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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Union representatives say they are "disappointed" the Tiwai Pt aluminium smelter has appealed a decision to pay its workers millions of dollars in backpay. Last week, 64 union members at the smelter won an Employment Relations Authority case they took against New Zealand Aluminium Smelters that...
The Nigerian Supreme Court will determine who has acted contrary to ts judgement. The Supreme Court will on Monday hear the petition against the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) over its decision to cancel the offer to BFIG to acquire the Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria (ALSCON). The BPE,...
The Tiwai Point aluminium smelter is "losing millions of dollars every month" and can ill-afford to give shift workers a 50% increase in leave without increasing hours worked, the company says. The smelter owner, New Zealand Aluminium Smelters, says it will appeal an Employment Relations Authority...
Guangxi Laibin Yinhai Aluminum (250,000 mt/yr in aluminum capacity) and Guangxi Baise Yinhai Aluminum (200,000 mt/yr in aluminum capacity), both of which are subsidiaries of Guangxi Investment Group, will likely resume production soon due to electricity price subsidies. The two companies’ total...
Acute shortage of coal forced the National Aluminium Company to close down more than 200 pots in its smelter plant on Monday bringing down the production of aluminium by 250 tonne per day. Prior to this, Nalco was running 823 pots of the 960 pots in the smelter plant and the present shut down is...
The management of Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria in Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom, says it will soon inaugurate water project in the state. The Director, Government- Public Relations, Tatyana Smirnova, disclosed this in an interview in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area. Smirnova said that the project...
Emal CEO Saeed Fadhel Al Mazrooei is already looking beyond the Abu Dhabi smelter’s phase ll development in anticipation of major global growth in demand for aluminium. Emal’s phase ll development will come on stream in December 2013 and by Q2 2014 will boost the smelter’s annual capacity from...
Workers at the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter in Southland are owed millions of dollars of back-pay for annual leave they were entitled to, but never received, the Employment Relations Authority has ruled. Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union members at the Bluff plant took a case to the...
Emirates Aluminium, a joint venture between Abu Dhabi investment fund Mubadala and Dubai Aluminium, is planning a further smelter expansion around 2017, its CEO said. The group is on track to complete its $4 billion phase two by the end of 2014, when it capacity will rise to 1.3 million tonnes from...
The future of more than 500 workers at Portland’s Alcoa smelter is uncertain after the US-based company last week revealed it was reviewing worldwide production cuts. The company’s owners issued a statement last week announcing global operations could cut 460,000 metric tons, or about 11 per cent,...
NALCO may have to cut its daily aluminium output by 25 percent due to coal supply shortages caused by an accident at a mine that supplies fuel to the state-run aluminium producer, a company director said on Sunday. The company has received just 10,000 tonnes of coal a day for the past 10 days from...
The future of the troubled Point Henry aluminium smelter in Geelong is back under a cloud after its American owners Alcoa revealed it was considering deep production cuts worldwide. The smelter, which employs about 500 workers, has been struggling under plunging global aluminium prices and a high...
KEOPS Technologies, Inc. is currently deploying a new standard aluminium MES solution for the Ma’aden/Alcoa joint venture. Encompassing the electrode, general plant, and casthouse areas, the deployed functionalities will enhance the ability of the site to manage its production. After months spent...
Alcoa Inc. said it could shut down as much as another 11 per cent of its aluminum smelting capacity, targeting higher-cost facilities amid weak prices. The company, which already has 568,000 tonnes, or 13 per cent, of its annual smelting capacity sitting idle, said it will review 460,000 tonnes of...
Alba took part in the third edition of Aluminium Middle East 2013 held in Dubai from April 23 - 25, 2013 The Alba stand at the exhibition venue enabled the company to showcase its portfolio of high-grade aluminium products, network with trade partners and examine opportunities and challenges facing...
Rio Tinto Alcan has suspended anode production at its 424,000-tonne-per-year Alma aluminum smelter in northern Quebec while it investigates the cause of a fatal accident overnight. The anode operations at the site will remain shut until further notice after an employee died following an accident at...
Emirates Aluminium has secured financing for the world's biggest aluminium smelter, to be built in the new Khalifa Industrial Zone in Abu Dhabi. Emal, a joint venture between Mubadala, a strategic investment company owned by the Abu Dhabi Government, and Dubai Aluminium, raised US$3.4 billion in...
Century Aluminum Co. said Monday that it is buying the Sebree aluminum smelter from a subsidiary of Rio Tinto Alcan Inc. for about $61 million in cash. The news sent the Monterey, Calif.-based aluminum company's shares up 90 cents, or 13 percent, to $7.64 in afternoon trading. Under the agreement,...
