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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Aluminium stocks at three major Japanese ports stood at 345,600 tonnes at the end of March, down 5.5 per cent from a month earlier, trading house Marubeni Corp said on Friday, April 15. Marubeni collects data from the ports of Yokohama, Nagoya and Osaka.
Kengo Kuma and Associates has built an art centre with an intricate aluminium-moulded facade at a former cotton mill in China, which has been converted into a shop and office complex. Kengo Kuma's Japan-based firm converted the entire 10,440-square-metre mill to create the new retail, office and...
Japan's Kobe Steel Ltd will spend 100 billion yen ($900 million) over the next five years to boost steel and aluminium supplies to automakers and aircraft manufacturers as it looks to drive growth and counter faltering demand in China. Steel producers in high-cost countries say their best hope for...
The automotive sector being driven largely by innovation is steadily moving away from copper toward lightweight aluminium to help the industry cut vehicle weight. This has become imperative since they need to meet stricter emission standards. Having already switched to aluminium radiators from...
Some Japanese aluminium buyers have agreed to pay a premium of $115 per tonne for primary metal to be shipped in the April-June quarter, three sources directly involved in the quarterly pricing talks said. The deal, reached with one global metal producer, marks a 4.5 percent rise from a $110 per...
Directorate General of Customs Valuation Karachi has revised customs values on the import of Aluminium Hydroxide/Alumina Hydrate from India, China, Korea, India, USA, EU and Japan for assessment of duty/taxes. The directorate has superseded Valuation Ruling No 233/2010, dated 09-03-2010 through a...
Constellium N.V. has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with its Japanese partner UACJ Corporation (UACJ) to expand their existing joint venture to produce automotive Body-in-White (BiW) sheet in the U.S. The final contract is subject to the board approval of each party....
China reported large declines in both volume and value of its aluminium alloy wheel exports in January 2016. China exported 65,100 tonnes of aluminium alloy wheel in January, down 13.5 per cent from a year ago, and export value also dropped 19.4 per cent year-on-year to $304 million. The US was the...
Japanese recycler Harita Metal Co. has stepped on board a national project that is focusing on the mutual separation of scrap aluminium alloys with support from a consortium of the country’s universities and research institutes. The initiative combines an appearance recognition system with a neural...
Some big aluminium producers are seeking a premium of $125-$130 per tonne from Japanese buyers for April-June primary metal shipments, up 14 per cent to 18 per cent from the previous quarter, four sources involved in pricing talks said on Monday. Japan is Asia's biggest importer of the metal and...
Nabaltec AG, the leading German supplier of functional grade aluminium oxide and aluminium hydroxide for numerous innovative applications, will be further expanding its operations in Asia in the first quarter of 2016 with the formation of a wholly-owned subsidiary based in Tokyo, Japan. Nabaltec...
Japan's aluminium premiums will likely rise to $120-$130 per tonne over April-June from the current quarter's $110 per tonne as falling imports are trimming local inventories, Japanese trading house Sumitomo Corp said on Friday. Japan is Asia's top aluminium importer and the premiums it agrees to...
Aluminium settled down -2.06% at 102.3 as investors squared positions ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday in China. Financial speculators in metal such as hedge funds have been strongly bearish on the market since early November, amid signs of weakening economic growth around the world. The U.S....
Japan's demand for imported aluminium plummeted to a six-year low in 2015 weighed upon by record-high stocks in the domestic market. The country imported 1.46 million tonnes of primary aluminum in 2015, down 14 per cent from corresponding period previous year, showed data from Japan's Ministry of...
Kobe Steel, Ltd. has developed a 7000 series aluminium alloy called 7K55 that offers both outstanding stress corrosion cracking resistance and high yield strength in the 400 N/mm2 class. 7K55 has already been adopted for use as an extrusion for bumper beams by a Japanese automaker. Kobe Steel aims...
Altech Chemicals is stepping up the pace of marketing and sales for future high purity alumina (HPA) product to be produced from Altech's HPA plant with a key initiative for the Chinese market. Martin Ma has been appointed as the company's sales and marketing manager for China and tasked with...
CME Group has logged the first trades in its Japan aluminium premium contract, data from the exchange showed on Monday, just days after the industry hammered out the first quarter premiums for Asia's biggest importer of the metal. The trades, coming in the wake of the quarterly industry...
Japan's aluminium imports are expected to shrink for a second year running in 2016, after buyers skipped or trimmed purchases for January-March shipments due to still-high levels of local inventory. The expected drop in imports could help trim domestic aluminium stocks by March by about 100,000...
