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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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,...
VHE has completed the fabrication and installation of a preheating furnace for the Rio Tinto Alcan smelter at Straumsvík in Iceland. The furnace, which is semi-automatic, is able to heat 15 tonnes of scrap to 200°C within 2 hours. At this temperature all water and many low-boiling point organics...
The aluminum market continues to be volatile, and Century Aluminum continues to discuss power arrangements for its Hawesville, Ky. and Ravenswood plants, according to Century President and Chief Executive Officer Michael Bless. Century reported a net income of $8.3 million for the first quarter of...
The site of a former aluminium smelter owned by Alcoa on the banks of the Columbia River near Longview are to be cleaned up and transformed into $643 million coal export terminal. The American aluminium giant will submit a draft clean-up plan for the 416-acre site to the state Department of Ecology...
A source said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will release the list of aluminum smelters meeting environmental protection requirement within this year. He added that aluminum smelters in the list will obtain support from the government in terms of power tariff and loans. Another...
Outgoing New Zealand Aluminium Smelters general manager Ryan Cavanagh has released his final review on the Tiwai Pt smelter. Mr Cavanagh, who has been the company's general manager since 2009, is leaving this week to take up the role of general manager at Pacific Aluminium's Gove bauxite mine and...
As Rio Tinto and Meridian Energy haggle over the price of power for the Tiwai Pt aluminium smelter, optimism about the metal's future has faded in line with modest expectations for world growth, Deutsche Bank says in its quarterly commodities report. The bank said the "considerable" optimism with...
Meridian Energy and the owners of its largest customer, the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter, are continuing to talk after an intense three days' face to face negotiation last week, with parties in both Wellington and Sydney crunching numbers on possible new deals. Neither side will comment on the...
Loss-making Bosnian aluminium smelter Aluminij Mostar will dip into capital reserves and may cut more jobs, in an attempt to stay afloat while it tries to access international funding. The general manager of Aluminij, Bosnia's biggest exporter and a major employer, on Friday said he was hopeful...
Dubai Aluminium, which owns and operates the world's largest single-site primary aluminium smelters using pre-bake anode technology, was again received with acclaim at 12th annual Careers Show Exhibition, which took place at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition centre from 5 to 7 March...
Calif-based Century Aluminum may be forced to cease operations at its Hawesville aluminum smelter, the company warned on Tuesday. Citing the high price of power to keep the plant running, Century issued a federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notification to the effect that the...
The London Metal Exchange said on Monday that it has received an application from Malaysian aluminum producer Daiki Aluminium Industry Sdn. Bhd. to list its DIKM brand for trading under the exchange's aluminum alloy and NASAAC futures contracts. Daiki has an aluminum smelter that is able to produce...
Shenzhen-listed Yunnan Aluminium Co, one of China's leading aluminum smelters, is expecting to record first quarter losses totaling between 70 million yuan ($11.31 million) and 75 million yuan, nearly three times the 24.28 million yuan deficit it wrote down during the same period last year, the...
Aluminium smelters are set to open in China at a faster pace than producers there and worldwide shut loss-making plants to tackle a glut that keeps the metal's prices weak. So far this year, analysts estimate cutbacks in aluminium production have totaled as much as 700,000 tonnes in China, the...
China plans to publish a list of aluminium smelters that meet its environmental standards, with firms selected receiving help in cutting costs, while those left off could be forced to curb output as they become less competitive. Lower production in the world's top producer and consumer of aluminium...
Crucial face-to-face talks between the owners of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter and its electricity supplier, Meridian Energy, resume in Wellington today, with both sides blocking out the rest of the week, if necessary, to try and nut out a new electricity contract. Representatives of the...
Aluminium production at 245 ktpa Korba-II smelter was 62,000 tonnes, in line with the corresponding prior quarter. The smelter operated above its rated capacity for the full year. At the 325ktpa Korba-III aluminium smelter, mechanical and electrical completion and pre-commissioning of the...
As New Zealand Aluminium Smelters general manager Ryan Cavanagh prepares to leave his post this month, he tells Collette Devlin he is not jumping ship from the Tiwai Pt smelter. The rumour that the New Zealand Aluminium Smelters general manager was jumping a sinking ship have been swirling since...
