Hindalco Halts Operations At Jharkand Alumina Refinery After Red Mud Release
The collapse of a red-mud storage area and resulting injuries prompted Hindalco Industries to suspend operations at an alumina plant...
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Rusal Processed And Sold 50 Percent Of Smelters’ Waste Over The Past Decade
Russian aluminium behemoth U.C. Rusal said yesterday that it has processed and sold approximately half of the waste product generated by its various smelters over the past decade, along with processing about a tenth of the red and nepheline mud at its...
Australian Red Mud Management Technology Receives Major Funding Boost
A project to convert red mud waste created by refining alumina by the University of Queensland Sustainable Minerals Institute received...
Australian Group Develops Economical Red Mud Treatment Process
An Australian firm announced earlier this week that it has developed what it believes is the first known financially and...
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Firms that Give Back – Profiles in CSR in the Aluminium Industry
These pages have featured stories about the business aspect of the global aluminium trade for quite some time now. While the dollars and cents of the trade are of obvious importance, the corporate social responsibility conducted by the firms we report on, while not directly contributing to their bottom lines, are of an even greater […]
Researchers Develop Method for Extracting Valuable Material from Red Mud
One of the biggest challenges faced by the aluminium industry is disposing of “red mud,” the caustic leftover material produced when aluminium is extracted from bauxite. However, researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) are working to develop a commercially-viable method for harvesting marketable metals from the substance. “We’re trying to help the environment by getting […]
R&D can power low carbon value growth for Indian firms
The world over, aluminium companies are training their guns on a low carbon growth strategy. With emission reductions topping agendas at international conclaves, aluminium producers, upstream and downstream- are turning more to innovation to build a greener portfolio of products. The trigger for a shift to less polluting capacities is taking place more so in […]
Henan Xiangjiang Wanji Aluminium Refinery Shut Down Due to Danger of Red Mud Landslide
The People’s Republic of China’s Henan Xiangjiang Wanji Aluminum Co., Ltd. has shut down its alumina refinery in Wanji on account of the potential of a dangerous red mud landslide. According to CRU, the timetable for reopening the facility is not known at this time. A source from within the country indicates that the southwest […]
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 businesses and policymakers to accelerate decarbonization efforts. However, with COVID-19 disrupting lives and economies in an unprecedented manner, countries across the globe ...
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 ...
Aluminium of Greece (AOG): is the Pechiney spirit still alive?
Between September 24-25, FastmarketsMB organized its annual aluminium conference in Athens. A day before the conference, in accordance with an ...
