spends more on research and development, and more time on customer training, than any other aluminium extruder. A year ago, Sapa’s Profile Academy provided more than 15,000 hours of technical training to designers, technicians, engineers, product developers and architects all across the world....
2030 Energy and Climate Package: EEA expects concrete EU measures
In response to the EU Council Conclusions on the 2030 Climate and Energy package, the European aluminium industry welcomes the confirmation that measures to stop investment leakage will continue after 2020. After a decade of disinvestment, it is now high time to deliver the concrete measures that...
Sapa shows year-on-year improvement in third quarter
Sapa’s underlying financial results in the third quarter were lower than in the previous quarter, partly due to seasonally lower sales volumes in Europe, but were considerably higher than in the third quarter of last year. Sapa had underlying EBIT of NOK 201 million in the third quarter (NOK 350...
