Alcoa Reports Record Net Income Of US$429 MM In 2021
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation released results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2021 last week. Strong pricing...
Trade group Aluminium Stewardship Initiative announced this week the provisional certification of Alcoa’s Massena smelter, which is the longest continuously-operating aluminium facility on Earth, under its Performance Standard for sustainable aluminium production. Alcoa’s Massena plant has been in operation since 1902 and...
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation released results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2021 last week. Strong pricing...
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced this week that it has come to an agreement with the labor force at...
Aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced this week a technological plan that it hopes will lead the aluminium industry into more...
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 […]
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 […]
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced this week the reopening of its Alumar aluminium smelter in São Luís, Brazil. The operation has been shuttered since 2015. Alcoa says it is immediately restarting the facility, with the expectation that first metal will emanate from the plant in the middle of next year. The entire nameplate capacity […]
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced a deal with Germany’s Erbslöh Aluminium GmbH to supply its affiliate WKW Extrusion with its low-carbon brand of aluminium. WKW plans to use Alcoa’s EcoLum aluminium in its own line of sustainable semi-fabricated aluminium products. Alcoa’s low-carbon aluminium will go into WKW’s NEWTRAL aluminium alloy, which is targeted at […]
Alcoa Corporation and Rio Tinto Group joint venture ELYSIS commenced construction of its first commercial-scale prototype cells utilizing inert anode technology in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec this week. The prototype cells now under construction will utilize an electrical current of 450 kA, which is comparable to potlines at major aluminium smelters around the world. However, instead of […]
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 ...
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both ...
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...