India’s renewable energy transition is gathering pace, with installed renewable power capacity surpassing 300 gigawatts (GW) in 2026, almost quadrupling over the past decade. The country has also achieved its target of sourcing 50 per cent of installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuel sources five years ahead of schedule, strengthening its position as one of the world’s fastest-growing clean energy markets. The expansion is beginning to deliver measurable energy security benefits by reducing dependence on imported fossil fuels, while competitive renewable power costs and expanding domestic manufacturing are opening new investment opportunities. However, sustaining this momentum will require substantial improvements in electricity transmission, storage infrastructure and...
Glencore has defended its progress on the Aurukun bauxite project in Queensland, saying it has met all commitments under its licence conditions, as calls for greater scrutiny mount over its proposed sale to Rio Tinto. Queensland MP Robbie Katter, a member of the Parliamentary Primary Industries and Resources Committee, is seeking an inquiry into the deal. The reported sale value has been put at USD 250 million, though this figure has not been confirmed. Katter questioned why a multinational company should hold a public resource without developing it and then sell its interests. He said, “That resource is owned by the people of Queensland, it’s not the government’s to play around with, or for any of these global mining companies to just trade.” Explore the production, demand and...
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On Monday, April 24, a fire broke out at the Novelis aluminium rolling factory in Mill Township. According to Dennison Fire Chief David McConnell, the top of the property at 7335 Newport Road SE caught fire due to an exhaust fan. As per the reports, no injuries were reported. A team from the Uhrichsville Fire Department utilised a ladder truck to reach the roof and extinguish the fire within 15 to 20 minutes. The estimated damage to the building was reported at around $50,000. Smith Ambulance checked one employee for smoke inhalation. When firefighters arrived, all workers had been evacuated from the workplace. At 9:56 p.m., they were summoned. McConnell said firefighters from Dennison and Uhrichsville arrived first at 9:59 p.m. and departed at midnight. Firefighters from Warwick...
On Tuesday, April 25, Century Aluminum Company announced a significant step towards acquiring a sizeable share in a joint Jamaican bauxite mining and alumina production venture. The company has reportedly signed an agreement with Noble Group Holdings Limited (Noble) to obtain 55 per cent of its ownership in Jamalco. According to the agreement signed, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Century Aluminum will acquire General Alumina Holdings Limited, a Noble subsidiary and owner of Noble’s 55 per cent interest in Jamalco. The transaction is likely to close by April-end 2023. Century’s investment in Jamalco will prove to be highly strategic, helping the company secure a long-term alumina supply chain, the most critical raw material for aluminium production. Jesse Gary, President and CEO of Century,...
The German multinational manufacturer of luxury vehicles, BMW Group, has announced a new initiative called "Car2Car", which eyes to increase the number of recycled materials utilized in new models to 50 per cent. According to reports, the German automaker is working to escalate the quality of secondary material obtained from "end-of-life" automobiles. BMW is collaborating with numerous partners from the recycling industry and the scientific community to accomplish this. In addition, the luxury automobile manufacturer received 6.4 million euros from Germany's Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action. However, the funds will be used to investigate how materials such as aluminium, steel, copper, glass, and plastic may be repurposed more sustainably. A total of 500 end-of-life...
Belson Steel Centre, the Bourbonnais-based scrap recycling company, has been organising the SCORE programme, which brings schools and businesses together to foster community engagement and sustainability by encouraging local citizens to collaborate for the greater good. This year, during the yearly programme, students and people from 29 Kankakee County schools and organisations gathered approximately 1.1 million aluminium cans worth over $14,000. The programme winners were revealed by Belson Steel Group Vice President Kevin Kennell at the Belson Steel Centre in Bourbonnais. Manteno School District won first place in a fiercely fought tournament with an astounding collection of almost 135,000 aluminium cans. Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School came in second with 112,900 cans...
Vedanta Aluminium has achieved a new sustainability milestone by deploying a new material recovery facility at its operations in Jharsuguda district, Odisha. This marks a significant step towards the company’s ‘Zero Waste’ goal, resulting in energy savings and carbon emissions mitigation. Vedanta unveiled the new facility on Saturday, April 22, to commemorate Earth Day. The facility segregates and processes waste into useful materials. In March 2023, it processed 27,828 kg of dry and wet waste, and generated recyclable materials like bio-compost and briquettes, which are mainly useful for horticulture activities. Any non-recyclable waste materials Vedanta sends to cement industries for co-processing, promoting a circular economy within India’s manufacturing landscape. The material...
