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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Dubai Aluminium (DUBAL) and Emirates Aluminium (EMAL) will jointly participate at the 27th International Aluminium Conference in Moscow to promote UAE’s primary aluminium sector role within the global industry. The conference is organised and hosted by Metal Bulletin from 12 to 14 of the current...
A man who held repeated negotiations with the owners of Southland's aluminium smelter thinks an agreement to keep it open is likely. But Sir William Birch says any significant cut in the price it pays for its electricity will be short term. Sir William held multiple roles in government and...
Workers at the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter say morale is at an all-time low and many fear for their jobs. Wednesday's announcement that New Zealand Aluminium Smelters (NZAS) would shed 65 jobs in the next two months - instead of in five years as previously planned - has shocked many staff. Staff...
Constellium, which owns the aluminum rolling mill at Ravenswood, says it has lost money in 11 of the last 13 years. Its contract with Steelworkers Local 5668 has expired. About 570 members of the local have applied for unemployment benefits. Century Aluminum idled the adjacent aluminum smelter in...
Russian firms plan to invest billions of dollars in refineries, smelters and infrastructure, including railways and power plants, in Indonesia within the next few years, an ambassador says. Russian Ambassador to Indonesia Alexander A. Ivanov said on Wednesday that the investments would come from,...
Emirates Aluminium (Emal) will have to pay much higher rates to borrow money from banks to help finance a $4bn smelter expansion due to the impact of the euro zone crisis on infrastructure lending in the Middle East. Emal, a joint venture between Abu Dhabi's Mubadala and Dubai Aluminium, aims to...
Aluminum production at the Bogoslovsk Aluminum Smelter (BAZ) in the Sverdlovsk region cannot possibly be brought to the break-even point just by modernizing it, without lowering the tariff for electricity, Russian aluminum company UC Rusal, which owns the smelter, said in a statement. "BAZ's...
The New Zealand government remains confident that New Zealand Aluminium Smelters and energy provider Meridian Energy Ltd. will reach an agreement on a power-supply agreement, but failure to do so wouldn't necessarily delay a partial privatization of Mighty River Power Ltd., Minister of Economic...
New Zealand Aluminium Smelters has accelerated plans to axe 100 jobs from the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter as depressed global metal prices continue to challenge the sector worldwide. Alan Clarence from the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union (EPMU) said the plan will devastate the...
Tianshan Aluminium Co plans to increase capacity at its Shihezi, Xinjiang smelter to 1.6Mt/yr by 2015. Tianshan is also planning to construct an aluminium processing plant with a 1Mt/yr capacity alongside a captive power plant equipped with 10 350mW generators. The Shihezi smelter was established...
The Sverdlovsk Regional Prosecutor's Office has issued a warning to Oleg Deripaska, the tycoon that owns Russian aluminum giant RUSAL, over the situation developing at the Bogoslovsk Aluminum Smelter in the Urals, where the company is considering winding up its electrolytic production, the office...
Russian aluminum company Rusal has said it earmarked more than 200 million rubles ($6 milllion) to modernize an aluminum smelter in the Urals in the next two years, following demonstrations over the weekend about the future of the facility. The firm also said it had made "a principle decision" not...
Emirates Aluminium has completed two full years representing over 10 million work-hours, with zero Lost Time Incidents (LTI). The outstanding workplace achievement at the Al Taweelah aluminium smelter highlights the success of EMAL’s culture of ‘Safety First, Last, and Always’, which has been a...
Even when the protest against Vedanta over mining in Niyamgiri was at its peak, Hindalco Industries quietly carried on with its work in Mali Parbat, just miles away from the Vedanta project. But not anymore! With locals protesting against Hindalco’s move to mine Mali Parbat, the contractor who was...
Three companies have expressed interest in the Italian smelter of U.S. aluminium group Alcoa , an Italian junior minister said on Thursday as the Italian government looks around for a buyer for the troubled plant. "At the moment there are three manifestations of interest from (Switzerland's)...
The troubled Italian smelter of aluminium group Alcoa will be able to continue using special contracts allowing it to buy electricity at lower prices until 2015 following a decision on Wednesday by the European Commission. The Commission ruled the special power contracts on the islands of Sardinia...
A new study commissioned by the Kentucky General Assembly paints a gloomy picture for the continued survival of two Western Kentucky aluminum smelters — Rio Tinto-Alcan at Sebree and Century Aluminum at Hawesville. The study also casts doubt on the advisability of the state using scarce economic...
Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA) and Emirates Aluminium (Emal) has signed a memorandum of cooperation under which Abu Dhabi Transmission '&' Despatch Company (TRANSCO), an affiliate of ADWEA, will supply electrical loads to feed Phase II of Emal's smelter development. The agreement...
