Aluminum Dunkerque signs deal to buy alumina feedstock from Glencore

The new operating procedures include capping monthly bauxite exports at 600,000 tonnes.

The proposed $2.6 billion purchase would combine two of the four major North American producers of aluminum to make automobile bodies.

But further developments in aluminium technology could lead to increased substitution of copper in cabling.

Rio sold the Dunkerque aluminium smelter in France to GFG for $500 million last year.

The move is understood as part of the kingdom’s strategy to diversify the economy away from oil.

The latest quarterly pricing negotiations began this week between Japanese buyers and global producers, including Rio Tinto and South32.

Ball Corp., the 139-year-old packaging company that has benefited as beverage companies shift away from plastic, is launching an aluminum cup.

China's domestic demand for industrial metals will be supported in Q419 and 2020 as the government gears up to provide additional targeted stimulus.

Purchasers accused banks and commodity trading, mining and metals warehousing companies of conspiring to hoard aluminum inventory earlier this decade.