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ASI Certifies First Aluminium Roller Under New Responsible Sourcing Standard

Global standards and certification organization The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announcedyesterday the first certification of an aluminium...

USW Chief Girard Defends “Crucial” Trump Aluminium Tariffs

The head of North America’s biggest union offered a counterpoint to the global condemnation of the Trump aluminium tariffs in an editorial over the ...

Alumina Prices Putting Pressure on Downstream Products

For years — decades, even — the price of alumina was taken to be one-third of the primary aluminum price. For many years, such a relationship was ...

European Project Develops 3D-Printing Process for Applying Aluminium Stiffeners to Aerospace Fuselage Panels

A consortium of four European organizations has developed a method for producing self-reinforced fuselage panels by applying aluminium wire to said ...

Alcoa and Rio Tinto Announce Breakthrough Carbon-Free Aluminium Smelting Process

Calling the breakthrough “the most significant innovation in the aluminium industry in more than a century,” American smelter Alcoa Corp and Anglo...

Rusal Kubal Aluminium Smelter’s Access to Sweden Power Market Restored

Rusal’s sole primary metal production facility outside Russia has been allowed back on to its country’s electrical energy market after being suspe...

Effects Of Sanctions: Face’s Urgent Call To Eu Authorities

FACE, The Federation of Aluminium Consumers in Europe, issued a statement to draw the attention of European Institutions on the consequences of Americ...

European Union Will Get Quotas And No Extension to Trump Aluminium Tariffs Per White House Adviser

A Trump administration advisor assured the world that the European Union would be subject to quotas should it wish to remain exempt from the United St...

European Commission Launches Safeguard Investigation Into Imported Steel

On March 26th, the European Commission initiated a safeguard investigation into the importation of certain steel imports in response to the recent ena...

European Commission Formally Questions United Kingdom’s Tax Treatment of LME Trades

The United Kingdom Treasury advised yesterday that the European Commission is investigating whether the British government is assessing a sufficient l...