
Chinese researchers show that a few extra hours of CO2 curing can roughly double the wet-dry service life of red mud–CFB ash–MgO backfill, while keeping leaching of hazardous elements low even after weeks of exposure to alkaline red mud liquor. Red mud remains one of the aluminium industry’s...
Canadian Energy Metals has demonstrated a process for producing smelter-grade alumina from Saskatchewan black shale and has started a prefeasibility study for its Thor Project. Canadian Energy Metals Corp. (CEM) has taken a step towards developing an alternative North American source of alumina...
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Vedanta’s Alumina Refinery at Lanjigarh has remained operational while adapting all precautionary measures against COVID-19 as advised by the Government and the health authorities. Considering the danger of the situation in the wake the spread of Corona, the alumina refinery is active with reduced...

The average alumina spot price in China on the last day of the week, dated March 27, has recorded a downfall of RMB 18 per tonne to stand at RMB 2,403 per tonne. In the east and north, the price has dwindled by RMB 20 per tonne to RMB 2,400 per tonne, while that in the central has plunged by RMB 15...

GEA has secured a follow-up contract from Utkal Alumina, a 100% subsidiary of Aditya Birla Group Company Hindalco to build a third line of multi-stage falling film evaporators. GEA, the world-renowned state-of-art evaporation technology provider has already supplied the first two evaporator lines...

In the annual general meeting of DUBAL Holding LLC, on Wednesday, March 25, H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and Minister of Finance, praised the company’s good operational performance during 2019. He also mentioned Dubal’s 50 per cent subsidiary firm EGA and its...

The average spot alumina price stands at RMB 2421 per tonne on Thursday, 26 March 2020, a drop of RMB 28 per tonne or 1.14 per cent from RMB 2449 per tonne. The alumina prices in China have decreased in all major markets except South. The average prices of Alumina-East and Alumina-Central have...

The impact of the Coronavirus outbreak is seen in China’s alumina exports as well. During January-February this year, China could export as minimum as 30,000 tonnes of alumina in total, down 82.7 per cent from the same period last year, according to China Customs data. Along with the export amount,...

The average alumina spot price has extended decline by RMB 33 per tonne to stand as low as RMB 2,498 per tonne, as of Tuesday, March 24, found Shanghai Metals Market. In the east and central, the price has inched down by RMB 40 per tonne to hover at RMB 2,500 per tonne and RMB 2,510 per tonne,...

UC Rusal, the Global Aluminium Producer, has been operating Windalco Alumina in St Catherine has declared safety measures in relation to the spread of COVID-19. The company came out with clear communication that in order to ensure the health and safety of all employees effective 17 th March’20,...

While the entire nation is preparing for battling the lethal COVID-19, the news comes that even Vedanta’s Lanjigarh alumina refinery is conducting awareness and sensitization programmes in the community on account of the virus outbreak. The team has already reached out to more than 14 villages for...

According to Shanghai Metals Market, the average spot alumina price has further recorded a decline of RMB 2 per tonne to stand at RMB 2,564 per tonne, as of Friday, March 20. In the north, the price has dwindled by RMB 5 per tonne to RMB 2,570 per tonne. In the east, central, and south, however,...

After remaining restrained for a day, the average alumina spot price in China is back with a drop of RMB 2 per tonne to RMB 2,566 per tonne, found Shanghai Metals Market. In the east, the price has declined by RMB 10 per tonne to RMB 2,565 per tonne; while in the other parts of China, the price...

According to Shanghai Metals Market, the average alumina spot price in China has extended drop today, March 17, for the second day in a row by RMB 5 per tonne to RMB 2,568 per tonne. In the north, the price has declined by RMB 10 per tonne to RMB 2,575 per tonne, while that in the east, central,...

After remaining restrained at RMB 2,575 per tonne last week, the average alumina spot price has recorded a dip today, on March 16, by RMB 2 per tonne to RMB 2,573 per tonne, found Shanghai Metals Market. In the north, the price has decreased by RMB 5 per tonne to RMB 2,585 per tonne, while in the...

On 12 th March’20, Vedanta Ltd made public that Lanjigarh Alumina refinery is expecting to upswing its production to 1.8 million tonnes in 2019-20. This is followed after significant development in operating efficiencies. The Lanjigarh refinery in Odisha stood with 1.5 million tonnes of production...

According to the latest update on Altech Chemicals’ construction activities at its high purity alumina (HPA) site in Johor, the onsite electrical substation is progressing and is now ahead of schedule, while all the major constructional works are complete, including the external detailing of the...

According to a recent report, Outotec has bagged a contract to deliver technology and services to National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) for its alumina refinery expansion in Damanjodi, Odisha. The order is worth EUR 15 million and is booked in Outotec’s 2020 first quarter order intake. As per...

The largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside oil and gas, Emirates Global Aluminium, has signed a fresh three-year contract with Vinacomin, a Vietnamese state-owned firm, extending the supply of Vietnamese alumina to the UAE until 2023. As per the new agreement, EGA will...

China in February 2020 produced 5.4 million tonnes of alumina, of which metallurgical-grade materials accounted for 5.17 million tonnes, according to Shanghai Metals Market. Daily production of metallurgical-grade alumina averaged 178,000 tonnes, 8.19 per cent lesser than February 2019 and 0.52 per...