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Century Aluminum Applauds Biden Administration For New Tariff On Russian Aluminium

Century Aluminum Applauds Biden Administration For New Tariff On Russian Aluminium

The President and CEO of American aluminium smelter Century Aluminum came out in favor of the Biden Administration’s coming 200 percent additional tariff on imported Russian aluminium earlier this week. CEO Jesse Gary began by thanking the administration in a press release...

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Century To Idle Hawesville Aluminium Smelter Due To Spike In Energy Prices

American primary aluminium producer Century Aluminum Company is temporarily closing down its Hawesville, Kentucky aluminium smelter due to a precipitous rise in energy costs. Such was the message conveyed by the firm on Wednesday. Century says the plant will commence the idling process on Monday and is likely to remain idle for between nine and […]

Century’s Nordural Aluminium Smelter To Receive Innovative New Carbon-Capture System

American primary aluminium producer Century Aluminum Company announced this week the signing of a letter of intent between its subsidiary Nordural Grundartangi ehf and green technology firm Ocean GeoLoop on a project to cut the aluminium smelter’s carbon emissions. Nordural will have installed at the plant GeoLoop’s carbon capture system, which promises to collect the […]

Strong Q4 Caps Century Aluminum’s Loss-Making 2021

American primary aluminium producer Century Aluminum Company released results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2021 this week. A strong fourth quarter for the firm was unable to save it from widening the net loss for the year from that of 2020. In the fourth quarter last year Century Aluminum shipped 200,961 metric […]

Century Aluminum’s Losses Deepen In First Quarter

Chicago-based aluminium smelter Century Aluminum released production and financial results for the year’s first quarter earlier this week. In the year’s first quarter Century shipped 195,697 metric tons of product, greater by 757 thousand metric tons on the year. Net sales rose on the year last quarter, from US$389.1 million in 2020 to US$444 million […]