The US aluminum trihydrate market strengthened in September 2026 as downstream procurement, rising overseas production costs, and shipping bottlenecks supported prices. In contrast, Bosnia’s market faced a quarterly correction as European buyers drew on accumulated inventories and lower caustic soda costs eased manufacturing pressures, highlighting diverging regional price trends. US aluminum trihydrate market gains on demand and supply constraints US aluminum trihydrate prices increased 2.38% month over month in September, supported by purchases from wire and cable manufacturers, electrical infrastructure compounders, and electric vehicle (EV) component producers. Demand remained particularly resilient for applications involving low-smoke cable compounds and flame-retardant materials....
China-based China Aluminum International Engineering Co., Ltd. (CHALIECO) has won a bid for an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract valued at approximately USD 833 million for a proposed alumina project in Vietnam, adding to investment activity in the country’s mineral processing sector. The project, being developed by Binh Phuoc Ore Mining and Beneficiation Joint Stock Company, is designed to process 2.4 million tonnes of alumina annually. The proposed contract is valued at around CNY 5.595 billion (USD 839.04 million), with completion expected within 27 months of the contract’s effective date. CHALIECO to oversee turnkey refinery development Under the proposed turnkey arrangement, CHALIECO’s responsibilities will cover the full project delivery process, from...
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Indian state-run National Aluminium Co Ltd has sold 30,000 tonnes of alumina at about $325 a tonne free-on-board via a tender, a senior company official said on Friday. The alumina, which will be shipped next month, was bought by a European trader, Commercial Director Ansuman Das said. NALCO, whose tenders serve as an international benchmark, last sold the same quantity of alumina to a European trader in March at close to $323 a tonne free-on-board.
Aluminum Corporation of China Limited (CHALCO)’s Zhongzhou Branch produced more than 160,000 mt of alumina in March, including 145,000 mt of industrial grade alumina and 17,600 mt of chemical grade alumina. SMM sources report that the industrial grade alumina was produced by the Branch’s No. 2 alumina plant using the ore-dressing Bayer process. The annualized capacity at No. 2 alumina plant is 1.7 million mt based on March output. The Branch’s annualized chemical grade alumina capacity is 200,000 mt.
Aluminum Corporation of China Limited (CHALCO) Shanxi Branch’s 500,000 mt energy-saving alumina project enters trial operations today, with the branch’s annual alumina capacity reaching 2.7 million mt. SMM sources report that the construction of CHALCO Shanxi Branch’s 500,000 mt alumina project started on June 3, 2011. The project represents a total investment of RMB 836.33 million and is expected to be completed in September 2012. The project includes five sub-projects – raw material grinding, autoclave dissolution, red mud settling separation wash, seed decomposition and mother liquor evaporation – by virtue of existing facilities, which can effectively promote the comprehensive utilization of existing mineral resources, extend the service life of the mine, and reduce the composite...
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has kept in abeyance its permission to Vedanta Aluminium for conduct of public hearing on the company's plan to expand the capacity of Lanjigarh alumina refinery in Kalahandi district from one million tonne to six million tonne after protests from environmentalists. The hearing was scheduled be held on May 2. It may be noted, MoEF had earlier withdrawn the environment clearance granted to Vedanta Aluminium for the expansion project in August, 2010, citing non-availability of statutory clearances for the construction. The ministry had also cancelled the stage-II forest clearance given for bauxite mining at Niyamgiri, from where Vedanta would have sourced raw material for the refinery. However, on an appeal by Vedanta Aluminium to review...
Aluminum Corp. of China Zhongzhou Branch has produced more than 160 thousand tons of alumina in March, while 145.0 thousand tons of industrial alumina and 17.6 thousand tons of chemical alumina. It is learned that industrial alumina was produced by the 2nd alumina factory of the Branch, adopted mineral separation bayer process. The annual capacity for the 2nd alumina factory will reaches to 1,700 thousand tons according to the output in March. However, the production of chemical alumina was 200 thousand tons.
