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...
Technology
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 that will test new technology aimed at increasing aircraft performance and reducing carbon emissions. Among the technology being tested on the platform...
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...
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...
Events
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 […]
ALCORE Receives A$7.5 MM Grant From Government To Build Aluminium Smelter Bath Recycling Plant In Tasmania
Australian Bauxite Limited (ABx) said this week that it’s subsidiary ALCORE Limited has received a grant of A$7.5 million from the Australian Government’s Modern Manufacturing Initiative towards its A$16.4-million aluminium smelter bath recycling plant in Bell Bay, Tasmania. ABx says the proposed plant will be the first site in the world to recycle aluminium smelter […]
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 ...
