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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Calderys, a world leader in Refractory Solutions and a subsidiary of Imerys, announces its latest international expansions into two key areas of the Asia-Pacific market: Indonesia and Japan. Calderys has signed a Joint Venture (JV) agreement with Indonesian refractory manufacturer PT Indoporlen and...
Shipments of rolled-aluminum products by Japanese fabricators to domestic and overseas markets decreased 8.6 percent in June, the eighth month of decline, an industry group said today. Volume declined to 161,854 metric tons last month from 177,050 tons a year earlier, the Japan Aluminium...
Japanese diecaster Kyowa Casting's first overseas plant in Thailand is producing at a rate of 150 mt/month, 14 months after it was started up in May 2012, company president Tatsuhiro Ii said Tuesday. "The Thai plant when running fully will output 300-400 mt/month. The plant has more room for...
The government appears willing to take any risk in its bid to take over PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminum (Inalum) from Nippon Asahan Aluminum (NAA), including the Japanese consortium’s possible use of a third party for settlement. Industry Minister MS Hidayat said recently that the Indonesian...
The London Metal Exchange's (LME) proposals to tackle the long queues that end-users face to obtain aluminium from warehouses is unlikely to resolve the problem, the chairman of the Japan Aluminium Association said on Wednesday. On a separate issue, Shigenori Yamauchi also said Japan does not need...
Japan's demand for aluminum extrusion for aging residential building repair is forecast to surge 57% in 2022 from the volume required in 2012, the country's Kenchiku Kaiso Kyokai or Building Repair Association said Friday. A boom in high-rise condominium construction in the early 1960s will result...
A Japanese firm with a base in Co Antrim has slashed costs thanks to a three-year link-up with Queen's University. Ryobi Aluminium Casting manufactures aluminium die cast products for the European automotive market. The company used around £460,000 of support from Invest NI to collaborate with the...
Increased spending by the Japanese government on making infrastructure earthquake-resistant has fueled demand for aluminum, but that for aluminum ingot is still weak amid high stocks, market sources said Monday. Sales of aluminum floor sheets, roofing, handrails and other components used to build...
Japanese rolling mills and extruders are buying more primary aluminum ingot instead of scrap due to the fall in London Metal Exchange high-grade aluminum prices, market sources said Thursday. Sales prices of primary aluminum ingot in Japan were heard at around Yen 200 ($2.04)/kg ex-warehouse for...
Japan’s term aluminium premiums for shipments between July and September were mostly set around $250 per ton, compared with $248 to $250 in the previous quarter, four sources directly involved in the talks said on Friday. Japan is Asia’s biggest importer of aluminium and the premiums for its...
Russian AK5M2 aluminum alloy offers were holding at $2,000-2,040/mt CFR Japan Friday, flat day on day, despite falling US scrap prices and lower London Metal Exchange aluminum prices, Japanese buyers said. AK5M2 alloy, or melted scrap aluminum, is used as feedstock for ADC12 secondary aluminum...
Two aluminum buyers in Japan, Asia’s biggest importer, agreed to keep fees paid to producers steady in the third quarter, according to three executives with direct knowledge of the negotiations. The premium will be $249 a metric ton over the price of aluminum for immediate delivery on the London...
Stocks of aluminum at Japan's large ports fell 2.2% in May compared with April, a Japanese trading house said on Wednesday. Stocks totaled 272,300 metric tons- with 140,500 tons in Yokohama, 116,800 tons in Nagoya and 15,000 tons in Osaka. While the on-month decline signals a modest increase in...
Kobe Steel, Ltd. announces that it has entered into a technical cooperation agreement with Germany's Hydro Aluminium Rolled Products GmbH for aluminum sheet used in automotive body panels. The agreement covers the exchange of technical information regarding the use of aluminum in automobile bodies...
Showa Denko K.K. and its Group companies continued to perform their aluminum can recycling activities in fiscal 2012, collecting approximately 5.69 million cans: equivalent to around 92 tons of aluminum when converted at the rate of 16.2 grams of aluminum per can. Showa Aluminum Can Corporation, a...
Shipments of rolled-aluminum products by Japanese fabricators to domestic and overseas markets decreased 2.2 percent in April. This is the sixth month of decline, an industry group said. Shipments volume declined to 162,422 metric tons last month from 166,048 tons a year earlier, the Japan...
Rio Tinto Alcan has written to Japanese buyers asking for a premium of $254 per tonne over the LME cash price for July-September primary aluminium shipments, a source involved in quarterly pricing talks said on Tuesday. That compares with average premiums of $248 to $250 a tonne in the previous...
Japan's domestic shipments of diecast aluminum alloy are expected to rise to about 43,000 mt in May as the weak yen shrinks imports from China, market sources said Tuesday. Domestic shipments were last seen around this level in March 2010, when they stood at 43,903 mt. Japanese secondary aluminum...
