Alba Partners With CRU On Virtual Market Update Conference
Last week Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) hosted the first-of-its-kind virtual market update session for customers around the globe. The initiative...
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Noranda Inks LOI With Cemtech For Sale Of Cement-Grade Bauxite Next Quarter
Noranda Alumina last week signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Cemtech Materials Corporation contemplating Noranda’s sale of 60 thousand metric tons of cement-grade bauxite to Cemtech in the next quarter. Per industry media, parent company New Day Aluminum Holdings LLC signed...
India To Begin Limiting Aluminium And Copper Imports From China And Other Asian Neighbors
Indian government and aluminium industry sources told Reuters earlier this week that the country is soon to begin monitoring aluminium...
Italy’s Raffmetal Achieves ASI Performance Standard Certification
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced on Tuesday the certification of Italy’s Raffmetal S.p.A. under its Performance Standard for responsible...
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Metro Mining Decreased Production And Increased Shipping in August As Wet Season Approaches
Australia’s Metro Mining Ltd. announced production results for the month of August on Tuesday. As the firm was making preparations for the coming wet season, it reduced production in the quarter while ramping up shipments to global buyers. In August, Metro mined 460 thousand wet metric tons of bauxite ore, bringing the year-to-date total to […]
FYI Resources Inks MOU With Alcoa Of Australia Over High-Purity Alumina
Australian resource firm FYI Resources Ltd. announced yesterday a Memorandum of Understanding with Alcoa of Australia to develop high-purity alumina (HPA). According to industry media, variability trials at the pilot plant will determine the viability of such a partnership, which would involve jointly developing FYI’s HPA refining project. FYI is working to develop a process […]
Alvance Looking For Raw Materials And Value Added Components In Quest For Vertical Integration
British commodities maven Sanjeev Gupta is shopping around for new components for its aluminium business Alvance, which it hopes to see triple production and become a fully vertically-integrated aluminium production firm. According to comments made yesterday by CEO Arnaud de Weert at the virtual CRU World Aluminium conference, Alvance aims to be carbon neutral within […]
Jaguar Land Rover Aluminium Recycling Project Could Cut CO2 By 26 Percent
Jaguar Land Rover said last month that a recycling process they developed could cut carbon dioxide emissions by over a quarter. The firm’s REALITY aluminium project is a process developed by the automaker to blend recycled aluminium with primary aluminium to achieve aluminium of a quality matching that of the grade they currently use. The […]
Canadian Aluminium Stakeholders Spar With U.S. Smelter Representative Over Trump Administration’s Ten-Percent Aluminium Tariff
Aluminium industry representatives clashed late last week in an online forum with spokespeople from the two United States aluminium firms who led the charge to instate a 10-percent tariff on Canadian imports. In an online event hosted by Washington International Trade Association, the two sides traded blows on the issue, with trade lawyer and lobbyist […]