Finland-based renewable heat technology developer Coolbrook has joined Australia’s Heavy Industry Low-carbon Transition Cooperative Research Centre (HILT CRC) as an affiliate partner, bringing its electrified heating technology into research aimed at decarbonising alumina refining and the wider aluminium industry. The collaboration would explore how high-temperature electric heating can support next-generation alumina refineries, reducing reliance on fossil fuels. Coolbrook would work alongside major alumina and aluminium producers, including Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), Alcoa, Rio Tinto, South32 and Hydro, as well as research organisations of CSIRO and Adelaide University. Initially, it would focus on HILT CRC’s Alumina Refineries’ Next-Generation Transition (AlumiNEXT) project,...
Qingdao Allheart Marine, established in 2012, is a high-tech aluminium boat manufacturer in Qingdao, China. Spanning 42,000 m, the facility produces over 60 vessel models from 4 to 30 meters, including fishing, work, patrol, pilot boats, tugs, water taxis, catamaran ferries, and landing crafts. Certified under ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, and CE, Allheart offers professional OEMper ODM solutions, exporting 50 per cent of its production to over 30 countries across Oceania, Europe, and the Americas. Qingdao, Shandongper China - November 11, 2026 Qingdao Allheart Marine Co., Ltd, a recognised leader in the maritime manufacturing sector, is reinforcing its commitment to international buyers seeking robust commercial watercraft and specialised marine solutions. Operating from an advanced...
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Vedanta Resources releases Production and Financial Results for the First Quarter ended 30 June 2018. The company reports record quarterly aluminium production at 482,000 tonnes, up 37% YoY and commencement of Odisha bauxite delivery to its refinery. The Lanjigarh refinery produced 325,000 tonnes of alumina in Q1 FY 2019, 7% higher YoY, however 7% lower QoQ due to a temporary break down in the bauxite handling unit. The increase in aluminium production in Q1 FY2019 was primarily driven by ramp up at the Jharsuguda-II smelter. Other than Line 4, which is still under evaluation, all other lines are expected to be fully ramped up by H1 FY2019. Stabilised aluminium production (i.e. production excluding trial run) was 469,000 tonnes in Q1 FY2019 with an exit monthly run rate of 1.9 tonne per...
Indonesia has become one of the most significant downstream aluminium product manufacturing hubs in south-east Asia, mostly catering to the automotive industry and thus, has increased the procurement of aluminium scrap for the use in the downstream industry. Countries like Australia, the USA, and the United Kingdom are the major sources of Indonesia's aluminium scrap imports. Besides a surge in import volume, the country’s import cost is reportedly rising as well, since 2016. Indonesia’s aluminium scrap import cost for procuring 71,029 tonnes had stood at US$90 million in 2016, 6.25 per cent down from US$ 96 million in 2015. In contrast to this, the import cost rose to US$ 119 million in 2017, up 24 per cent from 2016 and 19 per cent from 2015. Along with the cost, 2017 had also witnessed...
Tesco in UK becomes the first supermarket to sell water in aluminium cans instead of plastic bottles. The retailer is now selling spring water in 500 ml aluminium cans at its 700 stores under the CanO Water brand. The brand was started two years ago in London with a sustainable vision. These are less harmful to the environment than plastic bottles because of infinite recyclability. Plastics can take hundreds of years to break down into ever smaller pieces. This infiltrates the food chain and affects the environment. Plastic can only be recycled five to ten times because the quality degrades with each cycle, while aluminium cans are ‘infinitely recyclable’ because it does not affect its purity. “Aluminium cans have the highest recycling rate of any product out there and a recycled can...
UC RUSAL, a leading global aluminium producer, announced its results for the three and six months ended 30 June 2018. Rusal alumina production for the quarter and the first half of the year was stable. Alumina production for Q2 2018 stood at 1,924 million tonnes, almost flat YoY. The six months ended 30 June 2018 recorded alumina production of 3.816 million tonnes, comparing with 3.817 million tonnes for the six months ended 30 June 2017. In May 2018 alumina production at Friguia refinery was restarted in Guinea at half the total capacity. Total sales volume for alumina stood at 953,000 tonnes for H1 2018 compared to about 1 million tonne in H1 2017. The revenue stood at US$ 447 million in comparison to US$ 364 million in H1 2017. The increase in revenue despite lower volume was primarily...
