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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After many months of negotiations, Alcoa has announced a new 10-year electric power supply deal with the Bonneville Power Administration that should help maintain 625 jobs at the Alcoa Intalco Works smelter west of Ferndale. Before the new power deal is final, it must undergo a public comment...
Century Aluminum on Tuesday rejected a proposal meant to aid the restart of its West Virginia smelter. The California-based metals producer announced that the electricity rate offer from the state Public Service Commission falls short. The utility regulator proposed allowing a special electricity...
Emirates Aluminium, a joint venture of Abu Dhabi's Mubadala MUDEV.UL and Dubai Aluminium, has mandated three banks for a bond issue of up to $1 billion, two banking sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. In a separate statement on Tuesday, an Emal spokesman denied the company had named...
A study by Wisconsin, USA-based Christensen Associates Energy Consulting questions the sense behind possible power concessions from Big Rivers Electric Corporation for Rio Tinto Alcan's and Century's Sebree and Hawesville aluminium smelters in the USA. According to the study, "A reasonable person...
On 25 September, Emirates Aluminium (EMAL) signed a contract for the provision of aluminium fluoride (AlF3) with the Italian-based company Fluorsid. The contract extends the existing relationship between the two companies and ensures the future supply of a crucial element in the aluminium making...
Tajikistan's state-owned aluminium smelter, the largest in Central Asia, raised production by 0.2 percent year-on-year in the first nine months of 2012, a source close to the management said on Tuesday. Tajikistan Aluminium Company, or TALCO, produced 210,672 tonnes in the January-September period,...
The Sardinia region's government will discuss ways with energy group Enel to reduce the price of power for Alcoa's Italian plant, the Sardinia region president Ugo Cappellacci said on Tuesday. A discounted energy price for Alcoa could help entice a buyer for the smelter, which U.S. aluminum maker...
Bilaspur High Court has dismissed a petition filed against the 1,200 MW power plant of the Bharat Aluminium Co Ltd (Balco) here. Amarnath Agarwal, a resident of Kosabadi in Korba town, had filed a petition against the company's 1,200 MW plant, Balco spokesperson Abhishek Sinha told reporters. In...
The Qatalum smelter in Qatar is the largest, highest output aluminium smelter in the world. With a mind-boggling 704 individual smelting pots, it produces upwards of 585,000t of aluminium each year. That’s a lot of Coke cans. The Qatalum smelter was built in 2009 by the ABB company out of Auburn...
Timely project execution will be the key to growth for Hindalco Industries, the Aditya Birla Group flagship, as the company lines up an array of projects to be commissioned up to 2015. Mahan smelter, Aditya Aluminium along with a power plant, Aditya Alumina and Jharkhand Aluminium are among the...
Aluminium Bahrain, which owns the world's fourth-largest aluminium smelter, has named Tim Murray as its chief executive officer, the company said in a statement on Thursday. Murray, who previously served as Alba's chief finance and supply officer, will succeed Laurent Schmitt from Oct. 1, the...
Danish engineering group FLSmidth & Co A/S on Thursday said it had won a contract in Venezuela worth $48 million for engineering, supply and installation of a feeding system for an aluminum smelter. The order had been placed by Venezuelan state-owned aluminum company CVG ALCASA, FLSmidth said in a...
Italy said on Thursday it could not accept requests to provide deeply discounted energy prices to Swiss commodities trader Glencore if it were to agree to purchase the Italian smelter being closed by U.S. aluminium maker Alcoa. In a statement, the Italian Industry Ministry said Glencore's request...
Creditors of insolvent German aluminium plant Voerde Aluminium have voted for it to continue production at least until the end of this year while the search for a buyer continues, Voerde's administrator said on Thursday. The Voerde smelter, which produces 115,000 tonnes of aluminium annually,...
Supporters of Ormet Corp. have delivered a 156-page petition with 2,566 signatures to Gov. John Kasich’s office, asking him to intervene to help the aluminum smelter avoid layoffs tied to a recent electricity-rate increase. Ormet, located near Hannibal, has warned that most of its roughly 1,000...
Dubai Aluminium DUBAL the wholly state-owned corporation that operates a one million metric tonne per annum primary aluminium smelter, one of the world's largest single-site smelters and the largest using pre-bake anode technology is proud to announce that it is a lead sponsor of the World Energy...
A western Kentucky aluminum smelter involved in a rate dispute with Big Rivers Electric Corp. says it plans to purchase power on the open market. State Rep. Tommy Thompson told the Messenger-Inquirer on Friday that Century Aluminum Co., which employs more than 700 workers in the region, had sent...
Economic confidence in Southland has plummeted since June with the threat of job losses at the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter presumed to be behind the change. The Westpac McDermott Miller regional economic confidence survey for the September quarter shows confidence in Southland has nose-dived from...