Orbite Aluminae Inc. is pleased to announce that recently completed assays of clay samples from the Grande-Vallee Marin Sector support the correlation between and association of potentially high-value rare earth elements ("REE") and rare metal elements ("RM") with alumina. These samples were taken from drilling programs conducted by the Company between 2007 and 2011. The REE and RM are by-products derived from the Company's patented technology, which extracts alumina from the aluminous clay deposit. An additional systematic assay program is currently underway for pulps obtained from 2007 to 2011 clay sample drilling. The partial results for this drilling program are presented below. In parallel, pilot plant tests performed in Europe confirmed that the Company's patented chemical process...
A British court adjourned a case involving metals magnate Victor Dahdaleh and former Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) chief executive Bruce Hall, who appeared on Monday to face corruption charges linked to the supply of alumina to Bahrain. Jordan-born Dahdaleh, a former donor to Britain's Labour party and U.S. President Bill Clinton's charitable activities, is alleged to have paid bribes to officials of Alba in connection to contracts with U.S. aluminium giant Alcoa , according to Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO). Hall, who has been extradited from Australia, is alleged to have received the bribes during his tenure as head of Alba, according to the SFO, which is investigating. The two appeared at Southwark Crown Court but did not enter pleas. The case was adjourned to May 25, with a...
The Utkal Alumina project, a 1.5 million tonne per annum (mtpa) alumina refinery plant being set up by AV Birla owned Hindalco Industries at Kashipur in south Odisha's Rayagada district, is set to go into production by December this year. “Around 85 per cent of the construction work for the Rs 7,500-crore project has already been completed. Construction work is expected to be completed in another six months. Work is going on in full swing with the engagement of 15,000 labourers,” a senior company official told Business Standard. Several contractors including L&T and Gannon Dunkerley have been engaged for the construction, while the major engineering equipments needed for the project like boilers, evaporators and turbines have already been procured. “The plant is expected to start its...
Alumina Limited (ASX:AWC) will gain a fully-franked dividend of $US26 million from its interest in the Alcoa World Alumina & Chemicals joint venture. Alumina holds a 40 per cent interest in the venture, with the remaining 60 per cent interest held by Alcoa (ASX:AAI). Alcoa Incorporated (NYSE:AA), today rebounded to a first quarter net profit. Alumina has advised today the Alcoa World Alumina & Chemicals joint venture has been impacted by lower aluminium and alumina prices and a strong Australian dollar, but partially offset by continued productivity gains. Alumina’s net profit surged 266 per cent to $125 million in the 2011 financial year.
Alcoa says two of its alumina refineries in Western Australia have achieved record production and remain among its lowest-cost plants globally. Alcoa, which is closing and curtailing smelter capacity across its global operations in response to weak market conditions, has singled out Wagerup and Pinjarra in WA as being the stand-out plants in its portfolio. Alcoa global chief executive Klaus Kleinfeld said production at the facilities rose to record levels last year while their profitability had risen by 23 per cent. "All of that was no extra capital," Mr Kleinfeld told a briefing on Tuesday after Alcoa posted an improvement in fourth quarter earnings. "That's the best thing that you can get, right?" Alcoa also operates an aluminium smelter at Kwinana, south of Perth. The company did not...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. ("Orbite" or the "Company") (TSX:ORT) confirms its choice for hydrochloric acid ("HCl") recovery technology for its smelter grade alumina ("SGA") plant operations based on data from SMS Siemag and ThyssenKrupp supporting the hydrothermal process efficiency and recovery rates. Part of the design of the SGA plant implies the recovery and the regeneration of hydrochloric acid. Key decision factors in selecting this technology include the high yield recovery of acid, economic viability, as well as environmental friendliness. Orbite's engineers conducted a thorough technical due diligence of the technologies available including spray roasting, fluidized beds and hydrothermal process. The selection process included sites visits of such commercial scale operations. As a...
