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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Public sector company National Aluminium Company Ltd (Nalco) reported a lower net profit last year mainly due to the problems it faced in coal supplies. After an analysts conference call, the predominant view of many analysts is that the bearish trend would continue into the current year, too. For...
The Bonneville Power Administration has given the Alcoa Intalco Works aluminum smelter west of Ferndale a 35-day extension on its electricity supply contract, just three days before its existing contract was scheduled to expire. BPA spokesman Mike Hansen said the extension, announced Wednesday, May...
Emirates Aluminium (EMAL) has been awarded the prestigious GCC Industrial Project of the Year at the MEED Quality Awards for Projects 2012. The award is in recognition of the successful completion of Phase I of the Al Taweelah-based smelter, which was delivered ahead of schedule and to budget. The...
MORE than 300 jobs are set to be lost as a Norwegian company plans to shut its aluminium smelter in the NSW Hunter Valley. Norsk Hydro will shut down its Kurri Kurri plant, as low metals prices and the strong Australian dollar impact its profitability, the company said today. The smelter employs...
Adverse market conditions confronting Alcoa's ageing Point Henry plant have not improved since the company announced a review of its Geelong smelter three months ago, with any relief from the falling dollar offset by weakening aluminium prices. Shortly after the review was announced in February,...
Century Aluminum's lawyers say that if the company's Ravenswood smelter reopened with special electric rates, the worst-case scenario would be ongoing low aluminum prices. "Let's say aluminum prices never go above $1,800 a ton for 20 years," said Tom Heywood of the law firm Bowles Rice McDavid...
Bosnia's sole aluminium smelter Aluminij Mostar will cut jobs and kick-start additional cost savings after reporting a first-quarter loss of 20 million Bosnian marka ($13 million), double what it had expected for the whole year. The country's top exporter, located in the southern town of Mostar,...
Restarting the company's plant in Ravenswood remains a priority, according to a company official. The company is committed to working with Appalachian Power Co. and state regulators to determine an electricity rate for the plant that will allow it to resume operations, said Lindsey Berryhill. The...
Alcoa Iceland is looking into the possibility of enlarging the Alcoa Fjaroaal aluminium smelter in Reyoarfjorour, east Iceland, inviting representatives of pension funds to see whether they might help fund the project, Iceland Review reported. Alcoa is preparing to increase electricity capacity in...
Alcoa is to invest $75 million in Québec in 2012. Alcoa Canada Global Primary Products (GPP Canada) will spend roughly $75M in the communities of Bécancour, Deschambault and Baie-Comeau, the three locations where it operates smelters. GPP Canada plans to allocate about $62M designed to maintain its...
Low natural gas prices are unlikely to relieve the pressure on the aluminum smelting sector, which is facing major structural changes as relatively low prices and rising operating costs are forcing the most uneconomic producers to shut down, thus eliminating a large amount of spare market capacity,...
The Saudi Arabian Ma'aden Aluminium Company has awarded Bechtel the prefeasibility study contract for its proposed copper and zinc smelter projects on the Saudi Arabian Gulf Coast. The multibillion-dollar projects are set to include the construction of two world-class smelters with an output of...
Aditya Aluminium can anticipate some good news regarding theirpending aluminium smelter unit at Jharsuguda in Odisha as HLCA plans to clear projects across metal and power sector. The High Level Clearance Authority (HLCA), the apex body to clear projects across sectors involving investment beyond...
The Odisha government has urged A V Birla controlled Hindalco Industries to promote downstream industries in aluminium sector for employment generation in the state instead of confining itself to aluminium making. “We have asked Hindalco Industries to explore opportunities for promoting downstream...
MANAMA: Alba's position as the first aluminium smelter in the Middle East that pioneered the growth of the industry in the region in 1971 provided the main focus of Alba's newly-launched corporate video. The video also turns the spotlight on Alba's award-winning safety and environmental...
Mr Dinsha J Patel minister of mines (Independent Charge) of India informed that major projects proposed to be undertaken in the 12th Five Year Plan by NALCO are 1. Alumina refinery in Andhra Pradesh 2. Aluminium smelter and power plant at Sundargarh, Odisha 3. Alumina refinery in Gujarat 4. Wind...
Tajikistan's state-owned aluminium smelter, the largest in former Soviet Central Asia, hopes a resumption of gas supplies from Uzbekistan will allow it to meet its 2012 output target despite a near-12 percent decline in the first four months. Tajikistan Aluminium Company, or TALCO, produced 97,863...
Emirates Aluminium Co., an Abu Dhabi- based smelter, will approach banks in June to finance its expansion, MEED reported, citing people familiar with the project. Negotiations with export credit agencies from Korea, the U.S., France and Germany will conclude soon, paving the way for the company to...
