Aleris Belgium Aluminium Rolling Mill Wins ASI Certification
Aleris Aluminum Duffel BVBA, one of Europe’s biggest aluminium rolling plants, is now certified against the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative’s (ASI)...
Europe
Nespresso Collaborates With Bike Brand To Create Bicycle Made From Recycled Aluminium
Swiss coffee company Nestlé Nespresso S.A. has teamed up with Swedish bike brand Vélosophy to develop and manufacture a bicycle made from recycled aluminium coffee capsules. The bicycles, which were given the name RE:CYCLE, will be produced in a limited run of...
Aeromet 3D Printing Aluminium Alloy Powder Achieves Record-Breaking Strength Test Results
British foundry specialist Aeromet International revealed earlier this week the latest strength test results for its patented additive manufacturing aluminium...
Weak Sales Prices Hamper Earnings For Rio Tinto’s Aluminium Sector In Front Half Of 2019
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group released results for the first half of 2019 late last week. The firm’s aluminium...
Events
Alcoa Sells Avilés And La Coruña Plants To Swiss Investment Firm PARTER
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced yesterday the sale of the Avilés and La Coruña plants in Spain to Swiss private equity investment group PARTER Capital Group AG for an undisclosed sum. Included in the sale of the subsidiaries is the casthouse and curtailed smelters at both sites and La Coruña’s paste plant. PARTER has […]
Trio Of Alcoa Plants Certified By Aluminium Stewardship Initiative
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation and the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced on Tuesday the certification of three of Alcoa’s plants, one each in the company’s three business units. Brazil’s Juruti bauxite mine and Alumar alumina refinery, along with the San Ciprián aluminium smelter in Spain, were all certified against ASI’s Performance Standard for responsible […]
Norsk Hydro Supplies ASI-Certified Aluminium For Audi e-tron
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced earlier this week that it is the sustainable aluminium supplier to Audi AG for the production of the battery housing for its first fully-electric vehicle. Hydro now supplies ASI-certified aluminium for use in the Audi e-tron, which transitioned from a hybrid system to a fully-electric system with the […]
Dutch Firm Nouryon Purchases Chinese Triethyl Aluminium Producer Zhejiang Friend
Dutch chemical company Nouryon announced the recent acquisition of China’s Zhejiang Friend Chemical Co. (Friend) yesterday. Friend is China’s premier producer of triethyl aluminum (Al2(C2H5)6, a/k/a “TEAL”), a metal alkyl often used in the production of high-volume polymers. Per the firm, the move will significantly enhance its global TEAL production, which is frequently used to […]
Raw Material Problems Prompt Shutdown Of One Potline At Rio Tinto’s Iceland Aluminium Smelter
One of three potlines at Rio Tinto Group’s aluminium smelter at Hafnarfjörður has been idled due to a dearth of raw materials. Such was the announcement made to industry media on Tuesday. “Operations at the ISAL smelter have been impacted recently due to irregularities in raw material inputs,” revealed Rio Tinto media representative Matthew Klar […]
Zhongwang Fake Semis Prosecution May Slam The Door On Key Routes For U.S. Import Duty Avoidance
The global aluminium market has been watching the trials and travails of Chinese behemoth Zhongwang with intense interest for the past few weeks after the company and its founder Liu Zhongtian were brought up on criminal charges by the United States federal ...
Aluminium Prices Under Double Pressure: Trade Wars and Chinese Exports
Base metals prices tumbled to their lowest in several weeks at the start of August, after U.S. President Donald Trump ...
Dirty Metal – China’s Troublesome Tether Between Coal And Aluminium
The year 2019 has been a red-letter year for the aluminium sector in the People’s Republic of China. Despite trade ...
Is Rio Tinto’s ISAL smelter a bargain or a smart investment?
At least three companies (including Swiss commodity trader Glencore and German Trimet Aluminium) have expressed interest in buying Rio Tinto’s ...
