Domestic alumina spot prices held steady with slight adjustments last week, and scattered transactions showed mixed pricing. On the supply side, recent domestic alumina operating capacity stayed at around 99.4 million tonnes per year. A new alumina project in Beihai, Guangxi, is expected to start...
Russian aluminium producer Rusal is nearing the final stage of the permitting process for a planned bauxite-to-alumina processing project in Kalimantan, Indonesia, according to Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Bahlil Lahadalia. The project will process bauxite into alumina as part of...
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...Rio Tinto has reported a drop in production in the last quarter, as a result of recent weather conditions affecting mines and ports...
...He is an inspiring mountaineer from Rupra, a small pocket in the interior of Kalahandi district of Orissa. This time this mountaineer Jogabyasa Bhoi has aimed to climb to the top of Mt. Everest after conquering the highest peak in South Africa Mt. Khilimanjaro in January 2011...
...Revenue in the quarter rose 22% to $5.96 billion, helped by rising prices for aluminium and alumina - the raw material for the metal - but this lagged the Wall Street forecast of $6.08 billion...
...Exchange traded products that invest in aluminum followed Alcoa shares lower Tuesday morning after the Dow component reported quarterly results that disappointed Wall Street. Alcoa said it swung to a profit in the first quarter as aluminum prices rose, but traders punished the stock and Alcoa...
...Almost lost in the tide of disappointment that followed the release of Alcoa’s first quarter earnings earlier this week was the news that China plans to put on hold all planned new aluminium smelters in an attempt to tackle over-capacity and manage its energy consumption...
...Alcoa announced Q1 2011 income from continuing operations of USD 309 million or USD 0.27 per share, a 20% improvement over Q4 2010 led by improved pricing and growing demand for aluminum in major end markets. Income from continuing operations, excluding a negative impact for special items of USD...
...Reportedly, United Company RUSAL has announced to shut down Zaporozhye Alumina Complex in Ukraine by this May due to high energy costs...
...CONCERNS about the extent to which rising raw material costs are taking the shine off improved margins have forced shares in Alumina sharply lower...
...emena recently completed a new connection to the Queensland Gas Pipeline for Rio Tinto Alcan’s Yarwun Alumina Refinery Expansion in Gladstone. The company allowed The Australian Pipeliner a first-hand glimpse at the facility...
...National Aluminum Company (Nalco) has planned Rs 700 crore capital expenditure in 2011-12 for expansion of refinery in Orissa and setting up a nuclear power project in Gujarat...
...WA's once-in-a-century drought has forced Australia's biggest alumina refinery to start trucking in millions of litres of water. Water is essential to operations at Alcoa's refinery in the South West town of Pinjarra and the recent drought has put a dent in supplies...
...The trend is all very helpful for this passive alumina/aluminium play, but there are pricing and currency vagaries that complicate the picture...
...The plant will produce 300,000 t/y of chemical alumina, using bauxite ores in West Kalimantan. The term "chemical alumina" refers collectively to aluminum hydroxide and alumina for applications other than aluminum smelting. Aluminum hydroxide, an intermediate product in alumina production..
...Reports from Lanjigarh say a crack in the western part of the red mud pond of Vedanta Alumina refinery has leaked into nearby water bodies and hence into the Vamsadhara river. This happened following a thunder burst on April 5...
...Haotai Technology Co.,Ltd is mainly engaged in ERP management software for aluminium industry, aluminium ERP software. Aluminium ERP software was found in 1999 and is one of Chinese IT leaders.Haotai has dedicated to customers with excellent services and products for many years and led the rapis...
...Navratna National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco) had defaulted Rs 15.48 crore towards electricity duty to the Orissa government in 2008-09, according to the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG)...
...Presently Wenshan government held 800,000 tons of alumina project coordination promotion meeting. Wenshan government was required to make sure trial production test at the end of June, complete supporting facilities construction of water, electricity, roads, communications in residential areas....
...This year saw a milestone in American history that is “known to few but benefits everyone”, according to American forged aluminium wheel producer Alcoa. “On February 23, 1886, Charles Martin Hall passed an electric current through a molten cryolite-alumina solution to form the first small,...
