The year 2019 proved to be a robust one for mergers and acquisitions for the global aluminium industry. Mergers and acquisitions played a key role in expanding businesses of the industry players across aluminium value chain. The companies continued to invest in acquisitions to capitalize on the growing demand despite world aluminium price volatility and continuous market […]
As a European industry association, our focus for 2020 is ensuring that new policymakers in the reconstituted European Commission and Parliament understand our industry. Our agenda features a comprehensive set of policy recommendations across four domains: circular economy, trade, energy & climate, and innovation. First, we must convince more politicians that aluminium is a strategic […]
Today staying competitive means investing permanently in new technologies, helping to reducing operational costs. Not only the technology itself, also the way that you can purchase it will make a difference in the profitability of your operations. At the background of demographic and political changes and in a complex market which – above all – […]
The year 2018 is already on a roll. Global aluminium industry is bracing up for new challenges and opportunities. LME aluminium prices are rising, but not without intermittent dips; raw material price trends have entered a plateau zone; supply concerns are still there; and amid all these, the demand for the light metal is rising […]
No prizes for guessing what is the situation in global Aluminium industry today. LME is below sustainable price range for more than 1500 days now, premiums are volatile and highest ever, smelter shutdowns and production cuts have been on since over 5 years, one of the longest recessionary phases experienced since the 1960s. Most new […]
It has long been assumed that global aluminium industry normally goes through a seven–year itch during its growth cycle intervened by 2-3 years of depression. The present depression in the market which started about 2 years after the ‘not so great’ global financial crisis of 2008-09, seems to have overstayed its ‘unwelcome’. Whatever significant capacity growth […]
Over last three decades, the global Aluminium industry has been undergoing structural changes. New and major production centers have emerged since 1980s which have slowly but surely taken over the leadership in terms of not only as leading production centers but also fast emerging consumption regions. We are talking here of the China and Gulf […]
It is a well-known fact that Aluminium smelting, which depends entirely on the fused salt electrolytic Hall-Heroult process is a bulk consumer of electrical energy. Electricity accounts for around 20 to 25 per cent of production costs of primary Aluminium. Industry experts and technologists have been constantly working towards improving the energy efficiency of the […]