Century’s Nordural Aluminium Smelter To Receive Innovative New Carbon-Capture System
American primary aluminium producer Century Aluminum Company announced this week the signing of a letter of intent between its subsidiary...
Norðurál Grundartangi aluminium smelter
Century Aluminum Net Sales Rise 14 Percent In Second Quarter
American aluminium smelter Century Aluminum reported results for the second quarter of 2022 this week. The firm enjoyed higher net sales in the quarter, but increased power prices took their toll on the quarter’s bottom line. In the second quarter, Century saw...
Strong Q4 Caps Century Aluminum’s Loss-Making 2021
American primary aluminium producer Century Aluminum Company released results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2021 this week....
Century Aluminium Inks Deal To Power Grundartangi Aluminium Smelter With Sustainable Wind Power
Century Aluminium announced this week its subsidiary Norðurál Grundartangi ehf and independent renewable power producer Qair agreed to a deal...
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Century Aluminium Breaks Ground On US$120 MM Low-Carbon Aluminium Casthouse At Norðurál
Century Aluminium announced this week that its subsidiary Norðurál Grundartangi broke ground on a new US$120 million low-carbon aluminium billet casthouse in Iceland. Per the firm, the new casthouse will have a nameplate capacity of 150 thousand metric tons per annum when it comes online in early 2024. The new aluminium casthouse will also raise […]
Century’s Grundartangi Aluminium Smelter Inks New Power Agreement With Landsvirkjun
Chicago-based aluminium smelter Century Aluminum announced this week that its subsidiary Norðurál Grundartangi ehf has come to an agreement with Iceland’s national power company Landsvirkjun to continue its contract for 161 MW per annum for the next five years. The agreement will bump up the total power to the plant by 21 MW. Century said […]
Century Aluminum Inks Supply Deal With Hammerer For Low-Carbon Aluminium
American aluminium smelter Century Aluminum announced earlier this week the sale of 150 thousand metric tons of its low-carbon aluminium to Austria’s Hammerer Aluminium Industries (HAI), which will be supplied to it via Glencore plc. Century’s low-carbon aluminium Natur-Al is produced using electricity generated via fully-renewable sources at Century’s Norðurál Grundartangi aluminium smelter in Iceland. […]
Century Aluminum Debuts New Line Of Low-Carbon Aluminium
American aluminium smelter Century Aluminum Company announced yesterday the launch of a new low-carbon aluminium made with energy soley derived from renewable sources. According to the firm, Natur-Al is produced in a process that releases just one-fourth of the CO2 of the industry standard. Natur-Al produces only 4 metric tons of CO2 per metric ton […]
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 ...
