Unplanned Outages Drop China’s Aluminium Production By 0.5 Percent In August
Unplanned aluminum production outages at two of the country’s main smelters helped drop the People’s Republic of China’s total production...
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Metro Mining Inks Three Years Of Bauxite Offtake Agreements With Xinfa Group
Australia’s Metro Mining Ltd. announced this week that it has signed two new binding offtake agreements with the People’s Republic of China’s Xinfa Group. Per the firm, the first contract is for the delivery of 1 million dry metric tons (DMT) of...
Sources Say Xinfa Shutters 500 Thousand MTPA Of Aluminium Smelting Capacity In Xinjiang
An aluminium smelter owned by Xinfa Group in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was shut down this week after an...
Beijing Blasts Shandong Government For Failures In Limiting Runaway Aluminium Capacity
Citing an ongoing failure to rein in aluminium overproduction and the associated use of coal to fire said production, the...
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Metro Mining To Restart Operations At Bauxite Hills Within Weeks
With the area’s rainy season behind it, Australia’s Metro Mining Ltd. said yesterday that it will soon restart bauxite mining operations at Bauxite Hills later this month. The firm said it is soon to return to production after a planned shut-down in December that coincided with the beginning of the region’s rainy season. Though mining […]
Xinfa Escapes Seasonal Aluminium Production Cuts To Capacity In Shandong
A top aluminium smelter in the People’s Republic of China has escaped winter metal production cuts for 2018-2019, and will be mandated to drop alumina production by only a tenth for two months this season. Per documents published by the Liaocheng Economic and Information Technology Committee and acquired by Reuters, Shandong Xinfa Aluminium Group is […]
Metro Mining Celebrates Shipment Of 1 Millionth Metric Ton Of Bauxite Since April
Australia’s Metro Mining Ltd. announced late last week the successful shipment of its one millionth metric ton of bauxite since beginning operations this spring. In a press release issued on Friday, Metro Mining revealed that the one millionth metric ton of bauxite ore was loaded onto a bulk carrier as part of a 60 thousand […]
China’s Aluminium and Alumina Operations Spared By Typhoon Mangkhut
Aluminium smelters and alumina refineries have thus far been spared the ravages of Typhoon Mangkhut according to sources on the ground in southern China. Sources who spoke to Platts over the weekend confirmed only minor inconveniences to operations in the area. “Maybe deliveries on the roads have been slightly affected, but nothing has impacted production […]
Metro Mining Seals Two-Year Deal For Delivery Of 780 Thousand Tonnes Of Bauxite To Chinese Buyers
Australia’s Metro Mining Ltd. announced yesterday the negotiation of two new offtake agreements covering the lion’s share of the firm’s expected production through 2019. Per the firm, the sales agreements are with an unnamed Chinese buyer with an end destination of Henan Province. The agreement will have Metro shipping 90 percent of its planned production […]
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 ...
