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...
Ireland withholds Aughinish Alumina meeting notes amid Russia export review
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...
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JISCO Alpart set to make its first shipment of alumina today
Alpart Alumina refinery which was reopened by its new owner Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company (JISCO) Limited in June is set to make its first shipment today December 29, 2017. The first shipment from St. Elizabeth plant after reopening will leave from Port Kaiser in Jamaica today. A release from the...
EGA signs agreement with Shaheen Chem for supply of caustic soda to Al Taweelah alumina refinery
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has signed a supply agreement with Shaheen Chem Investments LLC which paves the way for the construction by Shaheen of a chemical complex in Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi. Upon completion, Shaheen’s ethylene dichloride and caustic soda plant will supply caustic...
Vedanta eyes zero alumina imports by 2020
Diversified metals & mining conglomerate Vedanta Ltd is aiming at zero alumina imports by 2020. By then, the company is looking to reach its full nameplate capacity of six million tonnes per annum (mtpa) at its Lanjigarh alumina refinery in Odisha. The Lanjigarh refinery's present de-bottlenecked...
Rising alumina prices not a concern for Hindalco
The alumina price index (API) used for individual price discovery of alumina spot has been quite volatile this year. In October, the API surged to record highs driven by supply corners over curtailments in Chinese alumina refineries. The higher alumina prices, however, were not backed by a...
EGA sends female engineers to Ma’aden’s alumina refinery in Saudi Arabia
Emirates Global Aluminium has sent 13 female UAE National engineers to Ma’aden’s alumina refinery in Saudi Arabia as part of preparation work for the start-up of its Al Taweelah alumina refinery in Abu Dhabi. The new group are the first women to participate in the programme. Eleven of the women are...
EGA signs port facility agreement with Abu Dhabi Ports to import bauxite from Guinea for its Al Taweelah alumina refinery
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), the largest aluminium conglomerate in the Middle East has signed a long-term port facility agreement with Abu Dhabi Ports to import bauxite for its under-construction Al Taweelah alumina refinery. Khalifa Port sets to become the first port in the Middle East to...
“Mecfor has been able to position itself as a solution provider for the aluminium industry for the past 20 years,” Ms Eloise Harvey, President of Mecfor
Very recently, AlCircle team visited Québec Aluminium Cluster on invitation of Quebec’s Ministry of Economy, Science and Innovation. AlCircle Content Head Beethika Biswas visited the office of Mecfor and spoke to Ms Eloise Harvey, President of the company, on Mecfor’s present domestic and...
Canadian company Hatch reaches safety milestone in under-construction Al Taweelah alumina refinery
Emirates Global Aluminium, the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside oil and gas, today received His Excellency Masud Husain, Ambassador of Canada to the United Arab Emirates, to celebrate a safety milestone by a Canadian company working to build EGA’s Al Taweelah alumina...
SMB plans Guinea alumina refinery by 2022
A consortium of the Societe Miniere de Boke (SMB) and Singapore’s Winning Shipping plans to build Guinea’s first alumina refinery in a $3 billion effort to develop the West African country’s bauxite industry, it said on Monday. Guinea has about a third of the world’s bauxite reserves and expects to...
Mytilineos looks to finalize alumina investment this month
Mytilineos, a Greece-based industrial group, will soon become Europe’s biggest alumina producer after finalizing a $400 million alumina investment at a meeting on December 22. The company is expected to start construction of new alumina refinery in 2018. Mytilineos' Chief Executive Officer...
JISCO exports its first alumina from Alpart Refinery
Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company (JISCO) exported 35,000 tonnes of alumina from the Alpart Refinery for the first time on Thursday, November 23. The cargo is estimated to arrive in China by the end of the year. The company will spend around US$3 billion over a period of three years for upgrading the...
Noble Group mulls sale of Jamalco alumina refinery
Noble Group, who acquired interest in Jamalco refinery from Alcoa in 2014, is considering the sale of Jamalco alumina refinery. According to news reported by Bloomberg, Global commodities company Noble Group sits down with shareholders this week for crisis talks to restructure about $3.5 billion in...
Vedanta to ramp up alumina production if HLCA approves proposal
The State-Level Single Window Clearance Authority (SLSWCA) on Thursday referred Vedanta’s plan to ramp up alumina production at Lanjigarh to high-level clearance authority (HLCA). Vedanta will increase its production from 1 million tonnes to 6 million tonnes if the HLCA clears the company’s...
Jamaica betting big on bauxite and alumina sector - Alpart to be the game changer
Jamaica’s bauxite and alumina industry is on a growth trajectory. Driven by the reopening of Alpart bauxite mining and processing complex by Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company (JISCO) Limited in Nain, St. Elizabeth, the industry is growing bringing hope for the entire economy, Minister of Transport and...
Rio Tinto announces it will never reopen Gove alumina refinery
MINING giant Rio Tinto has officially decided to never reopen their Gove refinery, and will instead embark on a lengthy, costly and environmentally fraught dismantling operation. The East Arnhem Land refinery has been in ‘care and maintenance mode’ since operations were mothballed and 1100 workers...
Hindalco’s alumina EBITDA surges by 18 per cent in Q2 FY2018
Hindalco Industries announced that the alumina production fell 2 per cent to 712 thousand tonnes in the quarter ended 30th September, 2017. Aditya, Mahan and Utkal alumina continued to operate at their designed capacities. Hindalco's Utkal Alumina refinery produced 380 thousand tonnes of alumina...
ARC Fused Alumina now part of Noranda group
The holding company of Noranda has completed the buyout of the La Bâthie operation of ARC Fused Alumina from its owner Imerys, industry sources reported. The US based bauxite and alumina supplier bought the assets from Imerys, which purchased it from its erstwhile owner Alteo in 2016. The ARC Fused...
Rio Tinto adds alumina refineries to aluminum smelters sale: sources
Rio Tinto is attracting renewed interest in selling its Pacific Aluminium smelting unit by adding two alumina refineries in Australia to the portfolio, according to three sources familiar with the matter. Rio Tinto had tried to sell the division minus the refineries in 2011 and again in 2015...
