Aluminium Alloy Ingot (ADC12, LM6, LM24, A356)

Secondary die-casting ingot ADC12, LM6/A413, LM24/A380, A356 and LM25 by Si, Cu, Fe and Zn

Secondary aluminium alloy ingot is remelted scrap brought back to a cast-alloy chemistry, and it is bought on the analysis rather than on the word aluminium. ADC12 to JIS H 2118 (9.6–12.0% Si, 1.5–3.5% Cu, Fe ≤ 0.9%, Zn ≤ 1.0%, Mg ≤ 0.3%, Mn ≤ 0.5%) is the high-pressure die-casting alloy of Asia; LM24 to BS 1490 and A380 to ASTM B179 carry 7.5–9.5% Si, 3.0–4.0% Cu and up to 3.0% Zn and are its European and American counterparts; LM6 and A413 (10–13% Si, Cu ≤ 0.1%) are the eutectic alloys for thin-walled, pressure-tight and corrosion-exposed castings; LM25 and A356 (6.5–7.5% Si with 0.2–0.6% Mg) are the heat-treatable gravity and low-pressure alloys for wheels and structural parts. Copper, zinc and iron arrive with the scrap, which is why the high-copper die-casting grades are the natural home for secondary metal: a remelter building ADC12 from mixed scrap, turnings and silicon metal can hold copper and zinc inside the band cheaply. Iron is the element a reverberatory furnace cannot take back out, so LM6 needs clean low-copper scrap, and A356.2 with Fe ≤ 0.12% is made largely from primary metal or segregated wheel scrap and priced accordingly. A country without a primary smelter, Pakistan among them, sells secondary ingot only, and the remelter's scrap mix sets the iron it can guarantee. Price is set off the LME aluminium reference or a regional ADC12 assessment, at a discount for high-copper secondary grades and a premium for low-iron primary-based alloys. On the trade, UN Comtrade 2025 import declarations under HS 7601.20 (all unwrought aluminium alloy, primary and secondary together) show India taking 321,469 MT from 55 partners: Malaysia 111,595 MT at an average USD 2,769/MT CIF, the UAE 54,495 MT at USD 2,870, Qatar 51,855 MT at USD 2,842 and Bahrain 41,398 MT at USD 2,798, with Korea, Australia, Indonesia and Thailand further down. The Gulf lines are largely primary smelter foundry alloy and billet rather than remelted ingot [inference]; UAE export declarations under the same code are not available, as the UAE does not report its exports to Comtrade.

The buyer is a die-caster — automotive housings and brackets, ceiling- and pedestal-fan and electric-motor housings, lighting, cookware and hardware — in the Gulf, India, Southeast Asia, East Africa and Turkiye, buying every month against a chemistry sheet and, for high-pressure machines, a sludge-factor limit (Fe + 2×Mn + 3×Cr) matched to its holding-furnace temperature. CBIL is a commodity brokerage company and brokers ADC12, LM6/A413, LM24/A380, LM25 and A356 ingot from remelter, producer and trader parcels in Pakistan, the UAE, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Turkiye and South Africa against third-party chemical analysis: a spectrometer certificate per heat, with independent sampling of the loaded bundles by SGS, Bureau Veritas or Intertek where the buyer asks for it. Ingot moves in containers, not bulk — notched 6–10 kg ingots strapped in bundles of about 1 MT on pallets or skids, 24–25 MT to a 20-foot box — on FOB, CFR and CIF terms, so freight is container freight booked with the line rather than a charter. Send the alloy and standard, your iron and zinc ceilings, the monthly tonnage and the discharge port, and the desk matches remelter chemistry against them.

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Excluded origins are not offered, including product re-exported, blended or re-processed through a third country. Every lot moves with a certificate of origin naming the producing plant, mine or grower country, and nothing is quoted before the seller and loading point are known.