Icelandic Firm Develops First All-Aluminium Vehicle
An Icelandic firm announced the debut of the country’s first vehicle to be made almost entirely of domestically-produced aluminium earlier...
News
Alcoa Inks Seven-Year Power Deal For Massena Plant
Alcoa’s Massena plant has reached a new, seven-year deal with the New York Power Authority to provide electricity to the plant, picking up where the existing deal leaves off at the end of this month. The new contract, which runs through 2026,...
Ghana And Guinea Mulling Partnership On Bauxite Mining Development
Ghana’s Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia said on Tuesday that his government is in talks with the Guinean government to...
Rusal To Build Pilot Plant For Production Of Fine Precipitated Aluminium Hydroxide
Russian Federation aluminium titan U.C. Rusal announced yesterday that it has readied construction on a ₽500 million (US$7.84 million) pilot...
Events
Recovery Underway At Norsk Hydro After Cyber Attack
Norsk Hydro ASA yesterday provided an update regarding the cyber attack the firm experienced earlier this week, indicating that significant progress has been made toward returning their IT system to service. Per the firm, its technical team has been collaborating with third-party specialists to track down the source of the attack. At present a plan […]
Wood Mackenzie Report Finds Section 232 Aluminium Tariffs A Boon To Chinese Exports
In stark contrast with the measure’s intended purpose of protecting United States aluminium producers from imports, the Section 232 tariffs on said imports have coaxed even more aluminium exports from producers in the People’s Republic of China. Such was the conclusion of a report recently released by industrial consultancy Wood Mackenzie. Per the report, the […]
Violent Protests Claim Two Lives At Vedanta’s Lanjigarh Alumina Refinery
Protests outside a Vedanta alumina refinery in Lanjigarh turned deadly on Monday, as a police officer and a protester were fatally injured in the course of demonstrations at the plant. “Two people have died – one of our Odisha industrial security force personnel and another one from the public,” said senior police officer Gupteswar Bhoi […]
EGA Inks New Shipping Deal With A.P. Moller – Maersk
UAE’s Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) announced the signing of a deal with global shipping firm A.P. Moller – Maersk for transport of EGA’s aluminium to customers throughout the world. The new agreement is in the form of a volume commitment extension, though no numbers or other terms of the deal were released by the […]
Removal Of Section 232 Tariffs On Canada’s Aluminium And Steel To Occur In “Next Few Weeks”: Ambassador MacNaughton
Canadian ambassador to the United States David MacNaughton continues to say an end to the Section 232 import tariffs on the dominion’s aluminium and steel will come to an end “in the next few weeks” in a repetition of similar comments made almost a month ago. The ambassador pointed to comments made by several leading […]
Aluminium Market Update: Why Are Aluminium Prices Lagging Behind Other Base Metals?
Base metals prices have recovered significantly since January’s lows after news that the US and China are inching closer to signing a trade deal. According to reports, both sides will lower or remove tariffs upon signing a trade agreement, but it is ...
The Venezuela Blackout Spells Doom for its Aluminium Industry
After Venezuela’s energy supply failed on March 8th, the directors of the CVG together with the presidents of each company ...
Aluminium Alloys in the Automotive Industry: a Handy Guide
Looking at the flurry of announcements of new aluminium alloys developed by some of the big aluminium producers (Novelis, Constellium, ...
Interview with European Aluminium’s Maarten G. Labberton and Magdalena Garczyńska
In the run-up to European Aluminium’s 15th International Aluminium Recycling Congress, which will take place between February 26-27 in Colmar, ...
