First Shipment By Chalco Of Bauxite From Guinea Mine Scheduled For Early December
Aluminum Corp of China Ltd (Chalco) said earlier this week that it has queued up its inaugural bauxite ore shipment...
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Chalco Ships First Bauxite From Boffa Mines In Guinea
Aluminum Corp of China Ltd (Chalco) earlier this week commenced the first shipment of its inaugural batch of bauxite ore from mines in the West African country of Guinea. According to a Chinese ship-tracking website, the first 55 thousand metric tons of...
Tepid Aluminium Market Translates To 14 Percent Drop In Chalco’s First Half Net Profit
The Aluminum Corp of China Ltd. (Chalco) reported results for the first half of the year on Wednesday. The firm’s...
Price, Not Shortages, Will Determine Chalco’s Desire To Import Alumina
Despite shortages in the country’s northern reaches, the Aluminum Corp of China Ltd (Chalco) is not planning to increase imports...
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Though Chalco’s Production Fell In Q1, Profits Rose By 46 Percent
Thanks to recently weak prices, Aluminum Corp of China Ltd. (Chalco) reported a drop in first-quarter aluminium production of 6.9 percent on the year. Per a data sheet sent to analysts earlier this week, Chalco smelted 950 thousand metric tons of primary aluminium in the opening three months of the year, off from last year’s […]
Chalco Passes Rusal As World’s Second-Biggest Aluminium Producer
In a move that places it ahead of now-former second-place firm U.C. Rusal, the People’s Republic of China’s Aluminum Corp of China Ltd (Chalco) said on Friday that it bumped up total production by 18 percent over the course of last year, making it the second-most-prolific aluminium producer on Earth. Reporting from Reuters described a […]
Chalco Shutters Production At Shandong Huayu Aluminium Smelter
Blaming the rising cost of electricity in the province, Aluminum Corp of China (Chalco) announced on Wednesday that it is ending aluminium production at its smelter in Shandong. Chalco said in a statement issued to the Shanghai and Hong Kong stock exchanges that it is implementing “flexible production” at the Shandong Huayu smelter due to […]
Sources Say Chinese Aluminium Firms Meeting To Discuss Domestic Price And Demand Woes
A trio of sources claiming knowledge told Reuters yesterday that representatives from China Hongqiao Group, Aluminum Corp of China Ltd (Chalco), and other Chinese major aluminium producers will hold a meeting today to hash out the implications of falling prices and weak demand for the country’s aluminium sector. Per the unnamed sources, the China Nonferrous […]
Anemic Domestic Aluminium Market Forces Chalco To Slash 470,000 MTPA Of Smelting Capacity
With ever-sagging domestic prices for the metal as a backdrop, Chinese state-owned smelter Aluminum Corp of China Ltd (Chalco) announced on Friday that it is cutting production at certain northern smelters. In an announcement posted to the Shanghai Stock Exchange, Chalco declared that it would place about 470,000 metric tons per annum of capacity on […]
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 ...
