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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TOR Minerals International (Nasdaq: TORM), producer of synthetic titanium dioxide and color pigments, specialty aluminas, and other high performance mineral fillers, today announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2011. Highlights for the second quarter of 2011 as compared to the second quarter of 2010 included: 2Q11 revenue increased 32% to $10.5 million 2Q11 diluted net income increased 110% to $1.0 million 2Q11 diluted EPS: $0.30 versus 2Q10 EPS: $0.17
China’s alumina imports plunged in June, as domestic production continued growing strongly whilst import prices kept rising.
Exploration Orbite V.S.P.A. Inc., developer of the Grande Vallée aluminous clay deposits in the Gaspé, said Wednesday that Guy Boucher, a former Domtar Corp. executive with long experience in the natural resource sector, has been named legal counsel and head of sustainable development.
Japanese firm Showa Denko relishes JBIC support for its Indonesian alumina investment. The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), Mizuho and the Sumitomo Trust have signed a ¥26.3 billion ($328 million) loan with Indonesia Chemical Alumina (ICA) to support the first alumina production project in Indonesia.
Rich in largely untapped natural resources and able to benefit from a low cost labor force, Vietnam has enjoyed 10-percent growth rates (although it has also suffered 11 percent inflation rates last year). The country has never been a major metals producer, but that could be about to change. Blessed with abundant bauxite, estimated in a Reuters article at between 5.6 billion tons and 8.3 billion tons, Vietnam could become the third-largest alumina producer in the world after Guinea and Australia. Not satisfied with being just a raw materials producer, the country has awarded the engineering, procurement and construction contract for two alumina projects in the central highlands to Chalieco, a subsidiary of state-owned Chinese Aluminum Corporation of China (Chinalco). Both plants are...
The shares of NALCO were trading at Rs. 78.30, marginally below its previous close of Rs. 78.90. National Aluminium Co, (NALCO), reportedly increased its alumina-refining capacity by 33% to 2.1 mn metric tons. Reports quoted A.K. Sharma, Production Director as saying that, “Output from the new capacity will start on August 1.”
Norsk Hydro has a signed contract for Brazilian alumina using the Platts alumina index, Chief Executive Svein Richard Brandtzaeg said on Tuesday. "We have recently entered a contract that was index-linked instead of linked to the LME (London Metal Exchange)," he told Reuters in an interview.
Bauxite production was 11% higher than the Q2 of 2010, notably at Weipa, driven by increased third party demand. Alumina production is gradually recovering from the abnormally heavy rains between December 2010 and April 2011 which primarily impacted Queensland Alumina’s production, affecting bauxite and coal quality, equipment reliability and freight costs.
Exploration Orbite VSPA Inc. says its patented process to convert the Grande Vallée aluminous clays in the Gaspé Peninsula into alumina may have a much wider potential than expected. Orbite has already produced high-grade alumina - the intermediate material for smelting primary aluminum - in its new Cap Chat pilot plant. Testing continues to prove the process will be economic and consistent in quality in a full-scale commercial operation. Most of the alumina used by the aluminum industry worldwide is processed from bauxite rock found in Africa, Australia and the Caribbean. The traditional Bayer conversion process is a heavy power user and produces large amounts of toxic "red mud" residue. Rio Tinto Alcan has a big plant in the Saguenay and the residue problem. Now Orbite says its patented...
Reuters reported that Vietnam will produce the first alumina from a bauxite complex in the Central Highlands in September after months of delays caused by adverse weather, power shortages and slow equipment delivery. Mr Tran Duong Le deputy director of the complex's management board said that the official Vietnam News Agency said that the country's first alumina plant in Lam Dong province is now due to get its first product on September 20th 2011.
Exploration Orbite VSPA (TSX VENTURE:ORT.A) announces that it has successfully extracted alumina from samples of Guinean bauxite. Repeated internal laboratory tests and reviews by independent engineers have confirmed the potential of Orbite's process to extract alumina from bauxite. Orbite's radical innovation has opened the door to an immense new market for the corporation.
China will add 1 million tonnes a year of alumina capacity, the state planning agency said in a statement, adding to its status as world's largest producer. The National Development and Reform Commission has approved Shanxi Tongde Aluminium Company's plan to build a 1 million-tonne-per-year alumina refinery in Baode county in Shanxi province in the north, a statement posted on the commission website showed. It did not provide the completion time.
Successful development of Exploration Orbite Inc.’s alumina project in Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula region would create 860 construction jobs, 550 permanent jobs and push wages higher as new families move in from the outside, says Montreal-based international consultants Secor.
The environmental cleanup of Hungary's worst industrial disaster - a flood of toxic sludge from a reservoir at an alumina plant last October - will cost close to HUF 15 billion, Csaba Szabó, the farm minister's commissioner for the project, said at a press conference in Kolontár on Tuesday.
BHP Billiton Ltd delivered record annual production in four of its commodities, the firm said in a statement Wednesday. For the year ended 30 June 2011, natural gas output rose by 10% on the year-ago period, and iron ore increased by 8%, the firm said. Copper, alumina and manganese output also increased on the year-ago period, it said. Zinc output, meantime, fell by 23% on a year earlier and diamond production declined 18% over the same period. Adverse weather during 2011 impacted metallurgical coal production, the miner said, falling 13% on year.
China's top economic planner has approved a 1-million-ton alumina project proposed by Shanxi Tongde Aluminum Co., the National Development and Reform Commission said in a statement.
Vietnam will produce the first alumina from a bauxite complex in the Central Highlands in September after months of delays caused by adverse weather, power shortages and slow equipment delivery, the official Vietnam News Agency reported on Wednesday. The Tan Rai refinery is slated to produce 600,000 tonnes a year of alumina, a white powder made from bauxite ore for producing aluminium.
The Orissa High Court Tuesday dismissed a petition of Vedanta Aluminum Ltd which sought to quash the central government's notification stalling expansion of its refinery project in the state, a lawyer said.
