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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Japan's consumption of high-purity aluminum ingot above 99.9%, used for condenser production, has doubled since the end of 2012 due to end-user restocking, market sources said on Monday. Japan's shipment of capacitor-grade aluminum foil used for electronic devices stood at 2,122 mt in March,...
Furukawa-Sky Aluminum Corp. and Sumitomo Light Metal Industries Ltd. said they plan to integrate their operations on Oct. 1 to survive intensifying competition from Chinese and South Korean rivals in aluminum rolling business. The two nonferrous metal companies said they have reached a final...
Shipments of rolled-aluminum products by Japanese fabricators to domestic and overseas markets decreased at a slower pace in March, supported by demand from beverage-can makers, according to an industry group. Volume fell 1.5 percent to 171,163 metric tons last month from a year earlier, the Japan...
Japanese car manufacturer Honda Motor Company has announced that it has developed a technology that allows steel and aluminium to be joined. Honda says the innovation will allow it to manufacture weight-saving vehicle doors that combine a steel structure with an aluminium outer skin. Joining...
Traders in Japan's domestic aluminum market retreated Monday after the yen hit a four-year low of Yen 98.49 against the US dollar, increasing import costs by 5% from a week ago, according to sources. The currencies traded at Yen 98.49 to a dollar at 16:00 local time on Monday, the lowest since...
With Japan's second largest secondary aluminum alloy smelter Asahi Seiren taking over another smelter Summit Showa Arumi effective July this year, silicon suppliers expect competition to bag large orders from the merged entity to heat up. "You have a big customer buying a large sum. The customer...
Nalco Chairman Ansuman Das is spot on when he says the grave Euro zone concerns refusing to go away and the sustained world overproduction, caused particularly on account of China, are standing in the way of the white metal crossing and staying above $2,000 a tonne. Premiums for the current quarter...
Japanese buyers have agreed to premiums for some April-June aluminium shipments at $248-$249 per tonne, up from the previous quarter and in line with increased demand after the winter slowdown, sources involved with trade talks. Other buyers are still holding out, aiming to settle at premiums as...
Two Japanese buyers of aluminum and three global producers have agreed to set Japan's import premium at $248/mt plus London Metal Exchange cash, CIF basis, for second quarter shipments to the country, buyer sources said Monday. The Q1 contract premiums were at $240-245/mt plus LME cash, CIF Japan....
Sumitomo Corp., Japan’s fourth- largest trading house, raised its forecast for a global aluminum surplus to the highest level in two years as demand from China, the biggest consumer, won’t be enough to absorb new capacity. Supply will outpace demand for a seventh year by 866,000 metric tons this...
One global aluminum smelting company asked two buyers in Japan, Asia’s biggest importer, for a 6.3 percent increase in the premium they pay over London Metal Exchange prices, three executives directly involved in the negotiations said. The company offered to sell aluminum at $255 a metric ton over...
Aluminum buyers in Japan, Asia’s largest importer, will probably agree to pay near-record fees next quarter as demand recovers from a three-year low on economic stimulus, said three executives involved in the talks. Fees for the three months starting in April may rise about 2 percent from $240 to...
Japan’s Honda Motor Corp. revealed on Monday that it has developed a new technology that will allow steel and aluminum to be joined together, and thus used in new applications in car manufacturing. One of the first places the technology will be put to use is in using aluminum for a car’s outer door...
Aluminum stocks at Japan's major ports were up 11.1% at the end of January compared with a month earlier, a major Japanese trading house said in an email Thursday. The rise follows a period of slow demand for the light metal in Japan, where it is used in areas such as the automotive and electronics...
Japanese secondary aluminum smelters making ADC12 aluminum alloy are considering alloy imports, rather than producing it themselves, due to higher costs of aluminum scrap feedstock, market sources said Tuesday. Russian AK5M2 scrap-based feedstock used for ADC12 production was offered at...
Japan's imports of aluminum alloy from China fell last year, while European countries like Spain and Italy were seen sending more of the product into Japan, customs data released Wednesday showed. Japan imported 367,279 mt of aluminum alloy from China in 2012, down 19% from 446,134 mt imported in...
Japan's rolled aluminum shipments for calendar 2012 totaled 1.98 million mt, down 0.5% from 2011, the association said. The 2012 shipments were the lowest since 1.74 million mt marked in 2009. Shunichi Shiraishi, the association chairman, during a news conference in Tokyo on Friday, said he was...
Stocks of primary aluminum stored at Japan's three main port warehouses surged to a 44-month high of 284,000-291,600 mt at the end of December, according to data from local trading houses. The inventory level was up from 272,800-279,800 mt at the end of November, and also the highest since the end...
