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First Shipment By Chalco Of Bauxite From Guinea Mine Scheduled For Early December

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 from Guinea by early next month. “The mining operation has already started and the first output will be shipped to China at...

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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 […]

Tepid Trading Picks Up On China’s Spot Aluminium Market After Spring Festival Break

Though initially struggling after the just-ended Spring Festival break, trading on the People’s Republic of China’s spot aluminium market is beginning to quicken after a substantial purchase earlier this week. Coming off one of China’s two “golden week” breaks, trading on the domestic spot market was slow on Monday, with downstream consumers still absent from […]

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 […]