Innovation is crucial in the fiercely competitive world of manufacturing. As a result, Volgren, Australia's largest bus body manufacturer, has created a name for itself by providing creative, sustainable, and efficient public transportation solutions. In 1979, the company started its journey by manufacturing its first bus body to develop a more dependable, pleasant, and long-lasting vehicle with lower operating expenses than others on the market. Volgren now designs, manufactures and assembles public transport buses of all types, including zero-emission vehicles. Its bus bodies are approximately 90 per cent locally built and have the lowest lifetime cost of any bus in Australia, thanks to its 400-strong manufacturing, operations, and aftersales support teams spread across NSW, Victoria,...
Three-month LME aluminium opened at US$2,381 per tonne on Tuesday and closed at US$2,331 per tonne, down 2.1 per cent. On Tuesday, April 25, the LME aluminium cash bid price plunged by US$42 per tonne to US$2,312 per tonne, and LME aluminium official settlement price declined by US$41.50 per tonne to peg at US$2,313 per tonne, marking the third consecutive day of fall. The continuous downfall through the previous week has brought the LME aluminium benchmark price 3.67 per cent lower than US$2,401 per tonne on last Tuesday . The 3-month bid price and 3-month offer price contracted by US$41 per tonne or 1.73 per cent to settle at US$2331.50 per tonne and US$2,332 per tonne. December 24 bid price and December 24 offer price shrank by US$35 per tonne to stand at US$2,505 per tonne and...
The Zero Waste Task Force and the Office of Grants Management launched a recycling drive at the Artman Corporation plant in Lower Base on April 1, 2023, which resulted in the redemption of over a million aluminium cans. "Since the inception of the initiative…the Recycling Redemption Initiative has received 1,033,227 aluminum cans," said Grants Specialist and Recycling Redemption Initiative Coordinator Maria Flor Deleon Guerrero. Deleon Guerrero stated that this amounts to $51,661.35 in total customer reimbursements at five cents per aluminium can, or 20.66 per cent of the overall 5 million cans recycling goal by Aug. 31, 2023. The United States Department of the Interior supports the programme under Grant No. D18AP00165. Aluminium recycling reduces carbon emissions significantly compared...
Belvac, a Dover company and a major worldwide provider in the two-piece metal packaging sector for over 60 years has launched the Servo Belvac Necker, the newest advancement in aluminium can necking technology. "The Servo Belvac Necker marks a new generation of energy-efficient machinery for the two-piece aluminium packaging industry. With the growing industry demand for sustainable technology, the Servo Belvac Necker has been engineered to maximise the profitability of can plant operations," said Eric Hodge, Director of Global Sales Operations at Belvac. The Servo Belvac Necker can work up to 3600 aluminium cans per minute while leveraging superior servo motor control, enabling each turret to spin independently. The Servo Belvac Necker consumes up to 15 per cent less electricity than a...
According to the US Census Bureau data, domestic primary aluminium production in February 2023 was 59,000 tonnes, reflecting a decline of 5,000 tonnes or 7.81 per cent month-on-month. In January, the US primary aluminium output was 64,000 tonnes, muted from the previous month. On a year-on-year basis, the US primary aluminium output stood 16,000 tonnes or 21.33 per cent lower than 75,000 tonnes. In two months of 2023, the United States produced 123,000 tonnes of primary metal, 21.66 per cent down from 157,000 tonnes during the corresponding period of the previous year. The average daily production in February 2023 was 1,900 tonnes – 10 per cent less than 2,050 tonnes in January'23 and 28.84 per cent down from 2,670 tonnes in February'22. Total aluminium recovered from scrap was 274,000...
The Russian aluminium giant aluminium producer reaffirmed its excellent ranking in EcoVadis, the world's largest and most reliable supplier sustainability assessment. The Company has an integral score corresponding with the "silver" level. It associates the Company with the top-8 per cent of the best global suppliers regarding their Environment, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) maturity. In 2023, RUSAL got an overall 68 out of 100 maximum scores in the rating, which is 10 scores higher than the previous year. It became possible due to palpable improvements in the environment, labour, human rights and ethics. RUSAL's carbon footprint management system was rated 'Advanced' in this year's EcoVadis assessment. The grading specialists praised the Company's comprehensive GHG management...
Located in the heart of London, Covent Garden, West End's sustainable area, had collaborated for the second time with the non-profit recycling campaign 'Every Can Counts' to develop 'The #EveryCanCounts CANvas' initiative. Launched on Earth Day, Monday, April 22, the event's primary purpose was to promote the importance of recycling aluminium cans. Made up of 700 aluminium drink cans, CANvas was created by famous street artist Jimmy C with a customised Earth Day design to promote awareness of aluminium's infinite recyclability and urge people to recycle their drink cans wherever they are. "We're so excited to partner with Covent Garden again and celebrate Earth Day with the reveal of our brand-new 'CANvas' installation. Earth Day is all about encouraging worldwide action to help benefit...
