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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The Australian Aluminium Council has warned that the Kurri smelter in the NSW Hunter Valley will not be the only one at risk, if the industry is forced to absorb more electricity costs. It has told a Senate Inquiry into electricity costs that aluminium smelting already carries a disproportionate...
Tata group Chairman Ratan Tata has said JLR is examining the possibility of setting up an assembly plant in Saudi Arabia to benefit from the upcoming multi-billion integrated aluminium complex in the country, according to a media report. With JLR going for more aluminium content in its products,...
Chinese firms plan to invest $8.6 billion on aluminum and iron smelter projects in Indonesia, the industry minister said on Thursday, in a bid to guarantee supplies of metals under threat from a ban on exports of mineral ores from 2014. Indonesia, a major supplier of metal ores to top consumer...
The mines ministry on Thursday has given Anshuman Das, commercial director of Nalco, additional charge as chairman and managing director of the state-run company. After taking charge of Nalco, Das said his job will be to prioritize projects. "We will take up a proposed Rs 16,000 crore aluminium...
All eyes are now on the West Virginia Public Service Commission to make a decision in the electricity rate case for Century Aluminum. Thousands of pages of testimony, letters of protest and most recently reply briefs from the five parties to the case have been filed since May. The Ravenswood...
Meridian Energy is reviewing what it would do with massive amounts of electricity if Southland's aluminium smelter closes. New Zealand Aluminium Smelters (NZAS), which runs the operation at Tiwai Point, near Invercargill, is now in discussions with the state- owned power company over what Meridian...
The cash-strapped New Zealand Aluminium Smelters wants to pull its $200,000 a year sponsorship money out of the Kakapo Recovery Programme, putting the future of the endangered parrot in doubt. Tiwai Point smelter boss Ryan Cavanagh said it had stated its intention to exit the kakapo recovery...
While major aluminum producers are cutting back on production to rescue slumping prices at a time of weak demand, China is pushing ahead with a major new development to produce more of the light metal in the country's western regions. Xinjiang Qiya Aluminum & Power Ltd., a subsidiary of a mid-sized...
The mines ministry on Thursday has given Anshuman Das, commercial director of Nalco, additional charge as chairman and managing director of the state-run company. After taking charge of Nalco, Das said his job will be to prioritse projects. "We will take up a proposed Rs 16,000 crore aluminium...
In a brief filed Tuesday, Century Aluminum officials said its shuttered aluminum smelter in Ravenswood "simply will not restart or operate" under a plan proposed by the Public Service Commission's Consumer Advocate Division. But if the PSC were to accept Century's special electric rate proposal,...
United Company Rusal Plc announces that its Board of Directors approved a long term program of gradual reduction of primary aluminium production at a number of less efficient aluminium smelters currently owned and operated by the Company. In order to maintain a competitive position in the global...
AmResearch Sdn Bhd has maintained its 'Buy' call on Press Metal Bhd with a lowered fair value of RM2.42, to account for a softer first half of 2012 for the global aluminium market as macro cycles remained fluid. Against this backdrop, the research house said it expected Press Metal's upcoming...
Century Aluminum Co. has notified its power provider that it plans to cease all aluminum production at its Hawesville, Ky., smelter, although a spokeswoman for the company told AMM a shutdown may still be avoided given the right circumstances. In documents filed with Big Rivers Electric Corp. on...
Continued from Part One. (http://www.alcircle.com/NewsDetails.aspx?center=NC&recId=12612) President of Vedanta Aluminum Ltd, India’s numero uno aluminum producer, Mukesh Kumar, told Reuters that due to the closure of some of the aluminum smelters in the US, the demand had improved marginally....
The Government will delay the partial sale of Mighty River Power until early next year while it deals with headaches including Rio Tinto's threat to close the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter and Maori claims over water, sharemarket sources say. The timetable for the Government's partial asset sales...
Hindalco Industries Ltd. (HNDL), India’s second-largest aluminum maker by output, plans to sign an agreement to borrow 100 billion rupees ($1.8 billion) as early as next month, according to two people familiar with the matter. The interest rate for the 12 1/2-year term facility, which will finance...
Reuters reported that Tajikistan's state owned aluminium smelter, the largest in former Soviet Central Asia, expects to restore production growth this month after an extensive plant revamp. Tajikistan Aluminium Company produced 2.2% less aluminium in the first 7 months of the year than in the same...
Hertwich Engineering of Austria has commissioned two integrated homogenizing and sawing lines at Emirates Aluminium in Al Taweelah, Abu Dhabi where the world’s largest aluminum smelter is currently being built. Installed in total were two ultrasonic testing stations, two continuous homogenizing...
