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New Aluminum Safety Summit for the Aluminum Industry
Chicago, Illinois – A new, expanded educational safety event, developed by the Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC) in cooperation with the Aluminum Anodizers Council (AAC), the Aluminum Association (AA), and the Aluminum Recyclers Council (ARC), promises to provide comprehensive and valuable information related to safety in the aluminum industry. The...
North American Aluminum Industry Hit Record High Shipments in 2018
WAUCONDA, IL & ARLINGTON, VA -- The Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC) and the Aluminum Association report that the aluminum extrusion industry in the United States and Canada reached record high shipments in 2018. Among key findings, producer shipments totaled 5.51 billion pounds in 2018, which is 4.5 percent higher than shipments in 2017 and 3.2...
Commerce Department Preliminarily Determines that Certain Aluminum Extrusions Exported from Vietnam are Circumventing AD and CVD Orders on Chinese Aluminum Extrusions
Washington, DC -- Last week, the Department of Commerce (Commerce) issued an affirmative preliminary determination finding that extruded aluminum products made from aluminum previously extruded in China and then exported from Vietnam are circumventing the antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders on aluminum extrusions from China.
The...
Registration is Open for AEC's Extrusion Design University 2019 (EDU'19)
Wauconda, Illinois -- Registration is open for the Aluminum Extruders Council’s (AEC) Extrusion Design University 2019 (EDU ’19), scheduled for Thursday, September 12, 2019, at Music City Center in Nashville, TN. Co-located with Aluminum USA (ALU USA), September 12–13, 2019, EDU ’19 will feature 12 one-hour educational sessions covering aluminum...