Uniprom Ending Aluminium Smelting After 53 Years
Montenegro’s aluminium producer Uniprom announced this week that it will be shuttering aluminium smelting operations after over half a century...
Europe
LME Pushes Back Deadline For New Electronic Certificates Of Analysis
This week the London Metal Exchange (LME) extended the deadline for mandatory digital registration for quality assurance documents. LME will begin to require Certificates of Analysis (COA) in order to provide transparency regarding the size, shape, purity, and characteristics of a metal...
Norsk Hydro And Saint-Gobain Glass To Collaborate On Low-Carbon Building Façades
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA subsidiary Hydro Building Systems and Saint-Gobain Glass have come to an agreement on collaborating...
Norsk Hydro Partners With GreenGo Energy On Solar Power Project
Norsk Hydro subsidiary Hydro Rein has teamed up with GreenGo Energy on two projects in early-phase solar projects in southern...
Events
European Regulators Green-Light Norsk Hydro €267MM Purchase Of Polish Aluminium Recycler Alumetal
Norsk Hydro SA gained the approval of European regulators for its second proposed purchase of Polish recycling firm Alumetal S.A. late last week. The second proposal reached the finish line with the European Commission, paving the way for the merger. The first proposal was offered last spring, but it expired during a phase II merger […]
Aluminij To Ink Twin Deals For Zero-Carbon Aluminium Project
Bosnian aluminium firm Aluminij has entered US$141.2 million in deals aimed at creating a zero-carbon aluminium product. Today the firm is scheduled to sign a deal with Glencore to build a 60 mW solar power project and aluminium recycling facility. Also planned is the signing of a deal with steel company Duferco on a new […]
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative Certifies Aluminij Plant Under Performance Standard V3
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced last week the certification of Aluminij Industries d.o.o.’s Bosnian operations under the third version of its Performance Standard. The plant, which produces aluminium billet, slab, and small ingot, is the first such certification from a company headquartered in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It has an annual production capacity of over […]
Norsk Hydro Repeats Tender Offer Process For Polish Aluminium Recycler Alumetal
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA approached Polish recycler Alumetal S.A. with a tender offer to acquire 100 percent of the company’s shares last week. This second offer comes a year after a previous offer was launched by Hydro for the same purpose. The prior offer expired while under review by the European Commission. Hydro […]
Constellium Partners With Renault On New Closed-Loop Recycling System
Aluminium smelter Constellium SE announced yesterday a new agreement with French automaker Renault Group to create a closed-loop recycling system for Renault’s all-new Megane E-TECH Electric. Constellium says Renault has already developed a closed-loop recycling system to return aluminium scrap from Renault’s factories to Constellium for recycling. The new system will handle scrap auto body […]
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 ...
