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...
Grow with
AL Circle
China’s imports of alumina reduced 19.51 per cent year on year to 210,579 tonnes in November. During January-November 2017, imports were up at 2.72 million tonnes, according to the latest import-export data published by China General Customs. In November, Indonesia and Australia exported 91,351...
Alpart Alumina refinery which was reopened by its new owner Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company (JISCO) Limited in June is set to make its first shipment today December 29, 2017. The first shipment from St. Elizabeth plant after reopening will leave from Port Kaiser in Jamaica today. A release from the...
According to the latest USGS release on Bauxite and Alumina in the Second Quarter 2017 , imports of alumina by the U.S. in the third quarter of 2017 were 364,000 tonnes, 19% more than the amount of 307,000 tonnes imported in the second quarter of 2017 and 17% more than the amount of 315,000 tonnes...
Despite market participant’s expectations that alumina prices would rebound following some production cuts due to shortage of natural gas, alumina continued to move downward after a brief stop. As forecasted by analysts from SMM, natural gas rationing had little influence on alumina output and...
Market participants have expected alumina prices to rebound following some production cuts due to shortage of natural gas. However, analysts from SMM believe natural gas rationing will have little influence on alumina output next week so the price would slope downward further. Lower inventories...
Altech Chemicals Limited announced an increase in the total debt package for its high purity alumina (HPA) project. Altech said in a statement that German government owned KfW IPEX-Bank has advised the Company of credit approval for a total project finance debt package of US$190 million. Altech...
The dichotomy of alumina and aluminium remains on the same page as alumina is falling on the price curve while primary aluminium is recovering from the recent fall that started in November. Spot alumina price in China has dropped from the year’s high of RMB 3730/t in November first week to RMB...
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has signed a supply agreement with Shaheen Chem Investments LLC which paves the way for the construction by Shaheen of a chemical complex in Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi. Upon completion, Shaheen’s ethylene dichloride and caustic soda plant will supply caustic...
Alumina prices have seen another drop today continuing the trend that started in November second week after the starting of winter capacity cut. From RMB 3730/t in the beginning of November spot average alumina price has dropped to RMB 2918/t, registering a drop of about 22%. The price drop was...
Diversified metals & mining conglomerate Vedanta Ltd is aiming at zero alumina imports by 2020. By then, the company is looking to reach its full nameplate capacity of six million tonnes per annum (mtpa) at its Lanjigarh alumina refinery in Odisha. The Lanjigarh refinery's present de-bottlenecked...
Altech Chemicals Limited, one of the world’s promising high purity alumina producers, announced that German government has agreed to a credit cover for its high purity alumina project. Altech Managing Director Iggy Tan, said: “news of the IMC decision for offer of cover is an outstanding milestone...
Emirates Global Aluminium, the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside oil and gas, has signed a three-year alumina supply agreement with Vinacomin, a Vietnamese state-owned firm. Under the agreement, Vinacomin will supply EGA with up to 300,000 tonnes of alumina per year....
Spot alumina prices were on a downward trend in China through November continuing in December, following the downtrend in aluminium. The prices are showing some restraint and stand unchanged today. As updated by Shanghai Metals Market, average spot alumina price in China remains unchanged at RMB...
The alumina price index (API) used for individual price discovery of alumina spot has been quite volatile this year. In October, the API surged to record highs driven by supply corners over curtailments in Chinese alumina refineries. The higher alumina prices, however, were not backed by a...
Emirates Global Aluminium has sent 13 female UAE National engineers to Ma’aden’s alumina refinery in Saudi Arabia as part of preparation work for the start-up of its Al Taweelah alumina refinery in Abu Dhabi. The new group are the first women to participate in the programme. Eleven of the women are...
According to the latest SMM production survey on China’s base metal market, the preliminary output data for November 2017 shows alumina output dropped to 5.6 million tonnes from 6 million tonnes in October. Though the output drops month on month, it registered an increase of 8.6% YoY. YTD...
Alumina spot prices declined across China major markets thereby extending their month-long drop. The average alumina spot price dropped from RMB 3189 per tonne on December 8 to RMB 3141 per tonne on Monday, December 11. Since RMB 3701 on November 13 this year, alumina prices have declined by 15 per...
Emirates Global Aluminium, the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside oil and gas, today received His Excellency Masud Husain, Ambassador of Canada to the United Arab Emirates, to celebrate a safety milestone by a Canadian company working to build EGA’s Al Taweelah alumina...
