Honda's Ohio Resource Circularity Center marks the first automaker-led EOL vehicle recycling facility in the U.S., contrasting with EU initiatives driven by rules to discourage zorba and twitch in favor of alloy-specific recovery.
Canada's new Strategic Response Fund for tariff-hit industries has triggered sharp criticism, drawing in questions over subsidies, trade imbalances, and whether U.S. and Canadian aluminum markets are as different as an industry group suggets.
Section 232's recurring inclusions, layered alongside overlapping and contested tariff regimes, have turned aluminum trade policy into a rolling mechanism that boosts GDP on paper, stokes inflation in practice, and leaves buyers navigating uncertainty as the only constant.
Weakening truck and trailer orders, freight volume declines, and newly expanded Section 232 tariffs on aluminum derivatives signal mounting pressure on margins and investment decisions across the commercial vehicle sector.
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.
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.