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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At the start of 2015, those in the alumina industry had a right to feel like things were brightening for the lightweight metal in global markets. The global industry had been grinding its way through a years-built glut of supply that had depressed prices and forced alumina producers in the West to...
Vedanta Ltd will halve output at its one- million-tonne-a-year alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa state in about two months, a senior executive said, due mainly to acute shortage of raw material bauxite and weak LME aluminium prices. Job cuts at the refinery, which employs about 2,000 people,...
Non-availability of bauxite from Odisha and the prevailing turmoil in global aluminium prices have forced Vedanta to initiate the process of shutting down its one-million tonne a year alumina refinery at Lanjigarh. “We ran this unit with all commitment for nearly a decade, despite heavy odds. But...
Macquarie upgraded shares of Alumina (AWC) from a neutral rating to an outperform rating in a research note issued to investors on Wednesday morning, Analyst Ratings Net reports. Several other analysts also recently weighed in on AWC. Credit Suisse reiterated a neutral rating on shares of Alumina...
In 2015, AluChem will launch a new line of low and ultra-low-soda aluminas focused toward ceramics and investment casting applications. This new high-purity alumina product portfolio will utilize proprietary purification technology in the production of low and ultra-low-soda calcined, reactive and...
Extensive market research has revealed that Asia Pacific is the largest market of high-purity alumina (HPA) attributed mainly to the high concentration of allied industries such as semiconductor and electronics equipment manufacturing industries in China, Taiwan and South Korea. It is then followed...
Despite falling alumina prices, China’s alumina output peaked at 4.83 million tonnes in July, SMM data showed. The figure grew 11.6% year-on-year, and was up from June’s 4.72 million tonnes. Large refineries maintained high production due to their cost advantages. China
Alumina Limited (AWC), the leading Australian mineral and metals company, has swung to profit in the half-year to the end of June, and expects to see solid margins in the second half as favourable exchange rates lead to lower production costs. Alumina (AWC) today posted a net profit after tax of...
The government of Baishan City, Jilin Province, is planning to spend 2.2 billion yuan ($340 million) in building a project that extracts alumina from coal ash. Coal fly ash, an industrial by-product, is derived from coal combustion in thermal power plants. Coal fly ash is rich in alumina (upto...
Can the alumina price recover in the next six months? This is the question Credit Suisse asks. If China's aluminium smelters ramp up as planned then the shortfall in alumina should peak in the December quarter and push up the price, attracting imports. On the other hand, the broker suspects...
The Exchange had sought clarification from Hindalco Industries Ltd with respect to news article appearing in Financial Express on August 15, 2015 titled "Birla invests INR 7,500 cr in Odisha refinery". Hindalco Industries Ltd has replied stating that Utkal Alumina International Ltd (Utkal) is our...
Altech Chemicals closed at $0.10 on Friday last week, more than double the value they were trading at just two months ago. Altech's focus is to transition into a leading producer of 99.99% (4N) High Purity Alumina (HPA) at a low cost. HPA is a high-value product because it is the major source...
Outotec has purchased the Canadian technical consulting and engineering company Kovit Engineering Ltd from its founders. Sudbury-based Kovit Engineering specialises in surface and underground mine tailings solutions. The acquisition complements Outotec’s existing dewatering and tailings treatment...
Odisha government has approved the expansion plans for Utkal Alumina Ltd, an Aditya Birla group firm and Bhushan Power & Steel Ltd (BPSL) in a meeting today. This is considered to be a step towards boosting the industrialization in the state of Odisha. "The State Level Single Window Clearance...
Altech Chemicals has received a substantial shareholder notice from Malaysian cornerstone investor Melewar IIC Limited after acquiring a 7% interest in a placement. Melewar, a diversified industrial firm with steel, energy and engineering businesses, acquired 8,474,576 shares priced at $0.059 as...
Phillip Paulwell, Jamaica's Mining Minister, has disclosed that UC Rusal, the Russian aluminium conglomerate, will soon be meeting with the Electricity Sector Enterprise Team (ESET) to give a report on energy projects it is contemplating for its alumina refineries in Jamaica. UC Rusal is...
Altech Chemicals Limited is pleased to advise that it will raise a total of $1.130 million via share placement, for the commencement of detailed design work for the company’s high purity alumina (HPA) project and for corporate and general working capital purposes. The company will issue a total of...
PT Well Harvest Winning Alumina Refinery (WHW) development project continued speeding the processing of bauxite into alumina. Li Yu Yong, Project Leader alumina smelter PT WHW, said that the company had already begun construction. This phase has been underway since 2013 and is scheduled for...
