US industrial policy needs to be systematic, not just ad hoc – Part 2
Our current approach can win economic skirmishes, but not the geopolitical conflict. – Part 2 Impact #5 of ad hoc industrial policy: Failing to use all required tools Industrial policy is often caricatured as just tariffs and subsidies. Mis-framed debates that evaluate the merits of tariffs in...
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...
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Good news for aluminium as cans gain over bottles in American beer market
<p>Beer drinkers in America prefer to drink from a convenient aluminium can rather than twisting glass bottle caps. Canned beers represented 56.2% of the market in 2016, continuing the fifth straight annual increase in share and up from 50.3% eight years earlier. The statistics has been shared in...
Aluminium die caster Muskegon Castings relocates its operations after fire incident
<p>Michigan based Muskegon Castings has shifted its production operations to its other factory after a fire broke out in the company’s building earlier this week. The company resumed its aluminium die casting operations and started supplying its primary customer, as confirmed by an official...
U.S. and Canada’s aluminium sheet, foil and can stock shipments drop in February 2017
<p>According to the monthly aluminium highlights published by Aluminum Association, U.S. and Canadian producers shipped estimated 322.9 million pounds of can stock during February 2017, registering drop of 4.9 per cent YOY. Month on month, shipments decreased 6.1 per cent. YTD shipments through...
Kokomo Casting Plant becomes safer & efficient, hopes for silver rating this year
<p>The FCA US Kokomo Casting Plant (KCP) has become safer, efficient and cleaner over the years, according to the plant manager Jerry Peterson. Last year, KCP made a new investment into furnaces for the process of re-melting aluminium in-house in order to improve its efficiency.</p> <p><img...
Arconic announces multi-year deal with Toyota
<p>Global technology, engineering and advanced manufacturing leader Arconic has announced a multi-year supply deal with Toyota North America. Arconic is supplying aluminum to Toyota for its all-new Lexus RX. The vehicle debuted last year and became Toyota’s first vehicle in North America to...
Arconic nets $243 million from sale of Yadkin Hydroelectric
<p>Arconic Inc. announced today its receipt of a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the Yadkin Hydroelectric Project (Yadkin) to Cube Hydro Carolinas by Alcoa Power Generating Inc., a subsidiary of Alcoa Corporation. Yadkin encompasses four hydroelectric power developments (reservoirs, dams...
Aluminum Association keen to take part in Vehicle Fuel Economy and Co2 Emissions review
<p>The Aluminum Association in a press statement said that the association would look forward to work with President Trump and his administration on the review of light-duty vehicle fuel economy and emissions regulations for model years 2022-2025.</p> <p><img style="vertical-align: middle; display:...
North American primary aluminium production drops 6% YOY in February
<p>The Aluminum Association, in cooperation with the Aluminium Association of Canada has reported the total primary aluminium production in North America in February.</p> <p><img style="vertical-align: middle; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"...
The U.S. accounts for the largest chunk of aluminium export by Canada
<p>Canada’s primary industry has been an integral part of the North American aluminium industrial value chain since its inception and a substantial part of its annual output is exported to the USA every year. According to the latest report from The Aluminium Association of Canada (AAC), the...
Domestic orders for aluminium mill products and export drop in the U.S. and Canada
<p>The Aluminium Association’s “Index of Net New Orders of Aluminum Mill Products” for February dropped 6.1 % MoM. Orders for flat roll products dropped 5.8 %, while orders for extruded products declined 7.7 % and orders for redraw rod were off 4.9 %. YoY, the orders record a...
U.S. aluminium Industry files dumping action against China
<p>The Aluminum Association’s Trade Enforcement Working Group today filed antidumping and countervailing duty petitions charging that unfairly traded imports of certain aluminum foil from the People’s Republic of China are causing material injury to the domestic industry. This...
Aluminium product shipments in North America up YoY and MoM
<p>According to the latest report from Aluminum Association, shipments of aluminium powder and paste to domestic markets stood at 6.27 million pounds during January 2017. The number includes imports by domestic producers. This reported an increase of about 12% over the January 2016 total of...
Canadian government announces $17 million for aluminium automotive components
<p>Government of Canada has awarded a repayable of $17 million to the Astrex Inc. of Lakeshore for installing North America’s first-of-its-kind aluminium automotive parts facility. The Federal Economic Development Agency’s (FedDev Ontario) Advanced Manufacturing Fund will grant the fund...
Granco Clark Supplies UACJ with full heating and extrusion handling systems
<p>UACJ of Ludington, MI, has selected Granco Clark to supply log processing/heating and extrusion handling systems. The scope of supply includes; log table/pusher, high efficiency log furnace, hot billet saw, FusionBond, taper quench, high velocity/high impact spray quench, cut on the fly double...
Noranda Alumina LLC gets financial assistance to expand its business
<p>Noranda Alumina that operates an alumina refinery in Gramercy, US, gets financial support from the Siena Lending Group LLC, a finance company offering asset based loans. Siena Lending Group LLC has also provides $30 million asset-based revolving credit facility for New Day Aluminium LLC to repay...
U.S. Senator stands by Pennex Aluminum in their fight against unfair trade practices
<p>U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) recently visited Pennex Aluminum Company in Leetonia, Ohio to meet with aluminium manufacturing leaders and workers there and hear out the problems they have been facing in recent times due to rising unfair trade practices</p> <p><img style="vertical-align:...
Aluminium demand and apparent consumption in the US and Canada up in 2016
<p>According to Preliminary estimates, aluminium demand in the United States and Canada that include shipments by domestic producers plus imports totalled an estimated 13 million tons in 2016, up 2.0 per cent over 2015. Demand for semi-fabricated (mill) products totalled 9.1 million tons, slightly...
Secondary aluminium recovery in the U.S. up 7.0% in 2016
<p>According to the recent aluminum recycling statistics by the U.S. Geological Survey and Department of Interior published by the Aluminum Association, the U.S. aluminium industry purchased an estimated <strong>370500</strong> tons of aluminium scrap during December 2016, which registers a 9.0 per...
