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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PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium (Persero) or Inalum will potentially reduce, even stop the import of raw material alumina, as the government plans to impose disincentives for non-renewable natural resources in 2014.
Former workers at RUSAL's Friguia alumina refinery in Guinea have blocked the company's rail shipments to port for two days by sitting on the tracks, protesters and a source with knowledge of RUSAL's Guinea operations told Reuters on Wednesday. The retired workers said they are owed money by RUSAL, which typically ships about 1,500 tonnes of alumina along the rail line each day for export from the port of Conakry. A RUSAL official was not immediately available for comment.
Acceptance of the new index-based method for pricing alumina has been speedier than anticipated, a senior executive at Norsk Hydro ASA (NHY.OS) said Wednesday. Simon Storesund told Dow Jones Newswires in an interview that the company, which has between 3 million and 4 million metric tons of alumina to sell outside its own consumption needs, has seen strong interest from buyers for 2012 and has conducted a number of deals based on the new system. The world's largest aluminum producers, which have surplus alumina to sell, have been strong proponents of the move to link pricing to costs. These also include U.S.-based Alcoa Inc (AA) and London-listed Rio Tinto PLC's (RTP) subsidiary, Rio Tinto Alcan. Previously, alumina contracts were priced relative to the aluminum price on the London Metal...
We are pleased to report to you on Alumina’s improving earnings during 2011 and the increased interim dividend payable to shareholders. Earnings growth driven by higher realised alumina prices and solid operational performance Alumina’s underlying earnings in the half year to June 2011 increased to US$78 million from US$22 million in the first half of 2010. This result reflects a steady improvement in industry prices and demand. Operating margins also improved with higher realised alumina prices and solid operational performance offsetting the impact of higher input prices and the strength of the Australian dollar and Brazilian Real. In the past twelve months, markets began to change the method used to price alumina. There is now a clear trend to alumina pricing being based on its own...
BUILDING MATERIALS group, CRH, may be close to doing a deal with Oleg Deripaska, the Russian billionaire whose interests include a stake in the Aughinish Alumina plant in Co Limerick. Mr Deripaska is one of Russia’s richest men. Forbes recently estimated his worth at around $10 billion. He is chief executive of Basic Element, which has investments across a number of sectors, including manufacturing, construction, aviation and financial services. One of its key assets is a stake in UC Rusal, owner of the Aughinish Alumina plant on the Shannon Estuary. The plant is the largest alumina refinery in Europe. The facility employs around 450 people and processes 1.9 million tonnes of alumina a-year. Alumina is used in the production of aluminium metal.
RUSAL has said it would increase output of alumina, a key material in the production of aluminium, by 8 percent this year after it rose 8 percent to 7.8 million tonnes in 2010.
As it seeks to be self-sufficient in its raw materials needs, United Co. Rusal PLC (0486.HK) plans to expand the capacity of Europe's largest alumina refinery by 110,000 metric tons, in a project slated for full completion in 2013. The company said Friday that output at Aughinish will reach 2.0 million tons following the expansion of its bauxite residue storage capacity for the next two decades.
Global Alumina Corporation (the "Company" or "Global Alumina"), a corporation participating in a joint venture to develop an alumina refinery, mine and associated infrastructure in the bauxite-rich region of the Republic of Guinea (the "Project"), announced today that the joint venture board of directors approved additional Project funding of $4.4 million for the period September 1, 2011 through September 30, 2011. Global Alumina will be responsible for its one-third share of this amount. The joint venture board had previously approved cumulative Project funding from inception through August 2011 of $764.3 million of which $751.8 million was incurred or prepaid through July 2011 and $747.9 million has been funded to date. Global Alumina has approximately $29.2 million in cash, $22.1...
It is reported that the company’s transformed and upgraded 480 thousand ton Alumina project which is developed and technically improved,has already entered into equipment installation and debugging stage, and will soon be put into production. After its put into production, the company’s alumina annual production will be more than 2500 thousand tons. In order to ensure successful starting, Pingguo Aluminum is closely coordinating with the unit in charge of construction.
