Storvik and Charl-Pol have launched Alumotion to bring proven robotic solutions, local engineering and lifecycle support closer to Canada's aluminium smelters. Canadian aluminium smelters are set to gain a new source of automation expertise as Storvik and Canadian technology company Charl-Pol...
The US Department of Justice has urged a court to dismiss Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s lawsuit filed on the proposed USD 4 billion Oklahoma aluminium smelter, arguing that the project would strengthen national and economic security. The move comes as the joint venture of Emirates...
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China's production of aluminium cranked up several gears last month to an annualized 22.42 million tonnes. It was the second-highest run-rate ever, eclipsed only by what may have been a holiday-distorted output figure in February. The world's largest producer churned out 10.54 million tonnes of the...
The European Union will help energy-hungry industries, such as aluminium smelters, clinch long-term electricity deals to lure back major employers that have quit the bloc partly because its power is so expensive. The offer of free guidance by the European Commission (EC) is part of a...
US aluminium producer Alcoa has promoted global primary products (GPP) CFO Roy Harvey to COO for the company's business effective immediately, where he would focus on the day-to-day operations of Alcoa's 22 aluminium smelters and nine alumina refineries worldwide, as well as bauxite assets in...
Norsk Hydro's part-owned aluminium smelter in Slovakia, Slovalco, has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) for power supply with Slovenské Elektrárne. The LoI covers electricity supply over an eight-year period from January 1, 2014, with a total delivery of 19 terawatt hours (TWh). Since entering into...
BHP Billiton has come out with its production report till the period ending June 2013. The report showed that Aluminium production was up by 2 percent to 1.2 million tonnes from January-June 2013. For the quarter ending June the production was up by 25 percent to 310000 tonnes. Production benefited...
Press Metal Bhd's aluminum smelting plant in Malaysian Borneo could stay shut for three to six months after a six-hour power outage on June 27, a company official. "We are assessing the impact," the official said on Wednesday. "We still have another plant (in Samalaju) up and running to meet...
Contact Energy and state-owned Genesis Energy are the two power companies most at risk if the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter closes, says a senior Standard & Poors analyst, Richard Creed. In an interview televised on the Reuters Insider programme, Creed, who is S&P's director of corporate and...
The struggling Bell Bay Aluminium smelter will cut 18 jobs as it continues to face "extremely challenging" market conditions. General manager Ray Mostogl said the decision followed a streamlining of work on site that had resulted in increased efficiencies and cost savings in the maintenance area....
Alcoa announced today that it intends to permanently close its Fusina (Venice, Italy) primary aluminum smelter, which has been curtailed since June 2010. The planned closure will reduce Alcoa’s global smelting capacity of 4.2 million metric tons per year by 44,000 metric tons. The intended closure...
The Supreme Commercial Court has rejected an appeal by Rusal's Krasnoyarsk aluminum smelter on the rules of the wholesale energy market, a court representative told RAPSI on Friday. The applicant requested the court to invalidate two paragraphs of the wholesale energy market regulations. The...
German aluminum producer TRIMET is interested to purchase St. Jean-de-Maurienne aluminum smelter and Castelsarrasin casting facility in France, which are both owned by Rio Tinto Alcan. This was confirmed by Jacynthe Côté, CEO of Rio Tinto Alcan, who said they received a binding offer from TRIMET....
Dubai Aluminium, which owns and operates one of the world's largest aluminium smelters, has engaged Rockwell Automation and its Global Solutions team to provide a commercial pot-control system for its proprietary DX+ Technology, currently being installed in the Phase II expansion at Emirates...
US-based aluminium maker Aloca has confirmed that its Victorian smelters are being considered for closure as it comes under pressure to reduce production. Alcoa reported a second-quarter net loss of $US 119 million this week, and has said that it would end high-cost smelter production as part of a...
Energy expert, Dr Charles Wereko-Brobby, has said VALCO must not be shut down, but must be made to pay realistic tariffs. He said instead of subsidising VALCO’s energy tariffs, companies that benefit from the smelter’s operation must come together to contribute to the overall tariff of the company....
A Montenegrin court has launched bankruptcy proceedings at the country's single biggest industrial employer, indebted aluminium plant Kombinat Aluminijuma Podgorica (KAP), a court official said on Monday. Proceedings were set in motion over a 24-million euro ($30.8 million) debt to Deutsche Bank,...
Bob Wilt’s first job at Alcoa Inc. (AA) was in 1999 at a plant in the Tennessee town named after the company. In 2012, as head of the aluminum producer’s U.S. smelters, he oversaw the plant’s demolition. As the new president of Alcoa’s global primary products business, the Gulf War veteran will now...
Any major change to the electricity pricing regime for mining major BHP Billiton’s aluminium smelters in Richards Bay will have a severe impact on the smelters’ commercial viability and sustainability, which could cause significant job losses and, therefore, have a major impact on the South African...
Malaysian Rating Corporation Bhd (MARC) has downgraded its rating on Press Metal Bhd's outstanding RM317.5mil loan stocks with warrants from A- to BBB. The ratings agency said on Wednesday the rating was placed on MARCWatch Negative pending greater clarity on the credit impact from the unexpected...
