Airbus Debuts Aluminium Bodied DisruptiveLab Helicopter
European aerospace firm Airbus Group SE unveiled DisruptiveLab this week, which is a new flying laboratory featuring an aluminium fuselage...
Technology
Emirates Global Aluminium’s STEM Development Program Reached Over 6,000 Students In 2022
Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) said this week that its program to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in local children reached over 6,000 students last year. The firm said its outreach program is part of the UAE’s Operation 300bn and...
Australian Bauxite Takes Next Step In Building Fluorine Recovery Reactor
Australian Bauxite Limited (ABx) announced this week that the next step in its ALCORE pilot plant has been achieved as...
Alro Slatina Marks 16th Anniversary With Opening Of New High-Tech Aluminium Extrusion Capacity
Romanian aluminium company Alro SA (Alro Slatina) said this week that its downstream extrusion operation Vimetco Extrusion recently brought online...
Events
Norsk Hydro To Partner With Equinor And Scatec On US$430 MM Solar Power Project In Brazil
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA’s subsidiary Hydro Rein is partnering with renewable energy firms Equinor and Scatec to build a solar power project that will provide power to the world’s biggest alumina refinery in Brazil. Hydro has signed a 20-year agreement with the companies that will have them cooperate in building the 531-megawatt plant […]
EGA To Install 14 New Highly Automated Cranes At Jebel Ali Aluminium Smelter
Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) announced this week that it plans to move closer to full automation at its Jebel Ali plant with the addition of over a dozen new automated overhead cranes. The firm says it will replace 16 of the cranes currently onsite with 14 new overhead cranes that feature auto positioning and […]
EGA Inks Deal With GE For Improvements To Gas Turbines At Al Taweela Aluminium Smelter
Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) has signed an agreement with GE Gas Power (GE) to make improvements on four of its GE9F gas turbines at its Al Taweela power plant. EGA says the improvements will help cut its greenhouse gas emissions even further, bringing it that much closer to its plan to be a net-zero […]
EGA Boosts Amperage To 500kA At Al Taweelah Aluminium Smelter
Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) announced last week that it has started operations at its DX+ Ultra reduction cells at an amperage of 500kA, the highest amperage reached by alumininium smelters in the Middle East to date. Boosting the amperage to 500kA is expected to correspondingly increase production by five percent above its maximum nameplate […]
Rio Tinto Teams Up With Canadian Clean Tech Firm Geomega On Bauxite Residue Recycling Technology
Canadian clean technology firm Geomega Resources Inc. subsidiary Innord Inc. and Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group are partnering to develop a new method for handling bauxite ore residue (“red mud”) to bring to market recoverable iron compounds found within it. Per the agreement, Rio Tinto will provide C$1 million of the C$4 million needed […]
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 ...
