GFG To Double Lochaber Smelter’s Capacity With Addition Of Aluminium Recycling Plant
Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance said last week it is preparing to invest £94 million in the construction of a new...
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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...
ASI Certifies Alu-Met GmbH’s Speedline Aluminium-Gießerei GmbH Under Sustainable Performance Standard
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced yesterday the certification of Alu-Met GmbH’s Speedline Aluminium-Gießerei GmbH in Schlins, Austria against the...
Gränges To Purchase Remaining Interest In GETEK From Erbslöh For €8.5 Million
Swedish rolled aluminium firm Gränges AB said yesterday it has agreed to buy the remaining 49-percent interest in aluminium billet...
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Canadian Aluminium Recycler Matalco To Build US$80 Million Plant In Central Wisconsin
Canadian aluminium manufacturer Matalco Inc. announced late last week that it intends to build a US$80-million plant in the heart of Wisconsin. Matalco said the plant, which it intends for Wisconsin Falls, will produce 230 million pounds of billet per year, largely utilizing aluminium derived from scrap. The billet produced there will then be marketed […]
Matalco to Increase Remelted Aluminium Billet Output at Lordstown Plant by More Than Double
Ontario’s Matalco Inc. is on pace to double its output of remelted aluminium billet at its new plant in Lordstown, Ohio according to an official at the firm who spoke to S&P Global Platts recently. The unnamed official said that the plant, which began production in March 2016, is expected to finish the year with […]
EGA Places Order for Seventh Aluminium Billet Furnace from Austria’s Hertwich
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has ordered an additional batch homogenizing furnace from Austrian aluminium equipment manufacturer Hertwich Engineering. The order, placed late last month, is for a furnace to be utilized in the heat treatment of billets and is expected to go into operation later this year. The furnace in question, which is the seventh […]
Shawinigan Aluminium Receives Loan from Canadian Government
The government of Canada is extending a loan to Quebec’s Shawinigan Aluminium in order to upgrade its facilities. The aluminium billet maker is the recipient of a C$700,000 (US$536,460.13) repayable contribution from Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions (CED), and was granted under CED’s Quebec Economic Development Program (QEDP). The funds are to be used […]
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 ...
