Shanxi Government Hopes to Entice Aluminium Smelting Capacity with Preferred Access to Bauxite Resources
The government of one of the People’s Republic of China’s northern provinces announced earlier this week that it would be...
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Regal Metal To Build Aluminium Recycling And Secondary Plant In Shanxi
The People’s Republic of China’s Regal Metal announced this week that it plans to build an aluminium-recycling plant with a nameplate capacity of 300 thousand metric tons in Shanxi province. The project is a bid by Regal to revitalize old and abandoned...
Spot Price for Alumina in Shanxi Rises This Week, But Still Down from December
The daily spot price for alumina in the central Chinese province of Shanxi rose this week to CNY2,750 per metric...
Shanxi Province Institutes Limits on Water Use for Aluminium Producers
Aluminium producers in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi are facing another hurdle in bringing their product to market after...
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Beijing Scales Back Aluminium, Steel Production in Battle Against Winter Smog
According to a report from China’s central government, production of steel and aluminium by producers in over two dozen cities will drop significantly over the winter months. The move is seen as another salvo in the ongoing battle against smog. The document, which is a joint statement from the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP), Finance […]
China’s Shanxi Province Axes All New Aluminium Projects for the Year
The People’s Republic of China’s Shanxi province announced on Wednesday that it is suspending approval of all new ferroalloy, aluminum and steel projects in 2016. The government said that suspending new metals projects is an outgrowth of local air pollution mitigation plans. The provincial government also specified that the moratorium was an effort at reducing […]
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 ...
