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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ESKOM has invoked its right to disrupt the power supply to BHP Billiton’s aluminium smelters in the case of an emergency as demand by households showed signs it will exceed the state-owned utility’s capacity to generate enough power this winter. The demand forecast for the remainder of this week...
Century Aluminum of Kentucky joined Big Rivers Electric Corp. and Kenergy Corp. June 12 to announce the parties had filed definitive agreements with the Kentucky Public Service Commission based on the tentative agreement they all reached in April. The agreements from the parties are the first step...
Authorities in Bosnia sought to avert the closure of the country's top exporter, aluminium smelter Aluminij Mostar, on Thursday with a deal to settle its ownership structure and redundancy issues. Officials said the agreement could be inked on Monday, although negotiations appeared to be ongoing....
Negotiations over Swiss industrial group Klesch's potential purchase of U.S. aluminium maker Alcoa's plant in Sardinia have stalled, the Italian Industry Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. Last year Klesch presented a formal expression of interest in the aluminium smelter, which is being...
Officials with Century Aluminum took the first step last week towards solidifying the status of Rio Tinto’s Alcan Sebree Works Smelter by completing the acquisition of the plant and its 500 employees. The future of both plants has been in question since Century notified Henderson-based Big Rivers...
Rio Tinto Ltd. has written $592.1 million off its Tiwai Point aluminium smelter in New Zealand, slashing its value to just $14.8 million. The smelter's future is under cloud as Rio seeks to sell it as part of a clutch of ageing Australasian aluminium production assets, packaged for sale as Pacific...
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba), owner of the world's fourth-largest aluminium smelter, has appointed Ali al-Baqali as chief financial officer, the state-controlled company said in a statement on Tuesday. Baqali joined Alba in 1998 and had been acting chief finance and supply officer since October 2012,...
In a move aimed at increasing capacities three-fold over the next three years, Hindalco has started the trial run of its 359-tpa (tons per annum) Mahan aluminium smelter and the 1.5-tpa Utkal alumina. The start of the first two planned expansions is sentimentally positive and will add to volumes...
The closure of Bosnia's sole aluminium smelter, "Aluminij ", is set to affect thousands of jobs in the Balkan country and neighbouring Croatia and will lessen their chances for returning to economic growth any time soon, officials warned on Friday. Aluminij Mostar, faced with high power costs and...
The Tiwai Pt aluminium smelter has partly caused the end of a 15-month streak of manufacturing gains in New Zealand. Sales volumes of manufactured goods fell 0.6 per cent in the March quarter, data released yesterday by Statistics New Zealand shows, with the volatile metals category dragging the...
Dubai Aluminium (DUBAL) -that owns and operates the world's largest primary aluminium smelter using pre-bake anode technology - was honoured by Higher Colleges of Technology ("HCT"), Dubai campus, at an award ceremony on 20 May 2013, through receipt of the Employer Award in the Work Experience...
Aluminum Bahrain Chief Operations Officer said that the company is looking to boost production by 1,000 on an annual basis after its important technology upgrade in pot line 5, Daily News reported. He explains that this upgrade is a significant milestone for the company and was achieved by (Alba)...
The new Icelandic government was only a day old when it announced in mid-May that it would do all it could to push ahead with the Helguvik aluminium smelter. Construction for the smelter began in in 2008 but since then has met with a variety of problems, mostly energy-related. Critics of the...
Bosnia’s sole aluminium smelter, Aluminij Mostar, will close on June 17 to the loss of some 900 jobs at the plant, a major employer in the south of the former Yugoslav state and its biggest exporter. About two million tons of aluminium production has been shut down in Europe since the 2008...
Press Metal Bhd (Press Metal), a public-listed aluminium company with an extensive global presence, has been regarded as being significantly undervalued but is now set to be on a strong upward trajectory as its greenfield aluminium smelting plant in Samalaju is set to swing into full production...
Operations at Ormet Corp. are expected to continue as usual after a federal judge approved the sale of the company for $221 million to Smelter Acquisition LLC, a subsidiary of Minnesota-based Wayzata Investment Partners. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware on Tuesday approved the sale of all...
Ever mindful of its corporate responsibilities towards society, DUBAL, that owns and operates the world's largest primary aluminium smelter using pre-bake anode technology, has again lent its support to Dubai Autism Center (DAC). An internal campaign, run throughout April (marked as 'autism month'...
Rusal is considering shutting down 81,000 MT capacity at its Nadvoitsy aluminum smelter. Rusal previously announced that it would borrow EUR 150 million from VEB to upgrade the facility to produce higher value-added products. Part of the loans was used to acquire Ondskaya Hydroelectric to ensure...
