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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Orbite Aluminae Inc.is pleased to announce the appointment of Yves Noel as Vice-President of Sales and Marketing, effective since October 17, 2011. Mr. Noel has more than twenty years' sales and marketing experience in the field of high value-added, specialized fine chemicals, particularly high purity products, with companies such as Akzo Nobel, Sandoz and Clariant. His diverse background in mining and manufacturing industries has enabled him to cultivate exceptional expertise and success in negotiating trade agreements with major clients such as AbitibiBowater, Gildan, Dow, and Rio Tinto, as well as with various global distribution partners. Over the course of his career he has built an enviable global business network of public and private companies. Mr. Noel holds a bachelor degree in...
Australia's Gladstone port in the state of Queensland handled 344,936 mt of outbound alumina shipments in November through eight vessels, statistics published Wednesday by the local port authority indicated. Of these, 143,523 mt were domestic shipments, while 76,970 mt were bound for Russia, 26,250 mt to New Zealand and 98,193 mt to the Middle East. The November throughput was up 21.79% from October, but represented a decline of 23.55% from November 2010. Gladstone port facilitates alumina shipments from two refineries in Queensland that have a total production capacity of 5.25 million mt/year. Queensland Alumina -- a joint venture between Rio Tinto and Rusal -- can produce 3.95 million mt/year at Gladstone, while Rio Tinto's wholly owned plant at Yarwun can make 1.4 million mt/year.
Indian group Vedanta Aluminium's bid to expand its refinery capacity at Lanjigarh in Odisha's Kalahandi district appears to have run into a legal hurdle. India’s environment has postponed the terms of reference for the expansion until an Odisha High Court judgement. The ministry issued the notice putting on hold the terms which are necessary to conduct an environment impact assessment, vital for governmental approval. Vedanta Aluminium president Mukesh Kumar said he was surprised to have received the letter at a time when the high court judgment was still being considered.
Orbite Aluminae has awarded Outotec a contract to perform the basic engineering of its metallurgical grade alumina calcination process and its associated hydrochloric acid recovery. Basic engineering will ensure hydrochloric acid recovery to produce suitable alumina for aluminum smelters. The basic engineering report is expected to be completed in the first half of 2012. “Orbite’s extraction process has the potential to become an economically and ecologically viable substitute to the Bayer process, which has been the main industrial method of refining bauxite for the production of alumina for more than 100 years,” said Michael Missalla, Outotec vice-president light metals/fluidized beds. “Outotec has the expertise, experience and cost-effective technologies to perform calcination and acid...
Ukraine exported in January-October 1.274 million metric tons of alumina, 8.5% more than in the corresponding period in 2010, the government reported Monday. The exported alumina was worth $419.78 million. Alumina exports in October totaled 127,042 tons, 4.5% more than in September this year and 14% more than in October 2010. The alumina exported in October was worth $46.8 million, 12.8% more than in September this year. Most alumina was exported to Russia. In 2010 Ukraine exported 1.44 million tons of alumina, 3.2% more than in 2009. Alumina in Ukraine is produced by the Mykolaev Alumina Plant and the Zaporozhye Aluminum Combine, both belonging to UC Rusal.
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forest has decided to temporarily halt the issuance of the term of reference (ToR) in favour of Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) for conduct of environment impact assessment (EIA) study for the expansion work of the company’s Lanjigarh project. The action has been taken keeping in view of the review petition filed by VAL in the Orissa High Court about reconsidering the court decision to stop the expansion works. “It is proposed that the issuance of ToR be kept in abeyance till the disposal of the Review Petition by the High Court of Orissa, Cuttack,” the notice from MoEF said. The VAL had applied to the ministry for issue of ToR in August this year as a pre-curser to carry out EIA study for its expansion project. The High Court had rejected plea of the...
