ASI Certifies Alcoa’s Poços de Caldas Aluminium Operations
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced last week the certification of Alcoa Corporation’s Poços de Caldas operations in Brazil, bringing...
Latin America
Hydro Begins New Bauxite Mining Front At Paragominas With BRL590 MM Capital Investment
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced a planned BRL590 million (US$110.7 million) investment in its Miltônia 5 (M5) project at Paragominas bauxite mine in Brazil. Noting the significant positive contribution the Paragominas bauxite mine has provided the local community, Hydro says...
Norsk Hydro To Partner With Equinor And Scatec On US$430 MM Solar Power Project In Brazil
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA’s subsidiary Hydro Rein is partnering with renewable energy firms Equinor and Scatec to build...
South32 Aiming To Double Green Aluminium Production By Late 2023
Australian metals miner South32 is well on its way to becoming a global, diversified metals firm thanks to the significant...
Events
Norsk Hydro In Dutch Court Over Alleged Contamination From Alunorte Alumina Refinery
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA is facing civil charges in court that it allowed the world’s biggest aluminium smelter contaminate a nearby river in Brazil, harming thousands of indigenous families in the area. Plaintiffs in the Dutch suit say the pollution from Alunorte occurred for several years in the state of Para. Listed on […]
Hydro Rein To Collaborate With Green Investment Group On Brazilian Solar/Wind Power Project
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA’s subsidiary Hydro Rein has signed an agreement with Macquarie Asset Management’s Green Investment Group (GIG) to build a 586 MW combined wind and solar project called Feijão in northeastern Brazil. Per the firm, the project will power Hydro’s Paragominas bauxite mine and Alunorte alumina refinery, ultimately weaning both plants […]
Aluar Aluminio Inks Wind Power Deal With Vestas For Supply To Aluminium Smelter In Argentina
Danish sustainable energy firm Vestas Wind Systems A/S announced this week an agreement with Argentina aluminium company Aluar Aluminio Argentino S.A.I.C. to provide wind-generated power to Aluar’s aluminium smelter in Puerto Madryn in east-central Argentina. Vestas will provide power to Aluar from its Llano IV Wind Farm, which has a nameplate capacity of 81 MW. […]
Norsk Hydro Restarts Albras Liquid Aluminium Potline After February Power Outage
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA has restarted operations at Albras Alumínio Brasileiro S.A. aluminium smelting plant in Brazil. The plant briefly closed about 75 percent of its production due to a power outage in the region in mid-February. Three of the plant’s four total potlines remained in production throughout the power outage. However, Line […]
Norsk Hydro Inks US$200 MM Sustainability Linked Loan For Switch To Natural Gas At Alunorte
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA has obtained a US$200-million sustainability-linked loan to fund a switch of the company’s fuel from heavy oil to natural gas, a more sustainable source that will help it achieve greenhouse gas reduction targets. The project will see the Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil undergo the switch, which is expected […]
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 ...
