Aluminium extrusion usage in building and construction to grow 1.24% CAGR through 2035, with Americas at 1.15%, Europe at 1.30% & MEA at 2.47%
What does the building and construction market mean for aluminium extrusion industry? The answer may depend less on how much the world builds and more on where it builds and what those buildings require. As construction activity picks up across regions, aluminium extrusion is set to follow - but...
Korea’s 483kt of Russian aluminium imports hit record high as sanctions risks deepen
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...
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Aluminium smelter a goldmine for Taib’s kin
The website in a report on Thursday said that negotiations are under way to sell Salco to giant multinational Rio Tinto Alcan headquartered in Montreal, Canada, in a deal it said would earn “a fat multi-billion profit” for Taib’s family in return for their paltry investment of RM2.The deal to sell...
Raw Commodity Export Ban Sparks Smelter Building Boom in Indonesia
State-miner Aneka Tambang (Antam) will build smelters in Halmahera, North Maluku, to produce 27,000 tons of ferronickel annually; in North Konawe, Southeast Sulawesi, for 120,000 tons of “pig iron” annually; and in Mempawah, West Kalimantan, for one million tons of smelter-grade alumina. The...
UC Rusal update on aluminum production on Asia
General growth in Asia varies between the mature market of Japan, which has experienced years of flat growth and China which has been growing at 11% per annum. Whilst we predict that Japan's growth is likely to expand in 2012 with reconstruction after the earthquake and tsunami in March of 2011,...
Daiki Aluminum Industry invests JPY 6 million for Southeast Asian Factories
Daiki Aluminum Industry, Japanese largest secondary aluminum alloy maker carries out JPY 610 million of CAPEX to raise secondary aluminum alloy output capacity or to install new facilities for metal scrap and substantial material processing at its three subsidiaries in Thailand, Malaysia and...
Japan aluminum ingot import increases by 17pct in Dec
According to Ministry of Finance, Japanese aluminum ingot import increased by 17% to 146,481 tonnes in December from a year earlier. Japanese major aluminum sash makers increased the import to cover production at flood damaged Thai transplants. The alloyed aluminum ingot increased by 13% to 101,202...
YSC Cashes In On Aluminum Bike Parts This Year
Actively improving aluminum production technologies, Yeong Shyh Cheng (YSC) Alu Co., Ltd., a Taiwanese maker of aluminum extrusions, has received a flood of contract orders for bike parts of aluminum, poised to cash in on the segment this year. The company has been specializing in aluminum and...
Japan flat aluminum shipment maintains YoY minus in Dec
Japan Aluminum Association has announced that Japanese monthly output of rolled aluminum products including flat and extruded products decreased by 6% to 159,845 tonnes in December from a year earlier while the shipment decreased by 6.1% to 157,497 tonnes. Both of the production and the shipment...
Rio’s Malaysia aluminium smelter plans stall over power
Rio Tinto’s plans to build a $US4.5?billion hydro-powered aluminium smelter in Malaysia appear to have stalled, with negotiations on a power contract taking far longer than expected when the project was unveiled in 2007.
Pinoy in UAE recycles aluminum cans to send PHL kids to school
A Filipino in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) raises funds by recycling aluminum cans to send children in the Philippines to school. A report of the news site Gulf News on Friday said after work, Michael Del Moro Manlogon collects around 300 aluminum cans a day from a food court near...
BIR World Mirror on Non-Ferrous February 2012
BIR: The following article is based on the latest Non-Ferrous Metals World Mirror produced by the BIR world recycling organisation for the benefit of its members. Despite on-going concerns over the outcome of the debt crisis in the Euro-zone and over the potential for any new economic setback to...
SEI to open new bare copper wire and aluminum bar plant in Thailand
Sumitomo Electric Industries announced the firm establishes a new plant in Thailand to manufacture bare copper wire for conductor and aluminum bar for automotive component. SEI will establish the wholly owned subsidiary with capital fund at THB 1.11 billion in February 2012 and start the operation...
Magnetic hydromixer at Krasnoyarsk smelter
UC Rusal has launched a magnetic hydrodynamic mixer at its Krasnoyarsk smelter’s casthouse to extend its alloy product range. The $2M magnetic hydrodynamic mixer will enable the Krasnoyarsk aluminium smelter (KrAZ) to produce 1000, 3000, 5000 and 8000 series alloys and to increase the production...
Malaysia plant to double output
Sarawak will have the capacity to produce 300kt/y of ingots and billets when its second smelter in the Samalaju Industrial Park begins operations in September. Group executive vice-president Koon Poh Min said that the company had invested RM3bn ($953M) in the new plant. He said the higher combined...
New plant to more than double ingot, billet output
Sarawak will have the capacity to produce 300,000 tonnes of high-quality ingots and billets a year when its second aluminium smeltering plant in the Samalaju Industrial Park begins operations in September. The first plant, sited 38km from here, produces 120,000 tonnes a year. The two plants are...
Press Metal climbs on RM3b investment
Press Metal Bhd, a Malaysian maker of aluminum products, climbed to the highest level in more than two months in Kuala Lumpur trading after Bernama reported that the company invested RM3 billion in its second smelting plant to increase total production capacity from September. The stock gained 2.7...
Japanese flat aluminium shipment maintains weak in November
Japan Aluminium Association said that Japanese monthly output of rolled aluminium products, including flat and extruded products, decreased by 6.1% to 171,267 tonnes in November from a year earlier while the shipment decreased by 6% to 172,576 tonnes. Both of the production and the shipment...
Alba Opens New Regional Office in Hong Kong
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba)’s resolve to tap into the demands of the emerging markets of Asia was given an impetus with the opening of the company’s new regional office in Hong Kong. David Zheng - recently appointed as the new Sales Manager for the Asia Pacific market - will oversee the growth...
Alcom in $5M expansion
Aluminium Company of Malaysia Berhad (Alcom) has commissioned a $5M expansion at its Bukit Raja, Malaysia, facility. The producer of rolled aluminium said the expansion consisted of a tension leveler system designed to improve coil flatness and surface cleanliness for overall quality and product...
