Rio Tinto Takes Full Control Of Queensland Alumina Refinery From UC Rusal
Anglo-Australian metals mining giant Rio Tinto Group has taken full control of the Queensland alumina refinery it shares with Russian...
Australia
Rusal Sues Rio Tinto For Return Of 20 Percent Share Of Queensland Alumina
Russian Federation aluminium titan UC Rusal is suing Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group to receive back its 20-percent share of Queensland Alumina Ltd. that the latter firm took from Rusal in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year....
Australia Government Enacts Immediate Ban On Bauxite And Alumina To Russia
Last week the Australian government announced that it has banned with immediate effect the import of bauxite and alumina from...
Alcoa Planning Conversion To Steam-Generated Power At Australian Alumina Refineries
American aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation said this week that it is preparing a “step change” in the production of alumina...
Events
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 government that include lower power costs and a A$160 million (US$124 million) aid package. The deals with AGL Energy, Origin Energy, and Alinta Energy were for a term of five years, but details of the […]
Australian Government Reveals Investigation Into Imported Chinese Aluminium Micro-Extrusions
The Australian government initiated an anti-dumping investigation into the imports of Chinese aluminium earlier this year, a move that some experts say has only added fuel to the fire of tension between the two countries. According to the records of the Australian Anti-Dumping Commission, the investigation is not a retaliation for the People’s Republic of […]
Trump Administration Hikes Import Tariffs On Derivative Aluminium And Steel Imports
Tariffs on some imported aluminium and steel products will rise next month after United States President Donald Trump issued a proclamation alleging that producers from some countries are circumventing existing import tariffs by shipping derivative goods instead of raw metal. On Friday the White House issued the proclamation which boosts the duties on derivative aluminium […]
China Imports All-Time High Of 31.1 Thousand Metric Tons Of Unwrought Aluminium Alloy In November
Import data released earlier this week showed marked increases in China’s intake of bauxite, alumina, and unwrought aluminium in recent months, mostly reversing declines in prior periods. According to Shanghai Metals Market, Chinese buyers imported 7.21 million metric tons of HS code 26060000 bauxite in November, good for a month-on-month increase of 11.38 percent. Last […]
China Bauxite Imports Fall By 6 Percent In August Thanks To The Rains In Africa
Adverse weather conditions are to blame for the drop in imported bauxite ore by buyers in the People’s Republic of China, as rainy weather in Guinea hampered exports of the aluminium precursor to the Middle Kingdom in August. According to data released this week by the country’s customs department, China imported 9.04 million metric tons […]
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 ...