The US dollar index traded rangebound at highs and closed at 95.2 on Friday. China's offshore yuan rebounded after the country’s central bank on Friday imposed a reserve requirement of 20% on trading of foreign exchange forward contracts. Driven by these developments LME base metals closed mixed on Friday, aluminium dipped 0.49%. LME aluminium traded rangebound on Friday, touching a low of US$2,024.5 per tonne and hitting a high of US$2,049 per tonne. Shanghai Metals Market expects it to trade under pressure today within the range of US$2,030-2,050 per tonne given the US-China trade spats. As on August 3, LME aluminium cash (bid) price stands at US$ 2014 per tonne, LME official settlement price stands at US$ 2016 per tonne; 3-months bid price stands at US$ 2040 per tonne, 3-months offer...
China’s inventory of primary aluminium had been consistently registering a drop due to limited supplies from smelters. Today, August 6, showed no exception either. The inventory, including SHFE warrants, dropped 5000 tonnes from Thursday, August 2, to stand at 1.776 million tonnes as of August 6, 2018, Shanghai Metals Market found. Fewer arrivals from smelters in Xinjiang accounted for the drop. However, the inventory recorded a slower decline as of today compared with Thursday, August 2, when the inventory witnessed a drop by 14,000 tonnes from July 26 to stand at 1.78 million tonnes. Some of the major Chinese cities recorded a drop in inventory from the previous day. In Wuxi and Jiangsu, the inventory dwindled from 760,000 tonnes to 752,000 tonnes, while in Shanghai and Gongyi and...
Guangxi which is already one of China’s top five aluminium centres, recording 3.88 million tonnes of aluminium production last year, is reportedly crafting a plan to expand its production capacity further. According to the information posted on the Guangxi government’s website, the southern region of Guangxi is likely to develop a high-end aluminium production base in the city of Nanning. This new production base is planned to be comprised of four industrial parks over an area of 533 hectares by 2022, involving around RMB 4.5 billion of investment in infrastructure, Guangxi government said. Target applications for the production include aviation, automotive, rail transit, green buildings, and aluminium alloy. By the end of 2020, Nanning’s aluminium processing and downstream industries are...
Spot alumina price saw some unprecedented highs in 2018 first half and doubled to over $700 per tonne as the market showed panic reaction to U.S. sanctions on Oleg Deripaska and Rusal entities in April. The supply scenario was disrupted by two major happenings. First, the fifty per cent capacity closure in Hydro’s Alunorte refinery in Brazil in March on the issue of bauxite residue pond leakage, followed by US sanctions on Rusal. The sanctions put the future of Rusal’s Aughinish alumina plant in doubt, which is Europe's largest alumina refinery in Ireland and a major alumina asset of RUSAL contributing about 30 per cent of alumina produced in the EU. Aughinish won a reprieve as the U.S. Administration extended the sanctions deadline till October and currently negotiations are on for a...
India is found compassionate towards the United States agreeing to defer its heavy duties on US$ 235 million worth of 29 American goods by 45 days from August 4, upon a request by the US, sources said. This countermeasure by India was a retaliatory act against the Trump administration’s decision to impose additional 25 per cent and 10 per cent tariffs on India’s aluminium and steel supplies to the US. However, deferring this retaliatory move is expected to substantially de-escalate a tariff war between India and the US. It indicates New Delhi would further engage Washington to find a more meaningful outcome to the ongoing bilateral trade negotiations. India is hopeful that this move would finally bring them a relief from those extra metal tariffs levied by the Trump administration. The...
General Manager of Ghana Bauxite Company, J.K Fang, has said that despite various operational challenges, the company managed to register profits for the first time in bauxite mining for two years. Ghana Bauxite Company is facing allegations that the company is hiding facts to evade tax payment to the government. The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu asked for a probe into the operations of the mining firm. The Minister suspected that there may be tax-shielding mechanisms adopted by the company to default the Corporate Income Tax into government coffers. The minister made the remarks during a one-day visit to the company's Awaso Mine. He also saw an ulterior motive in declaring losses than gains. According to J.K Fang, the company made a profit of US$4,020,000 in...
After almost 88 years, Liaoning province in China was about to home an alumina refinery, but unfortunately, the project plan got cancelled by the city of Chaoyang after public consultation. The refinery was proposed to process bauxite ore into 10 million tonnes of alumina every year and supersede Norsk Hydro’s Alunorte project in Brazil as the world’s biggest alumina refinery. Liaoning was home to China’s first aluminium smelter, at Fushun; date back to 1930s, after which there was no existence of any alumina production until now, neither at Liaoning nor at its neighbouring provinces like Heilongjiang and Jilin, according to the data revealed by the National Bureau of Statistics. As per the information published on the website of the Chaoyang government on Wednesday, August 1, 2018, the...
