LOTTE Aluminium Materials USA LLC announced this week a new US$238.7 million project in Kentucky to construct an aluminium foil production plant for use in EV batteries. Per the state governor’s office, LOTTE Aluminium is partnering with LOTTE Chemical on the project,...
The Jamaican government reiterated its commitment to sustainable and economically competitive bauxite production this week. Speaking at the opening of...
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced a planned US$15 million expansion of its aluminium remelting facility in Henderson, Kentucky...
Trade group Aluminium Stewardship Initiative certified a trio of Novelis’s North American aluminium plants under its ASI Performance Standard V2...
Anglo-Australian metals titan Rio Tinto Group and American automaker Ford Motor Company have partnered to work together on developing more sustainable and secure supply chains for low-carbon raw materials, including low-carbon aluminium, to be used in Ford’s automotive offerings. According to Rio Tinto, the two firms will combine to increase the amount of low-carbon aluminium […]
Atlanta’s rolled aluminium firm Novelis Inc. said this week it will soon be offering a new 100-percent recycled aluminium alloy specially designed for cosmetic packaging. The new aluminium alloy is part of its evercycle line of products and is capable of meeting cosmetic companies’ anodized quality requirements. Developed in conjunction with Anomatic, evercycle aluminium alloy […]
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group said this week it plans a US$188 million expansion of low-carbon aluminium billet production at its Alma aluminium smelter in Quebec. The proposed expansion would boost the plant’s overall production by 202 thousand metric tons per annum. Rio Tinto’s expansion at the Alma aluminium smelter will include a new […]
Jamaica’s legislature this week approved US$268.48 million from the country’s Capital Development Fund (CDF) for the support of the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI) in the coming fiscal year. Commenting to the House of Representatives last week, Jamaica’s Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. Nigel Clarke relayed the history of the organization, which was […]
Fort Wayne, Indiana’s industrial scrap metal sorting and recycling firm Sortera Alloys, Inc. announced late last week US$10 million in funding from Novelis and Breakthrough Energy Ventures to develop new methods for sorting automotive aluminium alloys for end-of-life recycling. Sortera utilizes artificial intelligence to sort mixed aluminium alloy scrap into individual alloys, allowing for quicker […]
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 ...
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...
