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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Rio Tinto Alcan has not scheduled any new talks to end a six-month lockout of unionized workers at its Alma aluminum smelter in northern Quebec that has cut output at the plant by two-thirds, a spokesman told Reuters in an email on Tuesday. "No face-to-face meetings are scheduled," Rio Tinto Alcan...
Rio Tinto Alcan has selected Konecranes to provide two 225-ton SMARTON(R) powerhouse cranes with tandem lift capability for its aluminium smelter in northern British Columbia. The turnkey contract also includes installation, remote diagnostics and an operator training package from The Konecranes...
Gujarat government, last week, Okayed the Rs 12,000-crore investment plan by National Aluminium Company in Gujarat to set up an alumina and smelter plant. The approval has cleared the way for Nalco and state-owned Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation to set up a joint venture, a senior official...
This week spells the end for Rio Tinto Alcan’s Lynemouth smelter as the main part of the plant closes its doors for the final time today. About 290 workers were due to finish their last shifts this week, and many others have already left to take up other jobs or to use up holidays owed to them. The...
Alcoa and Santee Cooper have agreed to postpone the date by which the aluminum manufacturer must tell the utility whether its Berkeley County plant will continue operating past 2015. The deadline had been June 30, but late Wednesday, the state-owned utility and its biggest industrial customer...
Century Aluminum retirees are encouraging the state Public Service Commission to approve a special power rate structure that might help the company reopen its Ravenswood plant. Karen Gorrell, spokeswoman for the retirees, submitted a formal letter to the PSC Thursday as part of Century's ongoing...
A low aluminium price, high raw material and power cost are compelling a number of smelters in China cut their production capacity. Linfeng Aluminium-Power Co in Henan Province has idled 100kt/y of potroom capacity as the company has been running at a loss since the beginning of the year. The idled...
According to a recent study released by the Doha-based Gulf Organization for Industrial Consulting (GOIC), the estimated investments of five major aluminum smelters in the Gulf region, mainly in Qatar, Bahrain, Sultanate of Oman and UAE have reached $22 billion dollars. The study published in a...
Bechtel and the Ma'aden Aluminium Company have celebrated a major safe working achievement at the Ras Al Khair Aluminium Smelter project in Saudi Arabia: 25 million job hours without a lost work day injury. Ras Al Khair will be the world's largest aluminium smelter when completed in 2013. The Ras...
The Australian Workers Union says it is confident there will be no problems with entitlements for the hundreds of workers set to lose their jobs at a Hunter aluminium smelter. The union will today meet with senior executives from Norsk Hyrdo after the company last week announced it is closing its...
The owners of the world's largest aluminium smelter, which is being built in Abu Dhabi, are studying the addition of an alumina refinery to the site that could transform the emirate into a global hub for aluminium production. Mubadala Development, a strategic investment company owned by the Abu...
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba), ranked as one of the largest aluminium smelters in the world, has installed new ergonomically designed seating arrangements in cranes at its Carbon Department. The new Ergo Seats in Kiln 3 FTA-1 cranes will be utilised by crane operators while loading green anodes,...
Lower prices for aluminum have pushed a number of aluminum plants “under water,” unable to make a profit. That’s why modernizing Rio Tinto Alcan’s smelter in Kitimat is crucial. When upgrades costing $3.3 billion US are finished on the almost 60-year-old Kitimat facility it will be one of the...
Almost 350 workers at the Kurri?Kurri aluminium smelter in NSW have become pawns in the shouting that masquerades as public policy debate in Australia in 2012. The facts of the smelter’s closure and the cost pressures that this and other Australian businesses face are reasonably clear....
There are signs of increasing momentum in Chinese aluminum-smelter cutbacks, said Barclays Capital in a commodities research note. Some 500,000 to 700,000 metric tons of capacity per year has reportedly been shuttered in the top-producing province of Henan. “More than half of smelters in Henan...
Insolvent German aluminium plant Voerde Aluminium has agreed a deal to maintain power supplies and is continuing production as the search goes on for a buyer, its provisional administrator said on Friday. The Voerde smelter, which produces 115,000 tonnes of aluminium annually, declared insolvency...
A plant that recycles waste product from the Kurri Kurri Aluminium smelter is one of many downstream industries that will be affected by its closure. While 344 full-time jobs will be lost at the smelter, it is believed hundreds of other indirect jobs will also go. Weston Aluminium has operated...
Trading houses like Trafigura and rival Vitol, traditionally the middle men on global sales, are looking to acquire physical assets like aluminum smelters as trading profits shrink and stricter derivatives regulations loom. Any future acquisitions would also cement Trafigura's position in the 40...
