Rio Tinto Praises Australian Government’s New Carbon Emissions Reduction Policy
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group praised the Australian government’s new emissions-reduction policy last week for the support it will...
Business
Slovalco Ends Aluminium Production After 70 Years
After 70 years of aluminium production, Slovakia’s lone smelter is calling it quits. Slovalco announced last week that it has made the decision to end aluminium smelting due to ever-rising energy prices. The plant, which is located in Žiar nad Hronom, said...
GFG Alliance Cuts Production At UK Facilities Due To High Energy Costs
Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty Steel will be idling two plants in the United Kingdom and cutting production at several others on...
Aluminium Bahrain Awards Contract For Installation Of 9 Acres Of Solar Panels At Solar Farm Project
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) said this week that it has signed a contract with Advanced United Systems (AUS) to install...
Events
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 the alumina refinery’s units has been taken offline already, while the remaining active […]
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 supply its aviation unit with several different rolled aluminium products, most of which are slated to be used in production of its TBM and Kodiak aircraft models. The new contract will have Constellium and Daher […]
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 develop infrastructure at Port of Douala-Bonabéri in the African country of Cameroon. Per Canyon Resources, the MOU lays out the groundwork upon which Canyon Resources and the Port Authority may partner on developing and upgrading […]
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 on the use of aluminium in renewable wind industry. Ultimately the partnership hopes to yield a design for a floating wind turbine specific to offshore conditions. The two firms say they are working toward incorporating […]
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 […]
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 ...
