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’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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<p>After declining through the first fortnight of May, Alumina prices in China have registered a gain and now continue to grow firm throughout all the major markets.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img style="vertical-align: middle;"...
<p>Alteo is the leading producer of non-metallurgical alumina in France. The company has three alumina refineries in France: the alumina refinery in Gardanne, a white fused alumina facility in La Bâthie and a brown fused alumina plant in Beyrède. </p> <p>{newsStudioGallery}</p>...
<p>After declining through the first fortnight of May, alumina prices in China have registered a gain and currently remain flat throughout all the major markets.</p> <p>As on May 19 2017, as reported by Shanghai Metals Market; the average spot alumina price in South China market stands at RMB...
<p>Brazil currently ranks second position as a net exporter of alumina worldwide. The country exported estimated 8.78 million tonnes of alumina in 2016, up from 8.47 million tonnes in 2015. A substantial portion of country’s alumina is shipped to Canada. Albras, the second-largest aluminium...
<p>China’s import of alumina totalled 420,834 tonnes in March 2017, up 17 per cent from the same period in last year. January-March (quarter one) imports were up at 921,123 tonnes, revealed data released by China’s General Administration of Customs.</p> <p>{newsStudioGallery}</p>...
<p>Noranda has signed a long-term, exclusive offtake agreement with Concord Resources for smelter grade alumina produced at Noranda's Gramercy alumina refinery in Louisiana. Concord Resources has also agreed to a third party marketing arrangement for bauxite produced at its mining facility in St....
Materion Corporation yesterday announced that the company has added Durox 98 to its Durox family of alumina ceramic materials. The new Durox 98 is an expansion of company’s alumina ceramic product portfolio. The company developed Durox 98 to meet the demand for an alumina purity grade of 97.6 per...
<p>Vietnam, the emerging alumina producing hub on the shores of the South China Sea, has increased its offshore alumina sales over the last three years. As suggested by the available international trade data, alumina export from the country has more than doubled since 2015. The increase has been...
<p>China’s spot alumina prices fell Thursday, April 20, on the back of news this week that Xinjiang smelters in northwest China will be cutting around two million mt/year of new aluminium capacity which have yet to receive required government approvals.</p> <p>The ex-works Shanxi daily spot...
<p>Middle East is at an inflexion point and threshold of a massive economic transformation as aluminium catches the world's attention as the next biggest industry after oil. The region is now only next to China and the US in terms of market size and with recorded 5,229,115 tonnes production of...
<p>Environmental protection authorities in China that recently got down to track non-conformance by the country's numerous aluminium smelters and alumina refineries seem to have impacted the global trade of alumina and bauxite in the short-term. Deliveries of some contracts of brown fused alumina...
<p>The Russian Federation plays a key role in the global aluminium industry value chain. Its major aluminium producer UC RUSAL is a vertically integrated company with bauxite processing and alumina refining operations in Russia's Kamensk-Uralsky, Sverdlovsk region and Leningrad region....
<p>The alumina industry has observed some of the major ups and downs in the past week across the globe. Let’s revisit the prominent news stories covering the week:</p> <p><img style="vertical-align: middle; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"...
<p>The mineral sector of Bosnia and Herzegovina is dominated by the mine output of bauxite, iron ore, and lead-zinc ore while the metallurgy sector produces aluminium and steel. As per USGS 2013 Bosnia Mineral Yearbook data, the gross domestic product (GDP) was $17.8 billion in 2013, while the...
<p>Dr. Radislav Filipovic, Alumina’s director of business marketing and production in most of Zvornik collective, has announced in a statement on Tuesday February 14 that the company is planning to produce 290,000 tons of alumina in 2017.</p> <p><img style="vertical-align: middle; display:...
<p>The global demand for alumina is growing like never before with phenomenal growth in aluminium production, especially in China. The world will continue to see strong demand growth for alumina particularly in China and the Middle East countries. It opens up new trading opportunities for the...
<p>China is sitting on a huge inventory of alumina. Despite the fact that the Chinese government has recently come down heavily on the alumina refineries (and smelters) and mandated that they reduce capacity by 50 per cent in order to support the Centre's fight against pollution, the low-cost...
<p>The small island country of Bahrain together with four other Gulf countries- the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Qatar, has changed the face of the Gulf from being a solely oil driven economy to a manufacturing hub accounting for 10 per cent the world's total production of aluminium. About 40 per...
