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Bauxite volume vs price in 2026: Here’s how Guinea's supply growth coincides with the sharpest shift in the cost curve
Bauxite
The first part of this series traced the sharp rise in bauxite trade volumes, the growing concentration of supply from Guinea and Australia, and the destination patterns shaping the global market. But the increase in tonnage tells only one side of the story. As more bauxite entered the trade system, costs moved in the opposite direction, while stock accumulation in China, expanding export infrastructure in Guinea, disruption to UAE-bound flows and the prospect of tighter Guinean export control ...
Aughinish Alumina in focus as the European Union vote backs the Russia export ban
Alumina
Momentum is building within the European Parliament as Aughinish Alumina faces a European Union vote to decide the future of its exports to Russia. Several Members of the Parliament, resolute to urge a full ban on the Russia-bound shipments, add fresh pressure on both Brussels and Dublin. It forms part of a non-binding resolution on Ukraine due to be voted on in Strasbourg on Wednesday. The outcome would not immediately change EU law, but broad parliamentary backing would increase pressure on ...

Primary AL
June marked a tale of two markets for aluminium, where a macro-driven selloff clashing with resilient fundamentals. While SHFE aluminium prices tumbled to yearly lows, pressured by expectations of US rate hikes and the evaporation of Middle Eastern risk premiums, the underlying supply-demand balance told a different story. The traders' inventories drew down at an accelerated pace, spot discounts narrowed, and downstream restocking intensified. This divergence set the stage for a potential rev ...
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US DOE funds $75m to five projects to recover aluminium, rare earth from coal waste
SupplementAL
08 Jul 2026
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has funded USD 75 million to five pilot-scale projects aimed at extracting rare earth elements and other critical minerals, including aluminium, from coal waste and coal-based feedstocks. The initiative indicates the nation’s efforts to strengthen the domestic critical minerals supply chain. The funding marks a phase of a USD 275 million programme announced in November 2025 to support pilot-scale recovery of critical minerals and materials from industrial and ...
Aluminium du Maroc positions itself as a key supplier to Morocco's construction industry
End User
08 Jul 2026
Aluminium du Maroc is a Moroccan company that makes aluminium profiles and related products for the construction and industrial sectors. It turns raw aluminium into finished and semi-finished products for builders, manufacturers and installers in Morocco, and also sells to some export markets. Its business is closely linked to construction activity, infrastructure spending and industrial growth in North Africa. The company's main activity is aluminium extrusion. In this process, aluminium bil ...
ASI certifies Amcor Flexibles Sélestat against Performance Standard V3.1
Sustainability
08 Jul 2026
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) today announced that Amcor Flexibles Sélestat has been certified against the ASI Performance Standard V3.1 (2023). The facility transforms aluminium foil for packaging applications, serving the food and pharmaceutical sectors through processes that include lacquering, printing, extrusion coating, cutting and die cutting, with an annual production of approximately 119 million square metres of saleable products. The ASI Certification program was developed ...
SHFE and LME aluminium prices stabilise and rebound in Tandem, China destocking strengthens price bottom support
Primary AL
08 Jul 2026
Futures: The most-traded SHFE aluminium contract opened at RMB 22,940 per tonne in the night session on July 7, with a high of RMB 23,130 per tonne, a low of RMB 22,940 per tonne, and closed at RMB 23,055 per tonne, up 0.50 per cent from the previous close. During this period, prices rebounded from the previous low of 22,250 to close as a bullish candlestick, settling above the short-term MA5 (22,943.90) and MA10 (22,853.82), but still trading below the medium-to-long-term MAs of MA20 (22,945 ...
ENVI vote leaves key aluminium loopholes unresolved in CBAM review
Sustainability
08 Jul 2026
European Aluminium regrets that yesterday's vote in the European Parliament's ENVI Committee on the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) review and Temporary Decarbonisation Fund failed to close key loopholes that could undermine the effectiveness of the EU's carbon border levy for aluminium. The Committee adopted its position ahead of the September plenary vote but did not include the specific fixes needed for post-consumer scrap and the proposed 50-tonne mass-based threshold for import ...
Secondary aluminium operating rate saw a narrower M-o-M decline but a sharper Y-o-Y drop in June
Recycled AL
08 Jul 2026
Survey data on operating rates of secondary aluminium alloy enterprises by region and scale in June 2026:  According to an SMM survey, the operating rate of the secondary aluminium industry in June 2026 fell 0.9 percentage points M-o-M from May to 33.3 per cent, a decline of 7.6 percentage points Y-o-Y. The industry operating rate continued its downward trend in June, dropping to the lowest level of the year excluding the impact of Chinese New Year, weighed down by both tight raw material sup ...
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