Kobelco Opens Expansion At Kentucky Extruded Aluminium Automotive Parts Plant
Kobe Steel, Ltd’s U.S. subsidiary Kobelco Aluminum Products & Extrusions Inc. (KPEX) inaugurated a new aluminium extrusions plant in Bowling...
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Kaiser Aluminum Appoints Leo Gerard To Board Of Directors
California’s Kaiser Aluminum Corporation announced on Thursday the appointment of Leo W. Gerard to its board of directors, raising the board’s membership to an even dozen. Gerard joins the Kaiser Aluminum board fresh off his retirement from the position of International President...
Opening Of Henan Shenhuo Smelter In Yunnan Delayed Due To Adverse Weather
The opening of a new aluminium smelter in Yunnan province has been postponed by Henan Shenhuo Group due to adverse...
Altech Receives State Invitation To Locate Next High-Purity Alumina Plant In Saxony
Australian innovator Altech Chemicals Ltd. said yesterday it has been invited by the government of the German state of Saxony...
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CANPACK Plans Aluminium Beverage Can Plant For Western Czech Republic
Polish metal packaging firm CANPACK Group announced earlier this week an expansion into the Czech Republic of its operations that will take the form of an aluminium can factory. Per the firm, the new facility will be located in Stříbřo, which lies in Plzeň Region, along the western border with Germany. The aluminium can plant’s […]
Alba Information System Certified To ISO 27001:2013
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. announced last week the certification of its information management apparatus to the ISO 27001:2013 Information Security Management System standard. Alba says the certification demonstrates the firm’s Information Security Management System (ISMS) is equipped with a systematic and ongoing approach to handling potential security risks that may be confronted by its information systems. […]
EGA Releases Second Annual Sustainability Report
Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) released its second-annual Sustainability Report earlier this week, detailing the progress the firm made towards its sustainability targets in 2018. In the report, EGA notes its work in conjunction with the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative over the last calendar year. EGA join the ASI in 2017, becoming the first Middle Eastern […]
Unplanned Outages Drop China’s Aluminium Production By 0.5 Percent In August
Unplanned aluminum production outages at two of the country’s main smelters helped drop the People’s Republic of China’s total production by 0.5 percent on the month in August according to numbers released yesterday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Per Beijing’s numbers, China’s aluminium smelters combined to produce 2.97 million metric tons of primary […]
Vedanta’s Jharusguda Plant Has Its Sights Set On Captive Bauxite And Coal Resources: Incoming CEO Singh
In order to remain among the world’s cheapest producer of aluminium, Vedanta Ltd. is working toward having its own captive bauxite and coal mines. Such was the message conveyed by the Jharusguda plant’s incoming Chief Executive Officer Chhavi Nath Singh to domestic media late last week. “We are still importing 40% of our bauxite requirement […]
Are Things Finally Looking Up For The Aluminium Market?
Base metals prices recovered sharply in the first half of September, after a seasonal slump in August, as investors and traders hope that easing trade tensions between U.S. and China might boost demand for metals in the remaining part of the year. ...
Zhongwang Fake Semis Prosecution May Slam The Door On Key Routes For U.S. Import Duty Avoidance
The global aluminium market has been watching the trials and travails of Chinese behemoth Zhongwang with intense interest for the ...
Aluminium Prices Under Double Pressure: Trade Wars and Chinese Exports
Base metals prices tumbled to their lowest in several weeks at the start of August, after U.S. President Donald Trump ...
Dirty Metal – China’s Troublesome Tether Between Coal And Aluminium
The year 2019 has been a red-letter year for the aluminium sector in the People’s Republic of China. Despite trade ...
