Arconic Announces US$100 MM Expansion To Operations At Eastern Tennessee Aluminium Plant
Aluminium value-added firm Arconic plans a US$100 million expansion to its operations in eastern Tennessee. The firm says it will...
North America
Negotiations Continue Between Rio Tinto And Labor Union At BC Works Aluminium Smelter
Negotiators for Rio Tinto Group and Unifor Local 2301 plan to strike up talks again next week over the prospect of a new collective agreement in hopes that it will end the strike that has now gone on for a month. The...
Tri-Arrows Aluminum Joins ASI As Production & Transformation Member
Trade group Aluminium Stewardship Initiative announced last week that Tri-Arrows Aluminium, Inc. has joined the association as a Production &...
Novelis Net Income For First Quarter Of FY 2022 Rises To US$303 MM
Atlanta’s rolled aluminium firm Novelis released results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2022 this week. The firm reported...
Events
Rio Tinto To Cut Production At BC Works Aluminium Smelter Due To Labor Impasse
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group announced this week that it will begin cutting production at its BC Works aluminium smelter due to an ongoing strike at the plant. The firm said in a press release that it continues to negotiate with Unifor Local 2301 on a new collective labor agreement at the plant, but […]
Novelis To Resume Aluminium Foil Production At Terre Haute Plant After Seven Year Hiatus
Atlanta’s rolled aluminium firm Novelis announced this week a new US$7-million investment in its facility at Terre Haute, Indiana that will restart several areas of the plant that have been idled as well as adding over three dozen new employees to staff the now-idled equipment. The firm said the expansion will allow the plant to […]
KPS Capital Buys Aluminium Extruders Metra And Profile
KPS Capital Partners, LP announced this week the completion of its acquisition of extruded aluminium firms Metra Holding S.p.A., Metra S.p.A., and Profile Custom Extrusions, LLC. KPS said in a press release that it intends to merge Metra and Profile into a single entity that will operate in both Europe and North America. Metra specializes […]
Norsk Hydro Inks Agreement On Aluminium Recycling Plant In SW Michigan
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced that its subsidiary Hydro Aluminium Metal has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) to build a new US$120-million aluminium recycling plant in southwest Michigan. The firm said in a press release that the plant will convert aluminium scrap into aluminium ingot for use in the automotive, transportation, and […]
ELYSIS Breaks Ground On Commercial Prototype Of Inert Anode Cells At Quebec Aluminium Plant
Alcoa Corporation and Rio Tinto Group joint venture ELYSIS commenced construction of its first commercial-scale prototype cells utilizing inert anode technology in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec this week. The prototype cells now under construction will utilize an electrical current of 450 kA, which is comparable to potlines at major aluminium smelters around the world. However, instead of […]
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 businesses and policymakers to accelerate decarbonization efforts. However, with COVID-19 disrupting lives and economies in an unprecedented manner, countries across the globe ...
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 ...
Aluminium of Greece (AOG): is the Pechiney spirit still alive?
Between September 24-25, FastmarketsMB organized its annual aluminium conference in Athens. A day before the conference, in accordance with an ...
