Domestic Aluminum Industry Costs Rise 1.5% MoM in April 2026, Expected to Continue Increasing

Recently, JISCO successfully developed 1100G high-performance aluminum foil stock for new energy power batteries, injecting critical new material momentum into the new energy power battery industry. The aluminum foil stock developed in this R&D effort achieved significant optimization in core performance indicators, with outstanding overall performance: its tensile strength reached or exceeded 260 MPa, an improvement of 20 MPa over the previous product; elongation reached or exceeded 4%, an increase of 1 percentage point; double-sided pinhole defects were strictly controlled to within 0.04 per m², nearly achieving the ideal standard of zero pinholes, successfully realizing a leapfrog upgrade in aluminum foil stock performance.

Chongqing New Aluminum Times Specialty Aluminum Materials Co., Ltd. plans to build a 40,000 mt/year specialty aluminum profiles project, currently in the approval decision announcement stage. With a total investment of RMB 250 million, the project is located at the Beidu Aluminum Industrial Park in Qijiang High-Tech Industrial Development Zone, Chongqing, on the former Huicheng plot. It will establish nine aluminum extrusion production lines along with supporting utilities and environmental protection facilities, forming an annual capacity of 40,000 mt of specialty aluminum profiles.