May 11, 2020 Carmakers urged to invest in mines to avoid battery metal pinch Auto companies have outlined plans to spend more than $140 billion on electric vehicle production.
May 6, 2020 China aluminum dances to its own beat as LME stumbles Traders say weak demand for Chinese exports could soon take the shine off the market.
May 1, 2020 US lawmakers fault Trump for failing to curb Chinese aluminum overcapacity Senators said neither the Phase 1 trade deal with China, nor Trump’s separate 10% tariffs imposed on aluminum imports in 2018 had solved the underlying problem.
April 29, 2020 Rusal alumina plant in Ukraine may temporarily suspend output The plant said its supplies of bauxite had fallen to critical levels and may soon be unable to maintain production on a four-day week basis.
April 28, 2020 Talga Resources to provide graphene for Bentley’s e-axle The objective is to deliver an aluminium-based solution aimed at outperforming and replacing the copper windings currently used.
April 26, 2020 China’s Yunnan launches 800,000 T metals stockpiling drive The funds will be used to cover interests on bank loans taken out for the one-year stockpiling drive, which will include copper, aluminium, lead, zinc, tin, among others.
April 22, 2020 Reeling aluminum market braces for Alcoa’s outlook Company forecast in January that global supply would exceed demand by as much as 1 million metric tonnes this year.
April 13, 2020 Home: A brief history of China’s metals stockpiling programmes When the going gets tough in industrial metal markets, the Chinese get stockpiling.
April 12, 2020 French industry can return to work safely, metals lobby says ahead of Macron speech The industry is in "an extremely worrying situation" after 24 days of lockdown, Philippe Darmayan, president of the union of metals industry and businesses, said.
April 8, 2020 In uncertain times, global metals exchange volumes surge LME's average daily activity jumped by 15% in March to 794,139 contracts, the highest monthly total since April 2018.
New York copper price surges again, Shanghai sets record Copper jumped by more than 5% to the highest level since the short squeeze in July. December 26, 2025 | 12:18 pm
