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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Rio Tinto’s alumina production in the third quarter of 2020 was 7% higher than the same period of 2019. This was due to higher production at both Pacific refineries, considering a planned major shutdown at Yarwun during the quarter. Alumina production stood at 1.954 million tonnes in Q3. On a...
DADA Holdings LLC, the principal owner of New Day Aluminum, and Enervoxa, a Canadian based green technologies company, together announce a ground-breaking joint venture, ElementUS, to extract valuable rare earth elements and minerals from bauxite residue at New Day’s alumina refinery in Gramercy,...
Alcoa Corporation made a record third-party shipment of 12 million-plus dry metric tonnes of bauxite during the third quarter of 2020 ended on September 30, backed on robust production year to date at Alcoa’s Huntly and Willowdale bauxite mines. Boosted by this result, Alcoa’s bauxite shipments are...
Hydro has announced the termination of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Golar Power and CELBA. The MoU, which was signed in July 2020, between Hydro’s alumina refinery Alunorte, Golar Power Brasil Participações and Centrais Elétricas Barcarena (CELBA) for the project to bring liquified...
Alcoa announced it will curtail its San Ciprián aluminum smelter in Spain. The company will also initiate a collective dismissal that will impact about 530 employees. The alumina refinery at San Ciprián will continue to operate. The curtailment is expected to be completed in the first quarter of...
Hydro announced that it has resumed operation of the pipeline transporting bauxite from Hydro Paragominas bauxite mine to Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil. Paragominas bauxite mine production has started, and output is now being ramped up at Hydro’s Alunorte alumina refinery. The company in...
Hydro’s seven aluminium metal plants have been certified against Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) Chain of Custody. The sites include Husnes, Norway; Rackwitz, Germany; Deeside, UK; Lucé, France; Azuqueca, Spain; and Henderson, Kentucky, and Commerce, Texas, in the U.S. The Primary Metal...
New Day Aluminum Holdings, and its parent company, DADA Holdings, are in discussions with several potential global partners on various strategic initiatives to materially expand its capabilities and further secure the long term sustainability of Noranda Alumina, its Louisiana-based alumina...
SRG Global Limited has received $100m contract with South32 Worsley Alumina to deliver specialist Refractory Services, including gunning and casting and installation of refractory products and anchors. The company will start its work this month for a duration of eight years. South32 has also...
National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) held its 39th Annual General Meeting on the virtual platform on Wednesday. Sridhar Patra, CMD, NALCO, said, “Year 2019-20 has been a year of mixed results for the company. In spite of an extremely challenging business environment, coupled with slump in...
The BUMN mining holding or Mining Industry Indonesia (MIND ID) is still working on several strategic projects even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, one of which is the Smelter Grade Alumina Refinery (SGAR). This project is a collaboration between PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminum (Inalum) and PT Aneka...
Alcoa announced that the formal consultation process for San Ciprián aluminum plant in Spain ended without an agreement with the workers’ representatives. The company now have up to 15 days to announce a decision regarding the smelter’s 228,000 tonnes of annual capacity. In August, Alcoa reached an...
Chevron, the American multinational energy corporation has signed an agreement to supply a supplementary 37PJ (962mn m³) of gas sourced from the three LNG projects located offshore Western Australia (WA) to Alcoa's alumina refineries in the southwest part of the state, adding to an existing...
Rio Tinto has considerably progressed with its $75 million planned maintenance shutdown work at two of its alumina refineries in Gladstone, Queensland this year. Despite the COVID-19 restrictions, the mining giant conducted maintenance work at Queensland Alumina Limited and Yarwun refinery by using...
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...
GFG Alliance is committed to aid Alcoa’s troubled San Ciprián aluminium smelter in northwest Spain and is confident to find a solution for the smelter’s long-term sustainability if sources of power and alumina are guaranteed, said Jay Hambro, GFG’s Chief Investment Officer. In early August, GFG...
Vedanta Limited’s Lanjigarh has received CII Eastern Region Excellence Award for Safety, Health & Environment in ‘large scale manufacturing unit above 2500 employees’ category. The CII award marks the recognition from CII Eastern Region for the leadership, vision and efforts by organizations in...
Clarendon Alumina Production Limited, CAP, has repaid all its outstanding debt to the alumina partner Noble Group, amounting to US$135.7 million. The Jamaican Government indicated last month that it planned to repay the funds, but gave no precise timeline. However, in a notice to shareholders this...
