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On December 1, 2025, an award ceremony was held in Berlin, Germany. According to the organizer, the German Ecodesign Award is the highest state-level ecological design award in Germany. Since 2012, the award has been presented by the Federal Ministry for the Environment and the German Environment Agency in cooperation with the International Design Center Berlin (IDZ). It honors groundbreaking products, services, and concepts that innovatively combine design and environmental responsibility. Novelis’ award-winning product was the result of continuous R&D through close collaboration with partners across the entire automotive value chain. The Novelis alloy product—Novelis Advanz™ 6F-e170RC—contains at least 75% recycled content, sourced from a mix of pre-consumer automotive manufacturing scrap and post-consumer aluminum from various retired products.

As a key project for extending and complementing the aluminum industry chain in Donghe District, Baotou City, Inner Mongolia, the first phase of Ruijin New Materials Technology Co., Ltd.'s 10kt annual production capacity of aluminum plate/sheet, strip and foil recently commenced operations, with a bustling scene at the production site. Machines hummed loudly, as liquid aluminum was being refined in the smelting furnace, and fully automated robots precisely removed impurities. Rolls of shiny silver aluminum plate/sheet and strip, processed through the casting and rolling technique, slowly came off the line, their surfaces as smooth and lustrous as mirrors. This project pioneered a dual-track process of "ultra-thin cast rolling + high-precision cold rolling," improving the compositional uniformity of cast-rolled billets by 30% and reducing energy consumption per unit product by 25%. The annual output value can reach 1.5 billion yuan, injecting new momentum into the complete industry chain loop of "aluminum - high-purity aluminum - aluminum plate/sheet and strip - aluminum foil - deep processing of aluminum" in the Baotou Aluminum Industry Park.

Recently, joyful news came from the Shanxi Provincial Department of Natural Resources: Shanxi Huaxing'aojiawan Aluminum Mine has been successfully selected for the 2025 Shanxi Provincial Green Mine Creation List (Second Batch). This achievement not only highlights the company's remarkable results in the field of green mine construction but also marks a critical step for the enterprise in fully implementing the new development philosophy, promoting green and low-carbon transformation, and advancing high-quality sustainable development.

To ensure that the production energy consumption indicators fully comply with national industrial policy requirements, further reduce production and operation costs, and continuously deepen the integration and application of green energy throughout the entire production process, the Aba Aluminum Plant recently signed a contract with Guangzhou Penghui Smart Energy Technology Co., Ltd. for the integrated PV and ESS power station project, following systematic and comprehensive market survey and demonstration. The project focuses on the construction and application of the energy storage system, adopting an innovative model where the ESS battery charges during valley periods (normal periods) and discharges during peak periods. This approach, through two charging and two discharging cycles, effectively reduces the enterprise's electricity costs. Additionally, the project is supplemented with a PV power generation system, aiming to compensate for part of the energy loss during the ESS conversion process.

On December 6, 2025, Indonesia's state-owned aluminum company PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium (Inalum) disclosed key operational data: By the end of October 2025, the company's aluminum product sales volume had reached 236,500 mt, not only exceeding the annual sales target of 231,000 mt with a completion rate of 102.4%, but also achieving a growth of approximately 4.1% YoY compared to the 227,100 mt sold in the same period of 2024, delivering a strong performance amid the complex tug-of-war between sellers and buyers in the global aluminum industry's supply-demand landscape. Domestically, the Indonesian market served as the core growth engine. Melati Sanita revealed that the local market contributed 76% of sales, with demand growth widely distributed across downstream sectors such as profile processing, automotive manufacturing, cable production, and sheet rolling, aligning with the structural demand driven by Indonesia's manufacturing upgrade. On the export front, the company achieved a diversified presence, with 24% of its products sold overseas, mainly covering Asian markets including Malaysia, South Korea, Japan, China, India, and Thailand. Notably, these markets closely overlap with the core flows of global aluminum trade—Australia's metal aluminum exports primarily target Japan, South Korea, China, etc., while the dense presence of Chinese enterprises in Indonesia has also built bridges for cooperation between the company and the Chinese market. In terms of product port

Recently, the new energy and high-end equipment aluminum accessory manufacturing project of Yuanshuo Metal (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. officially held its groundbreaking ceremony, marking the project's entry into the substantive construction phase. The newly launched project, with a total investment of 500 million yuan, involves the acquisition of approximately 36.5 mu of new land and plans to construct a total of 55,000 m² of standardized factory buildings. Upon completion and operation, the project is expected to achieve a large-scale annual production capacity of 25 million sets of new energy and high-end equipment aluminum accessories. These products will be widely used in current hot industry sectors such as NEVs, PV power stations, and wind power generation, precisely aligning with the global trend of upgrading the new energy industry and boasting very broad market prospects.

On December 2, a consortium led by Chalco International Shenyang Aluminum & Magnesium Engineering & Research Institute Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shenyang Institute"), and jointly formed by Shanghai Baoye Group Corp., Ltd., NFC Twelve Metallurgical Construction Co., Ltd., Qiyet Installation Engineering Co., Ltd., and Yunnan Construction & Investment Machinery Manufacturing & Installation Engineering Co., Ltd., successfully won the bid for the new 394,000 mt/year aluminum project of Huayang Group Shanxi Zhaofeng Aluminum & Power New Materials Co., Ltd.

A new secondary aluminum plant will be built in Russia's Stavropol region Recently, Turkey's Alused company has been approved to construct a secondary aluminum plant in Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Krai, southern Russia. The project involves an investment of approximately 220 million rubles, with a designed capacity of 2,000 mt/year. It will use all aluminum scrap generated by aluminum enterprises as raw material and is expected to be completed within two years. Alused is a private enterprise in Turkey, with its core business being aluminum extrusion production. Its production facilities are located in Kırklareli, Konya, and Ankara, primarily serving the European and US markets.

Recently, Qinghai Huiyuan New-Type Materials Co., Ltd. held a groundbreaking ceremony to officially launch its 200,000 mt per year green high-performance aluminum plate/sheet, strip and foil project. The project is located in Datong Beichuan Industrial Park, Huangjiazhai Town, Datong County, Xining City, Qinghai Province, adjacent to China Aluminum Qinghai Branch and Qiaotou Power Plant, giving it a significant regional advantage. The total site area covers 154,597 m², with a construction period of 24 months and a total investment of 1.771 billion yuan, comprising 1.564 billion yuan in construction investment and 169 million yuan in working capital. The project is designed to produce 200,000 mt of aluminum plate/sheet, strip and foil annually, primarily focusing on single-zero aluminum foil products. These include alloy grades such as 1230, 8011, and 1100, with a thickness range of 0.01–0.2 mm and a width range of 300–1,470 mm. The construction scope includes two core production facilities—the casting and rolling workshop and the rolling workshop—as well as public and auxiliary facilities such as a comprehensive pump station, rolling oil storage, and a natural gas pressure regulating station, plus office and living facilities including a comprehensive office building.