Rio Tinto To Begin Removal Of Spent Pot Lining At Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter
Tiwai Point aluminium smelter’s majority stakeholder Rio Tinto Group says it will soon begin removing the hazardous spent pot lining...
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Aluminerie Alouette Signs $2.7MM Contracts With Plasma Tech Firm PyroGenesis
Canadian plasma tech firm PyroGenesis Canada Inc. signed a pair of contracts with Aluminerie Alouette worth $2.7 million aimed at reducing the latter firm’s process residue streams for aluminium production. One of the contracts is meant for advancing Aluminerie Alouette’s spent pot...
Alba Names Australia’s Regain As Technology Partner For Spent Pot Lining Treatment Plant
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. announced last week the signing of Australian firm Regain Materials as its technology partner for the creation...
Rusal Processed And Sold 50 Percent Of Smelters’ Waste Over The Past Decade
Russian aluminium behemoth U.C. Rusal said yesterday that it has processed and sold approximately half of the waste product generated...
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Alba Plans Region’s First Spent Pot Lining Treatment Plant
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. announced yesterday its plans to establish the region’s first Spent Pot Lining (SPL) Treatment Plant. The project, which is the result of collaboration between Alba and Bahrain’s Supreme Council for Environment (SCE), is part of a bigger initiative driven by Shaikh Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa to more properly manage the country’s […]
EGA Commissions Spent Pot Lining Pre-Treatment Plant At Al Taweela
Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) announced yesterday the start-up of its AED15 million (US$4.1 million) pre-treatment and spent pot lining facility at its plant at Al Taweelah. The facility is part of a nine-year project undertaken by EGA to discover alternative uses to spent pot lining. The firm has already claimed the top spot as […]
EGA Signs Deal To Provide 27,000t Of Spent Pot Lining To Gulf Cement Company
Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) announced late last week an agreement to supply Gulf Cement Company with 27,000 metric tons of spent pot lining through 2020 for use by the company in the production of cement. Per the agreement, EGA will send 2,000 metric tons of spent pot lining to Gulf Cement this year, followed […]
EGA Sends First Shipment of 5,000 MT of Spent Pot Lining to UK Recycling Firm Befesa
UAE’s Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) announced last week the first shipment of spent pot lining to British waste management firm Befesa for recycling. According to the EGA press release, the firm shipped approximately 5,000 metric tons of the spent lining to Befesa for reuse in industries including cement, fiberglass, and ceramics. Pot lining has a […]
Creating value out of aluminium waste in India
Disposal of aluminium industry waste, chiefly the bauxite residue called red mud is a worldwide concern. The high alkalinity of red mud and the presence of toxic materials in it pose a serious ecological hazard. Which is why the aluminium industry has been brainstorming to overcome the problem associated with red mud disposal. The remedies […]
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 ...
