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Bangladesh: Nialco Alloys plans for two new aluminium finished products facility
The only leading Bangladesh company backed with Korean technology, Nialco Alloy plans to build two new facilities to manufacture finished products to expand its business. The company is the only one to be listed on the SME platform of the Chattogram Stock Exchange. Nialco Alloys is a 100%...
Bosnia Herzegovina export of aluminium bar rods and profiles during 2018-21 illustrates a vacillating movement
The economy of Bosnia and Herzegovina has a transitional with limited market reforms. It is heavily dependent on the export of metals, energy, textiles, and furniture as well as on remittances and foreign aid. However, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) stated in June that...
Bauxite residue ‘red mud’ transformation to productive soil ready for trials
The alumina refineries in Queensland, Australia is all set in motion to enter full-scale trials with a new technology that might transpose the bauxite residue red mud to soil-like material competent of laying on plant life. As reported by the researchers who are developing the new system, stated...
Rio Tinto Kitimat smelter strike ends
The global mining and metal giant Rio Tinto anticipates restarting full operations for production at its Kitimat aluminium smelter and the Kemano hydropower facility, in British Columbia, Canada's westernmost province following the attainment of a new labour agreement with workers. Anglo-Australian...
Camrail confirms rail bridge sustainability for Minim Martap Bauxite Project
The developer of the world-class Minim Martap bauxite project in Cameroon, Canyon Resources Limited announced that its ongoing work to finalise the Company’s Bankable Feasibility Study (BFS) for the 1 billion tonne resource has received confirmation from Camrail that all the bridges on the rail...
Slovakia’s import of alumina during 2018-21 exemplifies mercurial movement
Slovakia ranks as the fastest-growing developed economy in the world. The country has a mixed economic system in which there is a variety of private freedom, integrated with centralized economic planning and government regulation and it is a member of the European Union (EU). Slovalco is the only...
Gupta’s GFG scathe legal action against the acquisitive exploits of AIP
On 5th September 2021, Sanjeev Gupta chaired GFG Alliance confirmed that it will initiate legal action against any attempts by the US private equity fund, AIP, to seize the power of the Dunkirk aluminium smelter which is part of GFG’s ALVANCE aluminium business. AIP bought out a chunk of the...
Nalco reaches highest ever aluminium production in H1 FY22
The Indian state-run integrated aluminium company Nalco has attained the highest ever half-yearly production of cast metal in the 2021-22 financial year. On 5th September 2021, Pralhad Joshi, the Union Coal and Mines Minister congratulated the company on the achievement by saying: “NALCO has yet...
Vedanta aluminium production jumps up 21% Y-o-Y
India’s largest producer of aluminium Vedanta revealed that its total aluminium production escalated 21% to 570,000 tonnes in Q2 FY22 compared with 473,000 tonnes in Q2 FY21. Vedanta has world-class aluminium smelters with power plants in Jharsuguda, Odisha and at BALCO in Chhattisgarh. The smelter...
Algeria’s aluminium can import demand remains fluctuating during 2018-21
The regional power in North Africa Algeria's economy is influenced by its export trade in petroleum and natural gas, despite fluctuations in world prices, which annually contribute roughly one-third of the country's gross domestic product (GDP). The economy is expected to recover partially in 2021...
Vedanta keen to explore business expansion opportunities in the Middle East
The world's leading diversified natural resource company, Vedanta with its headquarters in Mumbai is desirous to explore business augmentation opportunities in the Middle East region, comprising establishing a regional base in the UAE or Saudi Arabia. Vedanta is a leading producer of Aluminium &...
BAGR Berliner Aluminumwerk GmbH appoints Oleg Hoffmann as new Managing Director, Mustafa Güngör to depart
On 1st October 2021, BAGR Berliner Aluminiumwerk GmbH, which is operating a melting and casting plant for secondary aluminium in a traditional industrial area in the north of Berlin since 1997, announces a change in their management board. Mustafa Güngör, the well-established Managing Director of...
Ukraine’s aluminium household articles export signifies remarkable growth during 2018-21
The second-largest country in Europe after Russia, Ukraine has a mixed economic system with limited private freedom, blended with centralized economic planning and government regulation. Ukraine’s economy is all set to rebound to growth in 2021, as reported by the European Bank for Reconstruction...
Sinohydro bauxite-for-infrastructure deal is a grand failure, says Ghana’s opposition
The opposition party of the West African nation, Ghana, National Democratic Congress (NDC) national communication officer, Sammy Gyamfi has criticised the Sinohydro deal that is instituted to elucidate Ghana’s road infrastructure disputes, as a grand failure. On 2nd October 2021, during a live...
Top Newsmakers for September 2021: Guinea’s mutinous military unit seizes power, suspends constitution; Aluminium industry predicts a further surge in price; China’s power shortage driving industries to dark, aluminium production suppresses
The month of September 2021 extracted a lot of exciting moments from the global aluminium industry. The London Metal Exchange (LME) aluminium benchmark price escalated to a new milestone of US$3,000 per tonne, the first time ever since 2008. The political turmoil in the West African nation Guinea,...
Downstream Products Weekly Recap: Curtis brings victory to Oman Aluminium Rolling Company in the US trade case; AMAG Austria Metall AG extends contract with Chief Sales Officer Victor Breguncci for four years
The global aluminium industry's most crucial, downstream segment remained highlighted due to some of the potential news. The global law firm Curtis, which represents a number of international clients brought victory to Govt. of Oman and Oman Aluminium Rolling Company in the US trade case. Curtis...
Bauxite kingdom Guinea sworn in coup leader as interim President
On 1st October 2021, the coup leader of Guinea Mamadi Doumbouya was sworn in as interim President of the West African nation. This will adjudicate the expectation of the regional power towards a short time transition to constitutional rule following the Sept 5th dethroning of President Alpha Conde....
AIP takes over Sanjeev Gupta’s Dunkirk aluminium smelter
The American private equity firm that invests in industrial businesses, American Industrial Partners (AIP) claimed to have grabbed control of distressed metal magnate Sanjeev Gupta’s Dunkirk aluminium smelter in France. On 1st October 2021, American Industrial Partners stated that it had acquired...
