Can Oklahoma reshape US aluminium supply? EGA’s Ziad Fares explains the project
As the US seeks to rebuild its domestic aluminium production capacity, Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) and Century Aluminum are advancing plans for a new primary aluminium smelter in Inola, Oklahoma, targeting more than 750,000 tonnes of annual production. In this exclusive conversation with AL...
Collapsed Canada tariff talks put Indiana's aluminium jobs back in the spotlight
Indiana has emerged as an unlikely flashpoint in the latest round of US-Canada trade friction, after Washington's now-collapsed negotiations with Ottawa briefly put a proposed cut to aluminium tariffs on the table, one that industry advocates say would have hit the state's fabrication workforce...
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Alcoa announces signing of a New Labour Contract and restarting of operations at ABI smelter in Quebec
Alcoa Corporation, a leading bauxite, alumina, and aluminium producer, announced the signing of a New Labour Contract for Aluminerie de Bécancour Smelter in Québec, Canada on July 2. "We are pleased that ABI has a new labour agreement that will get employees back on the job, working together to...
H.I.G. Capital acquires a majority stake in aluminium industrial components manufacturer
H.I.G. Europe, the European arm of H.I.G. Capital, a leading global private equity investment firm, purchased a controlling stake in Metalprint. Founding families Strazzari and Cerutti sold the majority stake to H.I.G. and reinvested in the transaction. Metalprint, based in Italy, is a manufacturer...
North America's semi-finished aluminium shipments drop 1.5 per cent through May 2019
According to the latest report from Aluminum Association, Aluminum net shipments (including exports) by domestic U.S. and Canadian facilities totalled an estimated 934,853 tonnes during May, a slight increase over the May 2018 total of 933,493 tonnes. Shipments of aluminium mill products or...
Canadian aluminium manufacturer Aluminerie Alouette resumes full production
Canadian aluminium manufacturer Aluminerie Alouette has reportedly finished a major step in its intensive relining programme on Friday, June 28 and started 140 AP40 pots in 180 days in the frame to move from AP40LE to AP40 Technology. Aluminerie Alouette is thus, back with 594 pots in operation...
PepsiCo to replace Aquafina plastic water bottles with aluminium cans in its U.S. locations
As an initiative towards cutting down the use of plastic in its products, PepsiCo is planning to replace its Aquafina plastic water bottles with aluminium cans in the U.S. Consumer backlash against the use of plastic has been growing across the country because of its terrible impact on the ocean...
Central Motor Wheel of America announces expansion at its aluminium wheel manufacturing facility
Central Motor Wheel of America Inc. will expand manufacturing capacity at its aluminium wheel facility in Paris to meet customer demand for aluminium wheels. The company will add 145 full-time jobs as part of a $111.9 million investment, Governor Matt Bevin announced on Thursday, June 27. Governor...
North American aluminium extrusion sector registered record high shipment of 2.5 million tonnes in 2018
The Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC) and the Aluminum Association reported that aluminium extruders from the US and Canada shipped 2.50 million tonnes of aluminium extruded products in 2018, 4.5 per cent higher than 2017 and 3.2 per cent higher than 2006. Extruded product shipment to domestic...
Alcoa offers final labour contract to workers at ABI smelter in Québec, Canada; likely to end lockout
Alcoa Corporation is likely to reach an agreement with United Steelworkers as the management of the Aluminerie de Bécancour Inc. (ABI) smelter in Québec, Canada offered a revised labour contact to the United Steelworkers yesterday. ABI smelter is owned by Alcoa (74.95%) and Rio Tinto Alcan Inc....
Semi-finished aluminium demand in the US and Canada up 2.6 per cent through April 2019
According to the preliminary estimates of Aluminum Association, aluminium demand in the United States and Canada, including shipments by domestic producers plus imports, stood at an estimated 4.3 million tonnes through April of 2019, a slight increase from YTD 2018. Through the first four months of...
North American aluminium extruded product shipment dropped 1.9 per cent YoY in H1 2019
According to the latest report from Aluminum Association, shipments of aluminium extruded products (extruded shapes, pipe & tube, and rod & bar) by U.S. and Canadian producers stood at 210,920 tonnes during May 2019. This registered a 5.2 per cent drop from the May 2018 revised total of 222,623...
Taiwan’s exports of aluminium semi-finished products to US jump 520% YoY in three-month period
Taiwan exported 19,600 tonnes of aluminium semi-finished products to the US in the first three months of 2019, a jump of 520.25 per cent from the same period last year, according to the latest Mineral Industry Survey report from US Geological Survey. Taiwan’s export to the US was 3,160 tonnes in...
World primary aluminium production unchanged from last year in May
World primary aluminium production came in at 5.43 million tonnes in May, unchanged from May 2018 production. Production increased 4.14% from April’s 2019 production of 5.22 million tonnes, according to the latest data showed by the International Aluminium Institute (IAI). Primary aluminium...
Reopening of aluminium capacity lifted US alumina import by 128% QoQ in Q1 2019
As shown by the latest US Geological Survey latest release on Bauxite and Alumina in the First Quarter 2019, imports of alumina by the U.S. in the first quarter of 2019 more than doubled to 623,000 tonnes from 273,000 tonnes in fourth quarter of 2018. The volume was 35% more than those in the first...
USA researchers reveal single-step technique to produce aluminium wire, rod and tube parts
According to a recent report, researchers at the USA’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has demonstrated a single-step production technique called ‘friction extrusion’ to produce aluminium wire, rod, and tube parts from aluminium powder. According to them, this would specially benefit the...
Shipments of aluminium flat roll products by North American producers drop YoY in May
According to the latest report from Aluminum Association, The Association’s “Index of Net New Orders of Aluminum Mill Products” for May 2019 declined 1.9 per cent from April 2019. Orders for flat roll products (sheet, plate, can stock and foil) were down slightly month on month, while orders for...
Pennsylvania lawmakers aim to pass a bill to start a bottle and can deposit program
Pennsylvania lawmakers are aiming to pass a bill to start a bottle and can deposit program in Pennsylvania. State Rep. Wendy Ullman initiated it as a part of a larger legislation called “Zero Waste Pa.” According to Ullman, this program will help cleaning up the streets and waterways as beverage...
U.S. Commerce Department launches new portal for Section 232 exclusion requests
The U.S. Commerce Department launched a new portal for Section 232 exclusion requests on Thursday, June 13. The companies looking for tariff exclusion need to submit and post all Section 232 exclusion requests in that new portal and the treasury department will post all related objections and...
Fernson Brewing Company ramps up beer can production with WaveGrip’s G1 applicator
US-based craft brewers Fernson Brewing Company has reportedly installed WaveGrip’s G1 multi-packing applicator, in a bid to ramp up its can production. The brewery will use the G1 applicator as a sustainable solution to produce its beer cans, ensuring reduced labour costs and materials to pack its...
