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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India’s National Aluminum Company Limited (Nalco) and the country’s third-largest producer of aluminum, may soon be getting access to a new 65-million-ton bauxite reserve to expand its alumina refinery from 2.1 million tons a year to 3.1 million tons a year by 2016. A draft of a detailed project...
Shares in Orbite Aluminae Inc. soared more than 25 per cent in heavy trading on news the company has locked up a buyer for all of its anticipated production of smelter-grade alumina at its Quebec plant. The stock rose to a high of 99 cents before easing back to 86 cents – up 16 cents on the day, or...
After exhausting its options to source bauxite from the domestic market, Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) is mulling importing the raw material to resume operations at its Lanjigarh refinery. The one-million alumina refinery has remained shut since December 5, 2012, on bauxite crunch and VAL has been...
A unit of Glencore Xstrata plc entered into an agreement with Orbite Aluminae Inc to purchase smelter-grade alumina (SGA) from its proposed plant in Quebec. Under the terms of the agreement, Glencore International AG will buy all the output from the clean technology company's first SGA plant in...
The average SMM alumina price has fallen from May’s RMB 2,514/mt to current RMB 2,473/mt, but the average price for long-term alumina contracts has risen from May’s RMB 2,482/mt to current RMB 2,526/mt. Prices of imported alumina at ports have slipped from RMB 2,654/mt in May to current RMB...
The global market for Alumina Zirconia Oxide Abrasives is projected to reach US$202.3 million by 2018, driven by robust industrial activity in the developing countries and the resurgence of key downstream industries. As stated by the new market research report on Alumina Zirconia Oxide Abrasives,...
Billionaire Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s firm Aughinish Alumina paid just €1,952 in corporation tax over the past five years, despite generating sales of more than €191 million, reports the Sunday Independent. Deripaska, whose wealth is valued at $8.8 billion (€6.6 billion) by Forbes magazine,...
The data from General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China showed that in May, China's imported alumina totaled 200,000 tons, decreased by 72 percent year-on-year, and 38% month-on-month. January to May this year, China's imported alumina totaled 1.56 million tons, decreased...
A force majeure at the world's largest alumina refinery is unlikely to have a significant impact on aluminum prices, unless production issues persist for an extended period, market participants said Thursday. Norsk Hydro ASA announced force majeure at its majority-owned Alunorte alumina refinery in...
China Customs data show that China imported 200,000 mt of alumina in May, down 72% YoY and 38% MoM. YTD imports through May totaled 1.56 million mt, also a drop of 28% from the same period last year. SMM attributes the sharp decline in alumina imports to domestic aluminum smelters cutting...
Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), Lanjigarh has been conferred with ‘Best Corporate Award’ in Aluminium sector. Minister of Revenue and Disaster Management, Government of Odisha, Shri Surya Narayan Patro presented the award in presence of Shri Abasar Beuria, former Ambassador and Padma Vibhushan...
Hydro issued a notice of force majeure to its alumina customers on Wednesday as power outages and lowered production at Alunorte alumina refinery may affect alumina deliveries to customers. It is currently not possible to determine or estimate whether and how deliveries to customers will be...
Russia-based United Company RUSAL, the world’s biggest aluminium producer, plans to build a bauxite refinery in Indonesia to produce alumina, in order to benefit from the government’s ban on the export of unprocessed ores by 2014. Top executives from the company expressed their interest during a...
After struggling hard for over two decades, Utkal Alumina International Limited (UAIL), a subsidiary of Hindalco Industries, has finally started trial production from its 1.5 million ton alumina refinery at Doragurah, near Kasipur in Odisha’s Rayagada district. During trial production, the plant is...
Nalco will add an additional one million tons per annum (MTPA) capacity by 2016 to its existing 2.1 MTPA alumina refinery in Odisha for about INR 4,570 crore, a senior company official said. A draft of detailed project report (DPR) for the expansion of the alumina refinery has been prepared and it...
Orbite commissioned and recently received two independent capital cost and timeline estimates for completing the high-purity alumina production plant in Cap-Chat, Quebec, including the installation of the new calcination system. These were subsequently reviewed and analysed by Orbite management and...
Ducon Technologies announced that in past 5 years the Company has built up extensive and diversified experience in the Alumina handling systems. Ducon has executed eight alumina and crushed bath projects for major aluminum producers of India. Most of these projects have been turnkey in scope and in...
Orbite’s Board of Directors recently adopted a majority voting policy pursuant to which, the proxy forms for the election of directors will permit the shareholders of the Corporation to vote in favour of or to withhold from voting for each director nominee separately. The Chair of the Board will...
