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    The European Union’s Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA), published on Wednesday March 4, was a new step in the bloc’s efforts to decarbonize heavy industry and to support strategic supply chains in sectors such as steel, cement and aluminium.

    The MB-ALU-0002 Alumina index, fob Australia, $/tonne was published in error as $302.14 per tonne. It has been corrected to $301.47 per tonne. The correction also affected the following inferred prices: MB-ALU-0019 Alumina index inferred, fob Indonesia, $/tonne was published in error as $307.14 per tonne. This has been corrected to $306.47 per tonne. MB-ALU-0018 Alumina index inferred, fob India, $/tonne was […]

    The Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) market has continued to digest the collapse of cookstove project developer Koko Networks at the end of January following the Kenyan government’s refusal to grant the project a letter of authorization (LoA) and the implications of this for supply going forward.

    The aluminium market is being pulled in two directions by the Middle East conflict: upstream feedstocks sit in temporary buffer stocks, while delivering metal to consuming regions is becoming increasingly difficult

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