Rio Tinto Declares Force Majeure On Canadian Aluminium Deliveries Due To Rail Strike
A week-long rail strike in Canada prompted world’s biggest mining firm Rio Tinto Group to declare force majeure on all...
Rio Tinto Group
Apple Buys First Carbon-Free Aluminium From Alcoa-Rio Tinto Joint Venture Elysis
American technological company Apple Inc. announced earlier this week its inaugural purchase of carbon-free aluminium from Alcoa Corp and Rio Tinto Group joint venture Elysis. Apple says the initial purchase will ship later this month from Alcoa’s Pittsburgh research facility. The aluminium...
Rio Tinto Takes Liberty Group To Arbitration Over Final Payment On Dunkerque Smelter Deal
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group is taking GFG Alliance to arbitration after the firm said Sanjeev Gupta’s company has...
Weak Sales Prices Hamper Earnings For Rio Tinto’s Aluminium Sector In Front Half Of 2019
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group released results for the first half of 2019 late last week. The firm’s aluminium...
Events
Workers Trickle Back To Aluminerie de Bécancour As 17-Month Lockout Ends
Aluminerie de Bécancour’s (ABI) unionized workforce began making its way back into the plant on Friday, marking the end of one of Quebec’s longest lockouts. United Steelworkers members are returning to the plant thanks to a vote earlier this month to accept what Alcoa characterized as a final offer. The plant’s 900-strong union workers voted […]
Raw Material Problems Prompt Shutdown Of One Potline At Rio Tinto’s Iceland Aluminium Smelter
One of three potlines at Rio Tinto Group’s aluminium smelter at Hafnarfjörður has been idled due to a dearth of raw materials. Such was the announcement made to industry media on Tuesday. “Operations at the ISAL smelter have been impacted recently due to irregularities in raw material inputs,” revealed Rio Tinto media representative Matthew Klar […]
Sources Say Glencore And Liberty House Among Trio Of Potential Buyers Of Rio Tinto’s Iceland Aluminium Assets
Sources revealed to Reuters late last week that at least three companies, including Glencore plc, have shown a strong interest in purchasing Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group’s aluminium operations in Iceland, Sweden, and the Netherlands for up to US$350 million. An anonymous source Reuters characterized as being involved in the banking industry reportedly told […]
Lockout Ends At Aluminerie de Bécancour With Labor Vote To Accept Alcoa Contract Offer
A months-long lockout and curtailment at Aluminerie de Bécancour Inc. (ABI) in Quebec is over after a vote on Tuesday by locked-out laborers to accept a new contract offer from Alcoa Corporation. Members of the local chapter of United Steelworkers voted in favor of the six-year contract, which Alcoa characterized as the final offer they’d […]
Japanese Premiums For Aluminium Shipments Increase By 3 Percent In Third Quarter
Third-quarter premiums for Japanese aluminium shipments will rise by 3 percent to US$108 per metric ton thanks to a fall-off in supply that overrode apprehension over a possible drop in regional demand. The rise in premiums is the second consecutive rise, following an increase to US$105 per metric ton in April. Sources who spoke to […]
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 and industry experts from all over the world to hear and exchange information on latest developments related to base metals and their ...
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 ...
International Aluminium 2019 Conference – Key Takeaways
The FastmaketsMB aluminium conference is the sequel to the Metal Bulletin aluminium conferences, which have traditionally been one of oldest ...
