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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According to a recent report, the tension between locals and authorities of Vedanta alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district has subsided today on March 19, after a mutual discussion between the two parties. The tension had taken place on Monday, March 18, after Rengalpali villagers...
Average spot alumina price declined further to RMB 2726 per tonne on Thursday, 14 March 2019. This was down 0.18 per cent or RMB5 per tonne from RMB2731 per tonne. The average price is expected to range within RMB2726 per tonne. The fall in alumina price can be seen in the following graph....
CRU has announced the successful completion of the independent assurance review for its leading, transaction-only based, CRU-API (Alumina Price Index) price. The review was carried out by independent professional services company PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC). This report was prepared to...
Following the news last week that Altech Chemicals officially mandated Macquarie Bank as the preferred mezzanine lender for the HPA, the update comes that the stage one construction work of Altech’s high purity alumina (HPA) processing plant in Johor, Malaysia, is progressing as planned. The...
Altech Chemicals Limited has officially mandated Macquarie Bank (Macquarie) as the preferred mezzanine lender for its proposed high purity alumina (HPA) plant. Both the companies have reached agreement on mezzanine debt terms and executed a mandate letter appointing Macquarie as the exclusive...
Altech Chemicals Limited provides an update on the transition by lithium-ion battery manufactures to high purity alumina (HPA) coated battery separator sheets. This is apparent from recently announced quarterly sales data by Japanese separator sheet manufacturer W-Scope (6619 JT) and from the...
According to Shanghai Metals Market, China’s alumina production in February came in at 5.64 million tonnes, after rising 10.93 per cent year-on-year. The average daily output stood at 201,000 tonnes, while annualised capacity in operation recorded at 73.46 million tonnes. This year-on-year rise in...
According to Shanghai Metals Market, the alumina spot price further extends its decline today to stand at RMB 2,731 per tonne. Compared with the downfall by RMB 14 per tonne yesterday, today the alumina spot price has shown a slower decline by RMB 7 per tonne. Since the beginning of the month, the...
After remaining restraint last day at RMB 2,749 per tonne, the alumina spot price again plunged today, on March 7, by RMB 14 per tonne to stand at RMB 2,735 per tonne, found Shanghai Metals Market. This is the third fall of alumina spot price this month, hinting a continued downward trend. The...
SOPerior Fertilizer Corp. is working on offtake agreements and funding discussions with several international and US-based commodity trading and construction groups for a project to extract alumina and SOP from alunite. SOPerior Fertilizer plans to produce soluble SOP fertilizer, alumina, and...
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) announced that it will intensify research partnership with VITO NV, the European research and technology organisation, to find uses of bauxite residue for the UAE construction industry by further developing two of the potential applications identified in the first...
Spot alumina prices in China are dropping from November 23 continuing in March. As updated by Shanghai Metals Market, average spot alumina price has dropped from RMB2764 per tonne on March 4 to RMB2749 per tonne on March 5, 2019. The fall in alumina price can be seen in the following graph....
NICHE Chemical LLC, the specialty products and chemicals division of New Day Aluminum Holdings LLC, has announced the acquisition of Imerys Fused Minerals Hull Ltd. The acquisition will complement the company’s existing fused alumina business in LaBathie, France. The acquired business, located in...
Average spot alumina price dropped from RMB 2777 per tonne to RMB2775 per tonne on Thursday, February 28, representing a decrease of RMB2 per tonne or 0.07 per cen. The spot price is expected to range within RMB2775 per tonne. Alumina-East price decreased RMB50 per tonne or 1.77 per cent today. The...
Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) has reportedly started shipping alumina from Kazakhstan into northwest China’s Xinjiang region. The news came after four people with knowledge of the matter said last week. However, purchases of alumina from Kazakhstan are a rare occurrence in China. According to...
Alumina Limited has reported an 87% increase year-on-year in statutory net profit after tax to US$635.4 million for the full-year ended 31 December 2018. The company has declared a final, fully franked dividend of 14.1 US cents per share. This makes total dividends of 22.7 US cents per share for...
According to the global export-import data, India’s estimated aluminium imports from Australia and Vietnam in 2018 grew year-on-year in tandem with the rise of the country’s total alumina imports. In 2017, India had imported 1.50 million tonnes of alumina from Australia and 339,459 tonnes from...
Grasim Industries Limited, a part of the Aditya Birla Group, signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Chlor-Alkali Business of K.P.R. Industries (India) Limited for INR253 crore in a cash deal. K.P.R. Industries’ Chlor-Alkali Business consists of an under-construction 200 TPD Chlor-Alkali...
