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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Ormet Corp.'s long-idled alumina refinery in Burnside, Louisiana, will resume production "within the next few weeks," Michael Tanchuk, the Ohio-based aluminum producer's CEO, said Wednesday. The company had said the refinery was expected to start producing alumina before the end of October. While that timetable may not be met, Tanchuk said: "We're in the final stages. You're in the midst of a restart so it's unpredictable at this point in time." Ormet recently achieved its goal of hiring 250 employees to operate the refinery. That's about how many people the plant employed when it closed in late 2006 because of low alumina prices. The refinery will have a capacity of 540,000 mt/year, and most of which will be shipped to Ormet's six-potline 270,000 mt/year aluminum smelter in Hannibal,...
The Viet Nam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin) and Dongyang Gangchul, South Korea's leading aluminium producer, agreed to study proposals for three aluminium projects in Viet Nam, following a co-operation agreement inked yesterday between the two companies. These projects would include construction of an alumina refinery, a plant supplying electricity for the refinery and a factory producing aluminium products. "After this, Dongyang Gangchul will soon conduct a feasibility study, expected to cost US$200,000, on building an aluminium refinery and then advise Vinacomin on a suitable location and technologies," said Vinacomin General Director Le Minh Chuan. Chuan said it was important to accelerate work with foreign companies to speed up development of the country's...
China will import 6 million-10 million metric tons of alumina a year by 2021 as its demand for aluminum raw material increases in line with sustained growth in the country, a senior executive at Norsk Hydro told Dow Jones Newswires Wednesday. China will import just less than 2 million tons of alumina in 2011, but this will more than treble in the next decade as rapid urbanization boosts demand for aluminum to around 36 million tons a year, twice the current level, Simon Storesund, general manager, commercial, bauxite and alumina at Norsk Hydro, said. Norsk Hydro expects Chinese growth to continue at a rate of 7% over the next five years and at 5% for five years afterward, he said at Metal Bulletin's Asian Bauxite and Alumina Conference in Singapore. Latest Chinese import data showed the...
Alumina,a company whose shares are moving quickly, is trading 6.6% higher to $6.13. The Dow is up 0.5% to 11,864 and the S&P is currently up 0.8% to 1,248. In the past 52 weeks, shares of Alumina have traded between a low of $5.15 and a high of $11.46 and are now at $6.13, which is 19% above that low price. Over the last five market days, the 200-day moving average (MA) has gone down 1.2% while the 50-day MA has declined 2.4%. 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. There is potential upside of 46.8% for shares of Alumina based on a current price of $6.13 and an average consensus analyst price target of $9.00. The stock should find initial...
Alcoa is yet to hear from the WA Government whether it has been granted a five-year approvals relief for the much-hyped $2.2 billion expansion of its Wagerup alumina refinery south of Perth. The original five-year environmental approval expired last month and even though Alcoa began applying for an extension in February, the Government is yet to declare its ruling. The extension request comes at a critical time for Alcoa. Conditions worldwide for aluminium remain depressed, with the price for the metal at one-year lows. Although Alcoa remains uncommitted to dusting off Wagerup's expansion, which was axed during the global financial crisis, its preference is to hold on to the environmental approval rather than needing to go through the full regulatory process. WA's biggest gas user is also...
The Russian owner of Aughinish Alumina is in talks with the Government about boosting production at the Shannon Estuary plant which is the Republic’s biggest manufacturing site. Rusal, the Russian group controlled by oligarch Mr Oleg Deripaska which owns the facility wants to grow production at the Irish plant to 3 million tonnes of alumina a year, 60% increase on the 1.8 million tonnes it manufactured in 2010. Mr Yakov Itsov head of the company’s international division of which the Irish operation is a part said that it has been in talks with the Government about these plans. Rusal already intends to boost last year’s production at Aughinish to 1.99 million tonnes to meet growing demand for aluminum which the alumina from the plant is used to manufacture. The group is the world’s biggest...
Orbite brilliantly completes its 2011 Drilling Program,signalling another Step Towards commercialization of its products. Orbite Aluminae Inc. is pleased to announce the very successful completion of its 2011 drilling campaign on its aluminous clay deposit located 23 kilometres south of Grande-Vallee. As part of the campaign, 22 holes totalling 2,718 metres were drilled in the Marin sector (easterly portion of the property). Major elements such as alumina (Al2O3), underwent carrot analysis with more than 509 total samples sent for analysis to ALS Chemex laboratories, a leader in analytical data service and metallurgy services for the ressources industry.
