Weak demand continues to stem profitability and prevent capacity return in the European aluminium market, Norsk Hydro’s chief executives told Fastmarkets in an exclusive interview on Wednesday February 14.

The publication of Fastmarkets’ rand fixing prices for LME trade for Monday February 12 were delayed due to a technical issue.

The copper concentrate market was already tight, but the addition of major new smelting capacity this year – starting with the expansion of Freeport’s Gresik smelter in Indonesia — will likely mean maintenance breaks, capacity curtailments and potentially even closures while operating costs start to become untenable, Fastmarkets understands.

Major aluminium producers Alcoa, Rio Tinto and Century Aluminum have been accused of pocketing vast sums of money from the sale of aluminium products to the beverage industry in the US at inflated prices – and of potentially colluding to do so

A US Congressman has alleged that aluminium producers including Alcoa, Century Aluminum and Rio Tinto have engaged in anti-competitive price collusion by not offering duty-free aluminium to buyers in the country’s beverage industry

Global primary aluminium premiums were mixed during the week to Tuesday February 7, mostly affected by weak spot demand and low activity in parts of Asia and in Brazil, while some markets remained supported amid growing tightness

China's aluminium industry has increased the development pace of green-power aluminium in recent years, by using more green power for electrolytic aluminium production to reduce carbon emission and also by actively pushing forward differentiation of the metal from its non-green-power counterpart

Fastmarkets proposes to split the current Brazilian aluminium P1020A delivered premium by launching two new domestic premium assessments to better reflect the two-tier market created by the different state value-added tax (VAT) rates, known as the ICMS tax.

February is set to be the best month for copper prices after a challenging start to the new year

The London Metal Exchange is finding that when it comes to metal of Russian origin, and in particular aluminium, it can't please all of the people all of the time.