Impact Minerals plans staged 4,000-tpa HPA production in US
A NewPro study supports a staged 2,000-to-4,000-tonne-per-year high-purity alumina plant on the US Gulf Coast, with a post-tax NPV of about USD373 million and a 42.3 per cent IRR. Impact Minerals is advancing plans for a modular high-purity alumina (HPA) plant in the US after an independent scoping...
Alcoa files SEC registration for $5.6b South32 alumina, aluminium and bauxite asset deal
Alcoa has moved its proposed acquisition of South32's bauxite, alumina and aluminium interests forward with a US SEC filing, with the transaction carrying an implied enterprise value of up to USD 5.6 billion. Alcoa Corporation has filed a Form S-4 registration statement with the US Securities and...
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Altech: Standing at the final development stage of HPA grade, specifically designed for anode applications within lithium-ion batteries
Altech Chemicals Limited has made public that it is in the final development stage of a high purity alumina (HPA) grade that is specifically designed for anode applications within lithium-ion batteries. This initiative is in reaction to lithium-ion battery anode development trends that Altech has...
Ukraine’s export of Alumina during 2017-18 exhibits enterprising volume growth, marginal dip in 2019-20
Ukraine is a developing country and ranks 88th on the Human Development Index. As of 2020, Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe alongside Moldova in terms of GDP per capita. Ukraine has a mixed economic system in which there is limited private freedom, combined with centralized economic...
Montenegro’s Alumina importation during 2017-20 manifests downswing
Montenegro's economy is transitioning to a market system. Around 90% of Montenegrin state-owned companies have been privatized, including 100% of banking, telecommunications, and oil distribution. The major industrial sectors that support the economy of the nation are aluminium, steel, consumer...
Argentina’s import of Alumina during 2017-20 reveals losing its pace
Argentina's economy, which is one of the more powerful in the region, is dependent on services and manufacturing, although agribusiness and ranching dominated the economy for much of the 19th and 20th centuries. Aluar is the only aluminium smelter in Argentina and one of the largest in South...
Chalco’s Huasheng alumina refinery begins trial production, expects to reach up to 50,000 tonnes output in Sept
Huasheng alumina refinery, located at Fangchenggang Port, Guangxi, started trial production on September 10, having come online in August, said several sources to Fastmarkets on Monday, September 14. The commencement of trial production at Huasheng refinery followed after Chalco received a license...
LAlumina LLC laying off more than 300 employees and seeking new buyer for the facility
According to a recent report, LAlumina LLC is close to the process of employee retrenchment due to the continued economic challenge, as was announced months ago. The news came after former acting plant manager Peter Odgers said the process of laying off more than 300 employees is nearly completed....
Shanghai Futures Exchange to roll out its alumina futures contract by first half of 2021
According to a Reuters report, Shanghai Futures Exchange (ShFE) has announced the new plan to launch alumina futures contract by the first half of 2021. The contract was slated for launch in 2019. "We hope for a first-half listing," Ge Wanwan, senior manager at the ShFE said at the sidelines of the...
Noranda Alumina deals with Cemtech to sell Bauxite residue for cement production
New Day Aluminum Holdings LLC, through its subsidiary Noranda Alumina, has executed a Letter of Intent with Cemtech Materials Corporation to sell 60,000 tonnes of bauxite residue starting from the Q4 of 2020. This bauxite residue will be used in the cement production process as the raw material for...
Ireland’s Bauxite import during 2017-20 reveals strong market, Aughinish alumina refinery remains the root cause
Ireland has a mixed economic system which includes a variety of private freedom, combined with centralized economic planning and government regulation. Ireland is a member of the European Union. A wide range of manufactured products is exported, including electrical machinery and apparatus,...
China’s alumina production records a mere growth of 1% to 5.97 million tonnes in August 2020
The latest data of Shanghai Metals Market showed that China’s alumina production in August 2020 stood at 5.97 million tonnes, including 5.76 million tonnes of metallurgical-grade alumina. This marked a slight growth of 1 per cent in comparison to the output of 5.7 million tonnes of...
Grinding Techniques carries ANDOR railway revolution, usage of alumina stood as the best option for maintenance
Grinding Techniques, a part of the Tyrolit Group is well-known as a grinding company and has been supplying grinding solutions to the railway sector for years. The firm specialised in grinding products have been exporting to global satisfied customers and offers an extensive range of high-quality...
Alteo Alumina: Employees want new buyers to take over the complete plant area
The new filtration process has started working; speciality alumina producer Alteo is permitted to discharge waste-free water at sea. The eight buyers who are in the run will visit the plant site in France next week. The trade unions demand that they incorporate this new data in their offer, fearing...
Vedanta reaffirmed its commitment to an Atma Nirbhar Bharat
Navin Agarwal, Executive Vice Chairman, addressed employees at Vedanta’s alumina refinery in Lanjigarh on Saturday through a virtual townhall meeting. Vedanta Limited reaffirmed its commitment to an Atma Nirbhar Bharat. The entire leadership team of the refinery, employees and business partners...
Iranian vessel spotted with 14,000 tonnes of alumina cargo in Venezuela, destination unknown: Sources
An Iranian-flagged vessel loaded a cargo of 14,000 tonnes of alumina in Venezuela this month after delivering supplies for an Iranian supermarket in the South American nation, said three sources familiar with the matter. However, the customer of the cargo or the destination is still unknown....
Chalco’s H1 profit declines 95% Y-o-Y on lower aluminium prices and fall in production below Russian rival Rusal
Aluminum Corporation of China Limited, popularly known as Chalco, reported on Thursday, August 27, that its profit fell 95 per cent year-on-year in the first half of 2020, attributing to lower aluminium and alumina prices and decrease in primary aluminium production. The net income of the company...
Alumina production grows by 8,000 tonnes in North America during July 2020, but declines by 16,000 tonnes in South America
According to the latest data shared by the International Aluminium Institute, alumina production in North America rose month-on-month in July 2020 by 8,000 tonnes or 3.6 per cent to stand at 231,000 tonnes. In June, the output was 223,000 tonnes, growing by 13,000 tonnes or 6.19 per cent from...
West Europe’s alumina production drops 2.44% YoY in January-July
West Europe produced 477,000 tonnes of alumina in July 2020, according to the International Aluminium Institute (IAI) data. That was a decrease of 2.45% from 489,000 tonnes in July 2019 and 0.12% from 478,000 tonnes in June 2020. Alumina production in the first seven months of 2020 stood at 3.319...
Global alumina production slightly increased to 11.368 million tonnes in July
Global alumina production stood at 11.368 million tonnes in July, a slight decrease of 0.5% from 11.425 million tonnes in July 2019, according to the latest data showed by the International Aluminium Institute (IAI) on Wednesday, 26 August 2020. On a month-on-month comparison, the output increased...
