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's alumina imports more than doubled in September compared to August's multi-year low, as higher domestic prices narrowed the gap with London Metal Exchange prices. Alumina imports rebounded to 80,000 tonnes in September from 35,144 tonnes in August, reversing an eight-month slide.
Alumina engineering of Shandong Dongyue Energy,Feimei Aluminum has been put into production on October 8th,and annual production can reach 2400 thousand tons. This project investment was by Shandong Xinfa Group, costing 7 billion Yuan for reconstruction and expansion.This project started on March 8th, 2011,and it took 7 months to finish alumina production line created a new record for domestic alumina project construction period.This project is located in Jiaokou County, Shanxi Province.
Galuminum Group Invest 20 billion Yuan to build large comprehensive aluminum processing & production base.It is learned that first-stage project of this base will invest 5 billion Yuan, and will be finished and put into production in next year. Galuminum Group possesses world's most complete aluminum industry chain at present. In the upstream of industry chain, they established Guizhou Galuminum Company. It is reported that the company’s 9 ore blocks can ensure 50 years resources guaranteed for Guizhou alumina enterprises.After construction of the first-stage project, annual alumina production can reach 800 thousand tons, 70% as export sales,and annual sales revenue will be over 50 billion Yuan.
The board of directors of Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation plc (ENRC) has agreed to exercise an option allowing the company to purchase the remaining 75% of Kazakh coal producer, Shubarkol Komir JSC for US$650 million. ENRC says the acquisition will strengthen its integrated business model by securing supply of semi-coke and thermal coal used in its alumina and aluminium divisions.
In another milestone for its Cap-Chat plant achieved again on schedule, Exploration Orbite CA:ORT.A +20.90% is pleased to announce that the production mode of alumina has shifted from a batch process to semi-continuous process. This clear and significant acceleration in production will allow the Company to meet industry and partner demand as well as prepare for the transition of the plant towards a commercial High-Purity Alumina (HPA) production facility. This additional production capability will again make full use of Orbite's unique and recognized patented process and demonstrate the process's potential to operate within full-scale industrial conditions over three daily shifts (24h) allowing for operations to produce, 24/7 days a week. This boost should enable critical system...
Prime Minister Bruce Golding is reporting that the Jamaica Government is now closer to divesting its shares in Clarendon Alumina Production.(CAP) The divestment is a key commitment the Jamaica Government made in the Stand-by agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Aluminium Giant UC Rusal has linked its planned re-opening of the Kirkvine alumina plant in Manchester to being allowed to purchase the government's 45 per cent stake in Jamalco, which is held through CAP. The partnership has not been beneficial because of a forward sales contract signed in 2002 to provide the Government with money upfront while guaranteeing future alumina sales at a set price. So even though alumina price has now increased on the world market the Government has to provide the alumina at the set...
State miner Aneka Tambang will spend 12.61 trillion rupiah on capital expenditure until 2013, which will be used to finance a number of projects that includes a chemical grade alumina plant in Tayan, West Kalimantan,and smelter grade alumina plant in Mempawah said Bimo Budi Satrio, the company's corporate secretary.
Global Alumina Corp (GLA-U.TO) is 2 cents higher in light volume at 91 cents a share after directors in charge of the company's joint venture developing an alumina refinery, mine and associated infrastructure in the Republic of Guinea approved $4.1 million in additional project funding for the month of October. Global Alumina share of the added spending will be about $1.36 million. Overall, the company and its project partners -- BHP Billiton, Dubai Aluminium Company Ltd and Mubadala Development Co. PJSC, the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi -- have budgeted $768.7 million through the end of August to develop a 3.6 million metric ton per year facility. Global Alumina previously has said it currently has sufficient funds to meet its one-third share of project equity requirements and its...
Alumina is one of today's notable stocks on the rise, up 7.6% to $6.34. The Dow is up 0.8% to 11,027 and the S&P is currently up 1.0% to 1,156. Alumina has potential upside of 42.0% based on a current price of $6.34 and analysts' consensus price target of $9.00. The stock should find initial resistance at its 50-day moving average (MA) of $7.09 and further resistance at its 200-day MA of $9.05. 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 $6.34, which is 23% above that low price. In the last five trading sessions, the 50-day moving average (MA) has fallen 3.3% while the 200-day MA has slid 0.7%. Alumina Limited is an Australian resource company that produces alumina.
Ukraine exported 1.024 million metric tons of alumina in January to August, 8.9% more than in the corresponding period in 2010, the government reported Thursday. The exported alumina was worth $331.49 million. Alumina exports in August totaled 132,000 tons, 2.2% less than in July this year and 14.5% more than in August 2010. The alumina exported in August was worth $43.19 million, 0.3% more than in July. 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 United Co. Rusal.
