Century Aluminum Sustains US$58.2 MM Loss In Third Quarter, But Sees Market Recovery On Horizon
American aluminium smelter Century Aluminum released third-quarter results on Thursday. Like all firms, the company felt an impact from the...
North America
Safety And Efficiency Upgrades Underway At Rio Tinto’s Vaudreuil Alumina Refinery
Anglo-Australian metals miner Rio Tinto Group said last week that it is planning a US$51-million upgrade to its Vaudreuil alumina refinery’s safety and efficiency. Per the firm, a trio of new buildings are currently under construction that will serve alongside the existing...
Trump Rescinds Section 232 Tariffs On Canadian Aluminium, But Promises Reimposing Them Should Imports Spike
Donald Trump ended the import tariff on aluminium from Canada earlier this week, but he promised to reinstate it should...
Gränges Resumes Production At North Carolina Aluminium Plant And Upgrades At Arkansas Plant
Swedish rolled aluminium firm Gränges AB said on Thursday that the Salisbury, North Carolina plant has been reopened and the...
Events
Century Aluminum Issues Notice Of Impending Closure Of Mt. Holly Smelter To Plant’s Labor Force
American aluminium smelter Century Aluminum issued a notice to its employees at the Mt. Holly aluminium smelter that it intends to shut down production at the plant if a suitable power arrangement is not obtained to replace the contract it has with the South Carolina Public Service Authority (Santee Cooper). The contract for power between […]
Rio Tinto And Lafarge Canada Develop Cement Ingredient From Spent Potlining
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group, construction firm Lafarge Canada, and its subsidiary Geocycle Canada have created a marketable product using used potlining, preventing it from ending up in landfills. The new product, dubbed Alextra, is the product of a great deal of research into the problem of used potlining and is part of the […]
State Judge Strikes Down Century Aluminum’s Power Agreement With City Of Goose Creek
Century Aluminum’s quest to rid itself of the agreement to buy power from only the South Carolina Public Service Company (Santee Cooper) was dealt a serious setback earlier this week when a state judge found that an agreement it had with the city of Goose Creek was illegal. On Monday, Circuit Judge Roger Young handed […]
US Commerce Department Levies Preliminary Antidumping Duties On Aluminium Sheet From 18 Countries
On Friday the U.S. Department of Commerce issued its preliminary determination on a complaint by domestic aluminium producers that imports of common aluminium alloy sheet from 18 countries have been dumped on the American market, finding support for such harm and instructing agents at the border to require those importers to deposit estimated antidumping duties […]
Aluminum Association Files Complaints Over Foil From Five Countries But Allegedly Originating From China
The Aluminum Association’s Foil Trade Enforcement Working Group filed a formal complaint with the Trump Administration on Tuesday over imports from five different countries that they say are simply an attempted end run around antidumping and countervailing duty measures taken over two years ago against aluminium foil producers in the People’s Republic of China. According […]
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 ...
