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...
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...
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA has restarted operations at Albras Alumínio Brasileiro S.A. aluminium smelting plant in Brazil. The...
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA has obtained a US$200-million sustainability-linked loan to fund a switch of the company’s fuel...
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced last week that its Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil began operation of the...
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA says a power failure in Brazil over the weekend resulted in the shutdown of one of the four smelting lines at Albras aluminium smelter. In a statement, Hydro said the internal power distribution failure occurred Saturday morning local time. As a result, the 110 thousand metric tons per annum […]
Trade group Aluminium Stewardship Initiative announced last week the certification of the Mineração Rio do Norte’s bauxite operation in Brazil against its Performance Standard for sustainable aluminium production. MRN’s planning, mining, transport, processing, and river shipment of bauxite ore are all certified under the Performance Standard. So too is its power-generation plant. With an annual […]
Atlanta’s rolled aluminium firm Novelis announced this week that its aluminium alloys used in building and construction were certified by third-party auditor GreenCircle as containing up to 99 percent recycled content. Novelis said its 3105, 3004, and 3025 alloys are certified under GreenCircle’s program. The alloys are produced at its facilities in Iowa, Ohio, and […]
Earlier this week, Colorado’s Ball Corporation revealed plans to build the first circular economy lab in Brazil on an island dedicated to sustainable tourism. Per the firm, the VADELATA project will be built on Fernando de Noronha and will provide the island with a centralized location for the collection and recycling of aluminium cans. Construction […]
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced this week the reopening of its Alumar aluminium smelter in São Luís, Brazil. The operation has been shuttered since 2015. Alcoa says it is immediately restarting the facility, with the expectation that first metal will emanate from the plant in the middle of next year. The entire nameplate capacity […]
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 ...
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both ...
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Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...