[SMM Aluminum Flash News] German Aluminium Industry Remains Under Pressure, Over Half of Companies Pessimistic on 2026

SHFE aluminum futures fluctuated and pulled back. After the holiday, downstream processing enterprises in the central China market showed low buying sentiment, still mainly focused on digesting inventories, and overall market transactions were relatively sluggish. Meanwhile, premiums met expectations. Recently, a large number of warrants flowed out, leading to a massive release of available supply in the market, and suppliers' willingness to hold prices firm was poor. Ultimately, the actual transaction price range in the central China market was around a discount of 80-110 yuan/mt against the SHFE aluminum July contract.

The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced that Shandong Fenghuang New Materials Technology Co., Ltd. has officially joined as a production and transformation member. Jointly founded by Weiqiao Entrepreneurship Group and Innovation Group, the company stands out in the industry as the first PV frame enterprise to have integrated the entire upstream and downstream aluminum processing industry chain, with its business fully covering the entire process from bauxite to alumina, aluminum, aluminum billet, and further to extrusion, anodising, and deep processing.

The project of Huolin Gol Yongtai Aluminum Industry for an annual capacity of 60,000 mt of aluminum alloy round casting ingots has been fully accelerated, with foundation construction now basically completed. The first production line is expected to begin equipment installation and commissioning within a week. The project, with a total investment of nearly 100 million yuan, focuses on the high-end aluminum semis niche market, featuring high-quality aluminum alloy bars and aluminum alloy ingots. These products can precisely meet the urgent demand for raw materials from downstream high-end manufacturing industries such as auto parts, electronics and electrical appliances, and precision hardware, effectively filling the supply gap in regional high-end aluminum semis capacity and solving the development challenge of low-end overcapacity and insufficient high-end capacity in the local aluminum industry.