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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European Aluminium, the voice of the entire aluminium value chain, has welcomed the decision made by European Union, Japan and the United States to tackle excess production capacity in key sectors. EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom, Japanese Trade Minister Hiroshige Seko and U.S. Trade...
Kobe Steel today announced that the company’s Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS) certification has been suspended at its Moka aluminium and aluminium alloy plant. The company is unable to sell concerned products displayed with the JIS mark. However, they can supply products that are equivalent to...
Some Japanese aluminum buyers have agreed to pay some global producers a premium of $103 per tonne for shipments in January to March, reflecting higher spot premiums, two sources directly involved in the pricing talks said on Thursday. The new figure is higher than the $94-$95 per tonne premium in...
Kobe Steel Ltd’s Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS) certification has been temporarily suspended at its aluminium extrusion plant in Chofu, western Japan, the company said in a statement on Tuesday, in the latest blow to the embattled steelmaker. Kobe Steel earlier had the certifications at its...
A global aluminium producer has offered Japanese buyers a premium of $110 per tonne for primary metal shipments during the January to March period, as much as 17 percent above the current quarter, three sources directly involved in pricing talks said on Friday. Japan is Asia's biggest aluminium...
After the controversy on falsified data on aluminium product quality has marred Kobe Steel’s business in Japan, it rival and the world's third-largest producer of flat-rolled aluminium products, UACJ Corporation is taking aggressive steps to expand its automotive capacity. The company is slogging...
Japan’s export of aluminium rolled products is increasing year-on-year. Barring a dip in 2016, the average annual increase (in volume) has been around 14 per cent. The main category of aluminium rolled products i.e. plates, strips, and sheets which find a wide application in the foil packaging and...
Toyota Motor Corp today released a second statement stating that its vehicles' quality and performance satisfy its internal standards.The company has been investigating the impact on its vehicles following the Kobe Steel admission that it had falsified data regarding aluminium and copper products....
Taiwan shipped USD 28.90 billion worth of goods in September 2017, up 28.1 per cent year-on-year. The country’s exports of aluminium can have been decreasing over the last two years. The trend is expected to continue in 2017. The largest part of aluminium can is exported to Japan. Indonesia and the...
According to the latest import-export data published by China General Customs, China’s imports of alumina totalled 275,385 tonnes in September 2017, up 93 per cent year-on year. The country imported 2.23 million tonnes of alumina between January and September, an increase of 2.96 per cent year-on...
Kobe Steel Ltd said on Thursday 88 of its customers had yet to confirm its products were safe in the light of widespread tampering of specifications, but it has not received any requests for recalls. Twenty-six of these customers were overseas companies, Kobe Steel’s CEO Hiroya Kawasaki told a news...
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan began inspecting Kobe Steel’s Mie aluminium plant in central Japan on Monday amid controversies that the aluminium maker had falsified product data at many plants. The Daian aluminium plant in Mie Prefecture produced aluminium...
Japan is one of the top 3 car producing countries in the world. Some of the globally renowned car brands such as Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Subaru, Daihatsu, Fuso, Hino, Mazda, and Lexus belong to the Japanese automotive industry. Auto parts manufacturing accounts for over 600,000 jobs in...
Shortly after the submission by Kobe Steel that it had falsified data regarding aluminium and copper products, four Japanese automakers said Thursday that they found no safety issues with the aluminium parts supplied to them. This put at rest some concerns that the data falsification by the...
Aluminium stocks at three major ports in Japan declined 2.4 per cent month-on-month to stand at 275,900 tonnes by September end, trading house Marubeni Corp reported on Monday. Marubeni collects stock related data from the ports of Yokohama, Nagoya and Osaka. Aluminium stocks (in tonnes) in the...
Kobe Steel parts used in Japan's iconic bullet trains failed industry standards, officials said on Thursday (Oct 12), bringing to light fresh evidence of wrongdoing by the steelmaker as investors speculated that the crisis could trigger a breakup of the 100-year-old company. Central Japan Railway,...
Japanese steel and aluminium product manufacturer Kobe Steel’s admission of presenting falsified data on aluminium and copper product shipments boost the shares of Japanese aluminium companies. Shares of Daiki Aluminium Industry, UACJ and Molitec Steel, rose by 9.3 per cent, 7.3 per cent and 16 per...
Japanese steel and aluminium product manufacturer Kobe Steel admits through a statement that the company has put forward fabricated data to falsely present that aluminium and copper products met customer specifications. The company statement says that about 4 percent of the aluminium and copper...
