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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Odisha-based Asia’s largest integrated aluminium complex National Aluminium Company’s (Nalco) business expansion is on a roll. It is ready to invest INR 7000 crore to INR 12000 crore to set up a 1.4 million tonne or 2 million tonne alumina refinery in Vishakapatnam, as disclosed in an exclusive...
The global trade data suggests that Bosnia and Herzegovina will import 33 per cent more alumina in 2018 than last year. Greece is the key country from where country sourced maximum volume of alumina. Greece exported an estimated 165643 tonnes of alumina to Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2017, according...
Shanghai Metal Market anticipated yesterday on May 28, 2018, that domestic alumina prices in China are going to witness a limited decline on the face of continual low stockpiling that allows sellers to hold their offers firm. Since the beginning of May, China’s domestic alumina prices have fallen...
National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco), a Navratna CPSE under Ministry of Mines, is looking out to tap the waste-to-wealth model using Chinese tech for processing mineral wastes and commercialising them, which in turn would help the company boost its bottom line. The company believes that by...
After showing restraint over a long period of time from 3rd of May to 18th of May, 2018, alumina spot market price declined two days in a row. According to Shanghai Metal Market, average alumina spot price, which was hovering at RMB 3118 per tonne until May 18 , 2018 plunged to RMB 3094 per tonne...
Aluminium Corporation of China Limited (Chalco) targets to export 30,000-50,000 tonnes of alumina in May, company’s president reported to Reuters on Thursday, May 17, 2018. Lu Dongliang, the vice president of Chalco also confirmed the news while speaking on the sidelines of the LME Asia Week...
Hydro has appointed John Thuestad as new Executive Vice President for the business area Bauxite & Alumina effective June 1. Thuestad has more than 30 years of international experience from the metal and mining industry. "I am pleased that John Thuestad has accepted the position as new head of...
We recently covered a news update that existing supply deals with Rusal’s Aughinish alumina refinery in Ireland would resume as the U.S. had extended the deadline for US and non-US citizens to wind up business with Rusal to late October. However, Minister for Business Heather Humphreys said that...
Iran is estimated to witness a jump in alumina imports in the first half of 2018. The country imported an estimated 221359 tonnes of alumina from the global market in 2017. The country’s alumina imports from China climbed up significantly in March 2018.China, one of the major exporters of alumina...
We have recently covered a story on how Sanction against Rusal drove a quick surge in alumina export from China. China exported more than 300,000 tonnes of alumina as of May 4, since the profit window opened in April following the US sanctions against Rusal, SMM learned. The export started in...
China’s alumina imports hit a record low of 8,145 tonnes in March, down 98 per cent from the same period previous year. SMM reported that non-metallurgical grade alumina accounted for most of the imports in March and the volume of metallurgical grade was zero. SMM believes that tight global...
The Greek Industrial Group reported on Thursday, May 3, 2018 that Mytilineos, a Greek-based industrial conglomerate whose companies are active in the sectors of metallurgy, energy, and EPC, is expecting a positive prospect for its alumina business in Greece despite surging alumina prices last month...
Italy imported US$452.2 billion worth of goods from around the globe last year. According to available export-import data, the country will import 23 per cent more alumina in the first half of 2018, compared to the same period last year. The market for high purity alumina witnessed growth during...
A Brazilian federal judge yesterday upheld a lower court ruling that ordered Norsk Hydro to cut production at Alunorte alumina refinery by 50 per cent. Federal Judge Arthur Pinheiro Chaves said that failure to honor the conditions set by the courts would result in a daily fine of 1 million reais...
The sanctions against Rusal, world's second-biggest aluminium producer and a major alumina producer have created supply concerns in both the alumina and aluminium market. Before the sanctions, Hydro’s Alunorte refinery in Brazil was forced to cut outputs by half earlier in the year due to leakage...
According to sources, companies including Rio Tinto can resume existing supply deals with Rusal’s Aughinish alumina refinery in Ireland as the U.S. has extended the deadline for US and non-US citizens to wind up business with Rusal to late October. The development happened a day after the US...
Turkey, which imports substantial amount of alumina to feed domestic smelters every year, is estimated to increase its alumina import in 2018. The country’s import of alumina dropped in volume in 2017 when compared to 2016 data. Germany is the top supplier of alumina to the country in 2017,...
Emirates Global Aluminium announced the completion of the calcination process facility of Al Taweelah alumina refinery after more than 2.4 million hours of work. Al Taweelah alumina refinery is the first to be built in the UAE to secure alumina needs of the UAE’s aluminium industry needs. The...
