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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Aluminium bar, rods and profiles import by Vietnam is estimated to extend its rise this year, according to global export-import data. In 2018, Vietnam’s import of aluminium bar, rods and profiles had pegged at 309,748 tonnes, in contrast to 75,385 tonnes in 2017. This means the country’s import in...
Malaysia imported 14,300 tonnes of aluminium including scrap from the USA in February, 81.7 per cent higher than the corresponding period of 2018, according to the latest Mineral Industry Survey report from US Geological Survey. Imports increased 41.58 per cent from January’s import volume of...
Altech Chemicals Limited announced that it has raised the first steel at its high purity alumina (HPA) plant construction site in Johor, Malaysia. Stage 1 construction of the Company’s HPA plant started in February 2019. The construction work is being done by a South African company Metix, a...
LME Asia Week is staring today, May 7, 2019, at Hong Kong with over 2,000 metals professionals and media converging together. The week will see industry experts discussing a number of topics around precious, base and ferrous metals. Ian Roper, general manager of SMM Singapore said during LME Asia...
Swiss machinery maker PackSys Global has reportedly agreed to sell its subsidiary in Thailand to Benpac Holding. Becpac Holding is a group of companies in the fields of engineering, machine construction and packaging technology. The subsidiary company of PackSys Global in Thailand, on the other...
Showa Aluminum Can Corporation (SAC), a subsidiary of Japan’s Showa Denko has decided on starting its new aluminium can plant in Vietnam. This will be its third production base aimed at expanding its operations in Vietnam. The new plant will be located in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province and the company is...
Malaysia’s total imports of aluminium including scrap from the USA stood at 10,100 tonnes in January 2019, 46 per cent higher than the corresponding period of 2018, according to the latest Mineral Industry Survey report from US Geological Survey. Malaysia imported 9,870 tonnes of aluminium scrap...
Altech Chemicals Limited announced that the company hosted inaugural investor and stakeholder visit to the site of its high purity alumina (HPA) plant in Johor, Malaysia. Altech Managing Director Iggy Tan provided an update that covered the stage 1 construction plan; the status of project...
Geely Auto Group, headquartered in Hangzhou, China, has newly launched a pure EV brand Geometry, intending to boost production of new energy vehicles. The brand’s first model, imaginatively nameplated as Geometry A, is a high end model offered with standard and long ranges for a total of six...
A large number of countries are found actively participating in recycling aluminium to produce fresh metal. The infinite recycling properties of aluminium are of course, not unknown to us, neither the fact that it involves about 95 per cent less energy than the primary production process. As per...
Sunberg Limited is a UK based metal recycling company, forming an integral link between scrap collectors, recyclers and processors. Sunberg caters to the increasing global demand for recyclable scrap Ferrous and Non Ferrous metals, such as aluminium, brass, copper, zinc, lead, steel and ingots....
The Water, Land and Natural Resources Ministry of Malaysia reportedly unveiled the proposed rigid standard operating procedure (SOP) for bauxite mining and export activities in Pahang on March 31. The SOP, which was uploaded in the ministry’s website yesterday, stated that the Malaysian government...
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced C.S. Aluminium Corporation (CSAC) has become a new Production & Transformation member of the ASI. This brings the total number of members working toward a responsible aluminium value chain to 83. CSAC is the largest manufacturer of rolled aluminium...
According to a recent report, the Malaysian government announced that bauxite mining activities in Pahang should be on hold unless the miners conduct a study on the environmental impact of their sites. However, the date for when the environmental impact assessments (EIAs) will begin is not yet set....
Following the news last week that Altech Chemicals officially mandated Macquarie Bank as the preferred mezzanine lender for the HPA, the update comes that the stage one construction work of Altech’s high purity alumina (HPA) processing plant in Johor, Malaysia, is progressing as planned. The...
Altech Chemicals Limited has officially mandated Macquarie Bank (Macquarie) as the preferred mezzanine lender for its proposed high purity alumina (HPA) plant. Both the companies have reached agreement on mezzanine debt terms and executed a mandate letter appointing Macquarie as the exclusive...
Malaysia imported 161,000 tonnes of crude metal and alloys, aluminium semi-finished products (plates, sheets, bars, etc.) and scrap from the US in the first eleven months of 2018, an increase of 109400 or 212% from 51,600 tonnes in the first eleven months of 2017. {newsStudioGallery} Total...
Incat Crowther has reportedly bagged a contract to design an aluminium-made high speed passenger ro-pax ferry that will operate between Pingtan Island in mainland China and Taiwanese cities of Taichung, Taipei, and Kaohsiung by Fujian Strait Shipping Co (CSF). The construction of the vessel will be...
