Rio Tinto Starts Construction On C$240 MM Expansion At Alma Aluminium Smelter
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group announced the beginning of construction of 202 thousand metric tons per annum of low-carbon,...
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Increased Hydropower In Yunnan Leads To Bump In Aluminium Production
According to an analyst who spoke to Reuters earlier this week, Yunnan’s aluminium smelters are already starting to increase output thanks to an increase in available power in the province. Yunnan is in the midst of recovering from a drought, which took...
China Hongqiao To Continue Aluminium Capacity Relocation To Yunnan Despite Power Disruptions
An unreliable power supply will not slow down China Hongqiao’s plan to move 2 million metric tons per annum of...
China Shenhuo Plans Aluminium Output Increase In Yunnan Thanks To Steady Power Supply
Chinese aluminium producer Henan Shenhuo Coal & Power Co Ltd said this week that it plans to ramp up to...
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Norsk Hydro Inks 1,300 GWh Renewable Power Contract With Hafslund Eco
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA signed a new six-year long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with renewable power provider Hafslund Eco Vannkraft AS last week. The PPA will have Hafslund Eco provide Hydro with 1,300 GWh over the life of the contract. Financial terms of the agreement were not made public by either party. This […]
Hongqiao To Move Additional 1.93 MM MTPA Of Aluminium Smelting Capacity To Yunnan Province
Yet more aluminium capacity is headed south this winter, as Chinese aluminium giant China Hongqiao Group will be relocating 1.93 million metric tons per annum to Yunnan province in the coming months. A notice published by the Yunnan government said the new capacity would wind up in the Honghe prefecture, relocated from Honqiao’s operations in […]
Chalco Moves 135 Thousand MTPA To Yunnan Aluminium
State-owned aluminium firm Aluminum Corp of China Ltd (Chalco) is moving an additional 135 thousand metric tons per annum of aluminium smelting production to its co-affiliate Yunnan Aluminium, the company announced yesterday. This is but the latest in a mass migration to the area, where hydropower is cheap and abundant. Both Chalco and Yunnan Aluminium […]
China Hongqiao To Begin Transferring 2 MTPA Of Aluminium Smelting Capacity To Yunnan Next Year
In an effort at reducing its reliance upon coal-generated electricity, China Hongqiao Group Ltd said yesterday it plans to move almost one-third of its smelting capacity to the province of Yunnan in the southwestern portion of the People’s Republic of China. In comments to Reuters at China Aluminium Week, Hongqiao chairman Zhang Bo said the […]
Low-carbon Aluminium Boosts Industry’s Green Credentials
Global warming remains one of the leading critical global issues – emphasised in the last Paris accord and this month’s COP23 summit in Bonn. The carbon equivalent (CE), as a measure of how much CO2 is produced by any activity, is now accepted as a crucial major index of environmental performance, not least for 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 ...
