Category: Growth Markets

Three of the four cast houses are fully commissioned and are producing all 3000, 5000 and 6000 series ingots for industrial, can sheet and automotive sectors.

A lawsuit in filed against the City of Benson, Arizona could delay Aluminum Dynamics' flagship secondary smelter.

July's producer price index (PPI) and manufacturing survey (M3) data show an aluminum sector that looks steady on paper but is shrinking once inflation is stripped away, with costs cascading unevenly through the supply chain.

Recent IEA data underscores an erratic electricity supply mix alongside sharply rising demand, with future prices signaling poor economics for operating an aluminum smelter and pointing instead to behind-the-meter generation backed by outside financing.

There’s a lot of news to keep track of, so we’re lending a hand with highlights from the past month and what they mean for you.

The August AMU survey reveals lead times lengthening for sheet but easing for billet and extrusions, with distributors, producers, manufacturers, and recyclers each reporting conditions shaped by their position in the value chain.

Parsing out conflicting construction data from the census, Dodge and other sources to see where the market may be headed.

Conflicting reads across census spending, backlog surveys, and Dodge planning data point to a construction market where commercial may be nearing a floor, infrastructure remains buoyed by long pipelines, and heavy industrial lags.

Private equity-backed moves by Fulton Asset Management and KPS Capital Partners highlight how consolidation is reshaping North American extrusion capacity, with strategies aimed squarely at construction and industrial end markets.

The standoff at Pace Industries' Pennsylvania operations offers a snapshot of its Loyalhanna plant and how they fit into Pace's wider aluminum network.