Falling Aluminium Prices May Make Life Difficult For Jamaican Bauxite Operations: PM Paulwell
Jamaica’s Opposition Spokesman on Mining Phillip Paulwell expressed concern late last week that weakening aluminium prices may be the early...
News
Landowners In Pahang Seek State Government Help In Restarting Bauxite Mining
Although the moratorium on bauxite mining in Pahang is now a thing of the past, operations have yet to resume due to a delay in issuance of standard operating procedures for the practice. As a result, Pahang landowners have begun to petition...
Nespresso Collaborates With Bike Brand To Create Bicycle Made From Recycled Aluminium
Swiss coffee company Nestlé Nespresso S.A. has teamed up with Swedish bike brand Vélosophy to develop and manufacture a bicycle...
Indian Firm Titagarh Firema To Build 102 Aluminium-Bodied Rail Coaches For Pune Metro
Indian multinational firm Titagarh Wagons Ltd’s wholly-owned Italian subsidiary Titagarh Firema S P A will be building over one hundred...
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Coca-Cola Will Soon Package Dasani In Aluminium Cans And Bottles
In an effort at increasing usage of recycled materials and reduction of plastic waste, Dasani brand drinking water will soon be available in aluminium cans and bottles. The Coca-Cola Company announced earlier this week that the United States’ top bottled water brand is joining in the company’s “World Without Waste” initiative, which is working toward […]
Beijing Releases Third Set Of Scrap Aluminium Import Quotas For Q3
Beijing announced the third set of import scrap quotas for the quarter earlier this week, setting a limit of 11,290 metric tons of aluminium scrap to be allowed into the country’s ports during the third quarter. Altogether, China Solid Waste and Chemicals Management will limit imports of scrap metal to a shade under 100 thousand […]
China’s July Aluminium Smelting Total Of 2.9 Million Metric Tons Equals Second-Highest On Record
Aluminium smelters in the People’s Republic of China combined to produce 2.98 million metric tons of primary aluminium, representing the second-highest total tonnage reported by Beijing since the state began keeping records. July’s total surpassed that of June by 0.2 percent. Though the month’s total is a near-record high, the National Bureau of Statistics said […]
Hongqiao Says Operations Are Normal After Typhoon Lekima’s Devestation Of Shandong
World leading aluminium producer China Hongqiao Group said yesterday that its facilities are operating as normal in the wake of Typhoon Lekima, apparently contradicting statements made earlier in the week. “The facilities are not damaged by the typhoon. There was flooding outside the factories but no actual facilities damage,” said Honqgiao in an email sent […]
Nalco Plans Establishment Of Technology Division
India’s state-owned metals firm National Aluminium Company (Nalco) is planning to establish a new technology division in order to better position itself to take advantage of increasing demand from the country’s tech sector. In an interview with a domestic financial media outlet, Nalco’s chairman and managing director Tapan Kumar Chand said his company plans to […]
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 ...
