Constellium Inks Contract To Supply Daher With Flat-Rolled Aluminium For TBM And Kodiak Aircraft
European value-added aluminium firm Constellium NV has entered into a new multi-year supply contract with French industrial conglomerate DAHER to...
Business
Production Cut By 30% At Kwinana Alumina Refinery Due To Natural Gas Shortage
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation said this week that it plans to cut production at its joint venture alumina refinery in Kwinana, Western Australia, by about 30 percent due to a natural gas shortage. Alcoa said in a statement that one of...
Canyon Resources Signs MOU With Port Authority Of Douala On Development Of Infrastructure
Perth-based mineral miner Canyon Resources Limited signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Port Authority of Douala this week to...
Norsk Hydro Teams Up With World Wide Wind On Offshore Wind Turbine Project
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA and compatriot floating wind turbine producer World Wide Wind AS have agreed to collaborate...
Events
Hindalco Joins Aluminium Stewardship Institute As Production And Transformation Member
Indian aluminium producer Hindalco Industries Limited joined The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) last month as a new production and transformation member. Hindalco is the flagship company of Aditya Birla Group. The firm operates an integrated alumina refinery and aluminium smelter in Renukoot, India that has a nameplate aluminium production total of 420 thousand metric tons […]
Norsk Hydro Secures US$210 MM Loan To Support Brazil Solar Power Plant
Norway’s aluminium titan Norsk Hydro ASA said this week that its subsidiary Hydro Rein’s joint venture with Atlas Renewable Energy for the development of the Boa Sorte Solar plant secured a loan indexed to the US dollar from Brazil’s development bank Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES). This loan is the first one […]
Emirates Global Aluminium’s STEM Development Program Reached Over 6,000 Students In 2022
Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) said this week that its program to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in local children reached over 6,000 students last year. The firm said its outreach program is part of the UAE’s Operation 300bn and UAE Centennial 2071, both of which are aimed at increasing the future domestic […]
Indian Trade Body Says End To Bauxite Export Tariff Has Major Benefits
Trade body Federation of Indian Mineral Industries (FIMI) petitioned the Indian government this week to end the export tax on bauxite ore, noting that lifting the tariff would boost bauxite mining and provide much-needed jobs to the Indian economy. In a debate over the proposed budget by the legislature’s finance committee, FIMI said that the […]
Alba Sets Aluminium Production Record Of 1.6 MM Metric Tons In 2022
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) closed out 2022 on a high note by setting a new primary aluminium production record. In 2022, Alba’s smelters produced 1,600,111 metric tons of primary aluminium. Last year’s total surpasses 2021’s total of 1,561,222 metric tons of primary aluminium by 38,889 metric tons. That total is an improvement of 2.5 percent […]
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 ...
