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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North America aluminium market expected to reach $17,995.6 million by 2023
The North America aluminium market was valued at $12,076.0 million in 2015 and is projected to reach $17,995.6 million by 2023, growing at a CAGR of 5.1% from 2015 to 2023, according to a new report published by ReportLinker, titled, "North America Aluminium Market by Processing Method,End-User...
Ardagh Group to increase production at beverage can end and tab plant
Ardagh Group will invest in its Valparaiso facility, in Indiana, USA to meet the increasing demand for innovative, eye-catching beverage can tabs and ends. The plant will increase production by approximately 10 percent. The new production will be available in the third quarter of 2019. Claude...
Hoffmann Neopac to begin polyfoil tube production investing $30.8 million
The Swiss packaging company Hoffmann Neopac AG will reportedly begin tube production with an investment of $30.8 million at its new production facility early this year. It already received a grant of $30,000 from the One North Carolina Fund, per the report, which looks to create economic growth and...
Startup Bollinger Motors to soon launch all-aluminium electric trucks B1 and B2
Startup OEM Bollinger Motors reported in October 2018 that it had reached the “final stages” of its aluminium, electric “sport utility truck” the Bollinger B1. It also announced its plan for an aluminium electric pickup known as the Bollinger B2. Both the B1 and the B2 are all-wheel drive and have...
Carlisle Companies signs definitive purchase agreement to acquire Petersen Aluminum
Carlisle Companies Incorporated, a global leader in commercial and industrial building envelope products through its Carlisle Construction Materials (CCM) operating segment, signed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Petersen Aluminum Corporation. Petersen Aluminum, headquartered in Elk...
Aluminium, aluminium product imports by the USA extend decline in January -October 2018
According to the latest Mineral Industry Survey report from US Geological Survey, aluminium imports by the USA for consumption stood at 5.29 million tonnes in January-October 2018, 8.79% less than 5.8 million tonnes in the same period in 2017. {newsStudioGallery} In October, the USA imported...
Northeast Ohio businesses yet to feel the hardest impact of Trump's steel & aluminum tariffs
Despite the damage on business, President Donald Trump’s steel and aluminium tariffs did not have a widespread negative impact on the business in Northeast Ohio The manufacturing sector feared there would be immediate fallout of the tariffs in Northeast Ohio. They also were concerned about the...
U.S. scrap recyclers threatened by rising recycling costs and falling scrap demand and prices
In the U.S. recycling used to be extremely profitable business while aiding while doing its part to the environment. However, local recyclers are facing a number of challenges while recycling holiday packaging materials. Local recyclers are struggling to cope with increasing financial pressures...
Aluminium semi-finished product exports by U.S. up 14% MoM in October, exports to Canada increase
According to the latest Mineral Industry Survey report from US Geological Survey, domestic primary aluminium production in October 2018 was 84,000 tonnes. The average daily production in October was 2,710 tonnes, 6% more than that in September 2018, 34% more than that in October 2017. In October,...
Aluminium demand in North America up 3.4% through October 2018; imports were off 5.6%
According to the latest report from Aluminum Association, aluminium demand in the United States and Canada (measured in shipments by domestic producers plus imports) totalled an estimated 10.7 million tonnes in the period from January to October 2018, up 3.4 per cent over the same period of 2017....
Analysts say use of aluminium body has not increased F-150 repair costs
When Ford launched its all-aluminium body F-150 pickup truck in 2015 with aluminium body panels instead of steel to make it lighter with improved mileage and rust-free, it was considered as one of the biggest risks for America’s most popular truck maker. The bigger concern was the cost of repairs,...
Novelis sees limited impact of Trump’s tariffs on aluminium import on its business in North America
Novelis says it has seen limited impact from the import tariffs on aluminium imported from other countries. Novelis, the world’s largest aluminium recycler and rolling product manufacturer, imports about one-third of its aluminium from Canada and it recovers the other two-thirds of aluminium from...
U.S. aluminium scrap exports up 12% in January-October 2018
According to the latest Mineral Industry Survey report from US Geological Survey, the U.S. exports of aluminium scrap, which is not included in the government’s consumption statistics, stood at 164,000 tonnes in October 2018, up 5% from October 2017 total of 156,000 tonnes. Month on month,...
Canada to exempt tariffs on some imported aluminium and steel from US
Canada seemed to have been all ears to the tariff exemption request from the construction industry in British Columbia in November. British Columbia is the westernmost province in Canada that depends primarily on imported metal. On Wednesday, December 19, Canada reportedly announced that it would...
Noranda alumina commissions last phase of the CGA expansion in its Gramercy refinery
Noranda Alumina updates through a press release that it continues to expand the chemical grade alumina (CGA) capabilities of its Gramercy refinery in Louisiana. It has commissioned a new hydrate dryer and dense phase pneumatic conveying system during the final phase of a CGA expansion project...
Kobelco Aluminum Products & Extrusions (KPEX) to expand its Bowling Green aluminum extrusion plant
Kobelco Aluminum Products & Extrusions Inc. which opened an extrusion plant for the automotive sector in Bowling Green, Kentucky in in February 2017 will expand the plant with a US$42 million investment, adding 90 new jobs and increasing overall Kentucky investment to US$95 million. Kentucky...
Alcoa Corporation to cut production at a Canadian aluminium smelter
Alcoa Corporation announced that the company will cut half of the one operating potline’s 138,000 tonnes per year capacity at the Aluminerie de Bécancour Inc. (ABI) smelter in Québec, Canada. Alcoa owns 75 per cent of the aluminium smelter and Rio Tinto Alcan owns the remainder. The Bécancour...
USA aluminium can import continues to grow year over year; Canada remains the top exporter
The U.S. is one of the leading consumers of aluminium cans in the world. Due to the growing recognition of the aluminium can as one of the most recycled aluminium products in the world and as one of the most sustainable packaging solution, the use of aluminium cans is growing around the world,...