According to a report published on Monday, April 24, South32, a leading mining and metals company headquartered in Perth, is close to meeting production guidance across most of its operations for the financial year to end June 30, 2023. However, the company’s share price dropped nearly 6 per cent to INR 50.17 on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange soon after the announcement of the third quarter (end-March) results. Regarding this, CEO Graham Kerr commented that production in the said quarter stood lower than anticipated because of adverse weather in Mozambique and Australia. Kerr also apprised that operating unit cost guidance for the year has remained unchanged alongside the group capital expenditure. He said “improved market conditions supported higher prices across most of our commodity’s...
As the preferred provider of the inter-array cables for their up to 1.6 GW Nordseecluster development in the German North Sea, a cluster consisting of four offshore wind farm sites, RWE and Northland Power have selected the Greek cable manufacturer Hellenic Cables. Around 185 kilometres of 66-kV aluminium and copper conductor cables will be supplied by Hellenic Cables to connect the 44 wind turbines in Nordseecluster A to two offshore substations and the 60 wind turbines in Nordseecluster B to the converter at the transmission system operator. The cables will be produced at the Hellenic Cables factory in Sousaki, Corinth, Greece. Two offshore wind farms will be included in each of the Nordseecluster's two construction phases, Nordseecluster A and Nordseecluster B. The permitting process...
With the introduction of the Vanguard VEO 3+ 303 tripods, Vanguard is expecting to capitalise on the popularity of the Vanguard VEO 3+ Series, which was released in 2020 to universal acclaim. The Vanguard VEO 3+ 303 aluminium and carbon tripods include a multi-angle central column and sturdy 30mm legs, making them ideal for various shooting situations. The central column may be rotated almost a full circle and transformed into a multi-mount using the included adapter. The tripods have a maximum load capacity of 25kg, and their reversible 1/4" and 3/8" thread makes them suitable for use with a wide variety of heads. Vanguard is a multinational corporation that creates and sells tripods, backpacks, sports optics, and accessories. For over 30 years, our desire to disrupt mediocrity and...
KCC Chartering AS, a subsidiary of Klaveness Combination Carriers ASA and South32 Marketing Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of globally diversified mining and metals company South32, have agreed to incorporate a carbon pricing mechanism in their existing Contract of Affreightment (COA). The parties agreed on a sustainability framework to minimise carbon dioxide emissions from KCC's fleet, including the fleet used to export South32's caustic soda to Australia, under the six-year COA announced in January 2022. In accordance with this framework, KCCC and South32 created a mechanism in 2022 that links freight payments made under the COA to the carbon dioxide emissions of KCCC's boats compared to a predetermined baseline. According to the agreed-upon system, which will be put into effect in 2023, KCCC...
According to the Shanghai Metals Market data, A00 aluminium ingot price has fallen for the third day despite sluggish primary aluminium inventories across China. Then what could be the reason behind the price fall? Well, weaker metal consumption by downstream producers could be a factor for the decline in price. On Tuesday, April 25, the primary aluminium ingot price has dwindled by RMB 70 per tonne to peg at RMB 18,830 per tonne. The average prices are estimated to range between RMB 18,810 per tonne and RMB 18,850 per tonne, with a spot contract to be traded at a discount price of RMB 20 per tonne and a premium price of RMB 20 per tonne. On a week-on-week basis, the price is down by RMB 30 per tonne from RMB 18,860 per tonne. But on a month-on-month calculation, the price reflects the...
LME aluminium fell after opening at US$2,399 per tonne on Monday but rebounded towards the end of the day and closed at US$2,385 per tonne, a drop of 0.73 per cent. On Monday, April 24, both LME aluminium cash bid price and LME aluminium official settlement price dropped by US$34 per tonne or 1.42 per cent to halt at US$2,354 per tonne and US$2,354.50 per tonne. 3-month bid price and 3-month offer price slipped by US$25.5 per tonne or 1.06 per cent and US$27 per tonne or 1.12 per cent to score at US$2,372.50 per tonne and US$2,373 per tonne. December 24 bid price and December 24 offer price fell by US$23 per tonne or 0.89 per cent to come in at US$2,540 per tonne and US$2,545 per tonne. LME aluminium opening stock halted at 569600 tonnes. Live warrants and Cancelled warrants settled at...
