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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Locals request Vedanta to run Lanjigarh alumina plant
A representation of Ambadola residents went to Lanjigarh yesterday to discuss Vedanta COO on the closure of Vedanta’s Alumina refinery in absence of bauxite security. Previously People in large numbers made the demonstrations on Save Vedanta. Showing their displeasure, locals of Ambadola on the...
Vedanta looking to clinch domestic deals to cut alumina imports
After degrading capacity of its one million tonne alumina refinery at Lanjigarh by 35%, Vedanta is looking at options to source alumina from the domestic market to cut its dependence on high cost alumina imports. To feed its smelting unit at Jharsuguda, Vedanta is in talks with Aditya Birla Group...
China bauxite consumption increases on rising alumina production
China’s bauxite consumption has increased on the back of continuous growth in alumina production. During the first eight months of 2015, a total of 92.24 million tonnes (mlnt) of bauxite was used in alumina production. Bauxite consumption hit 12.08 mln t in August, up 15.4% year on year....
Nalco to start coal mining, increase alumina and bauxite production - CMD
The public sector National Aluminium company limited (NALCO) has planned to increase the existing metal, alumina and bauxite production and start a coal mining. Disclosing this at the 34th annual general body meeting of the company today NALCO CMD T K Chand said the value-chain has shifted in...
Norsk Hydro sets up China alumina trading shop
Norwegian aluminum producer Norsk Hydro has established a bauxite and alumina trading business in China to supply aluminum smelters there, a sign producers have found ways to profit from China's surging output which many say threatens smelters in the rest of the world. The company created Hydro...
Alcoa to pare down remaining Suralco Refining capacity
Lightweight metals leader Alcoa announced the curtailment of Suralco’s remaining 887,000 metric tons per year of alumina refining capacity as discussions continue with the Government of Suriname on preserving the country’s bauxite and refining industry. The refinery is scheduled to be idled by...
Chalco and Shenhua Group to build 4 million-tpy alumina JV in Hebei
Chalco, China’s aluminum giant, recently inked an agreement with Shenhua Group to jointly come up with an alumina project in Hebei Province of North China. The project will be build in partnership with the the provincial government. The three parties have agreed to build the alumina project at...
Orbite ships first 5N+ high purity alumina samples
Orbite Technologies Inc. announced shipment of its new samples of high purity alumina ("HPA") to prospective customers. The company had previously shipped 4N8 HPA samples to prospective customers. Feedback on purity and chemical composition of samples was positive and these prospective customers...
Aremco introduces Aremcolox 502-1400-99% alumina
Aremco Products, Inc., a leading manufacturer of high reliability equipment for the electronics, ceramics and metallurgical industries, announced the introduction of Aremcolox™ 502-1400-99, a high density, full-fired, 99% pure alumina ceramic. Aremcolox™ 502-1400-99 provides exceptional abrasion...
Tianjin Zhongwang Smelting & Casting Plant holds furnace ignition ceremony
China's Tianjin Zhongwang Aluminium Co. recently held a furnace ignition ceremony at its smelting and casting plant in Wuqing district of Tianjin. After nearly one hour of continuous observation, all equipment indicators of the furnace were found to be functioning normally. The furnace is...
Noranda announces initial intercontinental alumina shipment to Chinese aluminum smelter
Noranda Aluminum Holding Corporation announced today that it has completed a 31,000 metric tonne shipment of smelter grade alumina from its alumina refinery in Gramercy, Louisiana to an aluminum smelter in China. This shipment, which is part of a multi-shipment export arrangement at market prices,...
Declining alumina prices hit US caustic soda market
At the start of 2015, those in the alumina industry had a right to feel like things were brightening for the lightweight metal in global markets. The global industry had been grinding its way through a years-built glut of supply that had depressed prices and forced alumina producers in the West to...
China bauxite imports soared in July on rapid alumina capacity expansions
China’s appetite for imported bauxite grew significantly in July due to rapid expansions in the country’s alumina capacity, observed Shanghai Metals Market (SMM). Bauxite imports hit 5.06 million tonnes in July, up 63.52% year-on-year and 25.26% month-on-month, customs data showed. China imported...
Chalco swings to profit in H1 on cost cuts
Aluminum Corp of China Ltd (Chalco) posted a first-half net profit of 27.6 million yuan ($4.31 million), helped by lower production costs and rising sale prices of alumina products. Chalco swung to a net profit in the first quarter of this year after having posted a record loss in 2014 that was...
Vedanta to halve output at Lanjigarh alumina refinery, job cuts to follow
Vedanta Ltd will halve output at its one- million-tonne-a-year alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa state in about two months, a senior executive said, due mainly to acute shortage of raw material bauxite and weak LME aluminium prices. Job cuts at the refinery, which employs about 2,000 people,...
South32’s full-year earnings jump 41% on aluminum, alumina
South32 Ltd., the miner spun out of BHP Billiton Ltd. in May, said full-year earnings rose 41 percent helped by its aluminum and alumina operations. Underlying earnings were $575 million in the year ended June 30, compared to a proforma $407 million a year earlier, the Perth-based miner said in a...
AluChem to commission a low-soda alumina plant in 2015
In 2015, AluChem will launch a new line of low and ultra-low-soda aluminas focused toward ceramics and investment casting applications. This new high-purity alumina product portfolio will utilize proprietary purification technology in the production of low and ultra-low-soda calcined, reactive and...
China alumina output peaks in July, SMM Says
Despite falling alumina prices, China’s alumina output peaked at 4.83 million tonnes in July, SMM data showed. The figure grew 11.6% year-on-year, and was up from June’s 4.72 million tonnes. Large refineries maintained high production due to their cost advantages. China
