Major aluminium producers have offered Japanese buyers premiums of USD 310-325 per tonne for primary aluminium shipments in the October-December quarter. The bar is 18-22 per cent lower than the USD 395 per tonne premium agreed for the current July-September quarter. The premium paid by Japanese...
Asia’s alumina exports entered 2026 on a strong footing, with shipments to global markets reaching 7.05 million tonnes worth USD 2.76 billion in H1 2026 , up 27.36 per cent year-on-year . The sharp rise in H1 was driven by a quarter-on-quarter surge by a considerable margin. This indicates an...
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China's electronics parts maker HEC Technology Holding will team up with Japan's Toyo Aluminium to develop new electrical products of the soft ductile metal. HEC plans to set up a joint venture with Toyo in Tokyo, Japan with a registered capital of JPY200 million (USD1.8 million), the Guangdong...
According to the aluminium trading data, Japan ranked as the fourth largest aluminium importing country in 2017 after the United State, Germany, and Netherlands, accounting for 8.3 percent of the world’s total share of aluminium imports. The world total aluminium imports in the same year had...
Automobile industry has been a key pillar of Japan’s manufacturing sector and auto exports contribute a large chunk of Japanese export revenue. Exports to the United States accounting for a significant share of the total auto export by Japan. Like all other auto exporters to the US, Japan is also...
The Sweden-based aluminium engineering and manufacturing company Granges has reportedly put on ice on its plan to form a new aluminium manufacturing joint venture in the United States with Japan’s Mitsubishi Aluminium Co. According to the report, the project is less attractive in current...
The promising results and earnings outlook from Japan’s No. 3 automaker Honda Motor stands in stark in contrast to the bearish forecasts from several other automakers hurt by rising raw material costs due to additional US metal tariffs and possible higher duties on imported vehicles. Resisting the...
On Wednesday, July 25, the head of a Japan trade body said that the country’s aluminium industry seems to be more concerned over the possible US tariffs on automobiles and automobile parts than the duties on aluminium. That’s because Japanese firms are confident that the kind of high-end...
New Zealand has been exporting a major chunk of aluminium alloy to Japan. The country’s export of aluminium alloy to Japan declined in 2017. Japan imported about 30501 tonnes of aluminium alloy in 2017, down 19 per cent from 37632 tonnes in 2016. New Zealand’s aluminium alloy export to Japan is...
33.4 per cent stake in the capital-based pharma packaging firm Svam has been taken over by Japanese packaging giant Toyo Aluminium K.K. for an undisclosed amount. As agreed in the joint venture, Svam Packaging will now be known as Svam Toyal Packaging Industries. This partnership is expected to...
National Aluminum Associations, government officials and major industry players would gather in Montreal to discuss overcapacity “Roadmap” during a summit. The leaders from the Aluminium Associations of Canada, the United States, Europe and Japan will host a summit in Montreal on June 3rd and 4th...
The production of aluminium flat rolled products in Japan is on the rise. The total flat rolled aluminium products production in April reached 107,000 tonnes, an increase of 4.7 per cent year on year, According to the data released by the Japan Aluminium Association. The country produced 14,000...
A global aluminium producer has offered Japanese buyers a premium of $159 per tonne for primary metal shipments for the July-September quarter, up 23 percent from the current quarter, four sources directly involved in pricing talks said on Tuesday. Another producer has sought a premium of $160 a...
Japan’s leading manufacturer of chemical products and industrial materials, Showa Denko and its group companies and their cooperative companies continued to perform aluminium can recycling activity in fiscal 2017, ended on 31 st of March, 2018, by collecting approximately 4.81 million cans, which...
South Korea, one of the leading aluminium scrap importers in the world, imports aluminium scrap and recycles them for making aluminium alloys. The country’s automotive sector is a major consumer of aluminium products. South Korea imported about 736338 tonnes of aluminium scrap from the global...
Japan's import of aluminium alloy from China declined in the first three months of 2018. The country imported 73,393 tonnes of aluminium alloy in January-March, down 5 per cent YoY. The trend is expected to continue through 2018. As seen by Shanghai Metals Market, the prices of ADC12 aluminium...
Australia's aluminium industry is a highly integrated sector of mining, refining, smelting and semi-fabrication centres. It has four major aluminium smelters- all operated by the biggest names in the global aluminium industry. Raw aluminium accounts for 19 per cent of the total exports of the...
Japan automaking association reported on Friday that it hopes country’s export partners to keep tariffs on vehicles and components low and maintain free trade relationships to promote and strengthen transparent trade, as NAFTA renegotiated and called for the enhancement of requirements for locally...
The NHK channel reports that Japan government is all set to impose retaliatory tariffs against the US for not receiving an exemption from the imported aluminium and steel tariffs. It also says that the country is taking final steps to notify the World Trade Organisation (WTO) about the plan and...
Japan’s LIXIL Group is worried about the current developments that are taking place in the global aluminium market causing volatility in aluminium prices. The inflated prices driven by the U.S. trade actions and sanctions on United Company Rusal are creating tension in the company. The company,...
