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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US Bankruptcy Judge Mary Walrath was expected to approve on Thursday an agreement that sets the stage for a possible May 13 auction for the assets of US aluminum producer Ormet, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in Delaware on February 25. Patrick Burns, a Cincinnati-based...
Having smoothed over differences with two key creditors, aluminum smelter Ormet Corp. on Thursday submitted final versions of its Chapter 11 bidding procedures and $90 million debtor-in-possession financing package, which enshrines private equity firm Wayzata Investment Partners LLC as the stalking...
BHP Billiton’s preferential arrangement with Eskom through which the company pays a fraction of the standard electricity tariff for its Richards Bay aluminium smelters will soon be a matter of public debate and discussion, when the National Energy Regulator of SA conducts public hearings over the...
The National Council on Privatisation approved the termination of BFI Group’s offer to purchase 77.5 per cent of Aluminum Smelter Company of Nigeria “following their inability to pay the agreed 10 per cent of the offer price within 15 working days of the execution of the Share Sale/Purchase...
The aluminum smelting equipment and the workshop, which are designed by BERIS Engineering & Research Corp. for Ningxia Jinning Juke New Materials Co., Ltd., has been proved to be of perfect performance. On February 23, 2013, five large flat ingots (660mm×1350mm×7213mm) of 1100 alloy were produced...
Rusal, the world’s largest aluminium producer announces the decision of ALSCON Board of Directors to temporarily suspend the smelting operations at the plant. During the meeting on 11 March 2013 of the Board of Directors of ALSCON, 85% of which is owned by UC RUSAL, a decision was taken to suspend...
RUSAL, the world's largest primary aluminium producer, decided to suspend operations at its Alscon smelter in Nigeria because of concerns about gas supplies, it said on Friday. The Russian firm said the smelter would be suspended from the end of April, having produced 22,000 tonnes of aluminium in...
A Kentucky lawmaker on Thursday said he was prepared to ask Governor Steve Beshear to consider his bill to allow Century Aluminum and Rio Tinto Alcan to buy lower cost power for their smelters in the state from the open market rather than at locked-in costs from Big Rivers Electric. State...
Bosnia's sole aluminium smelter Aluminij Mostar said it may have to close down if it continues to make losses in a weak market beset with slumping demand and rising energy costs. The country's top exporter, which sells most of its aluminium into the depressed European construction and auto...
UC Rusal, billed as the world's largest producer of primary aluminium, has announced that it will be cutting production at its less efficient smelters by 300kt by the end of 2013. The planned cuts, which have now been approved by Rusal's board, are designed to maintain the company’s competitive...
Trimet Aluminium AG, Germany’s biggest producer of the lightweight metal, said it’s in discussions with Rio Tinto Group to buy two smelters in France. “We are in talks,” Martin Iffert, chief executive officer of Trimet, said by phone, declining to give further details. An official for Rio in London...
Production at the Tiwai Aluminium Smelter will be reduced by about 400 tonnes a week as the company starts to cut back on its electricity usage. The smelter is reducing its electricity load from 572MW to 540MW because of extremely low hydro lake levels. New Zealand Aluminium Smelter general manager...
Wood Elementary is competing in the Third Annual Great American Can Roundup School Challenge, and area residents can help by dropping off their aluminum cans at the Fort Wood Recycling Center located behind The Hub in St. Robert. When you drop off your aluminum cans, please let the center know that...
Southland Chamber of Commerce says locals are spending less due to continuing uncertainty over the future of the Tiwai Point smelter. In August last year, owner New Zealand Aluminium Smelters said the plant was losing money and renegotiating the price it pays Meridian Energy for electricity was...
A bid by Century Aluminum Co. to buy power on the open market in Kentucky could have larger implications for the troubled U.S. aluminum industry. Reuters reports that benchmark aluminum prices have dropped more than 30 percent in less than two years, and high-cost electricity is challenging the...
GE has received contracts totaling approximately $500 million to provide equipment and long-term services, directly and via engineering procurement contractors, for the Emirates Aluminium smelter complex in Abu Dhabi. The project is expected to result in lower emissions, addressing the United Arab...
State-owned Dubai Aluminum, known as DUBAL, said Saturday it bought a 20-percent stake in a calciner project as part of a joint venture with Hong Kong-based Sinoway Carbon Energy Holdings for an undisclosed sum. DUBAL, which runs the seventh biggest aluminum smelter in the world in relation to...
Kentucky state lawmakers are set to decide whether to let US aluminum producer Century Aluminum Co buy power on the open market in its bid to save its money-losing smelter in the Bluegrass state from closure. In its attempt to cope, Century has taken the dramatic step of pushing for legislation...
