Hydro Inks Deal For LNG Supply To Alunorte Alumina Refinery
Norwegian aluminium firm Norsk Hydro ASA announced last week the signing of a new, multi-year contract with New Fortress Energy...
Latin America
Alcoa To Restart Alumar Aluminium Refinery In Brazil After Six Year Shutdown
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...
Novelis Completes US$150 MM Expansion Of Brazilian Aluminium Plant
Atlanta’s rolled aluminium firm Novelis announced the completion of its US$150 million expansion of its aluminium rolling and recycling capacity...
Norsk Hydro Launches Collaboration With University of São Paulo On Sustainable Uses For Red Mud
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA signed an agreement last week with the University of São Paulo on a BRL2.2...
Events
Alunorte Becomes World’s First Alumina Refinery Certified Under ISO 55001
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced this week that its alumina refinery in Brazil has become the world’s first to achieve ISO 55001 certification, bringing its total certifications for safety and responsible production to seven. Additionally, Alunorte Alumina Norte Brasil S.A. will also be listed among ISO’s Technical Committee Members, which is another first. […]
Norsk Hydro Signs MoU With New Fortress Energy For LNG Delivery To Alunorte Alumina Refinery
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced last week the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Brazilian firm New Fortress Energy (NFE) to provide liquefied natural gas to its Alumina do Norte do Brasil S.A. (Alunorte) alumina refinery. Per the firm, the new source of energy would replace a large portion of its current […]
Rusal America Inks Contract To Supply Almexa With Low-Carbon Aluminium ALLOW
En+ Group announced this week that its subsidiary Rusal America Corporation (RAC) has signed an agreement with Mexico’s aluminium rolled product producer Almexa to deliver 100 thousand metric tons of its low-carbon primary aluminium product ALLOW. The firm said in an emailed press release that their subsidiary had already delivered 4,800 metric tons of ALLOW […]
Brazilian Group Sues Norsk Hydro Over 2018 Alunorte Spill
Tens of thousands of Brazilian residents have joined in a class-action lawsuit against Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA for allegedly being harmed by a wastewater release in the state of Para three years ago. The suit is being brought on behalf of about 11,000 families of the Cainquiama – the Amazon Association of Mixed […]
Norsk Hydro Inks Duo Of Deals For Renewable Energy Plants In Brazil
Norwegian aluminium smelter Norsk Hydro ASA signed a pair of Memorandums of Understanding aimed at establishing renewal energy operations. This month Hydro signed a MoU with Scatec and Equinor contemplating a 480 MW solar power plant in Brazil. The parties would join to develop the plant, with a portion of its output promised to Hydro […]
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 ...
