Latin America

Albras To Resume Full Production By Year’s End

Albras To Resume Full Production By Year’s End

Albras Alumínio Brasileiro S.A.’s (Albras) board of directors determined on Tuesday that the smelter will begin a return to full production in view of the lifting of state-mandated production curtailment at Alumina do Norte do Brasil S.A. (Alunorte) over the past week....

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Events

Alunorte Embargo Winding Through Brazilian Courts

Alunorte Embargo Winding Through Brazilian Courts

Norwegian aluminium smelter Norsk Hydro ASA updated its investors on the situation at its Brazilian aluminium refinery Alunorte, noting that progress had been made both on the judicial front and with state environmental regulators. Hydro said Monday that it has reached an agreement with the Ministério Público to engage outside consultants to determine whether the […]

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The Venezuela Blackout Spells Doom for its Aluminium Industry

The Venezuela Blackout Spells Doom for its Aluminium Industry

After Venezuela’s energy supply failed on March 8th, the directors of the CVG together with the presidents of each company decided to shut down Venalum and Alcasa. With a joint installed capacity of 600 thousand tons of primary aluminium per year, both sites were already operating at less than 15% of their capacity, due to […]

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Labor Dispute With Rusal Tangles Up Bauxite Industry in Guyana

Labor Dispute With Rusal Tangles Up Bauxite Industry in Guyana

Conciliation talks are set to begin nearly two weeks after UC Rusal partly suspended operations at its bauxite mining site in Guyana. Russia’s largest aluminium producer had halted mining on February 15th amid a pay dispute with some of its 540 employees in the South American country, moving its equipment to a guarded warehouse. The current labor […]

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Rusal Ceases Bauxite Mining In Guyana Due To Ongoing Labor Row

Rusal Ceases Bauxite Mining In Guyana Due To Ongoing Labor Row

Due to a dispute with workers over compensation, Russian Federation aluminium titan U.C. Rusal shut down operations at the Bauxite Company of Guyana over the weekend. Per comments made to industry media on Sunday, laborers at the site “declined to work and demanded a pay increase, even though their salaries had been adjusted for forecast […]

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Labor Dispute Leads To Lockout At Rusal’s Bauxite Operation In Guyana

Labor Dispute Leads To Lockout At Rusal’s Bauxite Operation In Guyana

Upon word that its work force would not settle for receiving only 1 percent rather than the desired 15-percent boost in wages, management at Rusal’s Russian Bauxite Company in Guyana commenced a lockout while talks continued. “All affected workers are asked to leave the premises of the company with immediate effect,” stated a letter penned […]

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