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...
Grow with
AL Circle
Engineering & construction giant L&T on Tuesday said its integrated alumina refinery and smelter project in the state is under suspension. L&T through a joint venture partnership with Dubai Aluminium Ltd in 2005 had proposed to invest $5515 million on a three million tonne per annum (mtpa) alumina...
All the cards do not rest with Rio Tinto in the stalled negotiations over electricity contracts with the Tiwai Pt aluminium smelter, accounting firm WHK New Zealand's chief executive Phil Mulvey says. "Rio Tinto has hived off its smelter assets into Pacific Aluminium ... If it shuts the plant, it...
A passion for professionalism, excellence in all aspects of the business and continuous improvement has inspired yet another innovative application of information technology at Dubai Aluminium, the entirely state-owned corporation that operates the world's largest single-site primary aluminium...
Things are hotting up in France over Rio Tinto’s plans to either sell it’s Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne smelter or sell it to German aluminium producer, Trimet. Since the socialists took power in France last year, the French Government’s Industrial Renewal Minister, Arnaud Montebourg has been pretty...
With Japan's second largest secondary aluminum alloy smelter Asahi Seiren taking over another smelter Summit Showa Arumi effective July this year, silicon suppliers expect competition to bag large orders from the merged entity to heat up. "You have a big customer buying a large sum. The customer...
A meeting to discuss a strategy to save the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter was called by the Invercargill City Council today. The Southland Chamber of Commerce told the meeting a closure would see thousands of people leave the region. Chamber chief executive Richard Hay says a closure "would have a...
Long-seated plans by India’s Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation to set up both a 1Mt/yr alumina refinery and a 500kt aluminium smelter in Kutch, Gujarat, are still in abeyance. The company’s partner in the project, Nalco, has said that the development of an aluminium smelter would only be...
Two of Australia's biggest companies, AGL and Alcoa, are squaring off in the Supreme Court over power supplies to the Point Henry ageing aluminium smelter. Alcoa, which owns and operates the smelter, is suing AGL after it refused to implement hardship provisions under a multi-million-dollar power...
New Zealand Aluminium Smelters, which curtailed aluminum production mid-March, is optimistic about reaching a feasible electricity supply agreement, a spokesman for Pacific Aluminium said on Tuesday. NZAS is 79.36% owned by Rio Tinto subsidiary Pacific Aluminium, and 20.64% by Japan's Sumitomo...
The current operator of the Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria in Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State, United Company Rusal on Monday gave two conditions for resumption of operations at the aluminium factory. The company which commenced production at the factory about six years ago recently announced...
Russian aluminum giant Rusal is considering setting up a separate company on the basis of rolling production at its Ukrainian asset - Zaporizhia Aluminum Smelter which would only produce aluminum rods. A spokesman for the plant said that the idea of setting up a new company on the basis of existing...
Century Aluminum is again trying to negotiate an agreeable electricity rate in Kentucky, according to a March 28 report from Reuters. The Kentucky General Assembly worked on two bills that would have given aluminum smelters the ability to get power on the open market – measures the Kentucky Chamber...
The Government is offering to subsidise electricity used by the aluminium smelter at Tiwai Point as state-owned electricity company Meridian Energy and the smelter have failed to reach agreement on electricity prices. State-Owned Enterprises Minister Tony Ryall says the Government has been in touch...
After many delays, GMDC’s ambitious $2.75 billion aluminium park in Kutch, Gujarat seems to be stuck in another pit. Its partner Nalco doesn’t seem too keen on the aluminium smelter. GMDC wants to set up a 1 million tonne alumina refinery and a half a million tonne aluminium smelter for a total of...
Nalco Chairman Ansuman Das is spot on when he says the grave Euro zone concerns refusing to go away and the sustained world overproduction, caused particularly on account of China, are standing in the way of the white metal crossing and staying above $2,000 a tonne. Premiums for the current quarter...
India's Nalco Monday confirmed it plans to invest in a 1 million mt/year alumina refinery in the state of Gujarat that is scheduled for completion in 2017. The project was officially announced last August by then Nalco chairman and managing director B.L. Bagra at the company's AGM. Bagra did not...
Dubai-based Al-Braik Investments on Sunday said it planned to set up a $200 million silicon smelter in Abu Dhabi, the first facility of its kind among Gulf Arab countries. Privately owned Al-Braik has obtained approval from the Khalifa Industrial Zone in Abu Dhabi (Kizad) to produce high- grade...
BHP Billiton has become embroiled in a public dispute in South Africa over the price its aluminium smelters pay for electricity, amid fears power shortages will occur this winter as demand rises. South African power utility Eskom has called on customers to cut power usage by 10 per cent. And, amid...
