Alcoa Pledges To Achieve Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2050
American aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced this week its intention to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions along the entirety of...
Atlanta’s rolled aluminium firm Novelis said this week it plans to invest around US$130 million for upgrades at its Oswego, New York plant in order to increase its capacity for production of sustainable flat-rolled aluminium. Novelis says the capex project will add...
American aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced this week its intention to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions along the entirety of...
Noranda and the Jamaican government reached an agreement this week on bauxite levy payments on exported ore. Transport and Mining...
Anglo-Australian metals miner Rio Tinto Group announced an agreement in principle with Unifor Local 2301 at its BC Works aluminium...
European value-added aluminium firm Constellium NV announced yesterday that it has been chosen to be the supplier of aluminium structural components for the new all-electric 2022 Ford F-150. Constellium will supply the new model with parts to include the windshield header, rocker, radiator support, among others. As of this announcement, Constellium will be supplying aluminium […]
Aluminium sector trade group Aluminum Association lauded the United States Department of Commerce for its final determination that importers from Russia and four other countries have been dumping certain aluminium foils on the American market. On Friday the Commerce Department found that aluminium foil exporters from Armenia, Brazil, Oman, Russia, and Turkey have been flooding […]
Atlanta’s rolled aluminium firm Novelis announced this week the expansion of its partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) on the Novelis Innovation Hub. The partnership will explore new areas in materials and process research with an eye toward increased sustainability and zero-carbon production by mid-century. Novelis says the partnership will continue building […]
The Gramercy aluminium refinery in Lousiana is back online after Hurricane Ida devastated the region last week. Stakeholder Concord Resources told industry media on Thursday that the plant was thoroughly checked after the storm prior to resuming production. Inspectors found no significant damage to the facility. “Alumina production at Gramercy went into a planned curtailment […]
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 parties were last at the negotiating table late last week, but no word […]
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 ...