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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More alumina producers in China will join recent capacity restart wave on improved profitability, Shanghai Metals Market experts expect. Alumina capacity restarts in China have amounted to 2.8 million tonnes per year over the past more than one month, SMM statistics showed. Besides, China will see...
Orbite Technologies Inc. announced today the filing of its Financial Statements for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2015. During the fourth quarter, the company reported a loss before net finance expense (income) and taxes of $3.9 million, down 23.5 per cent from $5.1 million for the...
Strong rise in alumina prices have been supporting China’s domestic aluminium price. According to the latest data, alumina prices increased 18.2 per cent from the start of the year, which greatly outpaced the aluminium price rise and lifted the price ratio between alumina and aluminium from 0.28 in...
Lightweight metals major Alcoa announced that Alcoa of Australia has agreed to sell its stake in DBP, the owner and operator of the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline (DBNGP), to DUET Group (DUET) for AU$205 million (US$154 million approx.). DBP is currently owned 20 per cent by Alcoa of...
Bulk commodity producers have continued to struggle during the early stages of 2016, even with efforts made to cut costs, noted a recently published report on global Metallurgical Bauxite & Alumina market. With low bauxite and alumina prices expected to persist and demand from China remaining low,...
China’s alumina output will rebound slightly in March after consecutive months of declines as rising prices will spark capacity restarts, SMM understands. China’s alumina output was 4.25 million tonnes in February, down 7.41 per cent from January and 0.3 per cent from a year ago, SMM survey found....
Alumina import to China rose 13 per cent year-on-year in February 2016 and 23.12 per cent year-on-year during January - February 2016, revealed data released by the General Administration of Customs, China on March 21. Total alumina imported in February stood at 372,375 million tonnes, while it...
Metro Mining has increased the offer for Gulf Alumina Limited. In December 2015, Metro announced an all scrip merger offer of 3.3 shares in Metro for every 1 share of Gulf. On 8 March 2016 the Original Offer was declared to be free of all conditions. Metro said that as a result of acceptances of...
Directorate General of Customs Valuation Karachi has revised customs values on the import of Aluminium Hydroxide/Alumina Hydrate from India, China, Korea, India, USA, EU and Japan for assessment of duty/taxes. The directorate has superseded Valuation Ruling No 233/2010, dated 09-03-2010 through a...
Altech Chemicals Ltd has advised that it is aiming to become one of the world's leading suppliers of 99.99 per cent (4N) high purity alumina (HPA) (Al2O3). HPA is a high-value, high margin and highly demanded product as it is the critical ingredient required for the production of artificial...
Orbite Technologies Inc., further to its press release of March 15, 2016, has provided an update on the company's progress towards high purity alumina (HPA) plant completion and commissioning. • As indicated in the company's March 15 press release, due to additional financing requirements,...
Altech Chemicals Limited has updated that further to the suspension of the trading of its securities on the ASX pre-open this morning, Perth stockbroking firm DJ Carmichael Pty Ltd is co-ordinating a placement of fully paid ordinary shares of the company to a variety of professional and...
Altech Chemicals Ltd has appointed M+W Group as its engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for its high purity alumina (HPA) project. The appointment of M+W Group as EPC contractor by Altech marks the formal commencement of the final detailed engineering design phase of the...
Altech Chemicals Ltd has revealed results of an update to its Bankable Feasibility Study (BFS) for the development of a 4,000tpa high purity alumina (HPA) processing plant at Johor, Malaysia. Key outcomes of the updated BFS include: • Increased estimated pre-tax NPV9 of US$358 million (previously...
According to a recently published market research report, the global high purity alumina (HPA) market is projected to reach USD 5.09 Billion by 2020, at a CAGR of 20.1 per cent from 2015 to 2020. The increasing applicability of high purity alumina among varied end-user applications, such as LEDs,...
Alumina manufacturer Noranda is delaying plans to cut jobs and close its St. James Parish plant after completing an expansion it hopes will spur business. The company warned more than 100 workers could lose their jobs if the efforts fail. Noranda, based in Franklin, Texas, told state officials in...
Orbite Technologies Inc. has provided an update on the company's progress and the cost estimate towards plant completion and commissioning. Project Construction and Cost Highlights: • The installation of the air, steam, and process piping and utilities around the calcination system is complete. • A...
China Hongqiao Group Limited, the top primary aluminium producer in the country, is running a trial production at its one million tonnes-a-year alumina plant in Indonesia and will complete building another 1 million tonnes by the end of 2017, its Chief Executive Officer said on Monday. The capacity...
