Alcoa Australia Slashes Production At Portland Aluminium To 75 Percent
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced last week that its joint venture Portland Aluminium is scaling back production to 75...
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ASI Certifies Portland Aluminium Under Performance Standard V2
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) this week certified Alcoa’s smelting and casting operations at Portland, Australia under its Performance Standard V2 (2017) Certification for sustainable production. The site has a nameplate production capacity of 358 thousand metric tons per year. It is...
Alcoa Pulls Out Of High-Purity Alumina Partnership With FYI Resources
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation said this week that its subsidiary Alcoa of Australia Limited has opted to end their...
Western Australia Authorities Cut Alcoa’s Water License By One-Third
Alcoa’s operations in Western Australia will have to go forward using substantially less water after local authorities reduce its allotment...
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Production Cut By 30% At Kwinana Alumina Refinery Due To Natural Gas Shortage
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation said this week that it plans to cut production at its joint venture alumina refinery in Kwinana, Western Australia, by about 30 percent due to a natural gas shortage. Alcoa said in a statement that one of the alumina refinery’s units has been taken offline already, while the remaining active […]
Alcoa Opens New Bauxite Residue Processing Facility In Brazil
American aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation opened a new processing facility in Brazil earlier this month that utilizes water and land conservation techniques it originally mastered at its operations in Australia. The new Poços de Caldas alumina refinery utilizes press filtration technology to reprocess bauxite residue generated at the plant, saving the plant from the necessity […]
Alcoa Inks Deal To Provide Low-Carbon Aluminium To Speira
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced this week an agreement with global aluminium rolling and recycling firm Speira to supply it with its low-carbon aluminium line EcoLum. Details of the deal were sparse, but Kelly Thomas, Alcoa’s Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, said in a press release that the impetus of the deal […]
Alcoa Announces Restart Of 35 MTPA Of Capacity At Portland Aluminium Smelter
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced this week that the Portland aluminium smelter in Australia would soon be restarting 35 thousand metric tons of shuttered aluminium capacity. Alcoa said in a press release that work on the restart will begin at once, with new aluminium to roll off the line in the fall of next […]
Alcoa Pledges To Achieve Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2050
American aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced this week its intention to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions along the entirety of its operations by 2050. The firm said that the push to neutralize both direct and indirect GHG emissions dovetails with its overall goal of operating in a more sustainable manner. Alcoa also notes that 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 ...
