Colorado’s Ball Corporation announced last week that it has joined the First Movers Coalition alongside compatriot aluminium firm Novelis Inc., and it urges other firms in its sector to do the same. Ball Corporation said in a press release that it will...
European value-added aluminium firm Constellium NV announced a partnership this week with California additive manufacturing firm Morf3D, Inc. to provide...
Atlanta’s rolled aluminium firm Novelis Inc. said this week that it is planning to build a US$2.5-billion low-carbon aluminium recycling...
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group’s affiliate Rio Tinto Fer et Titane (RTFT) delivered the initial batch of high purity...
Jiuquan Iron & Steel (Group) Co., Ltd (JISCO) Jamaican subsidiary JISCO Alpart said last week that it plans to ramp up bauxite ore mining on the island to feed the firm’s alumina plant, which is soon to undergo a US$1.1 billion expansion. According to Jamaican media, JISCO Alpart will soon commence bauxite mining at a […]
Atlanta’s rolled aluminium firm Novelis broke ground this week on its US$365-million state-of-the-art aluminium recycling center in Guthrie, Kentucky. The new plant will have a nameplate capacity of 240 thousand metric tons per annum of sheet aluminium ingot while cutting Novelis’s carbon emissions by over one million metric tons each year. Located next door to […]
Swedish rolled aluminium firm Gränges AB announced an expansion this week to its Newport, Arkansas production facility to begin production of battery cathode foil, making it the first to produce battery cathode foil in the United States to date. Per the firm, battery cathode foil is a critical component for lithium-ion batteries, which are essential […]
Canadian clean technology firm Geomega Resources Inc. subsidiary Innord Inc. and Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group are partnering to develop a new method for handling bauxite ore residue (“red mud”) to bring to market recoverable iron compounds found within it. Per the agreement, Rio Tinto will provide C$1 million of the C$4 million needed […]
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA broke ground last week on a new US$150 million aluminium recycling plant in Cassopolis, Michigan. According to Hydro, the plant’s nameplate capacity will be 120 thousand metric tons of low-carbon aluminium extrusions per annum. Production is slated to begin next year, and the plant will create about 70 jobs […]
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 ...
