Pacific Aluminium Blames High Power Prices And Low Aluminium Prices For Losses at Tiwai Point
Citing price instability and the rising cost of electrical power to the plant, the operators of New Zealand’s Tiwai Point...
Rio Tinto
Rio Tinto Develops Method For Production Of Aluminium-Strengthening Scandium From Titanium Oxide Refining Waste
Anglo-Australian mining behemoth Rio Tinto said last week it has identified a process to extract scandium from mining waste for use as a strengthening agent of aluminium. Rio Tinto’s new method extracts the rare-earth element from the process it uses to refine...
Rio Tinto And STAS Partner To Market Advanced Compact Filtration Technology To Global Aluminium Smelters
Anglo-Australian mining behemoth Rio Tinto Group and Quebec’s aluminium equipment provider STAS jointly announced last week a partnership to commercialize...
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...
Events
Rio Tinto BC Works Smelter Certified By Aluminium Stewardship Initiative
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group announced the certification of BC Works smelter and Kemano Power Operations in Kitimat, British Columbia against the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative’s (ASI) Chain of Custody standard. As a result, the entirety of Rio Tinto’s operations in Canada are now certified to ASI’s standards. Rio Tinto says the certification is proof […]
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 business was stable from an operational perspective in the opening half, but price declines took their toll on the segment. In the year’s first half Rio Tinto saw a 1-percent bump in bauxite ore production […]
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 […]
Is Rio Tinto’s ISAL smelter a bargain or a smart investment?
At least three companies (including Swiss commodity trader Glencore and German Trimet Aluminium) have expressed interest in buying Rio Tinto’s aluminium assets in Iceland, Sweden and the Netherlands, priced at up to US$ 350 million, news agencies reported earlier this month. A source cited by Reuters mentioned that Liberty House is also interested in these […]
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 ...
