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Canyon Resources nominates Peter Secker as CEO to enhance the Bauxite Projects
Canyon Resources Limited recently announced that Peter Secker has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer, effective from July 1, 2025. Peter Secker has over 40 years of experience in global mining. He has previously served as a strategic advisor to the Minim Martap Bauxite Project of central...
Dirty Labs promotes new bio-enzyme liquid dish soap in sustainable aluminium bottles
Dirty Labs, an award-winning brand, is revolutionising the entire home cleaning process through the launch of new innovative Bio Enzyme Liquid Dish Soap in a sustainable package. The green chemistry formula is used in this particular dish soap, which is available starting June 17. This Liquid dish...
Vedanta Aluminium to hire 15 trans-persons in 2026 to foster workplace diversity
Vedanta Aluminium, India’s largest aluminium producer and a business of Vedanta Group Ltd., is operating outside the conventional gender norms in a hardline manufacturing sector. It has decided to recruit 15 transgender employees in 2026, bringing the total to 44 at its Jharsuguda (Odisha) and...
Budweiser-producer Anheuser-Busch brewing up Houston brewery with $17M investment
Anheuser-Busch’s recently proposed USD 17 million investment is turning up a fizz in Houston! The manufacturer of Budweiser, Bud Light, ULTRA, Busch Light, and Stella Artois, is investing a fortune in its Houston brewery as part of “Brewing Futures” initiative. Source credit: WebWire The recently...
EGA put its next-gen smart smelting technology in production, transforming aluminium industry sustainability
The UAE’s largest industrial firm, Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), announced the commencement of hot metal production at pilot reduction cells for EX, its next-generation aluminium smelting technology. With this, EGA has taken a pioneering step towards the goal that demands industrial innovation...
ALFED welcomes Industrial Strategy but warns of critical gaps for UK aluminium sector
The biggest announcement in the Industrial Strategy, the British Industry Supercharger expanded to give up to 90 per cent relief on electricity network charges, up from the previous 60 per cent,a significant milestone for over 7,000 energy-intensive businesses. For the aluminium processors and...
Alcoa focuses on community and environmental engagement in wake of mine plan review
Alcoa's planned expansion of production in Pinjarra Alumina Refinery and bauxite mining at its current Huntly Mine in Western Australia's Darling Range has provoked a series of town hall meetings with the community, which start this week. The company is responding by citing its decades-long history...
The green metal push of Australia gains momentum with the CSIRO–HILT CRC joint alliance
In the Green Metals Innovation Network (GMIN), the Australian Government has funded a USD 10 million initiative to enhance the collaboration in industry research. It would help Australia’s ambition of achieving the lead position in the production of green metals with the Green Metals Innovation...
ASI certifies Nemak S.A.B de C.V against Performance Standard V3
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) today announced that Nemak Dillingen GmbH and Nemak Dillingen Casting GmbH & Co. KG have been certified against the ASI Performance Standard V3 (2022). The certified operations produce aluminium components for the automotive industry, including engine blocks...
ERG to start production of gallium in Kazakhstan, redefining the critical mineral supply chain
In a step to change the global critical minerals map, Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) will start producing gallium in Kazakhstan next year with an investment of USD 20 million. With the commitment to make Kazakhstan the second-largest supplier of the critical metal in the world and to respond to the...
Oman's OAPIL achieves major ASI certification for sustainable production
Oman Aluminium Processing Industries SPC’s (OAPIL) commitment to ethical production has now been independently validated. It has recently achieved certification for the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative's (ASI) Performance Standard V3.1 (2023). This high-profile certification covers the company’s...
Clean-up effort: Coca-Cola and Samoan Recyclers report the collection of 80,000 glass bottles and aluminium cans
It has been reported that over 80,000 used PET bottles and aluminium cans have been gathered through the initiative of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) and the Samoa and Tokelau Association of Recyclers (S.T.A.R.)’s initiative, launched this month. It is a pilot project in Central Apia for...
Forging the future: VNIT and JNARDDC host landmark aluminium casting and heat treatment workshop
With a view to reducing the gap between industrial practice and academics, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) and the Jawaharlal Nehru Aluminium Research Development and Design Centre (JNARDDC) successfully hosted a two-day aluminium metallurgy workshop at VNIT and JNARDC...
Vedanta Lanjigarh’s ‘Scrap to Sculpture’ movement turns waste into a canvas for sustainability
In the red-dust heartland of Lanjigarh, India, where bauxite is transformed into smelter-grade alumina, Vedanta Aluminium is quietly scripting a different kind of transformation, and this time, not in the refinery, but in how industry reimagines waste. At the Lanjigarh plant, a spirited scrap art...
“In aluminium extrusion, maintaining consistent thermal stability is essential to avoid product defects, de-stress, and increased rejection rates,” Soumo Roy, Director of Business Development at Tempcon
Soumo Roy is the Director of Business Development at Tempcon, where he leads global marketing initiatives and oversees end-to-end execution of industrial process cooling projects. An electrical engineer by qualification, he brings over 20 years of industry experience in delivering advanced cooling...
14.7% Y-o-Y spurt in China’s aluminium imports in May as green sector demand booms
China’s wrought and unwrought aluminium imports in May 2025 displayed a reverse pattern compared to April. In May, imports rose year-on-year but declined month-on-month, while April had shown the opposite — higher imports than the previous month but lower than the same period in 2024. According to...
Toyo Seikan and Coca-Cola win top accolade for innovative lightweight can
Global beverage giant The Coca-Cola Company and leading packaging manufacturer Toyo Seikan have jointly received the Research and Development Category prize at the 49th Kinoshita Award, hosted by the Japan Packaging Technology Association. The recognition comes for their groundbreaking achievement...
“Taking weight out of products is a key driver and this is something that aluminium can do, with our R&D teams working tirelessly with existing and new customers to look at where we can introduce our material into their products,” Adam Hunter, Deputy General Manager, Bridgnorth Aluminium
In this interview, Adam Hunter, the Deputy General Manager at Bridgnorth Aluminium has outlined the company’s key sustainability initiatives aimed at reducing their environmental footprint. He explained that the company already remelts all of its own production scrap, ensuring that aluminium waste...
