铝制压铸制造商NovelisInc.计划在Kentucky（美国肯塔基州，下同）建造一座3亿美元的工厂，来满足那些希望在更严格的效率原则下降低车重的汽车客户。

Novelis首席执行官Steve Fisher在电话专访中表示，这只是重申业界对车辆材料选择一直以来的看法，而不是信仰的飞跃。

Guthrie工厂将提供125个就业机会，预计产能为20万吨。Novelis是美国Hindalco工业有限公司的子公司，该公司预计在2020年完成该项目，这也将成为老板印度亿万富翁Kumar Mangalam Birla拓展的一项海外业务。

汽车公司正在不断增加车辆的用铝量，尤其是卡车和SUV。一份行业报告称从2015年到2028年，北美乘用车铝含量将增加42%。

去年4月，Braidy工业公司宣布了一项在Kentucky东部建造13亿美元铝厂的计划。首席执行官Craig Bouchard表示，这是美国三十年来首次新建该类型铝厂。

2年前，铝价正值7年以来最低点时，Fishe在专访中表示，他认为中国过剩的产能不会在短期内缓解，铝价将长期萎靡下去。

但2017年铝价重回自2012年以来的最高水平，这刺激了美国各地供应链上下游的生产商，相继重启产能或是承接新的项目。

据来自Novelis事件知情人士，Hindalco正在竞标美国爱励铝业的供应商。

注：本文由上海有色金属网（SMM）翻译

原文：Novelis to Build $300 Million Aluminum Plant Amid Auto Optimism

Aluminum flat-rolled products maker Novelis Inc. plans to build a $300 million plant in Kentucky targeted at automotive customers looking to minimize vehicle weight amid more stringent efficiency rules.

“It just reiterates the industry’s view on this very strong penetration as the material of choice on vehicles,” Novelis Chief Executive Officer Steve Fisher said in a telephone interview. “We don’t see it as a leap of faith.”

The facility in Guthrie will create about 125 jobs and have capacity of 200,000 metric tons. Novelis, the U.S. unit of Hindalco Industries Ltd., expects to complete the project by 2020 as its Indian billionaire owner Kumar Mangalam Birla expands his overseas operations.

Automotive companies continue to expand the amount of aluminum used in vehicles, in particular in trucks and SUVs. An industry report projects that aluminum content in North American passenger vehicles will increase 42 percent by 2028 from 2015.

Last April, Braidy Industries Inc. announced plans for a $1.3 billion aluminum mill in eastern Kentucky, which CEO Craig Bouchard said at the time would be the first of its kind in three decades in the U.S. Two years ago, as the aluminum price was near the lowest in almost seven years, Fisher said in an interview that he didn’t expect any near-term relief from a China-led glut that was keeping the metal in a bear market.

But Chinese smelting cutbacks have helped send prices back to the highest since 2012, providing incentives for producers in the U.S. and elsewhere up and down the supply chain to restart capacity or undertake new projects. Via Novelis, Hindalco is among bidders for U.S. producer Aleris Corp., according to people with knowledge of the matter.