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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<p>Noranda Alumina that operates an alumina refinery in Gramercy, US, gets financial support from the Siena Lending Group LLC, a finance company offering asset based loans. Siena Lending Group LLC has also provides $30 million asset-based revolving credit facility for New Day Aluminium LLC to repay...
<p>Further to its February 2nd press release, Orbite Technologies has provided an update on the Company's progress on its high purity alumina ("HPA") production.</p> <p><img style="vertical-align: middle; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"...
<p>The week ended February 25 saw many major aluminium producers, with and without integrated operations, losing their last quarter or full year margins to alumina prices. <strong>Alcoa's Australian partner Alumina Limited</strong> who reported full year result for 2016 on February 23, registered a...
<p>Aditya Birla Group owned Hindalco Industries has planned big investment worth INR 500-700 crore on de-bottlenecking its Utkal alumina refinery project in Odisha's Rayagada district. The company has now applied for clearance up to 2.25 mtpa from 1.5 mtpa for its Utkal alumina...
<p>The small island country of Bahrain together with four other Gulf countries- the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Qatar, has changed the face of the Gulf from being a solely oil driven economy to a manufacturing hub accounting for 10 per cent the world's total production of aluminium. About 40 per...
<p>Alcoa's Australian partner Alumina Limited has reported full year result for 2016 and registered a loss of $US30.2 million ($A39.3 million) down from a $US88.3 million ($A114.8 million) profit in 2015. The loss is attributed to restructuring-related write-offs and lower prices and volumes.</p>...
<p>Altech Chemicals Limited has announced that it has reached an agreement with its appointed engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor M+W Group on a framework for a fixed price EPC contract for the construction of the Company’s proposed Malaysian high purity alumina (HPA)...
<p>Century Aluminum is projected to post profits in its fourth quarter of 2016 fiscal year. According to the consensus estimates compiled by Thompson Reuters, analysts expect the North American primary aluminium producer to post adjusted earnings before interest, tax, deductions and amortization...
<p>India has an installed alumina capacity of 6.5.million tons, out of which plant capacity of 6.2 million tons reported alumina production in 2015. The reported production of alumina stands at 4 million tons in 2014-15 which increased by about 6% YOY. NALCO continues to be the leading producer of...
<p>UC RUSAL, the leading global aluminium producer, has announced its operating results for the fourth quarter 2016 and full year 2016. </p> <p><img style="vertical-align: middle; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"...
<p>India's leading manufacturer and exporter of aluminium and alumina, National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) remains upbeat about its Alumina business for the rest part of the current financial year as well as for the next fiscal. In its recently declared financial results for the 3rd quarter...
<p>Hindalco Industries reported a standalone net profit of INR 321 crore for Q3 2017. Although, aluminium revenues grew 19%, and alumina production reported an increase due to added output from Utkal Alumina International Ltd (UAIL). <br /><br /><img style="vertical-align: middle; display: block;...
<p>Alumina d.o.o Zvornik, the key alumina producer and the biggest exporter of mineral-based detergents in Bosnia, said that it has signed a deal with the local state-controlled brown coal mine Banovici. Under the deal, the latter will supply 160,000 tonnes of coal worth some 16 million marka ($8.7...
<p>The global demand for alumina, the prime raw material for aluminium is growing like never before with faster growth in aluminium production. Recently Alcoa, during its earnings announcement said that it expects a 4 per cent growth in global aluminium demand in 2017. The world will continue to...
<p>Airobotics, a leading provider of an end-to-end fully automatic solution, has developed an unmanned drone solution, the first of its kind in the global market. The company’s multi-purpose drone will be utilized at an Australian resources operation in a little while.<br /><br /><img...
<p>Macquarie has upgraded Alumina's recommendation from neutral to outperform and increased its price target by 35% to $2.30, implying upside of 20% to the company's current trading range.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img style="vertical-align: middle;"...
<p>Altech Chemicals Limited has provided an update on the due diligence activities associated with the financing of its proposed high purity alumina (HPA) project. The various independent reviews and associated confirmatory pilot plant test work are now well advanced and nearing completion.</p>...
<p>Altech Chemicals has just released December 2016 Quarterly Activities Report and cash flow update. The highlights of the report show steady growth of its HPA project.</p> <p><img style="vertical-align: middle; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"...
