AL Circle Analysis: Import rise meets demand growth on aluminium extrusion chessboard
Aluminium’s downstream trade network is getting more fragmented as import dependence, changing end-use demand and trade-policy interventions reshape regional markets. From North America and Europe to Asia-Pacific, the aluminium industry is navigating a market where access to supply, competitive...
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...
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Novelis launches evercycle™ certified high-recycled content products
Novelis, the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, today announced the first product in a new portfolio of certified high-recycled content aluminum for specialty applications called evercycle™. This new material will enable customers to produce infinitely-recyclable products with a lower...
Aluminum Extruders Council recognizes two volunteers for outstanding contributions
The Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC) presented awards to two outstanding individuals during the Volunteer Recognition Banquet on March 7, 2015 at the AEC Annual Meeting & Leadership Conference held in Palm Desert, Calif. AEC presented Tom Schabel, CEO of Alexandria Industries in Alexandria, Minn.,...
North American aluminum demand edges up slightly y/y in January 2015
The latest statistics released by the Aluminum Association indicate that aluminum demand in the United States and Canada (shipments by domestic producers plus imports) totaled an estimated 2,124 million pounds in January 2015, up one-tenth of one percent over a year ago. Demand for semi-fabricated...
Alcoa receives $259 million U.S. loan to expand aluminum output
The U.S. Department of Energy has agreed to lend Alcoa Inc. $259 million to expand automotive aluminum sheet production capacity at the supplier’s Tennessee factory, reviving a long-dormant loan program to support the development of energy-efficient vehicles. The funds will finance most of the...
Century Aluminum, union extend deadline for Kentucky smelter talks
Century Aluminum Co and unionized workers at its Hawesville, Kentucky, aluminum smelter agreed to extend by a week a deadline for reaching a new labor deal before the current contract expires on March 31, the two sides said on Wednesday. United Steelworkers (USW) Local 9423 did not specify a new...
North American aluminium secondary Recovery Up 4.4% in 2014
The U.S. aluminum industry purchased1 an estimated 759 million pounds of aluminum scrap during December 2014, according to aluminum recycling statistics published by the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of Interior, up 7.7 percent over the December 2013 total of 705 million. USGS estimates that...
North American aluminium production up in January 2015
The Aluminum Association, in cooperation with the Aluminum Association of Canada, reported primary aluminum production in North America (U.S. and Canada) was at an annual rate of 4,536,937 tonnes during February 2015, up 20,474 tpy (+0.5%) over the previous month's rate of 4,516,463 tonnes. This...
North American aluminium consumption up 7.9% Y/Y in January 2015
Demand for aluminum semi-fabricated (mill) products in the United States and Canada (measured in shipments by domestic producers plus imports) totaled an esti-mated 1,487 million pounds in January, increasing 10.1 percent over the January 2014 total of 1,351 million pounds. Aluminum sheet and plate...
Locally, Sapa steps up with 37,000 hours
Increased knowledge is driving the use of aluminium solutions, and Sapa is one of the educators. Last year, the company provided more than 37,000 hours of technical training to external stakeholders worldwide – more than twice the amount provided in 2013. Most of the training is offered free of...
Novelis announces senior management appointments
Novelis, the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, today announced a number of management appointments designed to strengthen its customer focus on the beverage can and specialty products end markets. Gary Yogan has been appointed Vice President, Global Can Sales, effective April 1. Yogan...
Ford to release a series of Super Duty aluminium trucks
After the success of the 2015 aluminium F-150, Ford has decided to build 2016 Super Duty trucks made of aluminium and will reveal more details about at the State Fair of Texas, said , a senior fleet executive to the attendees of the 2016 Model Year Advance Product Meeting in Irvine, Calif. On March...
“Aluminum is being chosen over competing materials in the most innovative products available today,” Tom Boney, Chairman, Aluminum Association’s Transportation Group (ATG) and VP & GM, Automotive Value Stream, Novelis North America
The Aluminum Association’s Transportation Group (ATG) is an industry trade group based in Arlington, Virgin that promotes aluminum’s advantages in transportation applications and acts as a central resource for the United States’ automotive industry on aluminum issues. Tom Boney serves as the...
Ford’s aluminum F-150 pickup truck is selling fast
The latest generation of Ford’s single most important vehicle model is being snapped up almost as fast as it arrives at dealerships. Ford F 1.85% executives will swear they were highly confident all along that shoppers — especially loyal owners of Ford F Series pickups — would rush to buy the...
Aluminum-alloy body Ford F-150s rolling off the Claycomo assembly line
The first new aluminum F-150 rolled off the assembly line at the Ford plant on Friday. The company now has more than 7,000 workers in the metro area. A more than $1-billion investment in the facility is paying off as the latest manufacturing technology is producing new pickup trucks. An...
ALG predicts an 11.5% rise in Ford 2015 F-150’s resale values
TrueCar Inc.’s ALG Division has provided statistics that suggests that 2015 F-150 from Ford has gone up 11.5% in resale value as fuel-efficiency seems to beat concerns regarding high repair costs. ALG, who has been setting resale values for cars for more than 50 years, has not been deterred by...
Orbite appoints RHI Canada Inc for refractory installation
Orbite Aluminae Inc. today announced that, the Company has appointed RHI Canada Inc. as its contractor for the installation of the refractory system for the decomposer and calcination units at its HPA production facility in Cap-Chat, Quebec. Following certain preparatory activities, refractory...
Constellium reports full-year and fourth quarter 2014 financial results
Constellium N.V. today reported results for the full year and fourth quarter ended December 31, 2014. These results do not include the acquisition of Wise Metals, which closed on January 5, 2015. • 2014 Shipments of 1.1 million metric tons, up 4% versus prior year • 2014 Revenue of €3.7 billion, up...
Superfund decision for Columbia Falls aluminum smelter expeded this fall
Columbia Falls may know by autumn whether the now-closed aluminum smelter there will become a Superfund site. Last Tuesday the owners of the Columbia Falls Aluminum Company announced the smelter is permanently closing. The next day the Environmental Protection Agency notified Governor Steve Bullock...
