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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Japan aluminum shipments quicken on rising exports
... Japan Aluminium Association said the country shipments of rolled-aluminum products increased at the fastest pace in three months in November led by demand from China and other Asian countries. ... domestic and export markets climbed 11% to 183,613 tonnes in November from 164,859 tonnes a year...
Aluminum Shipments by Japan Quicken on Rising Exports
... Japan’s shipments of rolled-aluminum products increased at the fastest pace in three months in November, led by demand from China and other Asian countries, ... Supplies to domestic and export markets climbed 11 percent to 183,613 metric tons in November from 164,859 tons a year earlier,...
Asia Aluminum 7 Billion Aluminum Sheet Project Put into Production
...Now the downstream has received many orders, mainly including electronics and packaging products”, president of Asia Aluminum Zhong Dongpin told reporter. Presently the company is also contacting high-speed rail companies. “Asia Aluminum is transforming into high-end enterprise...
S.Korea firm to import 600,000 T alumina from Vietnam
...Dongyang Gangchul (001780.KS) will import 600,000 tonnes of alumina, or 25 percent of South Korea's annual use, from Vietnam as it plans to build a $350 million aluminium refinery, the Korean government said on Tuesday...
Inalum will be worth $1.2b in 2013, govt says
...The government said Friday that the book value of state aluminum producer PT Inalum would be US$1.2 billion by 2013. Finance Ministry state assets director Arif Baharuddin said the government would take over Inalum for a price based on the company’s book value after its current operation...
Orkla forms aluminum JV in South East Asia
...Orkla ASA aluminum solutions business bought 65% stake in an Asian company and will form JV with the Vietnamese minority owner as part of a plan to expand on the continent...
ACH(Chalco) vigorously develops the overseas market
...Taking full use of its engineering and technical advantages, ACH(Aluminum Corporation of China) positively respond to the national "going out" strategy and vigorously develop the overseas market. Recent years Chalco has exported technology, equipment and services to India, Iran, Kazakhstan,...
Sapa forms Joint Venture in South-East Asia
...Oslo, Norway, Nov 23, 2010 (Thomson Reuters ONE via COMTEX) -- Sapa acquires 65% of the shares of the aluminium extrusion company Vijalco and forms a joint venture with the Vietnamese Ben Thanh Group. The new company will be called Sapa BTG...
One minister can’t answer questions about bauxite
...Though he paid special attention to bauxite mining in the Central Highlands and sent a letter to the National Assembly Chair on this issue, deputy Duong Trung Quoc didn’t question Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang about bauxite projects in the Q&A session on November 22...
RusAl Optimistic About Asia in 2011
...Hong Kong — Aluminum demand in China, the world's biggest consumer of the metal, may double in the next decade, United Company RusAl said Tuesday...
Inalum Negotiations in Mid-November
...PT Indonesia Aluminium (Inalum) share-takeover negotiations will be held this coming mid-November after I return from APEC we will determine the exact schedule,?said Industry Minister, M.S. Hidayat yesterday...
Japanese can sector guzzles 20pct aluminum in September
...Commodity reported that exports of rolled aluminium products from Japan rises for yet again in the month of September posting a growth of 8.5% against the corresponding period last year...
China and Australia group eyes Laos bauxite mine
...Reuters quoted an Australian company helping fund a feasibility study for the project as saying that a decision on whether to proceed with the first bauxite mine in Laos is due in 2011...
Singapore Exchange Welcomes XinRen Aluminum Holdings Limited
...Singapore Exchange ("SGX") yestday announced the listing of XinRen Aluminum Holdings Limited ("XinRen") on the Mainboard, under the ticker symbol "XAH SP"...
Norsk Hydro to expand Asian aluminium sales by 50pct in 2011
...Mr Harald Odegaard VP of Norsk Hydro said at press conference in Tokyo that the firm expands the aluminium sales to 600,000 tonnes in Asia in 2011 compared with planned 400,000 tonnes in 2010...
China's Xinren eyes Singapore IPO
...China's XinRen Aluminum Holdings yesterday filed a draft prospectus with the Monetary Authority of Singapore for an initial public offering on the Singapore Exchange...
Nippon Light Metal to increases aluminum flat product output in Thailand
...Japan's Nippon Light Metal Company said recently that the company plans to invest JPY 1.4 billion in its Thailand's aluminum processing center NikkeiSiam and to set up one new cold rolled machine and annealing furnace...
Sumitomo joins Malaysia aluminium smelting project
...Sumitomo Corp (8053.T), Japan's No.3 trading house, said it will join an aluminium smelting project of Malaysia's biggest aluminium maker Press Metal Bhd (PMET.KL) (PMB) to tap growing demand there...
