South Korea’s Russian aluminium imports reached a record high in 2025, making Russia the country’s largest aluminium supplier for the first time. The sharp increase has strengthened Korea’s dependence on Russian metal even as the US and Europe tighten sanctions against Moscow. The exposure is...
Asia’s alumina exports entered 2026 on a strong footing, with shipments to global markets reaching 7.05 million tonnes worth USD 2.76 billion in H1 2026 , up 27.36 per cent year-on-year . The sharp rise in H1 was driven by a quarter-on-quarter surge by a considerable margin. This indicates an...
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The economy of Taiwan is a developed capitalist economy that ranks as the seventh-largest in Asia and 22nd-largest in the world by purchasing power parity (PPP). It is included in the advanced economies group by the International Monetary Fund and gauged in the high-income economies group by the...
On the occasion of the 161st anniversary, the Thailand Marine Department will float the country’s first electric ferry, named the BanpuNext e-Ferry, which will be a part towards the effort to reduce pollution. It will soon start trial runs in Phuket and have a fleet of solar-powered boats running...
Showa Aluminum Can Corporation (SAC), a consolidated subsidiary of Showa Denko), headquartered in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo, held a ceremony on 29 th July’20 to celebrate the completion of its third base in Vietnam to produce aluminium cans. This new production base is in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province,...
Altech Chemicals Limited has released its quarterly reports ended June 2020 mentioning the recommencement of its high purity alumina site in Johor Bahru, Malaysia on June 3, 2020, following the lifting of the Malaysian government COVID-19 pandemic Movement Control Order (MCO). The quarterly reports...
The leading global aluminium producer, Rusal, has released its operating results for the second quarter of 2020. The company reported that its aluminium production in Q2 2020 dropped by 1.4 per cent from the earlier quarter to 927,000 tonnes, Siberian smelters representing 93 per cent of the...
Cambodia will gracefully welcome another 140km of the northern railway to connect the Thai border to better facilitate the transportation of goods between the two countries. Both the countries officially floated rail network link in late 2018. On 22 nd July’20, Vasim Sorya, undersecretary of state...
Hyderabad International Airport has been introduced with a multi-ULD (unit load device) Cool Dolly to maintain the cold chain for time and temperature-sensitive shipments such as pharmaceuticals and perishables. Vandana Aggarwal, Senior Economic Advisor, Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA), Govt of...
The United States, in the first quarter of 2020 (January-March), exported 73,400 tonnes of aluminium scrap to Malaysia, according to the latest US Geological Survey data. Year-on-year, the export recorded a hike of 88 per cent from 39,100 tonnes. In March 2020, the country exported 24,400 tonnes of...
The economy of Indonesia is the largest in Southeast Asia and is one of the emerging market economies of the world. Indonesia is a member of G20 and classified as a newly industrialised country. The aluminium scrap import of the island nation during 2019 was recorded with 159,742 tonnes and the...
Altech Chemicals Limited has announced the completion of the remaining Stage-2 construction work at its high purity alumina (HPA) plant site in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Construction activities at the site started anew in early June 2020, following the ease of restrictions imposed by the Malaysian...
Thirty-four new reverse vending machines have been added to the existing network of sixteen at locations islandwide in Singapore. The new machines that accept plastic and aluminium containers and dispense discount vouchers in return have been rolled at malls like IMM and Vedok Mall and complexes...
The first measure commercial vehicles certainly take into account is the operational costs. Selection of tires has become one of the routes to save expenses and the way to save the tires, is by using aluminium rims. Aluminium rims in Indonesia, especially for commercial vehicles, are not yet widely...
Taiwan’s imports of aluminium scrap from the US stood at 2,950 tonnes in March, with a month-on-month decline of 15% from 3,480 tonnes in February 2020. On a yearly basis, imports decreased by 51% from 5,990 tonnes in March 2019, as updated by the US Census Bureau. In the first quarter of 2020,...
Aluminium is forecasted to become the most liquid commodity in the third quarter of 2020 along with the increase that developed in the majority of other commodities. Ibrahim Suabi, Director, TRFX Garuda Futures stated that among other metal commodities, aluminium has a consistent strengthening...
Indonesia presumes $3.7 billion in investments for mining and refinery projects to be delayed to 2021 if the COVID-19 pandemic lingers until the end of 2020, as per a mining official. Irwandy Arif, an advisor to the Energy and Mineral Resources Minister said: “The investments were expected for 35...
Thailand’s imports of aluminium scrap from the US stood at 5,880 tonnes in March, an increase of 569.7% from 878 tonnes in March 2019. On a month-on-month basis, imports registered a rise of 11.36% from 5,280 tonnes in February, as updated by the US Census Bureau. In the first quarter of 2020,...
Rusal, a leading global aluminium producer, has announced the beginning of a new foundry complex, having a production capacity of 120 thousand tonnes of alloys per year, at the Boguchansky aluminium smelter. The new foundry will produce high silicon aluminium alloy with increased strength, which is...
Parkers Beverage Company, based in New Zealand, is now eyeing Singapore’s convenience stores to roll out its aluminium canned water, after first entering the country via e-commerce late last year. Currently, Parkers’ still and sparkling canned water is available only on online platform RedMart in...