BELIEVE it or not, there's a silver (actually, aluminium) lining to Wall Street's 1.5 per cent nervy turn overnight and it comes from this year's second worst-performing main metal (behind only nickel). Kicking off the US quarterly earnings season, Pittsburgh plodder Alcoa reported earnings of $US94 million ($91.4m) and earnings per share of 9 US cents, compared with $US309m previously. Alcoa is the first of the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones index to report its quarterly numbers, so expect a better performance tonight. (Our market this morning confined itself to a 0.75 per cent loss but it's hard to know whether that's Alcoa-related). Of course a 69 per cent profit slump is nothing to enthuse about - at least until you consider that the market was expecting Alcoa to post an EPS loss of 4 US...
Alumina Ltd : * Going forward, Alcoa world Alumina & chemicals will reduce annual Alumina production capacity in atlantic region by around 4% * Awac's production of Alumina for the first quarter was 4 million tonnes * Awac's results for Q1 continued to be impacted by lower aluminium and Alumina prices and the high Australian dollar
According to China Customs, China imported 440,000 mt of alumina in March, up 230.83% YoY. Total imports from January to March were 1.16 million mt, up 65.8% YoY. There are two reasons behind growing alumina imports in 1Q 2012. First, Western Australian alumina prices remained weak, and FOB prices for Western Australian alumina held steady at USD 320/mt in the first three months of 2012, while domestic long-term contract alumina prices were higher than RMB 2,700/mt, representing that imported alumina prices were much lower than domestic long-term contract alumina prices. Second, rumors that Indonesia will enforce the ban on bauxite exports also prompted domestic aluminum producers to increase imports of alumina in an effort to minimize risks of possible alumina supply shortage.
Orbite Aluminae Inc., the Quebec junior miner that struck a preliminary collaboration deal with Russian aluminum giant United Co. Rusal, says a research report casting doubt on the economics of its alumina-making processes is error-riddled and that the analyst who wrote it is “mixed up.” “This report is a bit far-fetched,” Orbite founder and chief executive Richard Boudreault said in an interview about the 8-page note published April 9 by Byron Capital Markets analyst Jon Hykawy. “There are an enormous amount of things that are erroneous in it.” The crux of Byron’s research report is that acid regeneration technology by SMS Siemag being used by Orbite may be unworkable, throwing the economics of Orbite’s Quebec alumina-making project into doubt. It recommends shareholders approach the...
Rio Tinto has received a binding offer for its specialty aluminas business from H.I.G. Aperiod of exclusivity has been agreed to with H.I.G. and Rio Tinto will respond to the binding offer following consultation with the relevant European works councils. The terms of the binding offer are confidential. Guy Elliott, chief financial officer of Rio Tinto said, “The potential sale is in line with our strategy of continuing to streamline our aluminium group through the divestment of noncore assets.”The specialty aluminas business is the largest integrated supplier of non-metallurgical grade aluminas with 4 production sites: Gardanne, La Bâthie, Beyrède in France, and Teutschenthal in Germany. It employs 730 people. Rio Tinto is a leading international mining group headquartered in the UK,...
Alcoa Inc (AA.N), the U.S. aluminum giant, plans to cut alumina production in the Atlantic region by 4 percent, becoming the first producer to take measures aimed at reducing oversupply that has lowered prices to around $300 per tonne. The move follows a slump in prices of alumina, an intermediate ingredient in aluminum production, to levels at which many of the world's higher-cost refiners are unprofitable. The company said on Thursday that it would cut annual alumina output by 429,901 tons in the Atlantic region, an area representing about half of its global refining capacity of 19.8 million tonn per year, to bring it more in line with smelter demand for the product made of raw ore bauxite. Alcoa said it had begun taking some refining capacity offline, but declined to name specific...
The alumina refinery of Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) at Lanjigarh, Orissa has been conferred with RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Award 2012. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) started the Occupational Health and Safety Awards scheme in 1956, making it the largest and longest running programme of its kind in UK. It recognises commitment to accident and ill health prevention and is open to businesses and organisations of all types and sizes from across the world. According to Dr. Mukesh Kumar, President & Chief Operating Officer, VAL-Lanjigarh, “Vedanta is committed to health and safety, an approach that is well recognised to be good for workers and the bottom line. With our consistent efforts, we are moving towards achieving our goal of zero harm at the...
