Aluminum Extruded Products Market
May 2023- Pittsburgh-based Arconic Corp. has recently announced that it has officially acquired affiliates of New York-based Apollo Global Management Inc. The agreement was performed in an all-cash deal that values the Arconic at nearly USD 5.2 billion. Arconic, which makes aluminum sheets, plates, extrusions, and products, completed its spinofffrom Alcoa in early 2020. The tracks companywide scrap utilization rates across all its product lines, including at its Global Rolled Products (GRP) facility in Alcoa, Tennessee, which the firm says is one of the largest used beverages can (UBC) recycling facilities in North America. At the GRP plant, the company consumes UBCs as well as what it calls Class 1 and 3 scrap from can sheet customers. Arconic joins Japan-based portfolio company Showa Aluminum Can Corp. within the Apollo Group. An Apollo Group list of strategic investments it is considering includes upgrades to "key machine centers" to boost production, technology innovations to get the firm's facilities and process controls, and investments in projects that will "offer for a cleaner environment in the communities in which the company operates." In the first quarter of this year, Arconic recorded sales of USD1.9 billion, down 12 percent year over year, tied in part to the divestment of operations in Russia. The firm's net income of USD25 million in this year's first quarter also was down from USD42 million in the first quarter of 2022. The Apollo transaction is expected to close in the second half of this year, subject to closing conditions, approval by Arconic shareholders, and regulatory approvals. The transaction includes a minority investment from funds managed by affiliates of New York-based Irenic Capital Management.
October 2021: Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) declared that through the Aircraft Material Development Association, which includes more than 20 enterprises, it will speed the localization of sophisticated aircraft materials. A total of 35 materials have been localized as part of a localization initiative, including 20 aircraft materials such as aluminum extruded panels, titanium rolled materials, and powders, and 15 mechanical, electrical, and pipe products.
October 2021: LBC Credit Partners, one of the leading providers of financing solutions to middle market companies, provided a senior secured credit facility to support the acquisition of Profile Custom Extrusions, LLC, a U.S. manufacturer of custom extruded aluminum profiles and related value-added services including painting, anodizing, thermal break and precision cutting.
January 2021- Constellium, a manufacturer of extruded products, aluminium rolled products, and structural parts fabricated of a large variety of advanced alloys, and Groupe Renault, a multinational automobile manufacturer in French, entered into partnership for research and development in project for development of sustainable automotive aluminum solutions.
January 2021- PMS Aluminium, a Turkish-based company in Bursa, selected Danieli Breda, a reputed extrusion and forging plants in Italy, to supply new, 40-MN, 10-in. front-loading extrusion press.
In September 2018, Hydro Extruded Solutions expanded its manufacturing capacity by building a 96,000-square-foot facility adjacent to its existing plant in Cressona, US.
In September 2018, Hindalco invested USD 559.3 million to set up India’s largest aluminum extrusion and recycling plant in Gujarat.
The market is witnessing the prominence of the following global companies:
- Hindalco Industries Limited (India)
- Balexco BAHRAIN ALUMINIUM EXTRUSION COMPANY
- Century Extrusions Limited (India)
- QALEX (Qatar)
- Bonnell Aluminium (US)
- Banco Aluminium Ltd
- Constellium (The Netherlands)
- ETEM GROUP
- TALCO (India)
- Gulf Extrusions Co. LLC (UAE)
- China Hongquiao Group Limited (China)
- Zahit Aluminium
- Sainty Industry Co., Ltd
- Alcoa Inc. (U.S.)