Venezuelan state alumina and bauxite company Bauxilum aims to close 2012 with production of 1.65Mt of alumina, director of labor relations Wilfrido Flores told BNamericas. "It's a completely achievable goal, but it depends on two factors. The first is the injection of resources and the second is the payment of the debt that state aluminum reducers Alcasa and Venalum have with us," Flores said. To carry out the necessary investment, the company is already preparing the paperwork to ask the government for a US$80mn loan to invest in raw materials and the operational recovery of the plant, according to Flores. The debts, which total US$421mn at Alcasa and US$66mn at Venalum, have caused operational and financial problems for Bauxilum. However, progress was made this week when Venalum,...
A railway line used to ship alumina from RUSAL's giant Friguia refinery in Guinea has reopened after the end of a three-day protest by former workers over back pay, a RUSAL source told Reuters on Thursday. "They have been given assurances that the money transfer was already initiated by RUSAL into a Ministry of Mines account," the source said, asking not to be named. It was the second time this month that the former workers blocked the vital railway line from the plant, which produces about 618,000 tonnes of alumina per year. A RUSAL spokesperson in Moscow told Reuters the Friguia refinery had continued normal operations throughout the protests, adding that the plant has storage facilities on site for the alumina it produces.
NALCO CMD Shri B.L. Bagra,mentioned the following points about Alumina at the 30th Annual General Meeting, held at Corporate Office on 29th September 2011. The global aluminium industry in 2010 was affected by diverse multifaceted economic, political, structural and fundamental factors that had a bearing on the price of aluminium and the mechanism of price determination in alumina. During the year 2010, the world consumption of alumina was 82.2 million tonnes against the world production of 81.7 million tonnes, thereby showing a deficit of 0.5 million tonnes. The world alumina production and consumption grew by approximately 10.6 percent and 11.6 percent respectively during 2010 as compared to 2009. On the contrary, the Chinese alumina production registered an increase of about 24.6...
QAL alumina refinery has for some time been has been trialling biodiesel as a supplementary fuel source for start up and operation of its coal-fired boilers. Biodiesel is stored in tanks on site and pumped into the boilers where it is distributed into injectors where the biodiesel is ignited to provide energy for the creation of high pressure steam. QAL buys the biodiesel from National Biodiesel Limited. QAL Health, Safety, Environment and Communities manager Ross Greenhalgh told The Observer the refinery was motivated to trial the new method for environmental reasons. "QAL commenced trial use of biodiesel in December 2010 for the purpose of investigating different fuel options to suppplement coal feed and to reduce sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide emissions," Mr Greenhalgh said. "QAL...
Ormet Corp. CEO Michael Tanchuk announced the company's milestone of reaching full employment of 250 jobs just four months after announcing plans to reopen a dormant alumina refinery on the Mississippi River in Ascension Parish. At roughly 330,000 square feet, the Ormet facility had remained silent for more than four years. In May, Ormet announced it would hire 250 people and invest $21 million to renovate the refinery. Production now is scheduled to start the first week of October, and shipments of the primary raw material, bauxite, already are arriving.
One of today's notable stocks in decline is Alumina (NYSE:AWC), down 3.3% to $5.32. The S&P is trading lower by 0.3% to 1,133 and the Dow is trading 0.2% higher to 10,795. Alumina (NYSE:AWC) has potential upside of 66.9% based on a current price of $5.39 and analysts' consensus price target of $9.00. Alumina shares should first meet resistance at the 50-day moving average (MA) of $7.71 and find additional resistance at the 200-day MA of $9.20. Over the past year, Alumina has traded in a range of $5.15 to $11.46 and is now at $5.32, 3% above that low. The 200-day and 50-day moving averages have moved 0.71% lower and 4.2% lower over the past week, respectively. Alumina Limited is an Australian resource company that produces alumina.
Former workers at RUSAL's alumina refinery in Guinea have blocked a railway line from the plant in a protest over back payments, a company source and a spokesman for the former workers told Reuters on Monday. It was the second time this month that the former workers blocked the railway line from the Friguia plant, the West African state's sole alumina producer, which typically ships more than 1,500 tonnes per day. Yuriy Grigoryev, director of communications for RUSAL in Guinea, said the dispute had been fully resolved and that the government had been informed of the arrangements agreed. "Authorities are taking all steps necessary to maintain order within the complex. Any misunderstandings will be sorted out shortly, and there will be no more incidents," he added.
Post expansion alumina refining capacity will be around 6 million-tonne. Hindalco Industries (Hindalco) held its 52 Annual General Meeting in Mumbai on 23 September 2011. Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, addressed the meet. The construction of the 1.5 million Utkal alumina refinery, along with a 90 MW captive co-generation plant is in progress at UAIL, a 100% subsidiary of the Company. The output from UAIL would be sufficient to feed alumina to the Mahan and the Aditya Smelters. The project is expected to commission in 2012. The Company is setting up smelters and two new Alumina Refineries in the states of Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand. With these projects on stream,alumina refining capacity will be around 6 million-tonne. Of these Greenfield projects,Utkal Alumina [UAIL] is at an...
