> HARBOR, your source for aluminum industry outlook.
HARBOR produces strategic aluminum industry and outlook reports to help its clients make objective and timely purchasing/selling/planning decisions. Our pragmatic analytical approach will provide you with relevant industry hard facts that will broaden your understanding of what is driving the entire aluminum supply chain and what to expect ahead.
> The HARBOR Advantage.
Our experts provide focused, comprehensive and detailed aluminum industry intelligence and outlook in a format that is accessible and timely. Our clients get a balanced approach based on our analysis of raw materials, scrap availability, detailed aluminum output expansions and curtailments, cast house products demand, semi aluminum products demand by country and region, visible and invisible inventories and financial flows.
> Objective Outlook.
Our commitment is to tell you what our best intelligence is telling us even if the signal implies sharp movements in supply, demand and prices. We are not afraid to dispute a consensus view if that is where our best models point. We have no agenda other than to be the best aluminum industry analyst and price outlook forecaster. We don’t buy or sell physical aluminum. We don’t offer financial derivatives. We offer the most objective and balanced views available. That’s why we have a wide array of clients ranging from consumers, producers, recyclers, traders, governments to non-profit organizations.
> The Results.
HARBOR's aluminum core competency creates considerable value. We know it works and so do our clients, who save millions of dollars each year. In the past eight years, our subscribers have bought aluminum at an average of 12% below market price.
Evaluation of suggested aluminum base strategies($ per mton)
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
2012* |
Average |
|
| HARBOR´s Base Strategy Realized Aluminum 3M LME price ($/ton) | 1,179 |
1,766 |
2,539 |
2,699 |
2,413 |
1,400 |
1,707 |
1,816 |
2,170 |
1,965 |
| Average LME 3M Aluminum Price in the Year ($/ton) | 1,717 |
1,890 |
2,569 |
2,640 |
2,576 |
1,671 |
2,172 |
2,422 |
2,116* |
2,197 |
| Value Delivered by HARBOR ($/ton) | 538 |
124 |
30 |
-59 |
163 |
271 |
465 |
606 |
-54 |
232 |
| Savings Delivered by HARBOR (%) | 31 |
7 |
1 |
-2 |
6 |
16 |
21 |
33 |
-2 |
12 |
| *Average price in Jan-Jun 2012 |
