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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More than 1600 jobs will be on the line at BHP Billiton's Hillside and Bayside aluminium smelters in KwaZulu-Natal if Eskom gets its way in setting aside a controversial electricity supply deal. Eskom this week said it will refer the supply contract with BHP to energy regulator Nersa. The 25-year...
The Supreme Court Monday asked the Odisha government to give details of the entry tax levied by it on raw materials and machinery equipment imported from outside the country by Vedanta Aluminium limited for its aluminium refinery and smelting plant. A bench of Justice DK Jain and Justice Madan B....
New Zealand Aluminium Smelters, which operates the smelter at Bluff, has halted $70 million of planned capital spending, citing "extremely challenging" market conditions that have eroded margins. The change affects $15 million planned for the remainder of 2012 and 2013 and follows a review of all...
Following a Supreme Court judgment, which revoked the sale of the Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria (ALSCON) by the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) to Rusal, a Russian company, the Federal Government said it has commenced the process of handing over the company to BFI Group. In December 2006,...
State-owned Meridian may need to negotiate a short-term discount on perhaps half the electricity it sells to the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter at Bluff if the plant is to remain open, a source says. The smelter, majority owned by Australian miner Rio Tinto, and Meridian, which owns the Manapouri...
THE TIWAI Pt aluminium smelter has no future. We can deal with its demise in an orderly and economically positive way over the next few years; or chaotically and damagingly later. It shares its fate with scores of other old smelters around the world. They were built 30-40 years ago to exploit very...
ABC reported that 4 decades of aluminium production officially ends at the Kurri Kurri smelter when the last aluminium billets are cast. The smelter has been gradually winding-down since Norsk Hydro announced the closure around 6 months ago with the loss of around 450 jobs. By the end of the year...
Global mining giant Rio Tinto said Tuesday production of several metals including iron ore and copper increased in the third quarter, but aluminum output was down 10 per cent from a year ago as it continued to ramp up following the end of a lengthy labour dispute in Quebec. Rio Tinto Alcan's share...
Industrial power consumers in West Virginia appear to be happy with the state Public Service Commission's decision to grant Century Aluminium a special power rate reflecting shifts in aluminium prices. The power deal means that Century can re-open its closed Ravenswood aluminium smelter, which...
China’s imports of alumina climbed in September to the highest in almost three years, to meet the country’s expanding aluminium smelting capacity. Inbound shipments of alumina stood at 480,000 tonnes last month, the highest monthly volume since January 2010, according to preliminary customs data...
Qatar Aluminium (Qatalum) has taken part in the world's leading international trade fair, Aluminium 2012, which was held in Messe Dusseldorf, Germany, from the 9th to the 11th of October. This year, roughly 25,000 visitors from 100 countries attended, to see 950 visitors across 75,000 sq metres of...
A day after shutting down its bauxite refining unit at Lanjigarh temporarily citing unavailability of bauxite ore, Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), has said it can hardly run its smelter facility at Jharsuguda for a month in the absence of enough alumina to run the plant. “Amid raw material supply...
Reuters reported that China's aluminium smelters are expected to step up imports of spot alumina next year to skirt more expensive term deals. Industry sources said in a move that could boost spot prices of the raw material in Asia. Chinese smelters have received term alumina offers for 2013 at...
BR reported that Tajikistan's state owned aluminium smelter raised production by 0.2% YoY in the first 9 months of 2012. A source close to the management said that Tajikistan Aluminium Company produced 210,672 tonnes in the January to September period. TALCO has been ramping up production this year...
Vedanta Resources updates about its alumina and aluminium production. Alumina production at the Lanjigarh refinery was 205,000 tonnes in Q2 and 423,000 tonnes in H1, 10% and 6% lower than the corresponding prior periods due to lower supply of third party bauxite. With reduced availability of third...
Meridian Energy had contingency plans to sell its Manapouri power station electricity if the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter closed, Meridian chief executive Mark Binns said yesterday. Negotiations between the smelter and the state-owned enterprise over the future of its electricity contract...
As a concerned corporate citizen, Dubai Aluminium (DUBAL), the state-owned enterprise that owns and operates the world’s largest primary aluminium smelter using pre-bake anode technology, invests continually in initiatives to educate employees and empower them to take care of their occupational...
Century Aluminum has rejected a proposal to help restart its West Virginia smelter after the electricity rate offer from the state fell short of its needs, SeekingAlpha reported. CENX shares are down 2.7% to $7.14 in afternoon trade, and are moving within a 52-week range of $5.52 - $12.30. The...
