Tag: Production

Rio Tinto will exclusively market billet from RevoCast’s new British Columbia plant under a long-term agreement combining primary and recycled aluminum.

ArtiFlex Holdings acquired a former Pace Industries aluminum die casting plant in Jackson, Tennessee, and plans to invest more than $10 million in the operation.

Latrobe Magnesium’s plans a 50,000-metric-ton-per-year South Carolina plant as the US remains without domestic primary magnesium production.

The Chicago-based company acquired the rolling mill earlier this year from Novelis, roughly nine months after the plant was idled.

RevoCast has started secondary aluminum billet production in British Columbia, adding more than 80,000 tonnes of annual capacity to Western Canada.

China is bumping up against its official primary production capacity limit of 45.3 million metric tons/year, but production can still increase through “capacity creep.”

Bridgnorth Aluminium is expanding beyond the lithographic sheet business it has traditionally been associated with in the US as Lotte, energy storage and data centers open new markets for its thin-gauge products.

Currently, gallium production is concentrated in China, which introduce market controls in 2023.

The heads of the Canadian and US aluminum trade associations are calling on leaders to cool off and return to tariff negotiations.

Ardagh Metal Packaging operates 23 metal beverage can production facilities and recorded sales of about $5.5 billion in 2025.