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Sources Say Chinese Aluminium Firms Meeting To Discuss Domestic Price And Demand Woes

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...

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Events

Fall In Alumina Prices Prompts Chalco To Cut Refining Capacity By 770k MT in Shanxi

Fall In Alumina Prices Prompts Chalco To Cut Refining Capacity By 770k MT in Shanxi

State-run smelter Aluminum Corp of China (Chalco) announced to the Hong Kong stock exchange on Thursday that high bauxite prices and low alumina prices have forced it to curtail alumina production on certain production lines in Shanxi. Terming the move as instituting “flexible” production status, the firm indicated that around 770 thousand metric tons per […]

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Chinalco Inks Partnership With Yunnan Aluminium for Access to 1.6 MTPA Smelting Capacity

Chinalco Inks Partnership With Yunnan Aluminium for Access to 1.6 MTPA Smelting Capacity

A partnership announced yesterday by Yunnan Aluminium between Aluminum Corp of China (Chinalco) and Yunnan Metallurgical Group will see the emergence of a new Chinalco with greater access to the significant hydropower resources of Yunnan province. Per an agreement signed in Kunming on Sunday, Yunnan Metallurgical Group, owner of Yunnan Aluminum Co Ltd., is to […]

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Chalco Announces US$164 MM Investment in Guinea’s Boffa Bauxite Mine

Chalco Announces US$164 MM Investment in Guinea’s Boffa Bauxite Mine

Aluminum Corp. of China (Chalco) announced late last week a plan to invest US$164 million in a bauxite ore mine in Guinea. Domestic media reported yesterday the plan to invest in the Boffa bauxite project, which is the site of an estimated 736 million metric tons of bauxite reserves. Chalco says this investment will be […]

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Chalco to Ship Up To 50,000 Tonnes of Alumina Overseas By Month’s End: Lu Dongliang

Chalco to Ship Up To 50,000 Tonnes of Alumina Overseas By Month’s End: Lu Dongliang

A rise in alumina prices over the past several months thanks to United States sanctions of Rusal and outages at Alunorte has prompted Aluminum Corp of China Ltd (Chalco) to take the unusual step of selling the aluminium precursor to buyers abroad. “We ourselves have 30,000-50,000 tonnes (of alumina exports this month),” revealed Chalco’s president […]

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Rusal Crisis Teases Out Alumina Exports of Up To 500k Tonnes from China

Rusal Crisis Teases Out Alumina Exports of Up To 500k Tonnes from China

Due to sanctions placed by the United States government upon Rusal and the resulting scarcity of it, alumina refiners in the People’s Republic of China have begun shipments of the material to overseas buyers in loads of up to 500 thousand metric tons. According to sources who spoke to Reuters, Aluminum Corp of China (Chalco) […]

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