Aluminium Bahrain Inks MoU With Mitsubishi Heavy Industries On Carbon Capture
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) announced this week the execution of a memorandum of understanding with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries EMEA Ltd....
Mitsubishi
Aluminium Bahrain Chooses Mitsubishi Power And SEPCO III For New Gas Turbine Power Project
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) announced last week that a consortium between Mitsubishi Power and SEPCO III have been contracted to expand Power Station 5 at Alba’s aluminium smelting operations at Al Taweelah. Mitsubishi Power, which is a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,...
South32 Boosts Stake In Mozal Aluminium By 15 Percent
Australian metals miner South32 increased its share in Mozambique’s Mozal Aluminium earlier this week, increasing its stake in the aluminium...
Mitsubishi To Buy 30 Percent Stake In Glencore’s Aurukun Bauxite Project
Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi Corporation announced last week an agreement with Glencore plc to take a 30-percent share of the latter’s...
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Mitsubishi Aluminum Co. Stripped of JIS Certification At Susono Plant
Fallout from Japan’s quality-control scandal continues this month after the Japanese government announced the revocation of Japanese Industrial Standards certification for certain aluminium products produced by Mitsubishi Aluminum Co. An announcement by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on Friday revealed that the private certification body chose to rescind certification for the Mitsubishi Materials […]
Kobelco Audit Reveals Falsified Aluminium Inspection Data
Japanese steel titan Kobe Steel, Ltd. (Kobelco) admitted on Sunday to falsifying inspection data for exports of aluminium and copper. Kobelco said that the information came to light after an in-house review of the data. According to the firm, the misclassified exports were shipped to about 200 clients. The review found misclassified data for about […]
Citing Power Prices, Boyne Aluminium Smelter Cuts Production and Jobs
Facing a squeeze in power prices, Australia’s Boyne Island Aluminium Smelter said Friday that it will be forced to cut capacity and shrink manpower beyond the levels announced in January. According to a statement released to the media, Rio indicated that capacity would be cut by fourteen percent and that “a significant number of jobs […]
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 ...
