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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The government is encouraging the development of aluminum refinery plants in Indonesia’s two largest bauxite producing provinces; Riau Islands and West Kalimantan. The provinces have a total bauxite reserve of 3.47 billion tons, Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry’s data shows. As a...
Vedanta Resources announced that aluminum production for Q4 2012 was 4% higher at 177,000 tonnes in Q4 and 5% higher at 675,000 tonnes for the full year respectively as compared with the corresponding prior periods. The 500 kilo tonne per annum Jharsuguda I smelter produced 115,000 tonnes in Q4 up...
ALCOA left the future of 600 jobs at its Point Henry aluminium smelter in Geelong hanging despite reporting a surprise first-quarter profit in the face of depressed metal prices. Addressing analysts in the US for the group's March quarter profit report, Alcoa chairman and chief executive Klaus...
Aditya Aluminium Ltd, a unit of AV Birla group company Hindalco Industries, has lined up Rs 10,000-cr expansion plan to ramp up capacity of its aluminium smelter and captive power plant (CPP) proposed at Jharsuguda in western Odisha. The aluminium company intends to double smelter capacity from...
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL), a unit of Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Resources Plc, has sought the intervention of the Orissa government for securing long-term coal linkage for its captive power plant (CPP) at Jharsuguda. The aluminium major required the coal linkage for its unit-6 and unit-9 of 135 Mw...
Tajikistan's state-owned aluminium smelter, the largest in Central Asia, reduced output by 14.2 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2012 to 73,362 tonnes, a source close to the company's management said on Friday. Tajikistan Aluminium Company, known as TALCO, plans to produce 332,500...
Alu1 recently delivered a Power and Free scale to Rio Tinto Alcan’s site at Ísal, Iceland. The scale is used to track carbon consumption in aluminium smelters. This particular configuration of scale weighs the anode rod before and after the carbon is stripped off in the Butt Removal Press. The...
UK-based company to provide steel structure for Abu Dhabi smelter’s third potline UK-based William Hare Structural Engineers has won a contract to provide the steel structure for the expansion of Emirates Aluminium’s (Emal) smelter. The work forms part of Emal’s $4.5bn second-phase expansion...
Press Metal Bhd's (PMB) new aluminium smelting plant in Samalaju Industrial Park, Bintulu is the first factory to tap into electricity from the Bakun dam. Sarawak Energy Bhd (SEB) chief executive officer Torstein Dale Sjotveit said the 275kV transmission line linking SEB Samalaju's power station...
Bernama reported that the scrapping of the proposed MYR 7 billion aluminium smelting plant project in Similajau, near Bintulu will not affect the implementation of the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy. Mr Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud CM of Sarawak said that there were probably 2 other investors on...
Jiaozuo Wanfang Aluminum Manufacturing and the Aluminum Corporation of China (Chalco) are to spend RMB2.85bn ($452,5M) on a coal/electricity aluminium smelter in Xinjiang Province’s Shanshan County. The money will be used by Chalco subsidiary Xinjiang Aluminum & Power Corp, which was set up in the...
Aluminum should continue to outpace other base metals in 2012-13, despite softer demand for the past two quarters, says BNP Paribas. The metal will also be affected by probable slower Chinese growth in 2012-13, not least due to the depressed housing market, the research report says. “Nevertheless,...
VHE of Iceland has considerable experience in upgrading smelter installations to comply with the latest national and international safety standards. Many older aluminium smelters have little of no access control to prevent ingress to areas where dangerous machinery may be operating. Machines...
Chief Minister Taib Mahmud, whose family owns Cahya Mata Sarawak (CMS), is unperturbed by global mining giant Rio Tinto PLC’s RM7 billion ‘pullout’ because another investor, Press Metal Sarawak, is believed to be “ready and waiting” to start an aluminium smelter plant. Press Metal, which has been...
Smelter Asia Sdn Bhd is still in negotiation with Sarawak Energy Bhd (SEB) for the supply of more than 600MW to power its proposed aluminium smelter in Samalaju Industrial Park, Bintulu. “Negotiations are on going,” SEB vice-president (strategic communication and corporate social responsibility)...
THE future of Alumina loss-making aluminium smelter in Victoria remains uncertain as the company continues to contemplate its closure. Alumina's joint-venture partner, Alcoa, last month announced that their AWAC business could close Point Henry, near Geelong, one of its two Australian aluminium...
RESOURCES giant Rio Tinto's decision to scrap plans for a $US2 billion ($A1.92 billion) aluminium smelter in Malaysia has been blamed in part on China over-supplying the market. While Rio blamed the move on problems with agreeing on power supply terms, analysts also cited China's policy of...
Rio Tinto Alcan said it’s no longer pursuing plans to develop an aluminum smelter in Sarawak in Malaysia after failing to reach an agreement on power supplies for the project. “While a great deal of progress was made in negotiations with Sarawak Energy Bhd., agreement on a long-term competitive...
