Dunkirk Aluminium Smelter Standing Pat On Production Despite Relief From The Government
Europe’s largest aluminium smelter is not planning for further production cuts after the recently-begun 15 percent cut in aluminium output...
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Indonesia To Halt Bauxite Exports By End Of 2022
Indonesian president Joko Widodo said last week that the country will cease its exports of bauxite ore by year’s end and do the same with copper ore by the close of next year. In a bid to increase its downstream economy and...
Tomago Aluminium Smelter Battling Back Against COVID-19 And Associated Supply Chain Woes
Rio Tinto’s Tomago aluminium smelter in Australia has developed a wide range of contingency plans to address persistent shortages occasioned...
Nalco’s Odisha Aluminium Smelter Reaches Full Production For The First Time In Company History
Indian state-owned aluminium smelter National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) has, for the first time in its history, achieved full operation...
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Scottish Liberal Democrats Criticize GFG’s Deal With Government For Lochaber Aluminium Smelter
The Scottish Liberal Democratic Party spoke out this week about Sanjeev Gupta’s deal with the government to keep the Lochaber aluminium smelter running, claiming that the GFG Alliance has grossly enriched itself at taxpayers’ expense. According to a spokesperson from the party, GFG Alliance has witnessed the aluminium smelter’s value increase by over £100 million […]
Novelis Plans New Automotive Aluminium Recycling Plant For SW Kentucky
Atlanta’s rolled aluminium firm Novelis announced plans yesterday to build a $365 million automotive recycling center outside of Clarksville, Tennessee. Novelis’s new plant in Guthrie, Kentucky will expand its closed-loop recycling operations by reclaiming aluminium from vehicles at the end of their useful lives and aluminium scrap leftover from automotive production and make it reusable […]
Dunkirk Aluminium Smelter To Cut Production By 15 Percent Due To Jump In Energy Prices
The largest aluminium smelter in France is cutting production by 15 percent due to the continued rise of electric prices. On Friday, a spokesperson for the Dunkerque aluminium smelter made the announcement, noting that production has already been dropped by a tenth. The 285 thousand metric tons per annum smelter will cut the remaining 5 […]
Completion Of Spent Pot Lining Treatment Plant Puts Aluminium Bahrain Well On Way To ESG Goals
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) updated investors on its environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals last week, declaring that it is well on track now that the Spent Pot Lining (SPL) Treatment Plant is fully online. Chairman of Alba’s Board of Directors, Shaikh Daij Bin Salman Bin Daij Al Khalifa said in a press release that […]
Noranda Opens New Reservoir To Aid Fight Against Bauxite Dust In Jamaica
Jamaican bauxite producer Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners recently completed a reservoir in St. Ann dedicated to combating the ever-present bauxite dust problem by wetting the roads over which transport trucks travel. Jamaica’s Transport and Mining Minister Robert Montague inaugurated the new reservoir, which holds about 17 million gallons of water, on December 21. The cost […]