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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US buyers could be forgiven for wondering what on earth is going on with aluminum prices. The LME quotation at $1950 per metric ton for cash and not much more for 3-month delivery is deeply in the global cost curve for aluminum smelters, suggesting a market in dire oversupply — a position supported...
Aluminium stocks held at 3 major Japanese ports came to 223,200 tonnes at the end of May down 4.9% from 234,800 tonnes a month earlier. Trading house Marubeni Corporation said that the stocks at the end of May were down 1% from 225,400 tonnes as of the end of May 2011. Marubeni collects data from...
Most Japanese aluminum premiums for the third quarter have been settled sharply higher than second-quarter levels due to tightening supply in the Asian market, suppliers told Dow Jones Newswires Monday. Suppliers and consumers have agreed on premiums between 200 U.S. dollars a metric ton and...
Aluminium stocks held at three major Japanese ports came to 223,200 tonnes at the end of May, down 4.9 percent from 234,800 tonnes a month earlier, trading house Marubeni Corp said on Monday. The stocks at the end of May were down 1 percent from 225,400 tonnes as of the end of May 2011. Marubeni...
Japanese suppliers of scrap aluminum have refused to cut prices for June shipments citing high primary aluminum import premiums, although scrap prices are typically pegged to London Metal Exchange prices, sources said Wednesday. A secondary aluminum smelter official and two local traders said they...
Aluminium yesterday traded with the positive node and settled 0.18% up at 108.45 but earlier in the data we have seen market falling to day's low of 106.60 as United States April factory orders unexpectedly and sharply fell. The debt crisis has been developing in several European countries. As the...
Nihon Superior, a producer and distributor of metal jointing materials for electronics applications, will exhibit its new soldering products at the JISSO PROTEC 2012 exposition, which will be held in Tokyo, Japan from June 13 to 15. SN100C P810 D4, a lead-free solder paste, and solder-coated...
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) and its affiliated companies, headquartered in Tokyo, have announced that they have collected for recycling about 6 million used beverage cans (UBCs) in 2011. Showa Denko is a manufacturer and marketer of chemical products servicing a range of industries, including the...
Japan's Daiki Aluminum is seeking cheaper production sites overseas following local car makers who have already been forced abroad by an increasingly strong yen, shrinking domestic output and competition from China and South East Asia. The country's largest aluminium alloy producer, which produces...
Trading of imported ADC12 aluminum alloy in Japan has calmed down ahead of the closing of Toyota Motor's third-quarter buy tender on Friday as market participants waited for the results, sources said Tuesday. Two traders said deals were done at around $2,240/mt CFR Japan for several hundred tons of...
Aluminum buyers in Japan, Asia’s largest importer, agreed to pay a record premium to producers next quarter after global smelters cut output, according to five officials with direct knowledge of the talks. Premiums for the three months starting in July will be $200 to $210 a metric ton over the...
Japan's 11 secondary aluminium alloy smelters have shipped 39,308 mt of auto diecasting alloys in April 2012, up 49% year on year, Japan Aluminium Alloy Refiners Association said Wednesday. The April shipments, however, fell by 356 mt from March as some smelters have lost sales opportunities to...
Premiums for imported primary aluminum products in the third quarter have settled at $200-210/mt plus LME cash CIF Japan last week, four Japanese market participants involved in the negotiations said Monday. One deal for over 500 mt/month of minimum 99.7%-grade primary aluminum ingot was confirmed...
Japan’s shipments of rolled-aluminum products expanded 1.4 percent in April, the third straight month of increase, as demand from automakers surged. Supplies to domestic and export markets increased to 166,048 metric tons last month from 163,805 tons a year earlier, the Japan Aluminium Association...
Maspion (Maspion Group) is projecting its exports of household wares to reach $450 million in 2012, which is a 12.5 percent increase from last year, CEO Alim Markus said. “This year, our exports can reach $450 million, composed of $250-300 million from aluminum products, $100 million from...
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) and its Group companies continued to perform their aluminum can recycling activities in fiscal 2011 (April 2011 - March 2012), collecting approximately 6 million cans: equivalent to around 97 tons of aluminum when converted atthe rate of 16.2 grams of aluminum per can. Showa...
Negotiations for premiums for primary aluminum ingot to be exported to Japan in the third quarter have started, with Rio Tinto Alcan offering a premium of $200/mt plus London Metal Exchange cash CIF Japan, sources said Monday. A representative from a second global producer, who will be meeting with...
Aluminum buyers in Japan, Asia’s biggest importer, were asked to accept a 57 percent increase in fees starting in July, as supply decreased after smelters cut output and China boosted purchases. A producer offered to sell aluminum at $200 a metric ton over the London Metal Exchange cash price for...
