Century Aluminum Sustains US$58.2 MM Loss In Third Quarter, But Sees Market Recovery On Horizon
American aluminium smelter Century Aluminum released third-quarter results on Thursday. Like all firms, the company felt an impact from the...
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Century Aluminum Strikes Accord With Santee Cooper Over Mt. Holly’s Power Supply
Century Aluminum has come to an agreement with the South Carolina Public Service Authority (Santee Cooper) on powering the Mt. Holly aluminium smelter, ending a long and heated fight between the two entities over where the plant is allowed to purchase its...
Century Aluminum Issues Notice Of Impending Closure Of Mt. Holly Smelter To Plant’s Labor Force
American aluminium smelter Century Aluminum issued a notice to its employees at the Mt. Holly aluminium smelter that it intends...
State Judge Strikes Down Century Aluminum’s Power Agreement With City Of Goose Creek
Century Aluminum’s quest to rid itself of the agreement to buy power from only the South Carolina Public Service Company...
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Santee Cooper And City Of Goose Creek Meet In Court To Battle Over Century Aluminum
The fight for the life of Century Aluminum’s Goose Creek aluminium smelter continued this week in a courtroom in South Carolina, where attorneys for South Carolina Public Service Authority (Santee Cooper) and the city of Goose Creek squared off over which entity would provide power to the smelter. The controversy at issue involves a fight […]
First Phase Of JW Aluminum’s US$300 MM Expansion At SE South Carolina Plant Nearing Completion
The first phase of a US$300-million expansion at American flat-rolled aluminium producer JW Aluminum’s plant in South Carolina is only months away from completion according to company officers. JW Aluminum CEO Lee McCarter told the Berkeley County Chamber of Commerce late last month that the expansion that began last year is expected to open its […]
Century Signs Two-Year Power Deal With Santee Cooper To Power Mt. Holly Smelter
American aluminium smelter Century Aluminum announced the signing of a two-year power contract with the South Carolina Public Service Authority (Santee Cooper) for its Goose Creek smelter, assuring its operation through at least the close of 2020. Per the company’s press release, the contract mandates that the Mt. Holly smelter will continue to purchase one […]
JW Aluminum Announces US$225 MM Expansion to Plant in SE South Carolina
American flat-rolled aluminium producer JW Aluminum announced earlier this week a US$255-million expansion to its facilities in Goose Creek, South Carolina. Per the firm, the expansion will include the construction of a 220,000 ft2 building, which will be the home to a wide variety of new, cutting-edge, environmentally-friendly technology. In addition to the new equipment, […]
Bill to Save Mt. Holly Smelter Dies in South Carolina House’s Committee
The latest and likely final effort to keep Century Aluminum’s Mount Holly plant running has failed according to a lawmaker in South Carolina’s House of Representatives. The subcommittee to which the bill was assigned on the lower house did not vote on it, signaling its likely end. “We gave all we could in 2012 and […]
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 ...
