Lindian On Cusp Of Production At Guinean Bauxite Reserves
Australian mineral exploration firm Lindian Resources Limited is on the verge of bringing its vast bauxite ore resources into production...
Market Selection
Novelis To Resume Aluminium Foil Production At Terre Haute Plant After Seven Year Hiatus
Atlanta’s rolled aluminium firm Novelis announced this week a new US$7-million investment in its facility at Terre Haute, Indiana that will restart several areas of the plant that have been idled as well as adding over three dozen new employees to staff...
Vedanta Aluminium Looking For Partnerships With Cement Producers On Low-Carbon Cement
Indian aluminium producer Vedanta Aluminium is searching for partnerships from cement producers to put to use its waste product to...
Rusal Reports Progress In Difficult 2020 In Sustainability Report
Russian aluminium giant UC Rusal released its Sustainability Report for the year 2020 last week. The firm noted that, despite...
Events
Norsk Hydro Roars Back With Strong Q2 2021 Earnings
Norwegian aluminium firm Norsk Hydro ASA released results for the second quarter of 2021 yesterday. Numbers for the quarter generally reflected the improved market for aluminium, with financial markers exceeding both the prior quarter and the prior year. In the year’s second quarter Hydro reported revenues of NOK34,559 million, better slightly on the quarter and […]
Rusal Employs Quality Control Neural Network At Irkutsk Aluminium Smelter
Russian Federation aluminium titan UC Rusal announced this week the implementation of a new neural network at Irkutsk Aluminium Smelter that will monitor the quality of the plant’s aluminium ingot. Rusal’s new neural network utilizes a video monitoring system to check the surface quality of small aluminium ingots during production, checking for defects as the […]
Century’s Grundartangi Aluminium Smelter Inks New Power Agreement With Landsvirkjun
Chicago-based aluminium smelter Century Aluminum announced this week that its subsidiary Norðurál Grundartangi ehf has come to an agreement with Iceland’s national power company Landsvirkjun to continue its contract for 161 MW per annum for the next five years. The agreement will bump up the total power to the plant by 21 MW. Century said […]
Alcore Produces Aluminium Fluoride From Dross In Proprietary One-Step Process
Australian Bauxite Limited (ABx) announced this week that its 87%-owned subsidiary ALCORE Limited (Alcore) used its proprietary technology to produce aluminium fluoride from pure dross. ABx notes the importance of this breakthrough, as the dross used contained a multitude of impurities. Alcore was able to distill aluminium fluoride from the dross in only a single […]
Altech Opens R&D Facility And Offices In Germany
Australian innovator Altech Chemicals Ltd. and its subsidiary Altech Industries Germany GmbH (AIG) announced last week the opening of an office and research & development facility at DOCK3 Industrial Development Centre in the Schwarze Pumpe Industrial Park in Saxony, Germany. The firm said in a press release that the event was attended by several corporate […]
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 ...
