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Metso Outotec secures contracts from Nalco to supply two flash evaporation plants for the Alumina refinery
Metso Outotec, the frontrunner in sustainable technologies, end-to-end solutions and services for the minerals processing, aggregates and metals refining industries globally has been awarded a contract for the engineering and delivery of two 170 t/h Bayer process flash evaporation plants to the...
India: The Aluminium industry seeks for at least a 5% RoDTEP rate to foster exports
The Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India declared the implementation of the RoDTEP Scheme and extending the benefit to all export goods w.e.f 1 st April 2021. The announcement is considered a huge relief for exporters post-withdrawal of the MEIS and will deliver a much-needed push to boost Indian...
France import of Aluminium containers for Compressed Gas during 2018-20 bespeaks steady growth
France has been sorely affected by the global pandemic, both in terms of health and economic impact. The vital priority for the country remains saving lives while minimizing the economic costs of the pandemic. The pandemic and lockdown measures caused the deepest post-war recession and continue to...
Latem Aluminum injects €238 million in León and Zamora plants, creates 660 jobs
The Spanish company Latem Aluminum has disclosed that it will invest €238 million in the Villandagos Del Páramo (León) and Villabrázaro (Zamora) plants and the outcome of it will create 660 direct jobs. The Minister of Employment and Industry of the Junta de Castilla y León, Ana Carlota Amigo said:...
Sanjeev Gupta’s Alvance Aluminium counts additional live sessions for consultation of smelter expansion
Sanjeev Gupta’s Alvance Aluminium, a subsidiary of GFG Alliance is going to hold two extra live sessions in regards to the consultation on plans for a new £94 million recycling and aluminium billet plant at its Lochaber smelter in Fort William. Until 15 th March 2021, the public consultation will...
Plastic Free Port Stephens introduces Aluminium water bottles to reduce environmental footprint
Plastic Free Port Stephens has developed a product that will help to lessen landfill. In the times when we forget a reusable water bottle, Plastic Free Port Stephens have grouped up with Bluesky Beverages to develop Port Stephens Plastic Free Water. Alicia Cameron, Founder of Plastic Free Port...
Mexico’s export of Aluminium cans showcases strong potentiality during 2018-20, earnings cross $1 billion
Mexico ranks as the world's 15 largest economies and is the second-largest economy in Latin America. The country is highly dependent on the United States, its largest trading partner and destination of nearly 80% of its exports. In its most recent January 2021 update of the World Economic Outlook,...
Guinea ranks No.3 at African jurisdiction in mining policies for 2020, says Fraser Institute
The world’s largest bauxite exporting nation, Guinea has made an astonishing entry in the 2019 Fraser Institute ranking, crowing first in the world in terms of mining potential. Notwithstanding, the poor discernment of its mining policies obstructed the country from appearing in the top 10, in...
ATO slaps huge bill in a latest tax dispute with Rio Tinto
Global mining and metal giant Rio Tinto has been slapped with a $406.5 million bill as part of its latest dispute with the Australian Taxation Office. Jakob Stausholm, the new CEO of Rio Tinto was in Melbourne lately, as the mining company is trying to remodel its reputation in the wake of the...
Ampal, Loewy Institute accomplish Phase 1 project to optimize Aluminium powder for Additive Manufacturing
The USA based Ampal, Inc., a fully-owned subsidiary of U.S. Metal Powders, Inc. and Lehigh University’s Loewy Institute in Pennsylvania, USA, has accomplished the Phase 1 Ben Franklin project on the ‘Optimization of Aluminum Alloy AA6061 powder for Selective Laser Melting Process’. U.S. Metal...
Bosnia Herzegovina’s import of Aluminium Tubes and Pipes during 2018-20 illustrates an uneven movement
Bosnia and Herzegovina's gross domestic product to grow by 2.8% in 2021, which is 0.6% points below, as predicted by the World Bank in June’20. Bosnia's economy sunk by an estimated 4% in 2020, more than the 3.2% fall in GDP forecast in June, the World Bank said in its January 2021 Global Economic...
CBG paid $471 million in taxes during 2015-19, says Ministry of mines
One of the world's largest exporters of metallurgical bauxite, operating mines located in the northwest of the Republic of Guinea, Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée (CBG) has paid a total of $471 million during 2015 and 2019, as reported by the senior officials from the Ministry of Mines and...
Hydro to implement blockchain-powered service developed by DNV GL “Tag. Trace. Trust.”
The Norwegian Aluminium company, Hydro and the international accredited registrar and classification society, DNV GL headquartered in Høvik, Norway are initiating a blockchain pilot to document product representations for Hydro CIRCAL and Hydro REDUXA. Bjørn Kjetil Mauritzen, Head of...
Indian Railway: The anti-corrosive Zinc-Aluminium metallizing alloy on tracks to start its journey soon
The world's fourth-largest railway network by size, the Indian railway, has its first application of anti-corrosive zinc-aluminium metallizing alloy on the tracks to improve its service life and secure safety is expected to begin soon in the Nagpur, Maharashtra division of the Central railway....
RUSAL bags RUB 45 billion loans for Taishet Aluminium smelter project completion
RUSAL has made public that it has inked and started the drawdown of a syndicated loan agreement for RUB 45 billion with VTB and Gazprombank. The funds raised will be used to finance capital expenditure towards the completion of the first start-up complex of the Taishet aluminium smelter (TaAZ)....
Alumina Ltd., GFG Alliance expected to follow Green Aluminium path at San Ciprián
The workers of San Ciprián Aluminium smelter has unlocked the door followed by the meeting with Alcoa authorities in a possibility that the negotiations between the American multinational and the State, through the Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales ( SEPI ), reach an agreement for...
Zambia’s import of Aluminium wire during 2018-19 exhibits uniform; 2020 records robust growth
In 2019, Zambia’s real GDP growth decelerated to an estimated 2%, which was down from 4.0% in 2018. The economy was hit by drought in the south and west that lowered 2018/19 agricultural production and hydropower electricity generation considerably. Severe electricity rationing followed, and long...
Inalum budgets a CAPEX of $ 318 million for 2021; eyes to sell aluminium in domestic market
The Indonesian state-owned company specialized in aluminium smelting, PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium, colloquially known as Inalum has budgeted a capital expenditure of $ 318 million for 2021. The investment will be major to finance several downstream projects and increase aluminium production...
