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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Aluminium producer Alro has invested over USD 77 million for energy efficiency, over the past six years. Investments targeted both the primary and processed aluminum production processes, as well as the alumna refinery. Alro, which is the largest electricity consumer in Romania, has invested USD 8...
Russian aluminum giant UC RUSAL plans to launch a 600 million ruble alumina production waste recycling facility at its Urals Aluminum Smelter in October 2014, RUSAL said Thursday. The facility is expected to process up to 200,000 tonnes of red mud annually. The recycling of alumina production waste...
Alcoa's announcement to undertake a comprehensive review of its Point Henry aluminium smelter has sparked fears for hundreds of jobs and the future of the industry. It's an anxious time for aluminium workers. Alcoa announced it is undertaking a review of its Geelong smelter, which could include...
ALCOA says a carbon tax will make life harder for the company as it reviews the future of its Victorian smelter and the jobs of up to 600 workers. However Alcoa Australia managing director Alan Cransberg said today the looming tax was not the reason for the review, as Tony Abbott sought to link a...
BHP Billiton's $US9.9 billion December-half profit and Alcoa's announcement yesterday that it is reviewing the future of the Point Henry aluminium smelter in Geelong both point to a change in the resource boom. It has slowed from a fast boil to something more like a simmer, and there are...
THE Federal Government "will leave no stone unturned" to secure the future of Alcoa's aluminium smelter near Geelong, the local member says. Alcoa says it will examine the viability of its aluminum smelter at Point Henry in Geelong, which employs 600 people, because low metal prices, a high...
ALCOA'S 600 workers a Geelong aluminium smelter face an uncertain future with a new review of the plant. Alcoa said today it would review the viability of its Point Henry aluminium smelter because higher metal prices, input costs and exchange rates had made it unprofitable. "Our goal is for Point...
PORTLAND'S aluminium smelter has escaped the knife for now as international giant Alcoa today announced it was considering curtailing its Point Henry operation near Geelong. Alcoa's Australian managing director Alan Cransberg said Point Henry had become unprofitable and production may be cut back...
The Tiwai Point aluminium smelter is among a group of Rio Tinto assets which has had its valuation cut by more than 30 per cent. The Wall Street Journal reported that Deutsche Bank analysts had valued Pacific Aluminium, the business unit made up of five Australian smelters and Tiwai, at US$4.4...
Alba's role as a strategic partner representing the aluminium sector at the Gulf Industry Fair 2012 underscores the company's commitment to support initiatives that showcase Bahrain's aluminium sector as well as highlight Bahrain's attractiveness as an investor-friendly destination. The aluminium...
Alcoa of Australia Ltd., jointly owned by Alcoa Inc. and Alumina Ltd., may cut production at its Point Henry aluminum smelter in the state of Victoria as global economic conditions “severely” hurt the industry. A review of the smelter’s future will be completed by the end of June, the unit of the...
Rio Tinto Alcan will restart the two suspended lines of production at its 100kt/y Shawinigan smelter in Quebec, Canada to bring the plant back to full production. A major power outage on December 29, 2011 forced the closure of two of the plant's four production lines. The process of gradually...
Alcoa said the aluminium industry had been severely impacted by difficult macro economic conditions, with the higher Australian dollar placing increasing pressure on the market. "A combination of factors, including metal prices, input costs and exchange rates, have resulted in the Point Henry...
Rio Tinto’s plans to build a $US4.5?billion hydro-powered aluminium smelter in Malaysia appear to have stalled, with negotiations on a power contract taking far longer than expected when the project was unveiled in 2007.
VHE‘s enhanced ohmmeter is able to measure the electrical resistance between points of different voltage potential. Conventional ohmmeters do not have this capability. Much of the equipment installed in aluminium smelter potroom has significant electrical potential to earth (or ground). The series...
About 100 jobs at the Tiwai aluminium smelter are expected to go during the next five years. However, the smelter manager says these will be through natural attrition and not redundancies. General manager Ryan Cavanagh confirmed yesterday the positions would go by natural attrition. The Tiwai site...
A SUBCONTRACTOR with Hydro aluminium at Kurri Kurri has confirmed it axed 26 jobs in the wake of the smelter owner’s decision to close its oldest potline. Union officials are seeking a meeting with Premier Barry O’Farrell to discuss the smelter’s need for a long-term power contract with the...
VHE's enhanced ohmmeter is able to measure the electrical resistance between points of different voltage potential. Conventional ohmmeters do not have this capability. Much of the equipment installed in aluminium smelter potroom has significant electrical potential to earth (or ground). The series...
