Rio Tinto To Install 16 New Low-Carbon Aluminium Smelting Pots At Quebec Smelter
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group will invest US$87 million at its Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean aluminium smelter to boost its low-carbon aluminium...
North America
Norsk Hydro Plans New Aluminium Recycling Plant For Southwest Michigan
Norwegian aluminium firm Norsk Hydro ASA announced this week its intention to build a state-of-the-art aluminium recycling plant in Cassopolis, Michigan. The plant is expected to have a nameplate capacity of 120 thousand metric tons of recycled aluminium per annum and employ...
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...
Alcoa Unveils Roadmap To Sustainable Aluminium
Aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced this week a technological plan that it hopes will lead the aluminium industry into more...
Events
Constellium Reopens 144” Cold Rolling Aluminium Mill At Ravenswood, West Virginia Plant
European value-added aluminium firm Constellium NV restarted its 144” cold-rolling mill at its plant in Ravenswood, West Virginia last week. Constellium notes that the move is the opening phase of a project to remove the entirety of the 1950s-era mill at the site and replace it with state-of-the-art cold-rolling aluminium sheet equipment. Funding for the […]
ELYSIS Zero-Carbon Aluminium Produced In Commercial-Sized Cells At Quebec Research Center
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group said this week that the zero-carbon aluminium offering ELYSIS has progressed to scaling up its production method to the size of small industrial cells of the size employed by the aluminium industry today. The low-carbon aluminium product, which is the result of a partnership between Rio Tinto and Alcoa, […]
Novelis Sets Record EBITDA In Second Quarter Of FY 2022
Atlanta’s rolled aluminium firm Novelis reported results for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2022 this week. Strong demand and better aluminium prices buoyed numbers for the quarter to record highs. For the second quarter Novelis reported net income from continuing operations of US$239 million, up by two-thirds on the year. Net income from […]
US Trade Rep Tai Hopeful Of Breaking Impasse With EU On Aluminium And Steel Tariffs
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said last week she had high hopes for the current negotiations between the United States and Europe over putting to bed an ongoing dispute over aluminium and steel tariffs. “The conversations are intensive,” Tai said to reporters late in the week. “Let’s say I’m optimistic.” Talks are centered on the […]
Rio Tinto Extends 25-Year Bauxite R&D Partnership With Université Du Québec À Chicoutimi
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group and the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC) renewed their longstanding partnership for an additional three years this week in order to continue research and development of methods for processing bauxite and bauxite tailings. The partnership began 25 years ago and has seen Rio Tinto invest over US$2 million […]
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 ...
