Fire Breaks Out At Gränges Cold Rolling Mill In Poland
Swedish rolled aluminium firm Gränges AB announced yesterday that a fire broke out in its cold rolling mill production facility...
Business
Dubai Government Inks Deal With Nature Alu For High-Purity Aluminium Plant
The government of Dubai and North American high-purity aluminium producer Nature Alu (NA) have agreed to establish the United Arab Emirates’ first and only high-purity aluminium plant. Dubai’s government, acting under the auspices of Dubal Holding, signed the agreement last week to...
New Zealand Aluminium Smelter Boss Says Work Continues On Plans To Operate Beyond 2024 Closure Date
Leadership at New Zealand Aluminium Smelter said this week that they were optimistic that the Tiwai plant will stay open...
ASI Certifies Yunnan Haoxin Aluminum Foil’s Kunming Plant Under Chain Of Custody Standard
Trade group Aluminium Stewardship Initiative announced this week the certification of Yunnan Haoxin Aluminum Foil Co., Ltd.’s Yunnan Haoxin Aluminum...
Events
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 and automotive sectors, is slated to have a nameplate capacity of 600 thousand […]
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 scandium oxide for commercial sale at the Sorel-Tracy plant in Quebec this week. The Sorel-Tracy plant will become the first plant in North America to produce scandium oxide, which is used as an alloy in […]
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 the University of Grenoble Alpes (UGA) with the creation of a new laboratory for research into aluminium in industrial production. The new lab, which will be known as 3ALP, will concentrate upon developing new 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 up bauxite ore mining on the island to feed the firm’s alumina plant, which is soon to undergo a US$1.1 billion expansion. According to Jamaican media, JISCO Alpart will soon commence bauxite mining at a […]
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 […]
Biden Infrastructure Bill A Big Boon To Aluminium Industry: Norsk Hydro VP Mike Stier
Earlier this month the United States Congress passed into law President Joe Biden’s US$1.2 trillion infrastructure package. The Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America Act (or the INVEST in America Act) will allocate US$550 billion ...
The Net-Zero Shift Starts With Low Carbon Aluminium
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both ...
Aluminium at the LME Week – Key Takeaways
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Aluminium Market Oversupplied, Demand Growth Flat
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...
