Alcoa Deschambault Aluminium Smelter To Add New US$8 MM Casting Facilities
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation said last week that it is soon to break ground on new aluminium casting facilities...
North America
Novelis Partners With Sortera Alloys And Breakthrough Energy Ventures On AI Aluminium Scrap Sorting Technology
Fort Wayne, Indiana’s industrial scrap metal sorting and recycling firm Sortera Alloys, Inc. announced late last week US$10 million in funding from Novelis and Breakthrough Energy Ventures to develop new methods for sorting automotive aluminium alloys for end-of-life recycling. Sortera utilizes artificial...
Magnesium Supply Cut Prompts Kaiser To Declare Force Majeure At Warrick Aluminium Rolling Mill
American aluminium smelter Kaiser Aluminum Corporation declared force majeure at its Warrick Rolling Mill in Indiana on Thursday due to...
South32 Aiming To Double Green Aluminium Production By Late 2023
Australian metals miner South32 is well on its way to becoming a global, diversified metals firm thanks to the significant...
Events
Century Says Hawesville Aluminium Smelter Curtailment Won’t Affect Mt. Holly
American primary aluminium producer Century Aluminum Company assured investors that the recent curtailment of production at its Hawesville facility will not affect operations at the Mount Holly aluminium smelter in South Carolina due to the differences in the way each facility’s power contracts are arranged. Mount Holly’s manager Dennis Harbath told local media last week […]
Alcoa Corporation Shutters Potline At Warrick Aluminium Smelter Due To “Operational Challenges”
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced this weekend that it will be shuttering one of the three aluminium smelting lines at its Warrick, Indiana plant due to what it calls “operational challenges.” The firm said in a press release that it expects to have had the line completely closed down by the end of the […]
Century To Idle Hawesville Aluminium Smelter Due To Spike In Energy Prices
American primary aluminium producer Century Aluminum Company is temporarily closing down its Hawesville, Kentucky aluminium smelter due to a precipitous rise in energy costs. Such was the message conveyed by the firm on Wednesday. Century says the plant will commence the idling process on Monday and is likely to remain idle for between nine and […]
Exports Of Aluminium Scrap From US Drops In Q1 While Imports From Canada, Mexico Rise
Import and export data released last week shows a general decline in exports of aluminium scrap from United States firms in this year’s first quarter, while exporters in Mexico and Canada generally increased during that same time period. Per data just released by the United States Geologic Survey (USGS), Canadian sources exported 151 thousand metric […]
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative Certifies Golden Aluminum Plant Under Its Performance Standard
Trade group Aluminium Stewardship Initiative announced this week the certification of Golden Aluminum’s Fort Lupton, Colorado aluminium rolling facility under its Performance Standard V2 for sustainable aluminium production. ASI’s certification of Golden’s plant covers its rolled aluminium products that are marketed to the downstream packaging, automotive, building and construction, and electronics sectors. Fiona Solomon, Chief […]
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 ...