Rio Tinto Alcan says global economic volatility will not affect the completion of its alumina refinery expansion near Gladstone in central Queensland. The Yarwun 2 site will produce more than 3 million tonnes of alumina a year when it is fully operational. General manager Dave Yeoman says it is due to be finished by next August. "The expansion project's at 95 per cent complete and it's due to be finished in the middle of August next year," he said. "It's far too far along now to be affected by what's going on overseas or in Australia. "In fact, we're phasing out our construction workforce right now and starting to ramp up the operations staff."
Global Alumina Corporation announced that the JV board of directors approved additional Project funding of USD 4.6 million for the period December 1st 2011 through December 31st 2011. Global Alumina will be responsible for its one third share of this amount. The JV board had previously approved cumulative Project funding from inception through November 2011 of USD 777.1 million of which USD 769.2 million was incurred or prepaid through October 2011 and USD 762.4 million has been funded to date. Global Alumina has approximately USD 22.8 million in cash, USD 16.6 million of which is in escrow available for Project development and USD 6.2 million of which is unrestricted and available for general corporate purposes. The Company also has USD 33.3 million subscription receivable due to the...
Alumina (NYSE:AWC), a company whose shares are moving quickly, is trading 2.3% lower to $5.66. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is now trading 0.3% higher to 12,059 and the S&P is trading 0.5% higher to 1,251. There is potential upside of 59.1% for shares of Alumina based on a current price of $5.66 and an average consensus analyst price target of $9.00. The stock should find initial resistance at its 50-day moving average (MA) of $5.92 and further resistance at its 200-day MA of $8.26. Alumina Limited is an Australian resource company that produces alumina. The Company owns about forty percent of Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals through a joint venture with Alcoa. Alumina share prices have moved between a 52-week high of $11.46 and a 52-week low of $4.86 and are now trading 16% above...
It was a day later than scheduled, but that did not dampen Quebec-based Orbite Aluminae's enthusiasm in hosting a call to discuss Genivar's preliminary economic assessment (PEA) of its aluminous clay project in the province, which CEO Richard Boudreault said would prove a “game changer”. The Investment Industry Regulatory Organisation of Canada had on Tuesday halted trading in the company’s shares in Toronto, requesting more information from it regarding the rare metals resource it announced at its Gaspe project, with resumption on Wednesday. The PEA found the project to contain around one-billion tons of aluminous clay deposits, giving it a C$7.7-billion net present value and an internal rate of return at 114%. Payback would be less than a year. The study anticipated Gaspe to produce 540...
Orbite Aluminae Inc., with an ambition to supply Quebec aluminum smelters with half their intermediate alumina material by 2020, will soon freeze the design of its planned commercial process plant and aim at a 2013-2014 start-up, CEO Richard Boudreault said on Wednesday. Orbite plans to convert aluminous clays mined from the Grande Vallée region in the Gaspé into high-grade alumina by its own patented hydrochloric acid separation process. The acid is 99 per cent recyclable and tests have shown the ore contains other valuable metals. Orbite is talking energy with Hydro-Québec and others, continuing process-testing with European partners and refining recovery rates. The full “bankable” feasibility study comes in the first half of 2012. The scoping study, produced by consultants Genivar...
Paratech Hungary has tested technology for converting toxic bauxite residue into harmless building materials at the plant of alumina maker MAL in Ajka (NW Hungary), managing director Gabor Finaczy told MTI. Paratech Hungary converted the bauxite residue, a red sludgy substance, with a mobile processing plant. The company is in the process of obtaining permits for the process and clearing the resulting material, dubbed stabilized bauxite residue, with the accreditation bodies, Mr Finaczy said. The process could still take years, he added. Since it was established in 2009, the company has invested almost $1m - much of it from American venture capital investors - in developing the process, he added. A reservoir at MAL’s plant in Ajka burst in the autumn of 2010, sending a flood of red sludge...
