Metal Bulletin’s 23rd Bauxite and Alumina Conference
Metal Bulletin held its 23rd Bauxite and Alumina Conference in Miami last week. The gathering brought together major industry participants...
Metal Bulletin held its 23rd Bauxite and Alumina Conference in Miami last week. The gathering brought together major industry participants...
According to sources in the Japanese market, Russian Federation aluminium major UC Rusal is of the opinion that the second...
According to sources privy to quarterly pricing talks, premiums for aluminium imported into Japan during the first quarter this year...
Australian metals miner South32 indicated on Thursday that it does not expect to reopen idled capacity at its aluminium and manganese operations in southern Africa in the course of the next two years. The firm idled the capacity in question due to a combination of depressed prices and an unreliable power supply in the region. […]
Australian metals miner South32 released its Quarterly Report last week. The firm’s numbers met or exceeded FY2016 guidance for the just-ended financial year. According to the report, South32 produced 963,000 metric tons of aluminium, which was slightly less than the one million tons produced the previous year. South African aluminium remained level at 697,000 metric […]
South Africa’s Richards Bay Industrial Development Zone (RBIDZ) is planning on building an aluminium metals hub in the KwaZulu-Natal city to take advantage of the ever-increasing replacement of steel by aluminium in the world’s automotive sector. “Richards Bay has the benefit of being the home to South32’s Hillside smelter – the largest aluminium smelter in […]
South32, a diversified recourse company, has had a difficult start since May 2015 after spinning off from its parent company, BHP Billiton. The turmoil in commodities has set a grim backdrop to the miner’s stock market debut. Since then the company’s shares have declined almost 50%, similar and parallel to BHP. Both have seen profits […]
Although the UN Security Council lifted sanctions on Iran almost two weeks ago, major alumina firms continue to hesitate to export their wares to the country because of other international trade moratoriums that may still be in effect. “[Our] company position on this is that it is too early to say regarding Iran, but like […]
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 ...
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both ...
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...