Japanese aluminium buyers offered $310-$325/t premiums for October-December shipments
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 jump 27%: Is an 8Mt H2 shipment within reach?
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 eyes cut in Q1 aluminium premiums below $110
..Premiums for primary aluminium shipments to Japan in January-March will likely drop to their lowest in six quarters, as buyers remain wary of the economic outlook, with the yen's rise to a 15-year high hitting exporters...
Steel Guru : Japan and Germany seek rare earth recycling as hedge <b>...</b>
... UAE aluminium smelters pay trade visit to Japan. 0blt1. Japan secondary al alloy makers fail to get higher price for October ...
UPDATE 1-Japan Oct Aluminium Stocks Down 2 Pct m/m
...U.S. aluminum exports fell 27.0% in September from the previous month, but was up 74.2% from the previous year, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday...
Aluminum Sales May Climb to Record, Sumitomo Light Metal Says
..Sumitomo Light Metal Industries Ltd., Japan’s second-largest producer of rolled aluminum products, forecast sales this fiscal year will climb to a record led by demand from carmakers...
Japanese can sector guzzles 20pct aluminum in September
...Commodity reported that exports of rolled aluminium products from Japan rises for yet again in the month of September posting a growth of 8.5% against the corresponding period last year...
UPDATE 1-Japan Sept aluminium shipments up 8.5 pct yr/yr
...Japanese shipments of aluminium products rose 8.5 percent in September from a year earlier to 170,443 tonnes, the 10th consecutive month of year-on-year growth, industry data showed on Wednesday...
Norsk Hydro to expand Asian aluminium sales by 50pct in 2011
...Mr Harald Odegaard VP of Norsk Hydro said at press conference in Tokyo that the firm expands the aluminium sales to 600,000 tonnes in Asia in 2011 compared with planned 400,000 tonnes in 2010...
UPDATE 1-Japan Sept aluminium stocks down 2.4 pct pct m/m
...Aluminium stocks held at three major Japanese ports at the end of September edged down to 230,400 tonnes from 236,100 tonnes a month earlier as imports declined, Marubeni Corp (8002.T) said on Friday...
Japanese August aluminum shipments up by 13pct YoY
...Bloomberg reported that Japan's shipments of rolled aluminum products gained 13% in August 2010, expanding for the ninth straight month, as demand increased from the auto and can industries...
Japanese Q4 aluminium premiums mostly at USD 118 per tonne
...Reuters reported that term premiums for primary aluminium shipments to Japan for October to December were mostly set at USD 116 per tonne to USD 118 per tonne the lowest since the Q4 in 2009 and marking the third straight quarter of declines...
UPDATE 2-Japan Q4 aluminium premiums mostly at $116-$118/T
...Term premiums for primary aluminium shipments to Japan for October-December were mostly set at $116-$118 per tonne, the lowest since the fourth quarter in 2009 and marking the third straight quarter of declines...
UPDATE 2-Japan Aug <em>aluminium</em> stocks highest since May 2009 | Reuters
... Stocks may stay near same levels as demand outlook sluggish ... imports about 2 million tonnes of primary aluminium every year. ...
Nippon Light Metal to double Thai aluminium cold rolling capacity
...Nippon Light Metal announced the wholly owned subsidiary, Nikkei Siam Aluminium of Thailand adds new cold rolling mill for around JPY 1.4 billion to increase the flat products output capacity from annual 17,500 tonnes to 38,000 tonnes in April 2014...
Japanese aluminium prices set to fall
...Bloomberg reported that Aluminium premiums charged by producers to buyers in Japan will drop next quarter to the lowest in a year as the economic recovery slows and the effects of government stimulus measures fade...
Aluminum Premium in Japan Declines to Lowest in a Year as Recovery Slows
...The aluminum fee charged by producers for buyers in Japan, Asia’s largest importer, will drop next quarter to the lowest level in a year as the recovery is slowing on fading effects from the government’s stimulus measures...
UPDATE 1-One Japan Q4 aluminium premium deal at $118/T-trader
...At least one deal on term premiums for primary aluminium shipments to Japan for October-December has been agreed at $118 per tonne, down about 1.7 percent from $120 in the third quarter, a trader said on Wednesday...
UPDATE 1-One Japan Q4 aluminium premium deal at $118/T-trader
...At least one deal on term premiums for primary aluminium shipments to Japan for October-December has been agreed at $118 per tonne, down about 1.7 percent from $120 in the third quarter, a trader said on Wednesday...
Aluminum-Product Shipments in Japan Climb on Sales to Automakers, Exports
...Japan's shipments of rolled-aluminum products gained 7.8 percent in July, expanding for the eighth straight month, as sales to domestic automakers and exports to Asia increased...