Alcoa has declared that its Technology Delivery Group (TDG) at the Kwinana Refinery located in Western Australia has earned the inaugural Australasian Industrial Research Group (AIRG) Medal for its pioneering technology that decreases energy consumption by the company. The AIRG presents the medal for exceptional accomplishments in technology management in industrial research and execution of the same throughout Australasia. TDG’s technique known as continuous biological oxalate destruction utilizes naturally existing microbes to remove oxalate, a contaminant in the alumina refining process. The removal of oxalate is critical to increase the productivity of the refinery and obtain superior quality alumina. It is an inexpensive and eco-friendly method utilized for oxalate removal and also...
Indian government-owned National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) has finally decided to commission its expanded refinery capacity this month, according to a Hindu Business Line article. The company is enhancing production capacity at the refinery in Damanjodi, nearly 400 kilometers from state capital Bhubaneswar, from 1.58 million metric tons to 2.1 million metric tons, which will be further upgraded to 2.28 million metric tons. The company has earlier estimated that the expansion plan may cost Rs 44 billion ($978.2 million), but now it is believed that the second phase of expansion could see a 10 percent cost increase. NALCO’s 1.58-million-ton alumina refinery, having three parallel streams of equal capacity, is located in the valley of Damanjodi in the eastern Indian state of Orissa.
Guinea is in advanced talks with state-owned China Power Investment to build an alumina refinery, deep water port and a power plant in the West African state, Guinean government sources said. One source, who asked not to be named, said the project, which is in Boffa, some 120 km (75 miles) west of the capital, Conakry, and could begin as soon as 2012, would cost $5.8 billion. "We are indeed in talks with China Power Investment for the construction of an alumina refinery that will have a 4 million tonne per year capacity," Guillaume Curtis, secretary general in the ministry of mines, told Reuters. Curtis said CPI had completed a first feasibility study on the project, which the government had analysed.
Capital expenditures of the Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) have doubled to 2.5 billion US dollars in 2011. The company is currently implementing projects which are building an anode production plant and expanding production of alumina.
The ongoing ramp up of the Alumar refinery (Brazil) contributed to a seven per cent increase in total alumina production for the 2011 financial year. The USD 3.0 billion Worsley Efficiency and Growth project will confirm Worsley as one of the world’s leading alumina refineries. The investment will raise capacity at the refinery by 1.1 million tonne per annum to 4.6 million tonne per annum and first production is now scheduled for the Q1 of calendar year 2012.
Profits at giant commodities trader Glencore have risen 58% thanks to rising global market prices. The firm, which listed on the London Stock Exchange this year, made $2.7bn in the first half of 2011. Earnings at its industrial division - which invests in metals, energy and agricultural production - rose 54% thanks to "robust" demand for the natural resources it trades.
Guinea's production of alumina, a derivative of bauxite used to produce aluminium, rose 38.6 percent in the first half of the year, compared with the same period a year ago, according to a government report seen on Thursday. Alumina production for the year hit 315,600 tonnes by June, according to the Ministry of Finance report. Emmanuel Sassouadouno, a senior official at the Ministry of Finance, said the rise in production was due to the country's return to stability and investor confidence.
London-listed miner and commodities trader Glencore International PLC (GLEN.LN) plans to ramp up production at its Sherwin alumina refinery in the U.S. in the medium-term to its full 1.6 million metric tons a year capacity, the company said Thursday. The company currently expects output of 1.52 million tons for 2011, a rise of 21% from last year.
Vietnam's first alumina refinery will sell its material through tenders rather than directly to China's Yunnan Metallurgical Group under a 30-year sales agreement between the two firms, sources at Yunnan and the Vietnamese firm said on Thursday. The 600,000-tonne capacity Tan Rai alumina refinery, controlled by Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin), is set to start production in September using locally mined bauxite. A Vinacomin manager who has direct knowledge of the tenders said the firm has invited various companies to join the bidding, without giving names.
