Editor’s Note: The extrusion industry could tell two different stories over the past two years. One of the stories would be for the Asian audience, and it is extremely positive. Consumption in China and the Asia Pacific region has been dominating the global picture, with extrusion growth outpacing the rest of the world by a […]
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Editor’s Note: This issue focuses on patents related to the upstream aluminum industry that were granted during the most recent months in the U.S. and China. It is important to include China, because the country has been the world’s largest patent filer (and producer) for years in the area of metals, by a significant margin. […]
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Editor’s Note: Aluminum sheet and strip market forecasts vary depending on which company is creating the projections. However, all of them are forecasting decent market growth over the next seven to eight years. For the period from 2025 to 2032, the projections are showing annual market increases ranging from 6% to 8%, with the key […]
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Editor’s Note: Driven by the demand for lightweight materials in the automotive industry, the transport segment remains the largest market segment in the global aluminum market. In 2024, this segment accounted for a market share of some 28% (Figure 1)—a figure that is expected to increase annually over the next decade.1 Not surprisingly, China’s transportation […]
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Aluminum Association statistics show that primary production accounts for only about 15% of the aluminum the U.S. produces on an annual basis. This means domestic recycling represents the lion’s share of aluminum production, with recycling production reaching a record high of 3.6 million tonnes in 2024—numbers that will surely increase moving forward.1 And in employment, […]
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Editor’s Note: As daily reported in worldwide news media, business activity in automotive aluminum is facing big challenges with yoyo-like tariffs that threaten aluminum producers, parts manufacturers, and eventual customers. Markets as well as jobs are at risk, not to mention rising product costs, with car and truck buyers most likely to pay for the […]
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Editor’s Note: What a difference in business perspective for U.S. aluminum in general and the aluminum extrusion market in particular that a few months make! From April to May last year, during ET ’24 when all signs pointed up, with the global and U.S. aluminum extrusion market expected to grow significantly in the future and […]
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Editor’s Note: Light Metal Age has repeatedly published articles on bauxite residue (red mud), including the highly informative February 2024 article by Alton Taberaeux that described some of the latest trends in red mud processing.1 This editorial and selection of patents on red mud valorization supplements this archive, as the field of coping with the […]