The Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) has told the US Commerce Department that aluminum can sheets and aluminum ingot, which are used to make beverage cans, are not a security risk that requires intervention in the form of tariffs or trade ...
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Chinese spot alumina prices continued to rise Thursday as market sentiment remained strong, with the general expectation that levels will test higher after the Golden Week holidays. China will be closed October 1-7 for National Day ...
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Major iron ore producers will have to cut production like aluminum producers did in 1994 to halt the current slump in spot prices, investment bank Investec said in a note Tuesday. "In our view if iron ore prices prevail at current levels ...
Offers for Chinese domestic spot aluminum alloy ADC12 held steady after the previous week's fall due to a plunge in the primary aluminum price, sources said Tuesday. Despite the rebound in the primary aluminum price this week, sources ...
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Offers for Chinese domestic spot aluminum alloy ADC12 were steady after the fall last week on the sharp drop in primary aluminum prices, while trade remained thin as there was no significant change in physical buying interest, sources said ...
Tags: Aluminum Alloy, trade, vehicle sales
Offers for Chinese domestic spot aluminum alloy ADC12 tracked weaker primary aluminum ingot prices, industry sources said Tuesday. Platts assessed its weekly China domestic ADC12 price at Yuan 14,800-15,300/mt ($2,415-2,497/mt) ex-works ...
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Higher aluminum prices have prompted some Chinese smelters to abandon production cutbacks and are seen leading to restarts of other plants, chipping away at what was expected to be the first global deficit after years of oversupply. A ...
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Offers for Chinese domestic spot aluminum alloy ADC12 rebounded Tuesday, mainly on higher primary aluminum ingot prices despite no significant change in physical buying interest during the current summer lull, industry sources said. ...
Tags: Aluminum Alloy, Mineral
Global primary aluminum output, excluding China, averaged 67,500 mt/day in May, up from a revised 67,300 mt/day in April, but down from 68,100 mt/day in May 2013, figures released Friday by the International Aluminium Institute showed. ...
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Global aluminum producer Alcoa has offered third-quarter term shipments at a $408/mt premium to London Metal Exchange cash, CIF Japan, Japanese buyers said Thursday. The premium is for primary aluminum ingot to be shipped to Japanese main ...
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Russia's Rusal -- the world's largest aluminum producer -- has offered to Japanese buyers, a premium of $405/mt to London Metal Exchange cash, CIF Japan, for third quarter shipments to Japan, market sources said Thursday. The company had ...
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Spot trade of 226, the main aluminum alloy grade, was slow this week, with consumers wary of higher prices, and partly because of the shorter working week. A number of producers have pushed offers of 226 ingot up to around Eur1,700/mt ...
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Venezuela's CVG-Bauxilum alumina sales totaled 64,126 mt in March, up 57% from 40,822 mt in March 2013, Bauxilum said Friday. March sales were also up 13% month on month from sales of 56,524 mt in February. Of March sales, 46,018 mt ...
Spot imports of primary aluminum ingot into Japan were thin this week as buyers were waiting to see the impact from the postponment of LME's new warehouse process rules, Japanese market sources said Wednesday. Trade was thin also due to ...
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Energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions associated with primary aluminum production in the United States and Canada have declined significantly in recent years according to a new, peer-reviewed life-cycle assessment (LCA) report released ...
Tags: primary aluminum production, life-cycle assessment, Aluminum Association