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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Qatalum CEO Tom Petter Johansen outlined the Qatari aluminium smelter's perspective on the trends in the global aluminium industry and forecast usage growth in the country and elsewhere in the GCC (Gulf Co-operation Council) at a symposium held at the Qatar Science Technology Park (QSTP) recently....
An analyst says resources giant Rio Tinto is unlikely to change plans to sell the aluminium smelter near Bluff but it could be more attractive to potential buyers after a massive asset writedown by its parent company. Rio Tinto announced last week it was writing down the value of its coal business...
Sam Walsh is the new chief executive of mining giant Rio Tinto after the shock exit of Tom Albanese last night. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that under pressure from Rio's board, Albanese stood down from the role on the back of US$14billion worth of new impairments that will be lodged against...
Shandong Xinfa Group plans to build an integrated aluminium production plant in Guizhou Province in Southwest China. The new facility will be located in Daozhen County and will include power generation, bauxite mining and aluminium smelting. Daozhen is said to have over 300Mt of bauxite reserves...
The income of diversified miner BHP Billiton’s two aluminium smelters could fall by about $500-million in the half-year ending June, credit solutions provider Coface South Africa risk analyst George Marais tells Mining Weekly. South Africa’s only two primary smelters, controlled by BHP Billiton and...
After its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh was shut due to lack of bauxite, now operations at Vedanta’s aluminium smelter in Odisha have been hit by shortage of alumina. Time and again, Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) has asked National Aluminium Company Limited ( Nalco), which has surplus alumina, to...
Rio Tinto Alcan's aluminium production was nine per cent lower in 2012 compared with the previous year, and fourth quarter production was two per cent down, largely due to the impact of industrial action at one of its Canadian smelters, the company said. Rio Tinto Alcan, the majority owner of the...
Canberra has countered calls for a drastic intervention in the domestic gas market to guarantee energy supplies to a Rio Tinto aluminium refinery amid estimates it could cost $2 billion to rescue the Northern Territory facility. Resources Minister Martin Ferguson moved against the proposals by...
Tax campaigners are calling on Britain, the World Bank and private investors to return "excessive" profits from a flagship aluminium smelting project in Mozambique started as part of a recovery programme after the country's civil war in the early 1990s. According to a report by Jubilee Debt...
Emirates Aluminium (EMAL) has won a Health and Safety award from the Gulf Aluminium Council (GAC) for its Environmental, Health and Safety resulting in EMAL's industry-leading record of 10 million work hours without a Lost Time Incident (LTI). EMAL's EHS Leaders programme involves embedding EHS...
Bauxite mining company PT Cita Mineral Investindo Tbk (CITA) established a joint venture company with companies from China and Hong Kong to develop an alumina smelter in West Kalimantan. Yusak Lumba Pardede, Corporate Secretary of Cita Mineral, said the smelter will have capacity of two tons per...
State senator-elect Dee Brown’s Dec. 17 announcement that she had asked the Flathead County commissioners to take the lead in getting the Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. smelter site designated as a Superfund site may have caught some state officials by surprise, but it spurred some action. Two...
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) said it remains on track in broadening its production capacity and enhancing output levels with the recent announcement of an increase in the line current for Pot Line 5 to 360 kA. Ranked as one of the largest aluminium smelters in the world, Alba said the increase in line...
It is hoped manufacturing firms across the country can learn from the recent closure of the Kurri Kurri aluminium smelter. The Hydro plant closed down a few months ago, and out of nearly 330 workers more than 210 have either found full-time employment elsewhere, started studying or retired. A...
Aluminium Bahrain, also known as Alba, said on Thursday that it has entered into term loan agreements to refinance a $169m bond which is due to expire in March Arabianbusiness. The term loans include a bilateral five-year loan of $85m with Gulf International Bank and a syndicated three-year loan of...
Resource giants Rio Tinto and Alcoa have won a two-year extension on their plans to develop a massive bauxite deposit and alumina smelter in the Kimberley, despite Premier Colin Barnett casting doubts on the venture. Earlier this month Mr Barnett suggested the remote, costly, project was unlikely...
With the commencement of Mahan smelter and Utkal alumina refinery in nearly three months' time, worse days for Hindalco seem to be over. The management of the company expects the Mahan smelter to start production by March, 2013. The commencement of production will help in generating cash inflows...
The bleak outlook for Century Aluminum's Ravenswood smelter started to shine a little in March when the West Virginia Legislature gave its blessings to a special electricity rate for high-intensity industrial consumers. The Jackson County plant closed in 2009, eliminating 650 jobs, and eventually...
