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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The bauxite tycoon, Fadi Wazni, after acquiring the world's number one speciality alumina refinery in France, Alteo, the Franco-Guinean Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Boké mining company, plans to develop an alumina refinery in Guinea. The buyout plan by the Guinean UMS (United Mining...
Noranda Alumina, a subsidiary of New Day Aluminum Holdings, has reported the strongest production figure in over three years for the last six months. Despite numerous challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic, depressed market conditions, and historically active hurricane season, the refinery...
AGB2A, a Guinea based company, which produces one of the best metallurgical grade bauxite for alumina refinery by dry beneficiation process involving crushing and screening of ore. Now the Sino- Guinean consortium is in the eyes of the Guinean justice which ordered, on January 4, 2021, towards the...
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has been awarded INR 450 Crore order from National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO). The contract covers design, engineering, manufacturing, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of 1x300 TPH Coal Fired Boiler, 18.5 MW Steam Turbine Generator and...
According to the latest data shared by Shanghai Metals Market, China’s metallurgical-grade alumina production in the entire year of 2020 came in at 67.29 million tonnes, down by 2.02 per cent on a year-on-year basis. In December, alumina output, including 5.75 million tonnes of metallurgical-grade...
iB2, the innovative technology developer, for the production of Alumina from low-grade bauxite will soon initiate feasibility studies for the construction of an alumina plant in China's Shanxi province, with Anne Lauvergeon as Chairman of the board. Yves Occello, CEO of the French company, has two...
On 5 th January 2021, Emirates Global Aluminium announced that its Al Taweelah alumina refinery, the first in the UAE, has delivered sustained monthly production at or above nameplate capacity for the past three months. The milestone marks the completion of a world-class ramp-up of Al Taweelah...
On 28 th December, PT Alumina Borneo Indonesia (BAI) commenced the construction of the Smelter Grade Alumina Refinery (SGAR) in Bukit Batu Village, Sungai Kunyit District in Indonesia. The SGAR development plan has been prepared in recent years. This first pole planting for the project was led by...
Abu Dhabi Ports’ flagship Khalifa Port commenced its South Quay operations with the newly launched facility. The first shipment carrying bauxite harboured at the new port is destined for Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA)’s Al-Taweelah alumina refinery. Alfred Oldendorff, the bulk carrier, the first...
The Andhra Pradesh state government in India is considering acquiring the Ras-Al-Khaimah Investment Authority’s (Rakia’s) stake in Anrak Aluminium joint venture. This is an effort to settle the dispute after several years under international arbitration. However, the state government lately...
The government of the Indian State Andhra Pradesh is wholly prepared to permit Anrak Aluminium Limited to commission its alumina refinery at Rachapalli, Makavarapalem in Visakhapatnam. V Vijaysai Reddy, MP, North Andhra Pradesh affairs, said: “The government has been planning to allow Anrak...
The contended bauxite mining issue returns in the prominence with condemnation forthcoming to over the fresh bids to consider operationalizing the Anrak Alumina Refinery in Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh. Anrak Aluminium Limited, a company floated by Ras-al-Khaimah and Penna Group in 2013...
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative has certified Alcoa’s three facilities in San Ciprián (Spain), Fjardaál (Iceland), and Lista (Norway) with its Performance Standard Certification. The facilities' activities include alumina refining, aluminium smelting, producing aluminium sows, ingots, and T-bars,...
The Marseille commercial court was due on 8 th December’20 to examine the two takeover bids submitted for the speciality alumina unit at Gardanne in Southern France. But one of the two bidders withdrew. The inter-union hopes to reduce the social impact of the remaining offer carried by United...
A time at odds on the environmental aspect of the future of the Alteo alumina plant in Gardanne, the mayors of Bouc-Bel-Air and Gardanne in a joint press release on 5 th December’20 stated that they place their trust in the project to continue the activity of the mining industrialist United mining...
At the 2020 Nonferrous Metals Industry Chain Annual Conference in Suzhou, Joyce Li, senior analyst at SMM, noted that China’s alumina market would likely see a supply deficit of 361,000 tonnes in 2020, with annual average operating rate at refineries at 78.03 per cent. “Operating rates at Chinese...
Abstract: Guinea with bauxite potential of about 40 billion tons is the largest aluminium ore exporter in the world today. During 2019, the country exported about 70 million tons of bauxite, which is likely to exceed 110 million tons by 2021. This may substantially change the present bauxite market...
According to the Shanghai Metals Market, many northern regions in China have issued output control policies for the 2020-21 heating season. In mid-November, Lvliang in Shanxi province issued the List of Heavy Pollution Weather Emergency Emission Reductions in 2020, including ten alumina refineries...
