Nanshan Aluminium International Holdings has reported that overseas alumina prices averaged around USD 321 per tonne in the first nine months of 2026, down approximately 22 per cent year-on-year. The update highlights a third-quarter (Q3) price recovery following a subdued first half, supported by new overseas aluminium smelting capacity and supply constraints at some alumina refineries. The update centres around the unaudited nine-month results of Nanshan Aluminium International’s controlling shareholder, Shandong Nanshan Aluminium Co., Ltd., for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2026. Explore the production, demand and consumption forecasts of bauxite and alumina in our report: " Global Bauxite & Alumina Market Forecast to 2036: Supply–Demand, Trade Flows & Price Outlook "...
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....
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China Henan International Cooperation Group Co Ltd will spend $3 billion to build an alumina refinery in Sangaredi, Guinea, within four years, said Ousmane Kaba, an adviser to the African nation, on Tuesday. Annual production capacity at the site, 350 kilometers northwest of the Guinean capital, Conakry, will be 3 million metric tons, said Kaba. The plant will process 10 million tons of bauxite, the ore that is refined into alumina, which in turn is made into aluminum.
Shandong Province imported 119 thousand tons of alumina in January decreased 15.2% yoy while increased 41.2% on a monthly base, this data was the highest record since 12 months. It valued 38,290 thousand dollars dropped 26.6%, average import price was 321.5 dollars per ton that dropped 13.5% yoy and 9.6% on a monthly base, but it was the lowest record since 17 months. The following main reasons caused the substantial increase. The first one is alumina price different at home and abroad which was more than 150 yuan/ton. The difference in price leads to enterprises perfer importing. The second one is alumina output slow down in domestic and downstream industry output improved quickly that all expand alumina import volume to some extend.
Chief Executive Officer of the West Indies Alumina Company (WINDALCO) Leonid Stavitski is to reappear in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court on April 3, to answer to alleged environmental breaches by the company. When he appeared in court today, the Crown said it was yet to receive a statement from a government employee. A representative from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution said the man who collected samples of dead fish in relation to the case is not cooperating with the investigation. Resident Magistrate Marcia Dunbar-Green then subpoenaed the statement of the witness. The Crown is alleging that on July 29, Stavitski being the CEO of WINDALCO caused untreated effluent to be discharged into the Rio Cobre in St Catherine. The National Environment and Planning...
Alumina Ltd. (AWC.AU), a partner in the world's largest producer of the key ingredient in aluminum, Thursday cautioned that prices are likely to remain volatile in 2012 after falling sharply toward the end of last year and even as the industry cuts smelting capacity. The Australian company said its 2011 profit increased more than three times as aluminum and alumina prices increased and production at its Alcoa World Alumina & Chemicals venture with Alcoa Inc. (AA) reached a record. "Toward the end of 2011, conditions deteriorated with significantly reduced aluminum and alumina prices and the Australian dollar remaining at high levels against the U.S. dollar," said John Bevan, chief executive of Alumina. "We are cautious on the outlook for 2012." The company said demand remains reasonably...
State-miner Aneka Tambang (Antam) will build smelters in Halmahera, North Maluku, to produce 27,000 tons of ferronickel annually; in North Konawe, Southeast Sulawesi, for 120,000 tons of “pig iron” annually; and in Mempawah, West Kalimantan, for one million tons of smelter-grade alumina. The smelters are expected to be ready in 2014. Ferronickel, pig iron and smelter-grade alumina are all processed commodities . A joint venture between Antam and two Japanese companies, Showa Denko and Marubeni Corporation, will produce 300,000 tons of chemical-grade alumina annually with a smelter in Tayan, West Kalimantan.
