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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Alcoa has agreed to keep its Italian smelter running past the planned closure date while it looks for new buyers, the U.S. aluminium company, the Italian Industry Ministry and labour unions said on Tuesday after hours of meetings. Alcoa had planned to close its Portovesme smelter on the island of...
Rio Tinto , the world's largest miner and Cahya Mata Sarawak have scrapped plans for a $2 billion aluminium smelter project in Malaysia's Borneo island as power supply terms could not be finalised, CMS said in on Tuesday. CMS, a financial and construction conglomerate based in Malaysia's Borneo...
The government–controlled aluminum company, National Aluminum Company Limited (NALCO) plans to invest Rs 23.43 billion ($478 million) next fiscal year, to increase capacity, reports Business Line. Citing the 2012-13 budget documents, the newspaper report says that the proposed investment represents...
Century Aluminum Co (CENX.O) said on Friday it has resumed talks for a power deal with Appalachian Power, a unit of American Electric Power Co. Inc. (AEP.N), to supply its Ravenswood, West Virginia aluminum smelter as it moves closer to restarting the idled plant. The 170,000-tonne-a-year aluminum...
Building and engineering products group Alumasc has won a 10 million pound contract to supply roofing to a large aluminium smelter in Canada. The firm said the majority of the revenue and profit from the new contract was expected to come in its financial years ending 30 June 2013 and 30 June 2014....
State-run National Aluminium Co (Nalco) plans to expand operations both in the country and overseas. Acting chairman and managing director BL Bagra tells ET that the country's third-largest aluminium maker will also invest in thermal, nuclear and wind power plants as part of its move into the...
The manufacturing unit of the state-run National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) now faces a serious threat of being closed down on account of its inability to manage massive amounts of fly ash. In a letter addressed to B.L. Bagra, NALCO's chairman-cum-MD, the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)...
Ukraine’s government won a court hearing as it seeks to regain control over the Zaporizhskyi aluminum smelter from Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska’s United Co. Rusal. The Kiev Commercial Court ruled to overturn a sale agreement and return a 68.01 percent stake in the plant, known as Zalk, to...
Dubai: State-owned aluminium smelter Dubai Aluminium Ltd (Dubal) said it achieved a 65 per cent jump in net profit to Dh3.51 billion last year, up from Dh2.12 billion in 2010, despite the slowdown in the global economy. Gross sales revenue grew 28.5 per cent year-on-year to Dh11.14 billion from...
UC RusAl increased total investment in the modernization and technical reequipping of the Bogoslov Aluminum Smelter (BAZ, Sverdlov Region) by 67% to 400 million rubles in 2011, the company said in a statement. The statement said that the funds went to developing alumina and electrolytic production....
Rio Tinto Alcan began talks with union representatives Monday to secure a new labor contract and end a lockout period that has lasted nearly three months. "A government-appointed mediator called parties to the table" on Monday and talks will continue Wednesday, company spokesman Bryan Tucker told...
Dubai Aluminium (Dubal), a major single-site aluminium smelter, will co-host a major global metal quality workshop with Pyrotek, an international metals and technical services company. The fifth international Metal Quality Workshop (MQW5) is set to open today (March 19) at the Meydan Hotel in...
State-owned aluminium firm Nalco plans to invest Rs 2,343 crore next fiscal, a 76 per cent rise in capital expenditure over FY'12, to increase capacity, according to 2012-13 Budget documents. A disinvestment candidate for the government's Rs 30,000 crore mop up target, Nalco spent Rs 1,333 crore...
VHE has launched a new range of recording anode and cathode ammeters. The meters are designed to measure the d.c. current in cathode riser bars and anode rod stems and have been redesigned, including an updated display panel incorporating Bluetooth technology. In use, visual and aural prompts cue...
The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry announced over the weekend that seven more companies have expressed interest in building mineral smelting plants in Indonesia. These additions bring the total number of smelters queuing up to be built to 26, up from the ministry’s previously reported number...
The retirees of Century Aluminum have accepted the deal that will restore some of their lost health benefits. The retirees' approval Thursday is expected to open the way for the state to aid the company in restarting operations at the Ravenswood plant. Around 400 retirees attended a meeting...
The general manager of Bell Bay Aluminium in northern Tasmania has told a mining forum in Launceston the struggling smelter has a future. Ray Mostogl has outlined the challenges facing Bell Bay Aluminium. He says the business is trying to survive in the same conditions it faced during the global...
West Virginia may offer a tax break worth up to $20 million annually to help Century Aluminum restart its Jackson County smelter, but officials say any such aid depends on retirees resolving an impasse over their revoked health benefits with a Thursday vote. Lawmakers, aides to Gov. Earl Ray...
