Casting a wider net: Cascade Die Casting to expand North Carolina site
Casting capacity expands right in the heart of a key OEM supply chain.
Category: Growth Markets
Why Superior Industries' collapse should matter to the downstream aluminum market
Superior Industries is officially off the New York Stock Exchange, and while that might sound like a corporate headline, it carries bigger weight for anyone tied to the aluminum supply chain.
Prysmian's Encore Wire breaks ground on TX facility expansion
Prysmian’s groundbreaking for a 650,000-square-foot medium-voltage cable facility on Encore Wire’s Texas campus marks a big development in the aluminum wire and cable sector.
Week in Review: Margin squeeze and mixed signals
From Fed signals to MWP shifts and deeper trade tensions, this week brought fresh momentum across aluminum markets.
Parsing construction demand: What Oldcastle and Jeld-Wen closures reveal about the B & C market
Plant closures at Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope and Jeld-Wen are two sides of the same coin: indicators of softening demand in different slices of construction.
Allison Transmission acquires Dana’s off-highway arm: Implications for Aluminum and Indiana’s industrial base
Dana Incorporated is selling its off-highway business to Allison Transmission, inserting a heavyweight operator into a value chain that had previously developed without it.
Rail freight metrics
Looking at short line and regional movements as an indirect barometer of what's happening in aluminum rail movements.
AMU PATH Fireside Chat: Bumper-to-bumper breakdown of aluminum’s changing role in today’s vehicles
The aluminum industry’s relationship with the automotive sector is as complicated as ever, but narrative moving forward places a greater emphasis on how and where value is being captured or left behind.
FERC rejects MISO proposals for breaking interconnection backlog
We are no closer to breaking the bottleneck of stranded generation seeking connection to the grid.
Calling my shot: The Capral clue in Tennessee
Capral may not have announced it yet – but I’m betting they’ll be hanging their name on this Tennessee project before long.