
ADI sees more aluminum growth ahead
“We will see how things go over the next six to eight months or so, but there is definitely growth opportunity there," CEO says.
“We will see how things go over the next six to eight months or so, but there is definitely growth opportunity there," CEO says.
EGA-Spectro Alloys has begun the second phase of its Rosemount, Minnesota expansion, adding a second wave of billet-casting capacity to the facility that began producing billets earlier this year.
The first installment explores how trade groups representing extruders and die casters are pressing to expand Section 232’s coverage.
Novelis has declared force majeure on automotive, beverage and container stock shipments.
Arconic's Davenport expansion has doubled its high-purity aluminum capacity, a development that fills part of the void left by Century's idled Hawesville smelter and an opaque import market.
The long-delayed Concord facility marks Ball's return to the Carolinas and highlights a broader shift in beverage can demand, with energy drinks and specialty drinks driving growth as supply chains and consumer preferences evolve in tandem.
Novelis' Oswego mill fire has sidelined the largest producer of automotive body and structural sheet in North America, disrupting a closed-loop scrap system and removing over half of regional BIW/closures sheet supply, with limited options for domestic backfill and costly import alternatives.
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.
The extent of the damage is also being examined, a spokesperson said.
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.