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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Altech Chemicals Ltd's managing director, Iggy Tan, said that the company received strong interest in the company's entry into the high purity alumina (HPA) market at a conference in Shenzhen, China. Altech’s plan is to offer a finished product range that will include HPA tailored for the synthetic...
Global lightweight metal giant Alcoa posted growth in the combined Upstream division, Alcoa Corporation, for the second quarter 2016. The company's Alumina and Primary Metals segments reported revenue of $2.3 billion, ATOI of $150 million and adjusted EBITDA of $358 million. The total revenue of...
Aluminum Corp of China (CHALCO), the country's biggest producer of alumina and primary aluminium, posted profits of 330 million yuan ($49.4 million) during the first half of the year, the highest level in almost five years. The company attributed its excellent performance largely to reduced...
Alumina says production at its AWAC joint venture with Alcoa held steady through the second quarter, with its returns falling despite improved margins. The ASX-listed Alumina (AWC) said AWAC production came in at 3.2 million tonnes, exactly in line with first quarter numbers. Its total dividends...
Australia’s Department of Industry, Innovation & Science has projected global alumina deficits of 4 million mt in 2016 and 2017. Global consumption in 2016 is anticipated to rise 3 per cent year on year to 116 million mt and production to rise 3 per cent to 112 million mt, the DIIS said Friday...
Orbite Technologies Inc. today provided an operational update on the Company's progress with the construction of its high purity alumina (HPA) plant. • CNC Mecanique was demobilized as planned from the site the week of June 27th. • The remaining piping mechanical work was awarded to Fjordtech...
The Port of Corpus Christi had recently announced that it made a bid to buy the Sherwin Alumina plant, which is in bankruptcy. The Port said it offered $33 million for the plant and offered to spend $13 million in capital, deferred maintenance and environmental improvements if Sherwin Alumina or...
Australia's Alumina Ltd says its opposition to a break-up of US giant Alcoa has been validated by new details of the split. Nine months after it first flagged plans to break itself into two companies, Alcoa officially confirmed on Thursday morning that it would go ahead with the plan to separate...
According to the latest Mineral Industry Surveys data published by the USGS, imports of alumina during the first quarter of 2016 were 262,000 metric tons (t), 6 per cent less than those in the fourth quarter of 2015 and 48 per cent less than those in the first quarter of 2015. The leading sources...
The Australian alumina daily assessment slipped $1/mt day on day to $239/mt FOB Wednesday, weakened by lackluster demand. Falling Chinese domestic alumina prices, and rising freight rates in Asia have also put downward pressure on the FOB alumina price. In the last two days, smelters have put the...
The People’s Republic of China’s China Hongqiao Group Ltd., the world’s top aluminium producer by volume, announced that it entered into an agreement last week to purchase the entire equity interests of Binzhou Municipal Beihai Xinhe New Material Co., Ltd. for US$320 million. Beihai Xinhe’s equity...
China imported 175,400 mt of alumina in May, up 70.82 per cent MoM, but down 48.51 per cent YoY, according to China Customs. Import volumes remained low. Imports from India and Vietnam, which accounted for 17.43 per cent and 11.29 per cent, respectively, of total imports, increased markedly from...
Shandong Binzhou Beihai Company put its large alumina project into operations in Shandong recently, the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association (CNIA) said in its website. The project has an annual capacity of 1 million tonnes, according to the website. In an earilier release, SMM predicted...
China Hongqiao Group will spend 2.12 billion yuan ($319 million) in acquiring all stakes in one Chinese alumina producer, reported industry sources. The alumina producer to be acquired, namely Binzhou Beihai Xinhe New Materials Co., now has designed annual alumina capacity at 2 million tonnes and...
CRU's recently published Alumina Cost Service, 2016 Edition examines the key themes which had a significant effect on the alumina industry in 2015, including the main drivers behind the significant decrease in world average site costs. Three key themes emerged as particularly notable, including the...
<p>United Company RUSAL Plc announced that on 22 June 2016 the company's Board of Directors has approved (i) Annex 12 to the Dian-Dian Concession Agreement dated 21 July 2001 in relation to the Dian-Dian project; and (ii) an agreement on restoration of the alumina refinery Friguia and its further...
Alumina prices in China will keep falling as the market is gradually turning from shortfall to surplus, SMM predicts. The pace of capacity restarts and new capacity commissioning in alumina industry is faster than in aluminium industry because alumina production is more flexible than aluminium...
The legal war between Alcoa Inc and Alumina Limited centred on the former’s strategic decision to subdivide itself has reportedly intensified. In a recent development, Alumina has sought relief from the confidentiality clauses attached to information provided by Alcoa in the wake of the aluminium...