If and when Rio Tinto manages to sell all of the 13 assets it put up for sale on October 17, it will have divested itself of around 2 million tpy of primary aluminium production capacity,and given itself a substantially longer position in alumina than in aluminium. “Being long in bauxite and alumina is part of our strategy,” a Rio spokesman told MB, though he added that the company is investing heavily across the value chain. But those investments will not alter the alumina/aluminium balance in the primary metal’s favour. The $2.5-billion modernization of Rio’s Kitimat smelter in Quebec will boost production to 420,000 tpy from 282,000 tpy, but upgrades at the Yarwun alumina refinery will take that facility's production to an expected 3.4 million tpy of alumina in 2012 from 1.3 million...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. is pleased to announce the opening of an information and consultation centre in Grande-Vallee.The facility aims at keeping stakeholders and the general public in the Gaspe region updated on its project to develop its aluminous clay deposits and produce both high purity and smelter grade alumina and to ensure that the needs and expectations of nearby residents are taken into consideration. The office, in the Eastern district to the Gaspe Peninsula and close to Orbite's aluminous clay deposits, will serve as the company's link to people living in the area. It will allow regular communication on the progress of each phase and will help raise awareness about the socio-economic benefits the project will generate for local communities.
A Perth-based exploration company says Australian scientists have verified the value of its resources in Western Australia's wheatbelt. Australian Minerals and Mining Group owns tenements of kaolin rock near Meckering and Hyden. Kaolin is traditionally used to manufacture paper and clay but Chinese scientists have discovered it can be converted into a valuable form of aluminium. Alumina is used in hi-tech equipment such as computers and is worth up to $300 a kilogram. The company's managing director, Ric Dawson, says the company can now start building a pilot processing plant. "That pilot plant would have the facility of producing high purity alumina which we could market straight away and the pilot plant would also start working out the parameters if we wanted to go down the route of a...
THE future of the $1.2 billion (€873m) alumina refinery at Aughinish Alumina has been secured until 2030 at least, with the company commissioning a 195-acre development that has the capacity to hold over 17 million tonnes of bauxite residue or "red mud". The owners of Europe’s largest alumina refinery, RUSAL Aughinish, yesterday confirmed that partial commissioning of the site has commenced and will continue in 2012 and 2013. A spokesman said: "It is a major milestone for RUSAL Aughinish in that it delivers bauxite residue storage capacity until the year 2030 at approximately 2 million tonnes alumina production per year. This milestone, the partial commissioning of the Phase 2 Bauxite Reside Disposal Area (BRDA), was achieved on schedule and within budget." Last year, the facility enjoyed...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. is pleased to announce that Mr. Richard Boudreault, CEO of Orbite, was invited to make a presentation at the 2011 Industrial Minerals conference on October 18 in Toronto.This conference brings together leaders from across North America that will discuss new developments in the industrial minerals industry. In his presentation, Mr. Boudreault will explain how Orbite has developed an innovative technology process for transforming aluminous clays (argillite) into two forms of alumina and rare earth by-products. Orbite's patented process has the potential to become a viable substitute for the Bayer process currently used throughout the aluminum industry and would give alumina producers around the world access to a more affordable and environmentally friendly alternative.
Indian state-run National Aluminium Company has issued a LME-linked tender for export of 240,000 tonnes of alumina in 2012, a senior company official said on Tuesday. The last date for submission of bids is Nov. 8. The deliveries would be made in batches between January and December next year, Ansuman Das, director, commercial, told Reuters. NALCO, whose tenders serve as an international benchmark, last week finalised a long-term contract for export of 270,000 tonnes of alumina for deliveries in 2012 to a London-based buyer at 16.2 percent of the LME aluminium price on a FOB basis.
The region's railway company has failed to end a strike by engine drivers. For the fourth time in just under a year, cargo and passenger traffic came to a standstill last week after engine drivers went on strike over the refusal by management at the indebted company to increase their pay. The strike has also hurt operations of alumina plant Birac in the eastern town of Zvornik, majority-owned by Lithuania's Ukio Bank Investment Group , and metal pipe plant Unis in the northern town of Derventa. "The transport of raw materials and the output of these companies has stalled completely, and the railway company has been warned that all these plants may seek compensation for the damage caused by the strike," the Serb Republic Railway Company said in a statement. It called for a minimum level of...
Chongqing Bosai Minerals Group Co.,Ltd.will invest 1.2 billion dollars to build alumina project in Ghana,invest 0.5 billion dollars to build electrolytic aluminum project in Northern Europe and 0.1 billion dollars to expand Guyana aluminum ore available capacity. Ghana alumina project was invested by China Bosai Group, Africa Funds and Ghana Government.Bosai Group holds 80%.It is learnt that this smelter will be built in Awaso in 2014,and alumina annual capacity will reach 2000 thousand tons. Ghana government promise to invest more in infrastructure.Bosai Group now is in the process of negotiation with Ghana government.
China's alumina imports are set to jump further after more than doubling in September as higher domestic prices nearly erase the gap with London Metal Exchange prices.
The Cabinet, we have been told, has signed off on the sale of the Government's 45 per cent stake in the Jamalco alumina refinery, which will remove one of the sticking points in Jamaica's negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the rehabilitation of its stalled standby agreement with the Fund. Clarendon Alumina Production (CAP), the vehicle that holds the Government's Jamalco shares, has, in recent years,lost a lot of money.The IMF, therefore, insists that it should be let loose as part of efforts to rein in the fiscal deficit and take control of the public debt.
Alumina Ltd. said Friday that John Pizzey will succeed Don Morley as chairman when he retires Nov. 30. Pizzey joined the board as a non-executive director in 2007 and is chairman of the board's audit committee.
