Canada Aluminium Exports To United States Down By 30 Percent: AAC
Data released last week by the Aluminium Association of Canada showed a substantial drop in the sale of standard commodity...
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Talks Continue On Fate Of NZAS Tiwai Smelter, Though Opinions Differ Regarding Progress
Though negotiations are ongoing, the parties involved in talks to save New Zealand Aluminium’s (NZAS) plant at Tiwai have decidedly different opinions regarding the state of those talks. Per a report released last week, Forsyth Barr relayed the news that Rio Tinto,...
Rio Tinto Sees Third-Party Bauxite Shipments Rise 13 Percent In Q2
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group released production and financial results for the second quarter yesterday. Though bauxite ore and...
Rio Tinto Begins Shutdown Of New Zealand Aluminium Smelters
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group said yesterday it will be winding down production operations at New Zealand Aluminium Smelters...
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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 titanium oxide, which it carries out at a plant in Quebec. The process […]
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 reported a loss of NZ$46 million in 2019. For the full year of 2019, Pacific Aluminium logged a loss of NZ$313 million, reversing a net profit in 2018 of NZ$207 million. Pacific notes the reversal […]
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 advanced compact filtration technology (ACF) for aluminium cast houses. The ACF technology, which was developed by Rio Tinto, will be manufactured and marketed by STAS to buyers throughout the world. ACF technology is the result […]
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 aluminium shipments originating from the dominion. Though the strike crippled the Canadian National Railway system, the Teamsters union came to a working agreement with CN to stop the strike and allow normal rail service to […]
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 […]
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 ...
