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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GEA has secured a follow-up contract from Utkal Alumina, a 100% subsidiary of Aditya Birla Group Company Hindalco to build a third line of multi-stage falling film evaporators. GEA, the world-renowned state-of-art evaporation technology provider has already supplied the first two evaporator lines...
In the annual general meeting of DUBAL Holding LLC, on Wednesday, March 25, H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and Minister of Finance, praised the company’s good operational performance during 2019. He also mentioned Dubal’s 50 per cent subsidiary firm EGA and its...
Coal production from Jamkhani coal block is expected to take Vedanta an inch closer to its goal to reduce aluminium production cost to US$ 1,500 per tonne. Vedanta Limited had acquired the Jamkhani coal block with 220 million tonnes deposits at competitive auctions in Odisha. An increase in...
While the entire nation is preparing for battling the lethal COVID-19, the news comes that even Vedanta’s Lanjigarh alumina refinery is conducting awareness and sensitization programmes in the community on account of the virus outbreak. The team has already reached out to more than 14 villages for...
On 12 th March’20, Vedanta Ltd made public that Lanjigarh Alumina refinery is expecting to upswing its production to 1.8 million tonnes in 2019-20. This is followed after significant development in operating efficiencies. The Lanjigarh refinery in Odisha stood with 1.5 million tonnes of production...
According to a recent report, Outotec has bagged a contract to deliver technology and services to National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) for its alumina refinery expansion in Damanjodi, Odisha. The order is worth EUR 15 million and is booked in Outotec’s 2020 first quarter order intake. As per...
China in February 2020 produced 5.4 million tonnes of alumina, of which metallurgical-grade materials accounted for 5.17 million tonnes, according to Shanghai Metals Market. Daily production of metallurgical-grade alumina averaged 178,000 tonnes, 8.19 per cent lesser than February 2019 and 0.52 per...
The higher procurement of locally supplied bauxite has succumbed Vedanta to crop the cost of making alumina at its Lanjigarh refinery by 8% Y-o-Y to $269 per tonne in Q3 of this fiscal year. The production capacity of alumina at the Lanjigarh plant has risen by 16% Y-o-Y to 476,000 tonnes. The...
Rio Tinto has announced its full-year financial results of 2019, where it reveals strong safety performance with no fatalities and a slightly improved all injury frequency rates, coming from a strong base. The company’s net cash generated from operating activities stood at US$ 14.91 billion, up 26...
The Minister of Mines, India, Pralhad Joshi on 25 th February’20 laid the foundation stone of Crusher and Conveyor System at NALCO’s Mining & Refinery (M&R) Complex in Damanjodi, Odisha. The new system will feed bauxite for the 5 th stream of Alumina refinery of the company. The estimated cost...
The economic downturn in many regions of the world, particularly in China, combined with trade issues raised by the US, resulted in significant slow-down in aluminium demand in 2019. Contrary to our expectations at the beginning of the year, the demand growth was barely 0.5% in 2019, owing to weak...
According to China customs data, the country in the entire year of 2019 imported 100.66 million tonnes of bauxite, compared to 82.57 million tonnes in 2018. This means the year saw an increase of 21.91 per cent in the import volume, exceeding the 100 million tonnes level for the first time. The...
The President of Ghana H.E. Akufo-Addo announced that by the end of 2020, Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC) would decide to enter a joint venture partnership with investors for exploration of Ghana’s bauxite reserves. During the 2020 State of the Nation Address in...
Hydro has begun operation of new a new water treatment station at its Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil. This comes after Hydro received an operating license from the Secretary of State for Environment and Sustainability (Semas) on January 24, 2020. Hydro said the BRL 675 million ($160 million)...
Hydro released results for the fourth quarter of 2019. Underlying EBIT for Bauxite & Alumina decreased compared to the fourth quarter of last year. Underlying EBIT for Bauxite & Alumina dropped from NOK 493 million in Q4 2018 to negative NOK 75 million in Q4 2019, driven by a decrease in the...
Shandong Nanshan Aluminium Co., Ltd. operations in Donghai Industrial Park and Nanshan Industrial Park sites have been certified against Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) Performance Standard and Chain of Custody Standard. The facilities include an alumina refinery, aluminium smelter, and...
The Doraguda based, in Rayagada district of Orissa, a fully owned company of Hindalco, the metals flagship company of Aditya Birla Group’s alumina refinery Utkal Alumina International (UAIL), having its mines at Baphlimali with reserves lasting for over 25 years and a captive co-generation power...
The Jamaican bauxite mining operation of New Day Aluminium, Noranda Bauxite, declares that bauxite exports from its St. Ann facility were accounted for approximately 3.8 million wet metric tonnes for the calendar year 2019. The bauxite exports covered sales to its sister Alumina refinery, Noranda...
