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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Workers at Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd. (STLT)’s aluminum unit plan to go on an indefinite strike this month, demanding better conditions at its smelter in the state of Chhattisgarh, a trade union leader said. “The workers are supporting a plan to stop work later this month if the authorities...
A Tomago business is urging the State Government to ensure a local access road is upgraded as part of the approval process for a $30 million aluminium plant. Bahrain-based Midal Cables International wants to build the manufacturing plant at Tomago using molten metal from the nearby aluminium...
A union representing 600 workers at the troubled Point Henry Alcoa aluminium smelter is optimistic the plant can be saved after meeting with US executives reviewing its future. Australian Workers Union Victorian secretary Cesar Melhem and a delegate from the plant, near Geelong, met executives at...
Ahmedabad, May 7 (PTI) Gujarat government is likely to take a final decision on setting up of an alumina plant and aluminium smelter in joint venture with Navratna PSU Nalco soon, a top official said. State-run Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation's (GMDC) board had recently discussed the JV...
German aluminium smelter Voerde Aluminium launched insolvency proceedings on Friday but said the business would continue to operate and it would seek to restructure. The company, which produces around 115,000 tonnes of aluminium annually and has 410 employees, said it had hit liquidity problems...
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) achieved a net income of $57 million for the first quarter this year, the company announced today. The earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) for the quarter were $115 million, it said. The results were impacted by lower aluminium prices...
Whilst it is early days in the costing of our government’s infrastructure investment programme, ballpark figures suggest R800bn will be spent over the next 20 years. The numbers are still to be tallied, but it appears that the proposed nuclear power stations will be the biggest beneficiaries of...
The fate of the Rs 1,000-crore investment made by Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) in setting up a power plant in Odisha is hanging in balance. A high-level inter-ministerial committee that recommends coal allocation for power units has refused to take up the vexed issue of linkage for VAL’s plant in...
The future for Hydro’s Kurri Kurri smelter remains shaky, with the multi-national posting another dismal quarterly financial report. “We will continue our restructuring efforts, reduce costs and take firm actions required to keep a steady course,” Hydro president and chief executive Svein Richard...
Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (Kizad) announced the signing of a Musataha agreement with Al Braik Investments (L.L.C), to establish a silicon metal smelter which will supply high grade silicon to aluminium smelters in the region, during the 17th World Aluminium Conference held at the Fairmont...
Bauxite miner and alumina and aluminium producer Alumina says the future of its loss-making aluminium smelter at Point Henry will depend upon its long-term prospects. Alcoa, which is the manager of Alumina and Alcoa's joint-venture company Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals (AWAC), is currently...
International aluminium players are casting a keen eye on the Gulf as cheap natural gas provides the same investment rationale that attracted major petrochemical names to the region. Governments have been promoting industrial development as a means to expand their economies and drive job creation,...
Region’s smelters set to more than double net exports as GCC and Russia become key deficit suppliers The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is set to become the world’s largest exporting region of primary aluminum by 2020, according to Dubai Aluminium Company (Dubal). The net export balance of major...
Minister of Mines (Independent Charge), Shri Dinsha J. Patel informed Rajya Sabha today in a written reply that National Aluminium Company Limited(NALCO’s) proposal to set up the Rs 16,500 crore aluminium smelter and captive power plant project has been approved by Indonesian Investment...
The spirit of innovation and continuous improvement at Dubai Aluminium (Dubal) — the world’s largest primary aluminum smelter using pre-bake anode technology — has again been recognized by an independent, peer-based jury: the company received two category awards in the 2012 Ideas.Arabia Idea of the...
The decline in aluminum production in the Venezuelan industries located in Guayana (southern Venezuela) has obliged authorities to "adjust" aluminum supply quotas sold to multinational companies. Venezuelan aluminum smelter CVG Alcasa's failure to deliver the product is long-standing and it is due...
Pin toe-in is an understood and accepted phenomenon in all pre-bake aluminium smelters and VHE has been working to solve the problem. Toe-in is caused by the difference in expansion rates of the steel yoke or spider and the carbon anode as they heat up in the reduction cell. The yoke expands more...
United Co. Rusal (486), the world’s largest aluminum producer, is still looking at the possibility of closing smelters as prices decline. “Decisions have not been made yet,” Vladislav Soloviev, Rusal’s first deputy chief executive officer, said today in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. “We’re...
