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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Rio Tinto Alcan plans to begin restarting its 70-year-old aluminum smelter in Shawinigan, Que. in a few days and have it operating at full capacity by the second quarter, the company announced Friday. A circuit breaker failure on Dec. 29 cut the smelter's annual production capacity in half to...
Emirates Aluminum is participating at the Tawdheef career fair in Abu Dhabi for the fourth time in line with its commitment to recruit more Emiratis in 2012. Mr Saeed Fadhel Al Mazrooei president and CEO of EMAL said that “Emirati talent is a central feature of how we have come so far, so quickly...
The smelter at Tiwai Point produced a record amount of aluminium last year. The smelter produced 354,030 saleable tonnes. The previous highest year was 352,976 tonnes in 2007. The smelter is New Zealand's largest single user of electricity and creates export sales in excess of $1 billion. The...
A $20 million project to boost electric amperage is under way at Rio Tinto Alcan's Sebree, Kentucky, aluminum smelter in an effort to increase the plant's aluminum-making capacity to help offset rising electricity rates. The project, expected to be completed later this year, "allows us to make more...
The operators of New Zealand's only aluminium smelter would like some rain, and plenty of it. Decreasing water levels in the South Island hydro lakes has electricity spot market prices fluctuating. The price fluctuations mean power consumption at the Tiwai Point smelter has been reduced and...
Dubai: Contractor Arabtec yesterday announced Dh265 million worth of projects in Abu Dhabi, including two in the Western Region. The deals include the Dh110 million expansion of phase seven of the Ruwais refinery, a Dh30 million contract to build a training centre for Abu Dhabi Polymers and a Dh116...
On Dec. 18, a dozen retirees, men and women in their 60s, 70s, even 80s, began occupying a median strip along Route 33 in front of the closed Century Aluminum smelter in Ravenswood, W.Va. In tents and under tarps, a small group stays overnight, despite hypertension, arthritis and other old age...
Russian aluminum company UC Rusal is prepared to buy the Bogoslovsk Combined Heat and Power Plant (CHPP), but only if IES (the plant's beneficiary) does not insist on a price higher than a level that covers costs. "If somebody decides that this is a good opportunity to sell it to us and get a...
The Tiwai Point smelter has hit a record in production after 354,030 tonnes of saleable aluminium was made last year. New Zealand Aluminium Smelters general manager Ryan Cavanagh announced the record today, the highest level since 2007 when 352,976 tonnes was produced. "This is an achievement every...
Aluminium smelters are being closed across the globe. And there is the prospect of more to come from the industry's majors as well as its minors. Intended or not, the closures have helped reverse the metal's price decline of the past year. How many more closures might be needed to turn the price is...
Glencore International Plc has confirmed its intention to assess the possible industrial and market prospects of Alcoa’s plant in Italy, the country's industry ministry said. Reuters reports Italy is looking for new investors to take over an the Portovesme aluminium smelter in Sardinia, which the...
About 780 workers at an aluminum smelter run by the mining giant Rio Tinto in Quebec are heading into the fourth week of a lockout, with many still braving the frigid weather to picket though an injunction—in place until April—that bars them from blocking the smelter entrance. Their contract had...
Aluminium is the costliest of the standard base metals to produce, with final smelting requiring significant inputs of water and power. Power has proven the aluminium smelting industry's biggest problem, being the greatest contributor to a 30% increase in production cost over the past two years....
Sales at Aluminium Bahrain (Alba), which owns the world's fourth-largest aluminum smelter, grew 1.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011 despite a challenging year, the company said on Wednesday. Bahrain was rocked by months of anti-government protests which began in February. The government's...
Romanian aluminum smelter Alro SA (ALR) may temporarily halt some production, lowering total capacity, or restructure operations as power supplies from hydropower generator Hidroelectrica SA falter. Alro, majority owned by Vimetco NV (VICO), is trying to avoid an output cut as Hidroelectrica is...
Sales at Aluminium Bahrain (Alba), which owns the world's fourth-largest aluminum smelter, grew 1.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011 despite a challenging year, the company said on Wednesday. Bahrain was rocked by months of anti-government protests which began in February. The government's...
RIO Tinto continues to rack up quarterly production records at its flagship Australian iron ore operations but has declared it will log a second-half loss at its struggling aluminium unit. The billions of dollars Rio has been investing in expanding its iron ore mines, railways and ports in Western...
IN LITTLE more than six months 100 workers at Tomago Aluminium will be shown the door after falling aluminium prices and the rising Australia dollar led the company to restructure its operation. The smelter is a leading Port employer and the news marks an uncertain few months ahead for the...
