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Downstream Aluminium

2026 begins with a hard truth for the aluminium industry: Geopolitics, not technology, is once again reshaping the cost curve

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The renewed US intervention in Venezuela is not just a foreign policy headline; it is a resource play with potential consequences that ripple directly into energy markets, industrial policy and the future balance between primary aluminium and recycling in the United States. Venezuela holds the largest proven oil reserves on the planet and any scenario […]


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Primary Aluminium

The US aluminium industry: When uncertainty becomes the business model

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If you look back at the conversations we’ve had across 2025, one pattern keeps resurfacing: the US aluminium industry has been speaking the language of momentum while operating with the posture of hesitation. We’ve talked about uncertainty so many times that it has almost become background noise, until you realise uncertainty is no longer “a […]


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The price of uncertainty: How tariffs are shaping the future of US aluminium

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The US aluminium industry finds itself once again under the heavy cloud of uncertainty. For years, trade measures have been used as a tool to protect domestic production, yet instead of generating clarity, they have created an unstable environment that complicates decision-making from the boardroom of a primary smelter to the operations floor of a […]


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