Ireland’s Department of Enterprise has withheld the release records of discussions between its secretary general and Aughinish Alumina management, citing “highly confidential information” shared by the company. The decision comes as scrutiny intensifies over the Limerick refinery’s alumina exports...
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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Mubadala Investment Co., the sovereign fund of Abu Dhabi stated that it’s “close” to an initial public offering of Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC as it examines other crucial deals comprising a role in a consortium investing in Saudi Aramco’s oil pipelines. On 12 th March 2021, Khaldoon Al Mubarak,...
Europe's largest alumina refinery and a major alumina asset of RUSAL, Aughinish Alumina has received approval for its proposal for an extension of its large plant near Foynes, Limerick County to be considered under the fast-track planning process for large strategic projects. The independent,...
Like the global aluminium industry, Ghana’s new integrated aluminium industry is going to be highly-energy intensive, requiring 500 megawatts of direct and stable power supply to be able to operate effectively. Ghana is in the process of expanding its existing bauxite mine in Awaso and developing...
Vedanta Aluminium & Power Business, India’s largest producer of aluminium and value-added products, is facilitating hundreds of MSMEs in remote rural areas with its innovative ‘Waste to Wealth’ programme. This programme is part of Vedanta’s sustainability goals and commitments toward socio-economic...
According to a recent report, Vedanta Aluminium, India’s largest producer of aluminium and value-added products, has won three Kalinga Safety Excellence Awards for the performance year 2019 at Odisha State Safety Conclave 2020. Vedanta’s Jharsuguda unit has bagged the coveted Gold Award for safe...
On 18 th March 2021, DADA Holdings and Enervoxa’s rare earth elements and minerals extraction joint venture, ElementUS, announced that it has engaged Techint Engineering and Construction, to commence front end engineering design this month in conjunction with the Enervoxa and DADA engineering...
On 15 th March, Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group, Vinacomin’s bauxite mining projects in the Central Highlands has been inspected by a delegation of the National Assembly The delegation inspected the mining site and production processes in Bao Lam district’s Lam Dong province,...
The mine safety regulator of Western Australia is investigating the leakage of seven million litres of potentially toxic material gushed from a tank at Alcoa’s alumina refinery this week. On 9 th March 2021, the incident took place at the American industrial giant’s alumina refinery in Wagerup, 120...
The Govt. of Ghana is standing at the final stage to close a deal for bringing in an investor to partner with the Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC) for bauxite exploitation in the country. Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana, while addressing the parliament in his first...
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...
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...
LAlumina LLC, which operated the Burnside Alumina until it was shut down in August’20 and laid off hundreds of workers has been charged and filed by lawsuits by several contractors. The contractors filed lawsuits against LAlumina soliciting money after they claim agreements for goods and services...
Norsk Hydro the globally integrated aluminium giant has been sued by a group of communities in Brazil. Around 40,000 Brazilians are involved in the lawsuit against Norwegian aluminium producer, as they stated, it is toxic waste pollution the company is causing in northern Brazil. The communities...
According to the Shanghai Metals Market, China’s alumina production started the year with a drop of 1 per cent month-on-month in January 2021. Compared to 5.96 million tonnes in December 2020, China produced 5.90 million tonnes of alumina in January 2021. This included 5.69 million tonnes of...
The Board of Directors of Vedanta has approved the expansion of existing capacity of Lanjigarh Alumina Refinery, as announced by Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta Ltd. On 4 th February 2021, during its regulatory filing, Vedanta stated that the Board of Directors of the Company at its meeting which was held...
Australia’s pioneering construction materials and industrial mineral manufacturing company, Adbri, has announced its contract extension with South32 alumina refinery. The five-year deal comprises of the exclusive supply of lime to the South32 Worsley Alumina refinery in Western Australia. The...
Avnish Kumar, Founder and CEO of LivNSense Technologies Pvt. Ltd., has a proven and astounding experience of 25+ years in the Engineering and Information Technology (IT) industry. Being an alumnus of NIT-Durgapur and MBA from the University of Melbourne itself speaks volumes about his expertise and...
On 20 th January 2021, the Global Mineral Recovery Company (GMR) publicised this morning the commissioning of its commercial demonstration unit for the recovery of bauxite residues on the site of Rio Tinto’s Vaudreuil Alumina plant. The $ 9 million project was initiated in 2017. The US-based...
