Alcoa Inks 131 MW Wind Power Agreement For 2024 Restart Of San Ciprián Aluminium Smelter
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced this week that it has purchased an additional quantity of wind power from a...
San Ciprián aluminium smelter
Alcoa Plans Restart At San Ciprián Aluminium Plant For 2023
Aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced last week that laborers at its San Ciprián aluminium plant in Spain have agreed to a plan that will have the complex returning to production in 2023. The plan lays out the production restart process that will...
Alcoa Inks Long-Term Wind Power Contract For San Ciprián Aluminium Smelter
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced last week the signing of a new power contract with independent renewable energy provider...
Alcoa To Curtail Aluminium Production At San Ciprián Until 2024
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced this week that it has come to an agreement with the labor force at...
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Four-Month Strike At San Ciprián Aluminium Smelter Ends
The four-month strike at the former Alcoa smelter in Spain ended last week, as the two main labor unions at the site and the site’s management have come to an agreement on plans for the plant’s labor situation. The strike began when Alcoa announced the plant’s closure four months ago. The Workers’ Commissions (CCOO) and […]
Spanish Court Halts Curtailment Of San Ciprián Aluminium Smelter
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation halted plans to curtail its smelter in San Ciprián, Spain last week after a local court handed down a decision affecting the process for laying off the workforce there. The High Court of Justice of Galicia issued the decision last Thursday in a suit brought by the local workforce after […]
GFG Group Plans To Boost Aluminium Production To 1 Million MTPA Via Acquisitions: Sanjeev Gupta
Sanjeev Gupta told an industry gathering on Monday that his GFG Group expects to top 1 million metric tons per annum of aluminum-smelting capacity within the next two years by way of acquisitions. Speaking at the London Metal Exchange (LME) Seminar, Gupta relayed to virtual attendees that this total would be a significant rise above […]
Talks Fall Through Between Alcoa And San Ciprián Labor Union
The formal talks between Alcoa Corporation and the union representing the San Ciprián aluminium smelter labor force over the fate of the plant ended last week lacking an agreement as to the unit’s continued operation. The consultation process ended on September 28, which the parties are mandated by the government to hold prior to a […]
Liberty House In Talks With Alcoa Over San Ciprián Aluminium Smelter
Per the Spanish government, Liberty House is a front-runner to buy Alcoa’s San Ciprián smelter, noting that the two firms are planning on seven weeks of negotiations prior to the emergence of a final deal for the 228 thousand metric tons per annum plant. Both the regional and national governments issued a statement about the […]
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 ...
