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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UC RUSAL (SEHK: 486; Euronext: RUSAL/RUAL; MICEX-RTS: RUALR), the world's largest aluminium producer, is pleased to announce the completion of the first stage of its Nadvoitskiy aluminium smelter's (NAZ) modernization and the increase in alloys production due to the smelter's revamping programme....
Noranda Aluminum, Inc. in New Madrid will be expanding to the tune of $38 million. In the fall of 2010, Noranda announced it would resume the expansion process at the smelter in New Madrid County. The expansion will be upgrading existing equipment and the building. They will be making changes to...
Century Aluminum's chief executive says restarting the company's Ravenswood plant is a top priority for 2012, and he hopes to announce that restart before April. "We hope to get to the finish line on this reasonably soon," Century CEO Michael Bless told shareholders and industry analysts on a...
ANGRY unions have accused BHP Billiton of ''distasteful'' conduct after the company flagged possible job cuts at a Tasmanian manganese smelter just weeks after announcing a half-year profit of almost $US10 billion. Operations at the Tasmanian Electro Metallurgical Company (Temco) facility near...
Abu Dhabi government-owned Mubadala Development Company is hoping to see a financing package finalized by mid-year for a new $4.5 billion construction phase at Emirates Aluminum that will almost double the smelter's production capacity, a top executive said Wednesday. Matthew Hurn, the executive...
HUNDREDS of workers at Northumberland’s biggest private sector employer are set to leave in three months’ time as detailed discussions on its planned closure near completion. A formal consultation on the proposed shutdown of the 512-job Rio Tinto Alcan aluminium smelter at Lynemouth ends next week....
Alcoa (and the rest of the world) have been waiting for the Chinese to curtail aluminum smelter capacity in the face of weak prices and the high cost of power and raw materials, but the Chinese continue to confound expectations and, as a recent Reuters report underlines, continue to add new...
ALCOA has denied any exodus of workers from Point Henry to a new aluminium smelter and rolling mill in Saudi Arabia, with just one Geelong manager joining the project. A total of seven managers and supervisors from Alcoa's Victorian operations will help set up the smelting, rolling and refining...
ALCOA is offering workers at its Geelong plant massive pay packets to help set up a new cut-price smelter in Saudi Arabia. It comes as the multinational is reviewing the viability of its Point Henry plant, and the jobs of the 600 workers there, with a final decision on whether it will close due in...
The website in a report on Thursday said that negotiations are under way to sell Salco to giant multinational Rio Tinto Alcan headquartered in Montreal, Canada, in a deal it said would earn “a fat multi-billion profit” for Taib’s family in return for their paltry investment of RM2.The deal to sell...
Plans are progressing for a $30 million aluminium products manufacturing facility near Newcastle, at a time when the Hunter's aluminium sector is reeling from job losses. Bahrain-based company Midal Cables International wants to build the facility with an Australian-based partner next to the Tomago...
Aluminium production in the Persian Gulf currently exceeds 7 percent of the worlds total aluminium production; and is set to increase to 10 percent by 2020. The aluminium industry in Persian Gulf Countries has developed over the years and is set to develop even more through direct and indirect...
State-miner Aneka Tambang (Antam) will build smelters in Halmahera, North Maluku, to produce 27,000 tons of ferronickel annually; in North Konawe, Southeast Sulawesi, for 120,000 tons of “pig iron” annually; and in Mempawah, West Kalimantan, for one million tons of smelter-grade alumina. The...
The Tiwai Point smelter has lost at least half a million dollars in aluminium production because of continuing high spot power prices. New Zealand Aluminium Smelters general manager Ryan Cavanagh yesterday said the capacity of the smelter's production remained reduced by about five per cent, which...
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba)’s credentials as an environmental champion and a supporter of fair trade practises across the world were emphasised during a meeting with a ministerial delegation from Paraguay on Wednesday, February 8, 2012. Alba’s Chief Executive, Laurent Schmitt met the Paraguayan...
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba), which owns the world's fourth-largest aluminium smelter, yesterday said its planned sixth production line could be completed by early 2015. Feasibility studies are currently underway, with banking feasibility studies seen ready by 2013, chief executive officer Laurent...
A fully-integrated aluminium industrial complex being built as a JV between Alcoa and Saudi Arabian Mining Co. (Ma’aden) alone involves a capital investment of about $10.5bn. More foreign investors are looking to the Gulf for aluminium business due to its inexpensive gas stocks and strategic...
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba), which owns the world's fourth-largest aluminium smelter, said on Friday its planned sixth production line could be completed by early 2015. Feasibility studies are currently under way, with banking feasibility studies seen ready by 2013, Laurent Schmitt, the company's...