Alumina Limited (NYSE: AWC) was downgraded by equities research analysts at RBS (LON: RBS) from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note issued to investors on Friday. Alumina Limited is an Australia-based company. The Company is engaged in investing in bauxite mining, alumina refining and selected aluminum smelting operations through its 40% ownership of Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals (AWAC). Its partner, Alcoa, owns the remaining 60% of AWAC, and is the manager. The Company’s other subsidiaries include Alumina Finance Limited, Alumina Holdings (USA) Inc., Alumina International Holdings Pty. Ltd., Alumina Brazil Holdings Pty Ltd, Alumina (U.S.A.) Inc., Butia Participacoes SA, Westminer Acquisition (U.K.) Limited, Westminer International (U.K.) Limited and Westminer...
National Aluminium (Nalco) reported its Q3FY12 numbers far below our as well as street estimates. The lower than anticipated performance was a result of lower volume sales, decline in the LMEs and higher wage costs. The revenues for the quarter increased 0.4% YoY but declined 11.4% QoQ on the back of decline in both alumina as well as aluminum sales volumes. Nalco has shut down some of its pot lines which resulted in lower volume sales during the quarter. The EBITDA for the quarter stood at INR453mn representing a decline of 87.8% YoY and 70.3% QoQ. The adjusted PAT for the quarter was lower by 80% YoY and 63.3% QoQ and stood at INR512mn. Highlights for the quarter - Alumina production declined 2.3% YoY to ~389,000 tonnes, while the aluminum production declined 15.8% YoY to ~93,500...
A research team led by Bo Feng from the Georgia Institute of Technology has doubled the heat transfer rate of a metal surface by applying an alumina nano-coating over it. The research team utilized an atomic layer deposition method for controlling the thickness of the alumina coating. Pool boiling is a highly efficient heat transfer technique used widely for heating the contents of a container through heat flux. However, the efficiency of pool-boiling gets affected at a critical point upon which a solid surface becomes too hot. Feng explained that thermal management of electronics can be advanced and efficiency of several energy systems can be improved by delaying this critical flux. In the boiling state, large amounts of heat are carried away from a solid surface by bubbles but these...
Alumina Limited (ASX:AWC) has posted a large increase in yearly profit thanks to higher alumina and aluminium prices and production, but warns its outlook for the year is volatile. For the year to December Alumina posted a profit 266 per cent higher than the previous corresponding period. The group will pay a final dividend of 3 US cents per share, fully franked. That takes the total dividend to six US cents. Alumina reported a net profit of $125 million for the year to December, 2011.
Australia's Alumina Ltd expects to double its exposure to spot index pricing of alumina by the end of 2012, the company said on Thursday after reporting 2011 net profit more than tripled. Alumina holds 40 percent of Alcoa World Alumina & Chemicals (AWAC), the world's largest alumina business, with capacity to meet nearly 20 percent of world demand. U.S.-based Alcoa owns 60 percent. The company said its gradual shift to index pricing was 20 percent complete by the end of 2011, with the next 20 percent due by the end 2012. Alumina, the raw material used in the second stage of aluminum production, has traditionally been priced annually at between 10-17 percent of the London Metal Exchange-traded price. But producers have said the LME-linked system no longer reflects alumina production...
ALCOA'S partner in the troubled Point Henry aluminium smelter at Geelong, Melbourne-based Alumina, has warned that short-term government support alone will not save the operation and its 600 jobs. The warning highlights the structural pressures of a strong dollar and the rise of a low-cost competing industry in China. Speaking for the first time since Alcoa's February 8 announcement that the ageing smelter's future was under review, Alumina chief executive John Bevan said yesterday it "has got to stand on its own two feet and it has got to be economically viable" in the long term. He denied the review was aimed at extracting government support as the smelter battles the strong dollar, a slump in metal prices, rising material costs and the looming carbon tax. "I don't think the review has...
Alumina Ltd has warned its outlook for 2012 is volatile, despite posting a big jump in annual profit for 2011. The near fourfold surge in profit comes on the back of higher production, along with stronger alumina and aluminium prices. For the full year to December 31, Alumina posted a net profit of $US127 million ($A118.7 million), 266 per cent higher than the previous corresponding period. The group will pay a final dividend of three US cents per share, fully franked, taking the total dividend to six US cents. Alumina chief executive officer John Bevan said the company was cautious about the outlook for the year ahead. "Towards the end of 2011, conditions deteriorated with significantly reduced aluminium and alumina prices and the Australian dollar remaining at high levels against the US...
