The continued weakness in the aluminium packaging sector has been reflected in the financial results of producer Constellium published on Wednesday July 26, with lower revenue and shipments reported for the segment

Steel Dynamics Inc (SDI) will dedicate nearly half of the output from its 650,000-tonne capacity aluminium rolling mill Columbus, Mississippi, to primarily produce beverage cans, a market currently experiencing a glut of inventory

Fastmarkets proposes to launch weekly price assessments for European aluminium pressure diecasting ingot, DIN 230 and DIN 239, to expand its coverage of Europe’s secondary aluminium alloys market.

Slower demand for construction materials continues to weigh on Europe’s aluminium and steel market price and premiums

Fastmarkets will launch a published P0610 purity netback for its aluminium P1020A Rotterdam premiums beginning on August 1, 2023.

Base metal futures on the London Metal Exchange are showing little signs of change as China's potential economic stimulus failed to materialize in June causing sentiment of rebounding Chinese demand to dampen

China’s automotive output and sales posted year-on-year growth in May amid measures to promote consumption during the May Day holiday and due to a low base a year earlier, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) said

The publication of Fastmarkets’ price assessments for aluminium scrap LM6/LM25 and LM24 gravity diecasting ingot, delivered consumer UK and the UK aluminium scrap grades price assessments for Wednesday June 14 were delayed due to a reporter error.

Aluminium prices continue to be affected by several factors in June 2023 and were trending lower on the LME earlier this month despite the pick-up in Chinese services in May

Fastmarkets proposes to launch published netback rates for both purity and incoterm differentials for its aluminium P1020A Rotterdam premiums.