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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An aluminum company warned Monday that its nearly 800-employee Hawesville smelter in western Kentucky is being put at risk as a result of stalled negotiations to achieve concessions in its power costs to help offset sluggish global aluminum prices. Century Aluminum executives updated plant...
Hydro Aluminium is ramping-up efforts to find jobs for employees at its Kurri Kurri aluminium smelter with 69 companies holding an employment expo on the site tomorrow. The smelter will close in the coming months putting about 350 workers out of a job. Hydro's Human Resources spokesman Trevor Hall...
India's National Aluminium Co (Nalco) is one of two companies planning to develop projects worth US$4.76M in Indonesia's second largest province of Kalimantan in Eastern Borneo. The projects in question embrace a railway system, a coal terminal, a steam power plant and and aluminium smelter. Nalco...
Cape Town-based Air Compressor Engineering (ACE) was awarded a compressed-air supply contract in March by diversified resources group BHP Billiton for its Mozal aluminium smelter, in Mozambique. As an official representative of Italy-based air compressor manufacturer Mattei, it supplies...
Russia’s Foreign Ministry warned Nigeria on Thursday, of potential damage to bilateral relations and urged action against a court decision that stripped the world’s largest aluminium producer, Russia’s Rusal, of its core African asset. Nigeria’s supreme court ordered last week that Rusal, which...
New Zealand's biggest power user, the Aluminium smelter at Bluff has cut production by 15% as world Aluminium prices slump and the company faces pressure from a high New Zealand dollar. International commodity prices across the board have been hit hard by the ongoing European sovereign debt crisis....
Qatalum's state-of-the-art environment-friendly smelting technologies will attract the attention of manufacturers and delegates attending 16th Arab International Aluminium Conference (ARABAL 2012) to be hosted by Qatar, the smelter has said. ARABAL 2012 will be held at the Grand Hyatt here in Doha...
The energy conservation efforts at Dubai Aluminium ("DUBAL") - the wholly state-owned corporation that operates a one million metric tonne per annum primary aluminium smelter, the world's largest using pre-bake anode technology - continue to achieve good results. A member of the Dubai Supreme...
United Co. Rusal (486), the largest maker of aluminum, plans to halt a Siberian smelting line built during World War II that’s too old to modernize to increase efficiency. “The company is studying a plan and the timelines to close the first production site at the smelter,” Rusal said today by...
Eight years after the Federal Government refused to sell the Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria to BFI Group Corporation, the Supreme Court has ordered the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) to execute the share purchase agreement with the company to enable the company pay the agreed ten per cent...
Emirates Aluminium Co., an Abu Dhabi- based smelter, is in talks with Export-Import Bank of Korea for a loan of as much as $300 million to help finance its expansion, according to two people familiar with the matter. The lender, known as Kexim, supports projects in which Korean companies are...
Century Aluminum's president and CEO said Monday that he and his company remain dedicated to reopening the company's Ravenswood smelting plant by the end of the year or early next year. "We are trying to get this plant reopened. We have made good progress over the last nine to 12 months," Michael...
The High Court of Nigeria invalidated a deal last Friday in which Russia's RUSAL, the world's largest aluminum producer, bought a local aluminum enterprise five years ago, Nigeria's The Nation Newspaper reported on Monday. RUSAL bought 77.5 percent of Alscon (Aluminum Smelter Company of Nigeria) in...
Rio Tinto's aluminium smelter at Bluff turned in an operating loss before revaluations of financial instruments of $19.56 million for the year to December 31, close to the previous year's losses despite a 7.2 per cent lift in total revenues to $704.33 million. That increase wasn't enough to offset...
Modernisation of Rio Tinto Alcan’s Kitimat aluminium smelter in British Columbia, Canada, is scheduled for completion in the third quarter of 2014. The slow-moving US$3Bn project, which was started in 2011, received a capital injection of US$2.7Bn last Christmas. Work so far has included the...
Aluminium Bahrain's output edged up 1.7 percent in the first half of 2012 but sales were almost flat as weak economic growth in Europe dampened demand in the first quarter, Alba said on Sunday. Production at one of the world's largest aluminium smelters was 443,533 tonnes in the first half of the...
Hindalco Industries, part of the Aditya Birla Group, is in the process of seeking funding for its biggest greenfield aluminium project in the east coast state of Odisha in India. The company had planned to build a 0.36Mt aluminium smelter alongside a 1Mt alumina refinery, but is now planning a...
China's provincial governments are propping a quarter of domestic aluminium production through power subsidies despite soft global demand, consultancy AZ China said on Friday. "These subsidies play a huge part in turning loss-making operations into profitable centres...The number of plants under...
