Aluminum: Germany’s Speira shuts down operations at Rheinwerk due to energy costs

After Slovenia's Talum (read more here), Germany's Speira will also shut down aluminum smelting operations at its Rheinwerk plant due to high energy prices, after being forced to halve production last year. Although the Western European energy crisis, which began in 2021 and deepened after Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year, has passed its peak, […]