Business As Usual At Lochaber Aluminium Smelter As Fraud Probe Of GFG Commences
Aluminium smelting operations continue as usual at GFG Alliance’s Lochaber smelter despite an investigation into its parent company for serious...
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Scottish Liberal Democrats Criticize GFG’s Deal With Government For Lochaber Aluminium Smelter
The Scottish Liberal Democratic Party spoke out this week about Sanjeev Gupta’s deal with the government to keep the Lochaber aluminium smelter running, claiming that the GFG Alliance has grossly enriched itself at taxpayers’ expense. According to a spokesperson from the party,...
Gupta Assures Market That Closures Of Aluminium And Steel Plants Will Not Happen On His Watch
Despite ever more ominous news coming from one of its biggest financial partners, GFG Alliance head man Sanjeev Gupta promised...
GFG Alliance Seeking Payment Pause For Debt Payments To Troubled Backer Greensill
In response to concerns raised by an insolvency filing by one of its financial backers, GFG Alliance leader Sanjay Gupta...
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GFG To Double Lochaber Smelter’s Capacity With Addition Of Aluminium Recycling Plant
Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance said last week it is preparing to invest £94 million in the construction of a new aluminium recycling facility in Scotland at its existing aluminium smelter at Lochaber. Local media said the investment would also include a doubling of the aluminium smelter’s nameplate capacity, bringing it to 80 thousand metric tons […]
GFG Group Plans To Boost Aluminium Production To 1 Million MTPA Via Acquisitions: Sanjeev Gupta
Sanjeev Gupta told an industry gathering on Monday that his GFG Group expects to top 1 million metric tons per annum of aluminum-smelting capacity within the next two years by way of acquisitions. Speaking at the London Metal Exchange (LME) Seminar, Gupta relayed to virtual attendees that this total would be a significant rise above […]
Rio Tinto Weighing Sale of French Aluminium Smelter
The resurgence of aluminium’s prices has prompted Anglo-Australian metals behemoth Rio Tinto Group to consider the sale of its 20-thousand-metric-ton-per-annum smelter in Dunkerque, France. According to a story that ran in The Australian this morning, Jean-Sebastien Jacques has been considering the sale of non-hydroelectric-powered aluminium assets, most of which the company acquired in its purchase […]
Liberty House to Produce 2 MM Automotive Aluminium Alloy Wheels per Year at Planned Lochaber Facility
The Scottish Highlands are poised to become a major producer of aluminium alloy wheels according to a newly-released plan by the Liberty House Group to build a plant at Fort William. Liberty House gained a foothold in the area in November when it closed a deal in conjunction with sister corporation SIMEC Group to purchase […]
Sanjeev Gupta to Invest US$150 MM in Lochaber Smelter
Scotland’s historic Lochaber smelter is soon to be the recipient of a much-needed infusion of cash from Liberty House’s boss Sanjeev Gupta. The metals tycoon has pledged a US$150 million investment to the smelter, which, in addition to converting the plant to production of aluminium wheels, is expected to safeguard the plant for the foreseeable […]
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 ...
