Rio Tinto Partners With Marubeni To Increase Aluminium Sustainability In Japan
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group is teaming up with Japanese trader and business conglomerate Marubeni Corporation on a collaboration...
New Zealand Aluminium Smelters
New Zealand Aluminium Smelter Strikes Deal With Meridian On Power Consumption
New Zealand Aluminium Smelter (NZAS) has reached a deal with local energy provider Meridian Energy to allow the firm greater leeway when the plant’s power demands rise. The new deal gives Meridian the right to require NZAS to cut its power demand...
Meridian Continues To Seek Long-Term Electrical Contract With Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter Despite New Regulation
New Zealand’s aluminium smelter and the region’s main power provider continue to speak in favor of striking a new deal...
Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter Begins Negotiations For Power Contract Beyond Planned 2024 Closing
New Zealand Aluminium Smelter (NZAS) said this week it has opened negotiations with local power companies on solutions for extending...
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NZAS Says Cleanup At Tiwai Point To Top A$687 MM
The firm that operates Tiwai Point aluminium smelter said it plans to remediate the site whether it is shut down in two years, but that the cost of doing so has doubled since the last estimate. New Zealand Aluminium Smelter’s chief executive Chris Blenkiron said last week that the cost had risen substantially from the […]
New Zealand Aluminium Smelter Boss Says Work Continues On Plans To Operate Beyond 2024 Closure Date
Leadership at New Zealand Aluminium Smelter said this week that they were optimistic that the Tiwai plant will stay open past the planned closing date in 2024. Commenting at a local open forum, NZAS CEO Chris Blenkiron told attendees that he has plans to confer with local energy firms to land an agreement to power […]
Rio Tinto To Begin Removal Of Spent Pot Lining At Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter
Tiwai Point aluminium smelter’s majority stakeholder Rio Tinto Group says it will soon begin removing the hazardous spent pot lining from the site as part of its initiative to clean the site that has been used for aluminium production for half a century. The smelter has recently come under pressure to remove the hazardous substance […]
High Aluminium Prices Could Keep Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter Afloat Beyond 2024
New Zealand officials feel confident that the aluminium smelter at Tiwai Point will continue operating if primary aluminium prices continue to remain strong, but warn that keeping New Zealand Aluminium Smelters (NZAS) open will come at the cost of increased greenhouse gas emissions. According to documents put forth by the Treasury department, the recent bump […]
NZAS Turned Down NZ$35 Million In Clean-Up Assistance From National Government
The Tiwai aluminium smelter in New Zealand recently affirmed its commitment to clean up hazardous waste at the plant, but documents brought to light this week reveal that the New Zealand Aluminium Smelter turned down an offer of several million dollars from the national government to aid in that process. NZAS’s statement declared that the […]
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 ...
