Rusal Completes Redomiciliation From Jersey To Russian SAR
Russian Federation aluminium giant U.C. Rusal announced yesterday the redomiciliation of its company to Russian soil. Rusal is now a...
Business
ASI Certifies AMAG Ranshofen Under Its Chain of Custody Standard Certification
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced last week the certification of AMAG Austria Metall AG’s plant in Ranshofen, Austria against its ASI Chain of Custody Standard Certification. AMAG’s Ranshofen plant is the third of the company’s operations to be certified by ASI...
Gränges Obtains Regulatory Green Light For Purchase Of Aluminium Konin
Swedish rolled aluminium firm Gränges AB announced earlier this week that it has obtained clearance from the EU Commission to...
Altech Announces Breakthrough In Lithium-Ion Battery Production Utilizing High-Purity Alumina
Australian innovator Altech Chemicals Ltd. announced yesterday that it is close to developing a variety of high-purity alumina (HPA) that...
Events
EGA’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions 38 Percent Below Industry Average In 2019
Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) published its third annual Sustainability Report this week. The report details the firm’s environmental, social, and governance performance in 2019 for operations in the United Arab Emirates and the Republic of Guinea. Per the firm, it had a greenhouse-gas-emissions intensity that was 38 percent below the industry average as published […]
Regal Metal To Build Aluminium Recycling And Secondary Plant In Shanxi
The People’s Republic of China’s Regal Metal announced this week that it plans to build an aluminium-recycling plant with a nameplate capacity of 300 thousand metric tons in Shanxi province. The project is a bid by Regal to revitalize old and abandoned asset in the firm’s portfolio. The plan, which has the support of the […]
Alba Inks MoU With University Of Bahrain On Research Cooperation
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Bahrain (UoB) last week aimed at increasing cooperation between the two parties on several areas of research. Per the firm, the biggest programs currently in progress between the two institutions involve technology aimed at implementing solar and renewable energy in the aluminium […]
China Hongqiao Begins Production At Hydroelectricity-Powered Aluminium Smelter In Yunnan
China’s aluminium smelting leviathan China Hongqiao Group Ltd. said last week it has begun the initial phase of production at an aluminium smelter in Yunnan that is powered via hydroelectricity. The new aluminium plant is run by Hongqiao affiliate Shandong Weiqiao Pioneering Group and boasts a nameplate capacity of 2.03 million metric tons, per the […]
Santee Cooper And City Of Goose Creek Meet In Court To Battle Over Century Aluminum
The fight for the life of Century Aluminum’s Goose Creek aluminium smelter continued this week in a courtroom in South Carolina, where attorneys for South Carolina Public Service Authority (Santee Cooper) and the city of Goose Creek squared off over which entity would provide power to the smelter. The controversy at issue involves a fight […]
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 businesses and policymakers to accelerate decarbonization efforts. However, with COVID-19 disrupting lives and economies in an unprecedented manner, countries across the globe ...
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 ...
Aluminium of Greece (AOG): is the Pechiney spirit still alive?
Between September 24-25, FastmarketsMB organized its annual aluminium conference in Athens. A day before the conference, in accordance with an ...
