Rio Tinto’s Quebec Plant Produces North America’s First High Purity Scandium Oxide
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group’s affiliate Rio Tinto Fer et Titane (RTFT) delivered the initial batch of high purity...
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Novelis Announces Plans For US$2.5 MM Aluminium Can Recycling Plant In SW Alabama
Atlanta’s rolled aluminium firm Novelis Inc. said this week that it is planning to build a US$2.5-billion low-carbon aluminium recycling and rolling plant in Bay Minette, Alabama. The new plant, which is a response to strong demand from the aluminium beverage packaging...
Constellium To Partner With French National Centre For Scientific Research And University of Grenoble Alpes On Aluminium Laboratory
European value-added aluminium firm Constellium NV is enhancing its technological partnership with CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research), and...
JISCO Alpart Plans Opening Of New Bauxite Mining Project To Feed Alumina Refinery Expansion In Jamaica
Jiuquan Iron & Steel (Group) Co., Ltd (JISCO) Jamaican subsidiary JISCO Alpart said last week that it plans to ramp...
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Independent Financial Auditor Opens Investigations Into GFG Alliance’s Aluminium And Steel Holdings
Britain’s independent financial auditing regulator begun last week four different investigations into Sanjay Gupta’s Gupta Family Group (GFG) Alliance’s aluminium and steel companies and the audits of their books carried out by an outside auditor. The Financial Reporting Council said it is looking into the financial statements filed by financial statements of Alvance British Aluminium […]
Aluar Aluminio Inks Wind Power Deal With Vestas For Supply To Aluminium Smelter In Argentina
Danish sustainable energy firm Vestas Wind Systems A/S announced this week an agreement with Argentina aluminium company Aluar Aluminio Argentino S.A.I.C. to provide wind-generated power to Aluar’s aluminium smelter in Puerto Madryn in east-central Argentina. Vestas will provide power to Aluar from its Llano IV Wind Farm, which has a nameplate capacity of 81 MW. […]
Norsk Hydro Inks Ten Year Wind Power Deal With Telenor
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA’s subsidiary Hydro Energi AS signed a ten-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Norwegian telecommunications firm Telenor Infra AS this week. The agreement will have Telenor selling the Hydro subsidiary 330 GWh per year of wind energy produced at Sweden’s Stor-Skälsjön wind park, which is a joint project involving another […]
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative To Release Revised Standards
After almost three years of discussions, the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) released updates to its ASI Performance and Chain of Custody Standards, supporting Guidance, Assurance Manual, Claims Guide. and Glossary as By-Laws last week. The revisions are a product of work by the ASI’s Standards Committee and Working Group, two rounds of public comment, and […]
Novelis Breaks Ground On New Aluminium Recycling Center In SW Kentucky
Atlanta’s rolled aluminium firm Novelis broke ground this week on its US$365-million state-of-the-art aluminium recycling center in Guthrie, Kentucky. The new plant will have a nameplate capacity of 240 thousand metric tons per annum of sheet aluminium ingot while cutting Novelis’s carbon emissions by over one million metric tons each year. Located next door to […]