UC RUSAL's total attributable alumina output amounted to 8.154 million tonnes in 2011 as compared to 7.840 million tonnes in 2010 an increase of 4%. Alumina output in the Q4 of 2011 increased by 2% to 2.082 million tonnes as compared to 2.049 million tonnes in the Q3 of 2011 and was flat compared to the alumina production volume in the Q4 of 2010. The increase in the volume of alumina production in 2011 as compared to that of 2010 was due to the increased production at Wildalco Ewarton Plant Works and the substantial restoration of operations at Aughinish Alumina refinery (Ireland), Nikolaev alumina refinery (Ukraine) and Bogoslovsk alumina refinery (Russia). Record level of production of 1.927 million tonnes and 1.601 million tonnes of alumina, respectively was achieved at Aughinish and...
The global alumina market is expected to stay fairly stable for the first quarter of 2012, Norwegian producer Norsk Hydro ASA (NHY.OS) said Thursday, with prices trading around $305 a metric ton by the end of 2011. The producer said the ramp-up of new primary metal production capacity was a key driver of a rise in fourth quarter global demand for alumina, the key ingredient used to make aluminum, although this excludes consumption in China. Annualized alumina production outside China amounted to about 56 million tons, Norsk Hydro said. Alumina demand in China was stable compared with the third quarter, the firm noted, while production declined. Spot alumina prices have ranged between 15%-17% of London Metal Exchange aluminum prices during the fourth quarter. The majority of the alumina...
Alumina Ltd has delivered a near fourfold surge in full year net profit on the back of higher alumina and aluminium prices and production, but says it has a cautious outlook for 2012. Net profit for the 12 months to December 31 was $US127 million ($A119.16 million), up from $US35 million ($A32.84 million) for the 2010 calendar year. Underlying earnings rose 55 per cent to $US128 million ($A120.10 million), marginally ahead of Morningstar analysts' $US113 million ($A106.02 million) forecast. Chief executive John Bevan said production reached record highs last year as prices increased. 'The initial conversion of some of the alumina pricing to an index/spot basis saw margins expand,' Mr Bevan said in a statement on Thursday. Morningstar analyst Mark Taylor said 40 per cent of the company's...
THE Australian chairman of aluminium giant Rusal has bluntly urged Julia Gillard to suspend the introduction of the carbon tax in the absence of comparable international schemes, warning that it will push alumina refining to China and drive up global emissions. John Hannagan told The Australian yesterday the carbon tax would cost Queensland Alumina Ltd, in which Rusal has a 20 per cent stake, about $20 million in the first year of the operation of the carbon tax. This would be the equivalent of forgoing about 150 jobs.
MINING giant Alcoa has shelved a $3 billion expansion of its Wagerup alumina refinery in Western Australia for up to five years, in the latest sign of the group's struggle against the strong Australian dollar and the Gillard government's carbon tax. The state's Environmental Protection Authority said it had granted Alcoa an extension to September 2016 to begin work on the expansion, confirming industry speculation that the project would remain on the backburner. An Alcoa spokeswoman said yesterday the company would not return to the project until it understood the full impact of the $23-a-tonne carbon tax, which will be introduced on July 1, and had been able to secure energy supplies. The move to further delay the project, which was first stalled amid the global financial crisis in 2008,...
Alumina import volume reached to 450 thousand tons in Jan. China, increased 37% yoy. According to the survey of SMM, owing to alumina price dropped abroad and RMB exchange rate rose that the price of imported alumina still more competitive compared with domestic alumina price. On 13th February, alumina Western Australia FOB price was $317.5 per ton while domestic alumina rose slightly after Spring Festival reached to 2620 yuan/ton. A lot of domestic electrolytic aluminium enterprises and traders that signed long-term contract with overseas exporters all decided to increase alumina import volume, thus, China alumina import volume will boost in Jan.
