Rusal Ships First Ore From Guinea Mines Since Mid-March
Newly-released shipping data shows that Russia’s UC Rusal has shipped the first bauxite ore from its operations in West Africa...
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Strikers At Rusal’s COBAD Bauxite Mine In Guinea Win Concessions On Pay And Working Conditions
A strike at Russian aluminium firm UC Rusal’s Guinea operation Compagnie des Bauxites de Dian-Dian (COBAD) concluded last week after a week and labor’s concessions on salary and working conditions. The COBAD strike, which commenced on 26 May, sought a bump in...
Bauxite Production Continues In Guinea After Military Coup
A coup that ousted Guinean president Alpha Conde has resulted in a spike in bauxite prices to an 18-month high,...
Rusal Reports 20.8 Percent Rise In Aluminium Sales During Second Quarter
Russian Federation aluminium titan U.C. Rusal released operating results for the second quarter of 2019 on Friday. Production of aluminium...
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Rusal Restarts Operations At Guinea’s Friguia Alumina Refinery
Russian Federation aluminium giant U.C. Rusal announced yesterday the reopening of operations at Guinea’s Friguia Alumina Refinery. Per the company, the restart is a product of a 2016 agreement with the Guinean government that will see the facility ramp up production to between 550 thousand and 600 thousand metric tons per annum within a year […]
Rusal Closes Out 2017 With Strong Q4 Thanks to Value-Added Products and Third-Party Sales
Russian Federation aluminium giant U.C. Rusal released results for the final quarter of 2017 yesterday, showing solid improvements across the majority of its operations in the period. The fourth quarter saw Rusal churn out 944 thousand metric tons of primary aluminium, a 1.4-percent rise over the prior quarter’s total of 931 thousand metric tons. Rusal’s […]
Firms that Give Back – Profiles in CSR in the Aluminium Industry
These pages have featured stories about the business aspect of the global aluminium trade for quite some time now. While the dollars and cents of the trade are of obvious importance, the corporate social responsibility conducted by the firms we report on, while not directly contributing to their bottom lines, are of an even greater […]
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 ...
