Webinar date: 25 March 2026
Timings:
Aerospace markets are entering a challenging phase. Aircraft manufacturers are working toward higher build rates, but are still managing underlying supply chain constraints, long-lead bottlenecks and a volatile global trade environment. Rising protectionism and competing onshoring policies between major economies are creating new risks for globalised supply chains – risks that aerospace companies must now build into their forward planning.
At the same time, China’s evolving export environment is amplifying volatility in several critical minor metals – especially hafnium and tungsten – just as engine OEMs intensify production efforts. These pressures are feeding directly into superalloy input costs and availability. Parallel tightness in rhenium further underlines the fragility of replacement supply.
Alongside these established drivers, burgeoning AI and associated data centre power demand are further putting the screws on high-temperature minor metal fundamentals.
These disruptors threaten further friction for the aerospace ramp-up just as manufacturers are working to normalise inventories in titanium and other structural materials.
In this webinar, Argus’ Samuel Wood, Alex Nicoll and Reagan Patrowicz break down how these disruptors are shaping aerospace driven minor metal markets in the year ahead.
Key topics covered:
Aerospace ramp-up colliding with supply chain bottlenecks and protectionism
Volatility in high-temperature minor metals
Destocking and normalising titanium inventories
Associate Editor at Argus Media - London
Senior Reporter at Argus Media - Houston
Alex Nicoll is a senior market reporter who covers US titanium and aluminium markets, including price assessments and supply/demand trends, for Argus Media out of Houston, Texas. His past nonferrous experience includes US minor metals, high-temp scrap, ferro-alloys and stainless steel.
Reporter at Argus Media - Houston
Reagan Patrowicz is a non-ferrous metals reporter at Argus Media, based in Houston, Texas. She specializes in minor metals and nickel spot markets in the US, producing regular price assessments and analysis
We provide industry-leading analysis of aerospace and related markets. This analysis is delivered through the Argus Non-Ferrous Markets service.
