Asia

EGA Purchases 1.1 MM Megawatt Hours Of Solar Energy For Solar Powered Aluminium Offering

EGA Purchases 1.1 MM Megawatt Hours Of Solar Energy For Solar Powered Aluminium Offering

Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) purchased 1.1 million megawatt hours of electricity’s worth of Clean Energy Certificates this week in support of its production of CelestiAL, a proprietary line of aluminium produced using solar power. The certificates are issued by Emirates Water...

Events

India Metals Federation Lobbies Government For Bump In Aluminium Import Taxes

India’s mining community is appealing to the government for protection from market flooding of cheap aluminium and other metals from the People’s Republic of China in the form of higher import taxes. Reuters reported earlier this week that the Federation of Indian Mineral Industries (FIMI) has requested from the government a raise on imports to […]

Novelis Breaks Ground On US$50MM Aluminium Recycling Center In South Korea

Atlanta’s rolled aluminium firm Novelis Inc. began construction on a new US$50 million recycling center in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) this week. The groundbreaking at the construction site in Ulsan was attended by several officials from local government jurisdictions as well as representatives from Novelis. The recycling plant, which is being built by […]

Aluminium Bahrain Heads Meet Bechtel Brass To Discuss Proposed Line 7 Project

The head of Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) met with his peer at Bechtel last week to discuss a wide range of projects of mutual benefit to their firms. Meeting at Bahrain’s Ritz Carlton during the Gulf Aluminium Council Dinner was Alba chair Salman Al Khalifa; Alba’s CEO Ali Al Baqali; Bechtel president of Mining & […]