After years of tests, including trials at a pilot plant, Orbite Aluminae (TSX: ORT) trotted out a scoping study that, for the first time, put meat to the bones of a patented process that it claims revolutionizes the extraction of alumina and other metals from aluminous ores. "We have a disruptive technology," Richard Boudreault, Orbite president and CEO, said in a conference call and webcast on Wednesday. "That is the key to what we are trying to achieve." In the conference call Boudreault, striking a celebratory tone, went over the details of Orbite's proposal to use its patented process to produce aluminum, silica, magnesium oxides, and rare earth from a aluminous clay deposit on Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula. The numbers are eye-catching. In a scoping study put together by Genivar, an...
Trading in the shares of Orbite Aluminae Inc., developer of the Grande Vallée aluminous clay deposits in Quebec’s Gaspé region, was halted Tuesday after the firm released a favourable Preliminary Economic Statement. The PEA (scoping study) broadly assesses if a mining or industrial project could be profitable and precedes a detailed feasibility study or roadmap for use in negotiating financing and planning construction. Orbite wants to process the Grande Vallée clays into metallurgical-grade alumina using its own patented process – proven at the pilot-plant stage at Cap Chat. Alumina is the intermediate material for smelting aluminum. The PEA by Montreal consultants Genivar Inc. was released before the market opened. Orbite’s CEO Richard Boudreault was due to begin an analysts’ call at...
One of today's stocks on the move is Alumina (NYSE:AWC), up 10.9% to $5.40. The S&P is trading higher by 3.1% to 1,195 and the Dow is trading 2.7% higher to 11,540. In the past 52 weeks, Alumina share prices have been bracketed by a low of $4.86 and a high of $11.46 and are now at $5.40, 11% above that low price. In the last five trading sessions, the 50-day moving average (MA) has fallen 1.6% while the 200-day MA has slid 1.1%. Alumina Limited is an Australian resource company that produces alumina. The Company owns about forty percent of Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals through a joint venture with Alcoa. Alumina (NYSE:AWC) has potential upside of 66.7% based on a current price of $5.40 and analysts' consensus price target of $9.00. The stock should run into initial resistance at its...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. will announce the results of the preliminary economic assessment (PEA) prepared by Genivar Inc. for its planned metallurgical grade alumina plant, on Tuesday morning November 29, 2011. The Company will host a webcast conference call on Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 10:30 AM EST where senior management will discuss the results of the PEA. Orbite owns 100% of the mining rights on approximately 6,400 hectares of a Grande-Vallee property, the site of an aluminous clay deposit located 23 km to the south of Grande-Vallee, and a 2 600 sq. m. full scale pilot plant in Cap Chat, in the Gaspe region. The NI 43-101 report issued in August 2011 has identified an Indicated Resource of about 1 billion tonnes of aluminous clay in part of the deposit. The Company also owns the...
Expecting a three-fold increase in alumina exports to about 3 million tonne per annum (MTPA) in the next three years, state-run NALCO is set to revamp its port handling facility at Visakhapatnam. "We expect alumina exports to attain a peak of 2.7 MTPA by 2014-15 and will soon revamp the existing facility. For this, we have already invited expression of interest (EOI) from reputed global players by January 15, 2012, for replacement of ship loader," a National Aluminium Company (NALCO) official said. The existing alumina handling capacity at NALCO's Port facility at Visakhapatnam is 1 MTPA. The system including alumina ship loader was commissioned in 1987 and is inadequate to handle higher capacity vessels, the official said. "The existing system has been handling Handy max class of vessels...
Rio Tinto Alcan's Vaudreuil alumina refinery in Saguenay has received Ici on recycle! Level 3 certification from Recyc-Québec. The Level 3 performance certificate is the highest distinction awarded by this public corporation within the framework of this programme, in recognition of the efforts made by facilities to manage waste in exemplary fashion. The Vaudreuil facility had to meet a number of requirements to achieve this nomination. "The Vaudreuil facility is the first Rio Tinto Alcan plant to receive this certification for actions leading to the source reduction, reuse, recycling, and re-appropriation of waste," Gervais Jacques, chief operating officer Atlantic, Bauxite and Alumina, Rio Tinto Alcan. "This is the latest in a series of measures that demonstrate the long-term commitment...
