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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Constellium completes acquisition of Wise Metals
Constellium N.V. today announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Wise Metals Intermediate Holdings LLC (“Wise”), a private aluminum sheet producer located in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. With the closing of the acquisition, Constellium now has access to 450,000 metric tons...
Upstate Shredding to build heavy media plant in New York
Upstate Shredding – Weitsman Recycling, Owego, New York, has announced plans to build a heavy media plant at its Owego facility. The company says it initially looked at locating the media plant in western Pennsylvania but opted to build it at its shredder facility in Owego. Adam Weitsman, CEO of...
Ford F-150’s new ad highlights the truck's strength more than its fuel-efficiency
Ford will unleash the ads for its new F-150 on the last day of the year and it will be displayed during the College Football Playoffs which starts off on December 31. However, the campaign will be highlighting the strength factors of the car rather than its fuel efficiencies. The short ad blitz...
Columbia Falls Aluminum Company opposes Superfund designation
Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. said Friday it opposes a Superfund designation for the aluminum plant site. Owned by Swiss-based parent company Glencore, CFAC supports expediting a thorough investigation of the plant site and has retained environmental consulting firm Roux Associates to develop a...
NorthStar Ford: The all-aluminum body truck is the future of auto industry
Out with the old and in with the new, that was the message at the NorthStar Ford office on Tuesday in Duluth. The new 2015 Aluminum Ford F150 Trucks arrived, and Ford believes they are the future of the auto industry. That is because the trucks have the very first all-aluminum bodies, meaning no...
CCL to invest in new plant to produce aluminum slugs in Clinton, North Carolina
CCL Industries Inc., a world leader in specialty label and packaging solutions for global corporations, small businesses and consumers, announced today that it will invest in a new plant to produce aluminum slugs used in the impact extrusion process to make aerosol cans, tubes and bottles for...
AISIN to receive Marion Business of the Year award
The Marion Chamber of Commerce announced Monday that AISIN Light Metals is the 2014 Business and Industry of the Year. AISIN is in the REDCO Industrial Park area in Marion. The company manufactures aluminum parts for the automotive industry. The company began construction in Marion in October 2003,...
Aluminum Association hits record membership with 100th member company
The Aluminum Association announced its 99th and 100th member companies today – The Schaefer Group, Inc. and Aluminum Shapes, LLC. One hundred members is a record for the 80-year trade Association, which represents the North American aluminum industry. The additions come at a time when the broader...
ISRI appoints new members to metals theft Law Enforcement Advisory Council
Conner Samuels, senior director of security operations investigations, policy and threat management at Time Warner Cable, and Sergeant Todd Powell of the Anne Arundel County Police Department’s Metal Theft Unit in Maryland, have recently been named to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries’...
Shiloh Industries opens a new die-casting plant in Tennessee
A new aluminium die casting plant opened today at Montgomery County, Tennessee owned by Shiloh Industries Inc., a solution provider in terms of lightweighting, noise and vibration. In August, 2013, the brownfield site was acquired by Shiloh which is now to undergo a host of renovations, upgrades...
Anheuser-Busch to invest $150-million for expansion in aluminium bottles production
Anheuser-Busch plans to increase the production of aluminium bottles for Budweiser and Bud Light and is preparing to invest $150-million for the same, the company announced at its Metal Container Corp. facility in Arnold, Mo. The proposed expansion will create 70 new jobs at the plant while...
Quebec government grants extension to Rio Tinto
An agreement signed between Rio Tinto Alcan and the Quebec government now allows Rio Tinto to extend the remaining aluminium operations the company has in Arvida in Saguenay until the end of 2020 that will save 1,000 jobs. Through the agreement, Rio Tinto Alcan will be entitled to low preferential...
Ford F-150's endless recyclability will compensate its cost
The Ford F-150 has created a buzz in the auto industry for the daring use of aluminium in their most popular vehicle. Although the move was primarily to improve fuel efficiency of the vehicle with the lightweight body, it will also have a positive impact in recycling. The pick-up tuck is the most...
Noranda Aluminum Holding (NOR) jumps 5.49% on December 17
Noranda Aluminum Holding ($NOR) was among the biggest gainers on the Russell 2000 for Wednesday December 17 as the stock popped 5.49% to $3.46, representing a gain of $0.18 per share. Some 1.13 million shares traded hands on 4,092 trades, compared with an average daily volume of 843,333 shares out...
Study shows aluminum can continues to be sustainable beverage package of choice
Aluminum cans, already the most recycled and recyclable beverage container on the market, just got even more sustainable according to a report by environmental research firm PE International. The report, which updates a prior life cycle assessment study released in 2010, shows that an aluminum can...
The LME queues are reducing across all registered warehouses
The backlog to remove aluminum from Detroit, the most acutely impacted location, shrank by 30 days to 641 days, while the wait to remove other metals stuck behind the wall of aluminum fell from 111 to 93 days. The reduction in waiting times was even sharper at the Dutch port of Vlissingen, a drop...
Nashtec to expand its aluminium hydroxide production capacity by 40%
Nashtec, which is a joint venture between Nabaltec and Sherwin Alumina, is all set for expansion of its aluminium hydroxide production capacity by nearly 40% owing to the constantly growing demand, especially in the US market. The plant located in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA, plans to increase the...
Pell joins Aluminum Association board
Sapa’s Jack C. Pell is one of five new persons elected to the U.S. Aluminum Association’s Board of Directors. Pell leads the commercial organization for Sapa’s Extrusion Americas business area, which is responsible for the company’s general extrusion activities in North and South America. He...
