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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Century Aluminum will not restart its Ravenswood plant if the state Public Service Commission adopts rate plans drawn up by the Consumer Advocate Division or Appalachian Power attorneys, the company said Tuesday. The first round of final briefs in Century's power rate case before the PSC was filed...
The Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OPSCB) has asked aluminium maker Hindalco Industries Ltd to shut down the captive power plant of smelter plant near Hirakud in western Odisha following breach in its ash pond causing severe crop damage in the nearby areas. The pollution watchdog ordered for...
The future of the Tiwai Point smelter is being questioned as falling global aluminium prices and the high New Zealand dollar eat into profits. New Zealand Aluminium Smelters says 100 jobs will be cut in the coming few years and renegotiating the company's electricity deal with Meridian Energy is...
RUSAL, Russian Aluminum giant and operator of the Aluminum Smelter Company of Nigeria (ALSCON) stands the risk of incurring a financial loss of about $500m if a recent Supreme Court judgement declaring Bancorp Financial Group BFI as preferred bidder for ALSCON, Ikot Abasi Akwa Ibom State is...
Century Aluminum has issued a 12-month notice to terminate its power contract with Big Rivers Electric Corporation for its Hawesville, Ky., smelter, citing unsustainably high power prices. Chief Executive Michael Bless noted the smelter "is competitive on the global market in every category other...
National Aluminium Company Ltd has cancelled the coal linkage plan for its captive power plant in Indonesia. The unit was to power the proposed $4-billion, half a million tonne per annum aluminium smelter in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province. Nalco recently communicated the decision to Middle...
Century Aluminum Company, located in the small town of Ravenswood, West Virginia, has announced it will decide in September whether to reopen its smelting plant, restoring health insurance benefits to retirees. Retirees, including men and women in their 60s, 70s, even 80s, began occupying a median...
National Aluminium Company (Nalco) has decided to put its proposed smelter-cum-thermal power project in Indonesia on hold. The country's largest state owned aluminium company has been pursuing plans to invest nearly Rs 16,000 crore set up a aluminium smelter in Indonesia. The company had planns to...
Century Aluminum officials want Big Rivers Electric Corporation to file new rates with the Kentucky Public Service Commission that would provide them with a lower rate, and they want Big Rivers to use $150 million in reserve funds to offset the impact the cost-shifting would have on the utility's...
Aluminium company Alcoa said on Wednesday it will sell land and other assets at its Rockdale, Texas plant to the Lower Colorado River Authority, a nonprofit public utility and conservation body. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Alcoa said it will retain ownership of its smelter and...
Emirates Aluminium Co., the company building the world’s biggest aluminum smelter in the United Arab Emirates, is seeking to raise $4 billion from loans and bonds to finance expansion, a banker familiar with the plan said. The Abu Dhabi-based company also known as Emal aims to raise $500 million in...
The federal opposition says the carbon tax is partly responsible for 90 job losses at Australia's largest aluminium smelter in Queensland. Opposition industry spokeswoman Sophie Mirabella says an organisation restructure, as well as a blow-out in operating costs, taxes and over-regulation has hit...
Contact Energy is expected to report a pickup in underlying earnings, but faces headwinds from state asset sales and Meridian's contract negotiations with the Tiwai aluminium smelter. New Zealand's largest private sector electricity company, Contact is due to report results for the year to June 30...
State-owned Meridian Energy won't "take one for the team" and accept non-commercial terms for electricity to keep the Rio Tinto-controlled Tiwai Point aluminium smelter open, says chief executive Mark Binns. He described as "a concern" the London-listed multinational metals firm's desire to...
Rio Tinto's attempt to renegotiate New Zealand's largest electricity contract, for its aluminium smelter at Bluff, comes as the company's chief executive warns of "difficult decisions" ahead if its older smelters cannot be made commercially viable. Rio, the world's third-largest mining company,...
The owners of the aluminium smelter at Bluff want to change their contract with state-owned electricity provider Meridian Energy. Meridian Energy today said it had been approached by Pacific Aluminium, a business unit of Rio Tinto Ltd, to discuss potential changes to the electricity contract with...
Rio Tinto PLC (RIO) continues to look at ways to exit some of its aluminum assets and its diamonds business and has had interest from potential buyers in individual operations as well as collectively, the mining giant's chief financial officer said Wednesday. Guy Elliott during a conference call...
Abu Dhabi-based Emirates Aluminium (Emal) recently erected the first structural steel for its Phase II expansion, bring it a step closer to becoming one of the world’s largest single-site aluminium smelters. Once completed in 2014, the potline at the Al Taweelah site will be the longest in the...
