Aluminium Bahrain To Use EtaPRO Technology To Boost Power Stations’ Performance
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) announced last week that it has chosen to work with EtaPRO LLC to enhance the thermal...
Technology
Alcoa Completes New Aluminium Recycling Furnace At Mosjøen Plant
Aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced this week the completion of a new aluminium recycling furnace at its plant in Mosjøen, Norway that utilizes power derived from renewable resources. Alcoa says this is the firm’s largest investment in recycling infrastructure to date. The...
EGA And Ma’aden Extend Aluminium Technology Partnership
Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) has extended its agreement with state-owned mining firm Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) to explore...
Aluminium Bahrain and Emirates Global Aluminium Ink Technology Cooperation Agreement
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) and Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on technology cooperation between...
Events
Norsk Hydro To Invest NOK60 MM At Årdal Aluminium Smelter
Norway aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced this week NOK60 million (US$6.6 million) in improvements to Årdal aluminium smelter’s electrolysis cells aimed at improving efficiency, safety, and profitability at the plant. The firm said in a press release that improvements at the plant would commence next spring and will include upgrades to the next-generation cell […]
Vedanta Debuts New High-Speed Aluminium Billet For Extrusion Market
India’s biggest aluminium producer Vedanta Ltd. debuted this week special “high-speed” aluminium billet customized for use in aluminium extrusions in an online event attended by downstream and other value-added aluminium stakeholders. Vedanta said its new line of aluminium billet is capable of increasing the speed of extruding aluminium by 25 percent. The firm utilized several […]
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, […]
Rusal Employs Quality Control Neural Network At Irkutsk Aluminium Smelter
Russian Federation aluminium titan UC Rusal announced this week the implementation of a new neural network at Irkutsk Aluminium Smelter that will monitor the quality of the plant’s aluminium ingot. Rusal’s new neural network utilizes a video monitoring system to check the surface quality of small aluminium ingots during production, checking for defects as the […]
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 ...
