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15 January 2019
Soaring prices, and acute material shortages, coupled with a lack of supply response from domestic mills, caught consumers off guard.
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15 January 2019
Senate Democrats are trying to force a vote this week on the Trump administration’s move to lift sanctions against the business empire of the oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, as they believe the sanctions should remain in place.
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15 January 2019
The deterioration in manufacturing activity in Germany, and the rising probability of recession in Italy, could well start to dent demand for plate products and non-speciality sheet products as the year advances in MBR’s opinion.
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15 January 2019
Underlying Rotterdam billet premiums remain elevated, and are holding at $450-480/tonne, although they have dropped back from the $480-520/tonne level which persisted throughout from May through to early December.
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15 January 2019
In Japan, domestic shipments of aluminium extrusions contracted by 1.3% over the first 10-months of 2018, with the construction sector leading the downfall.
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15 January 2019
Download links for all the statistical data published with the weekly report.
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15 January 2019
Shipment of extruded shapes, which account for the bulk of extruded material, saw even stronger growth, up by 12.5% y-o-y in November to 99.4kt.
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15 January 2019
The rate of deterioration in Germany at the end of 2018 will certainly not be helped by weather conditions in early 2019, and with Italy also poised to enter a technical recession, the picture in Europe has shifted hugely in the past six months.
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15 January 2019
On the subject of new domestic mill output, the sole advanced greenfield mill project planned for the US is the Braidy mill in Kentucky.
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15 January 2019
In Lanzhou city the construction of a greenfield foil plant, capable of producing 200ktpy, has just got underway.
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15 January 2019
Analysis of consumption and production of primary aluminium, and an analysis of the market drivers of secondary aluminium and aluminium.
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15 January 2019
Technical analysis of the LME aluminium market and aluminium alloy market