Rio Tinto To Install 16 New Low-Carbon Aluminium Smelting Pots At Quebec Smelter
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group will invest US$87 million at its Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean aluminium smelter to boost its low-carbon aluminium...
Sustainability
Norsk Hydro Plans New Aluminium Recycling Plant For Southwest Michigan
Norwegian aluminium firm Norsk Hydro ASA announced this week its intention to build a state-of-the-art aluminium recycling plant in Cassopolis, Michigan. The plant is expected to have a nameplate capacity of 120 thousand metric tons of recycled aluminium per annum and employ...
Century Aluminium Inks Deal To Power Grundartangi Aluminium Smelter With Sustainable Wind Power
Century Aluminium announced this week its subsidiary Norðurál Grundartangi ehf and independent renewable power producer Qair agreed to a deal...
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...
Events
Alcoa Unveils Roadmap To Sustainable Aluminium
Aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced this week a technological plan that it hopes will lead the aluminium industry into more sustainably producing the metal in the future. The firm says its “technological roadmap” are capable of not only moving the aluminium industry into wider sustainability, but are also economically beneficial in the coming low-carbon future. […]
ELYSIS Zero-Carbon Aluminium Produced In Commercial-Sized Cells At Quebec Research Center
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group said this week that the zero-carbon aluminium offering ELYSIS has progressed to scaling up its production method to the size of small industrial cells of the size employed by the aluminium industry today. The low-carbon aluminium product, which is the result of a partnership between Rio Tinto and Alcoa, […]
Century Aluminium Breaks Ground On US$120 MM Low-Carbon Aluminium Casthouse At Norðurál
Century Aluminium announced this week that its subsidiary Norðurál Grundartangi broke ground on a new US$120 million low-carbon aluminium billet casthouse in Iceland. Per the firm, the new casthouse will have a nameplate capacity of 150 thousand metric tons per annum when it comes online in early 2024. The new aluminium casthouse will also raise […]
Swisstek Aluminium Installs Array Of Solar Power Cells At Extrusion Plant In Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan aluminium extruder Swisstek Aluminium Limited announced this week the installation of solar power generation equipment at its factory complex in an effort at promoting the firm’s sustainable production drive. Swisstek installed a rooftop solar array with over 3,000 photovoltaic cells under the Ceylon Electricity Board’s net plus scheme. The solar array is part […]
Ball Corporation Breaks Ground On Brazil’s First Aluminium Circular Economy Lab
Earlier this week, Colorado’s Ball Corporation revealed plans to build the first circular economy lab in Brazil on an island dedicated to sustainable tourism. Per the firm, the VADELATA project will be built on Fernando de Noronha and will provide the island with a centralized location for the collection and recycling of aluminium cans. Construction […]
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 ...