As Canada has imposed retaliatory import duties on U.S. aluminum product imports in the busy summer season, Canadian microbreweries are facing a shortage of beverage cans and higher costs leading to beer production cut to a certain extent, a Reuter report says. Though Canada is the world’s third biggest aluminium producer and they produce cans domestically, beer makers also rely on the import of more than 2 billion cans, mostly from USA. When Canada included cans in the list of products imported from USA to be imposed an import duty, some craft brewers received notices of higher prices due to the duties while others failed to procure their usual supply of aluminium cans. “It seems like no one has cans to sell,” said Steve Beauchesne, co-founder and chief executive of Beau’s Brewing Co in...
Recyclability of metal is one of the key factors that has been constantly driving the consumption of the metal cans in the market, including aluminium cans because this particular non-ferrous metal is nontoxic by nature and can be easily processed, handled and distributed. In 2017, the metal cans market was valued at US$46.35 billion and is expected to reach a value of US$ 56.38 billion by 2023 at a CAGR of 3.32 per cent. Germany, being one of the largest aluminium exporting countries, supplies a lion share of aluminium cans all over the world. But unfortunately, it has been noticed that over the two years the country’s aluminium cans export volume is incessantly decreasing. In 2016, Germany had exported a total volume of 95,543 tonnes of aluminium cans, while in 2017, the volume stood at...
Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals (GACL) has commissioned its new poly aluminium chloride (PAC) plant with a capacity of 32,000 tonne per annum. This is second such plant of the company after the commissioning of it first plant at Dahej complex in 2007, with a capacity of 40,000 TPA, as told by GACL’s Managing Director Prem Kumar Gera. Gera added that there is heavy demand for PAC in India, which is primarily used in municipal and industrial water treatments, waste water treatments, separation of slurry in industrial processes, sizing in paper and pulp industry, decontamination of dyes in textile industry and sewage water treatments. Mr. P K Gera flagged off the first shipment from the new Poly Aluminium Chloride Plant from its Coelho Complex, Vadodara. The Company has taken initiatives to...
U.S. Metal Powders’production facility Ampal, Inc. in Palmerton, Pennsylvania, USA, has received a $10,000 investment from Ben Franklin Technology Partners of North-Eastern Pennsylvania. The investment is part of a series of investments amounting to about US$535,000 made in the region by BFTP/NEP on ten different companies. The investments are aimed at enabling Northeastern Pennsylvania to create a ‘better economic future by building partnerships that develop and apply technology for competitive advantage.’ It is to be noted that Ampal Inc.’s parent company, U.S. Metal Powders Inc., recently filed tariff exclusion requests with the U.S. Department of Commerce. The Company President Louise Ramsey Thomas filed a request to pull off the tariffs on aluminium imports from Canada in the...
The dollar index rose past 95 on Thursday as trade tension between the US and China grew. China's offshore yuan extended its decline to 6.8798 yuan overnight. LME base metals closed mixed on Thursday. LME aluminium dipped on Thursday and closed at US$ 2023 per tonne. The contract is likely to trade at US$2,030-2,060 per tonne today. As on August 2, LME aluminium cash (bid) price stands at US$ 2022 per tonne, LME official settlement price stands at US$ 2023 per tonne; 3-months bid price stands at US$ 2046 per tonne, 3-months offer price is US$ 2047per tonne; Dec 19 bid price stands at US$ 2098 per tonne, and Dec 19 offer price stands at US$ 2103 per tonne. The LME aluminium opening stock dropped to 1192075 tonnes. Live Warrants totalled at 850500 tonnes, and Cancelled Warrants were 341575...
Primary aluminium inventory across eight major consumption areas in China, including SHFE warrants, shrank 14,000 tonnes further from last Thursday, July 26, to stand at 1.78 million tonnes as of Thursday, August 2, 2018, Shanghai Metals Market research found. Limited arrivals from smelters accounted for the drop, although slower from a week-on-week decline of 28,000 tonnes recorded on July 26. In the meanwhile, the inventories had gained during the week by 1,000 tonnes from Monday, July 30. Below chart shows the inventory status across all the Chinese markets in more details: On the face of declining inventory and tight supply in the market, A00 aluminium ingot price climbed today, August 3, to RMB 14280 per tonne after a drop in past two days in a row, SMM learned. The average prices...
Emirates Global Aluminium, the largest aluminium producer in the United Arab Emirates signed an agreement with Gulf Cement Company to supply 27,000 tonnes of spent pot lining, a by-product from aluminium smelting. The waste material will be supplied over next three years for use in cement manufacturing. EGA has been supplying spent pot lining to the cement industry through third parties since 2010. However, this is the first time such an agreement is signed between EGA and a cement company outside its circle. EGA is building facilities at its Al Taweelah site to process spent pot lining so that it can be delivered ready to be used by cement companies as an alternative fuel and raw material. Abdulla Kalban, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of EGA, said: “This direct agreement...
