Deals With Government, Power Companies Provide Alcoa Australia A Five-Year Respite
Alcoa Australia’s future is secure for another five years after the firm struck deals with electrical providers and the state...
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International Aluminium Institute Study Details Aluminium’s Significant Contribution To A Circular Economy
Industry trade group International Aluminium Institute (IAI) released a report this week detailing a study that shows aluminium beverage containers promote a circular economy better than any other material currently in use. According to the study, which looked at aluminium, glass, and...
Alcoa To Permanently Close Shuttered Alumina Refinery At Port Comfort
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced plans on Monday to permanently close its alumina refinery at Port Comfort, Texas. Alcoa...
Alcoa Of Australia Inks Trio Of Natural Gas Contracts To Supply Kwinana, Pinjarra, and Wagerup Alumina Refineries
Western Australia’s Alcoa of Australia Limited announced earlier this week an agreement with a trio of energy providers to supply...
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Alumina Ltd. Boss Sees Opportunity in Possible U.S. Aluminium Tariffs
Though many stakeholders in the global aluminium sector fear the consequences tariffs levied upon them by the United States government may have, Alumina Limited’s chief sees such a turn of events as an opportunity for his firm. Mike Ferraro indicated in an interview with The Australian Financial Review that increased tariffs on imported aluminium enacted […]
Half of Damaged Aluminium Production Back Online at Alcoa’s Portland Smelter
Another step in the recovery of Alcoa’s Portland plant was taken this week, as the firm announced that half the capacity it lost in a power blackout six months ago is now back online. The Portland smelter has been running at about one-third capacity since December, when a storm interrupted power to the plant, causing […]
Alumina Ltd’s Pizzey Eviscerates Australian Government for Perceived Poor Power Policies
Alumina Limited’s chairman John Pizzey leveled withering criticism at Australia’s national energy policy earlier today, declaring that ten years of the country’s power policy consigned the aluminium industry to paying double the price for power compared to the rest of the western world. Pizzey went on to say that such failures are all but certain […]
Ferraro Replaces Wasow as Alumina Ltd.’s CEO
Melbourne’s Alumina Limited announced the retirement of CEO Peter Wasow from the company earlier today. Wasow’s successor in the role will be now-former director Mike Ferraro. The firm gave no reason for Wasow’s departure in the announcement. Ferraro, who will be replacing him upon his retirement on May 31, operates a commercial and resource law […]
AWAC to Close Suriname’s Suralco Refinery
Aluminium producer Alcoa Corporation announced yesterday that it would be closing the Suralco alumina refinery and bauxite mines in Suriname. The firm said in a press release that the mine had been curtailed for over a year prior to this announcement. Alcoa said also that it would not close the refinery’s power source, the Afobaka […]
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 ...
