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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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) on Thursday, drawing to a close the 19-month production curtailment at the site and paving the way for the world’s most prolific...
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...
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...
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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A Brazilian court rescinded a production embargo on operations related to a civil lawsuit at Alumina do Norte do Brasil S.A. (Alunorte) on Wednesday, leaving in place an injunction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 […]
Brazilian Environmental Agency Approves Use Of New Bauxite Residue Deposit Area At Alunorte
Norsk Hydro ASA is one step closer to resuming full production at the Alunorte alumina refinery after receiving authorization by the Brazilian federal environmental agency late last week. On Thursday the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis, or IBAMA) rescinded the embargo […]
Pará Government Grants Norsk Hydro Permission To Resume 50-Percent Production At Alunorte
Just days after the Brazilian federal government gave Norsk Hydro the go-ahead to resume alumina production at the Alunorte refinery, the state environmental department acquiesced to the plant’s partial reopening under its supervision. On Monday, the Pará Secretary of State for Environment and Sustainability (SEMAS) signed off on Hydro’s petition to utilize the press filter […]
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 businesses and policymakers to accelerate decarbonization efforts. However, with COVID-19 disrupting lives and economies in an unprecedented manner, countries across the globe ...
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 ...
Aluminium of Greece (AOG): is the Pechiney spirit still alive?
Between September 24-25, FastmarketsMB organized its annual aluminium conference in Athens. A day before the conference, in accordance with an ...
