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...
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group is teaming up with Japanese trader and business conglomerate Marubeni Corporation on a collaboration...
New Zealand’s aluminium smelter and the region’s main power provider continue to speak in favor of striking a new deal...
New Zealand Aluminium Smelter (NZAS) said this week it has opened negotiations with local power companies on solutions for extending...
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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