Norsk Hydro Signs MoU With New Fortress Energy For LNG Delivery To Alunorte Alumina Refinery
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced last week the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Brazilian firm New...
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Hydro Inks Deal For LNG Supply To Alunorte Alumina Refinery
Norwegian aluminium firm Norsk Hydro ASA announced last week the signing of a new, multi-year contract with New Fortress Energy (NFE) to deliver liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Hydro’s Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil. The 15-year deal is part of Hydro’s project...
Brazilian Court Lifts Second Of Two Embargoes At Alunorte
Brazil’s federal court lifted the final embargo on the waste disposal unit at Alumina do Norte do Brasil S.A. (Alunorte)...
Pará Court Lifts One Of Two Embargoes Against Alunorte’s Bauxite Residue Disposal Site
One of two embargoes forbidding the usage of a waste product storage pond at Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA’s...
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Alunorte, Norsk Hydro, And Ministerio Publico Federal File Petition To Lift Embargo On New Bauxite Residue Deposit Area
Yesterday Norsk Hydro ASA, Alumina do Norte do Brasil S.A. (Alunorte), and Brazil’s Ministerio Publico Federal together asked the Federal Court in Belem to end the production embargo it placed upon the world’s largest alumina refiner in March of last year. The parties filed a joint petition to allow Alunorte to resume work on installing […]
Second And Final Production Embargo At Alunorte Lifted By Brazilian Court
The last remaining production embargo at Alumina do Norte do Brasil S.A. (Alunorte) is a thing of the past after the Brazilian federal court in Belem vacated it on Monday. Norsk Hydro made the announcement yesterday of the embargo’s end, noting that the criminal lawsuit from which it sprung still continues. Additionally, embargoes on use […]
One Of Two Production Embargoes Against Alunorte Lifted By Brazilian Federal Court
A Brazilian court rescinded a production embargo on operations related to a civil lawsuit at Alumina do Norte do Brasil S.A. (Alunorte) on Wednesday, leaving in place an injunction against production imposed in a parallel criminal action. Norsk Hydro says it expects the Federal Court in Belém to rule on both cases shortly, but status […]
Shake-Up In Norsk Hydro’s Executive Management As Aasheim Assumes Company’s Top Office
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced several changes in its executive team earlier this week following Hilde Merete Aasheim’s ascension to the company’s position of president and CEO. Aasheim, who assumed her new role on Wednesday, named Eivind Kallevik to fill her former seat of head of Primary Metal, while Pål Kildemo assumes Kallevik’s […]
State Environmental Regulator Gives Green Light For Return To Full Production At Alunorte
Norwegian aluminium smelter Norsk Hydro ASA announced yesterday that Pará Secretary of State for Environment and Sustainability (SEMAS) has determined that operations at Alumina do Norte do Brasil S.A. (Alunorte) may now safely resume. Though Hydro warns that the Brazilian federal court must still act to remove the production embargo, it says that it has […]
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 ...
