Century Aluminum Applauds Biden Administration’s New Tariffs On Russian Aluminium
American primary aluminium producer Century Aluminum’s top executive came out in support of the Biden administration’s decision to apply a...
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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...
Century Aluminum Net Sales Rise 14 Percent In Second Quarter
American aluminium smelter Century Aluminum reported results for the second quarter of 2022 this week. The firm enjoyed higher net...
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...
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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 Aluminium Breaks Ground On US$120 MM Low-Carbon Aluminium Casthouse At Norðurál
Century Aluminium announced this week that its subsidiary Norðurál Grundartangi broke ground on a new US$120 million low-carbon aluminium billet casthouse in Iceland. Per the firm, the new casthouse will have a nameplate capacity of 150 thousand metric tons per annum when it comes online in early 2024. The new aluminium casthouse will also raise […]
Century’s Grundartangi Aluminium Smelter Inks New Power Agreement With Landsvirkjun
Chicago-based aluminium smelter Century Aluminum announced this week that its subsidiary Norðurál Grundartangi ehf has come to an agreement with Iceland’s national power company Landsvirkjun to continue its contract for 161 MW per annum for the next five years. The agreement will bump up the total power to the plant by 21 MW. Century said […]
Century Aluminum Inks Power Contract With Santee Cooper For Mt. Holly Aluminium Smelter
American aluminium smelter Century Aluminum said on Thursday that its subsidiary Century Aluminum of South Carolina (CASC) has finalized a three-year contract with South Carolina Public Service Authority (Santee Cooper) that will allow it to increase production to 75 percent of its nameplate capacity. Per the firm, the contract will begin at the first of […]
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 electricity. In a press release yesterday Century said the three-year contract has Santee […]
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 ...
