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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
TopicAluminium

Topic: Aluminium

Metal world agonizes over war in Ukraine but keeps buying from Russia

Russian metal is largely still flowing around the world. Many traders and fabricators who buy from them are tied in to pre-existing purchase deals that can extend over years.

India’s aluminum producers face ‘precarious situation’ as coal stockpiles plunge

Federation of Indian Mineral Industries says most aluminum factories have stockpiles for only one to two days, ask govt to restore supplies.

Hindalco revives $947 million growth plan as demand picks up & boosts economic recovery

Kumar Mangalam Birla’s Hindalco will kick off long-term downstream investment plan by setting up 34,000-ton aluminum extrusion project. Production is expected to start in 2 years.

Aluminium can help us build a circular economy in a post-Covid world

A circular economy can reduce emissions from production of key materials by 40 per cent. Aluminium, an infinitely recyclable material, can help in this transition.

Kumar Mangalam Birla’s bid to buy US aluminium firm faces anti-trust hurdle

US Justice Department wants to block deal to preserve competition in North American market for rolled aluminium sheet for automotive applications.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.