The London Metal Exchange aluminum price is the reference point that almost everyone in the aluminum wire industry uses when discussing material costs, and for good reason — it's transparent, continuously updated, and represents the closest thing the market has to a universal benchmark. But buyers who treat LME as the complete picture of what...
The EU Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive, universally known as RoHS, restricts the use of specific hazardous materials in electrical and electronic equipment sold in the European Union. For the aluminum wire and cable industry, RoHS applicability is one of those compliance questions that generates more confusion than it should, because the scope of what...
The solar energy installation market has received extensive coverage as a driver of demand for various materials, but the specific opportunity for aluminum wire within solar farm electrical systems is discussed less specifically than the scale of the opportunity warrants. Solar energy's growth is one of the more durable and geographically broad demand drivers for...