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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Braden Manufacturing LLC has netted $10 million worth of contracts for an aluminum smelter facility in the Middle East, the Tulsa company's parent firm announced Tuesday. Irving, Texas-based Global Power Equipment Group Inc., owner of Braden Manufacturing, said the Tulsa factory will produce...
Venezuela's aluminum smelter CVG Alcasa has requested USD 90.4 million in financial assistance from the Executive Office to cover payroll expenses, the purchase of raw materials, spare parts and the reactivation of smelting cells. It has also submitted several proposals to the consideration of the...
MONEY from a struggling state government scheme meant to attract new residents to regional areas should be redirected to support workers and businesses affected by job losses at Hunter aluminium smelters, the state opposition says. The Hydro-owned Kurri Kurri smelter and the Rio Tinto-owned Tomago...
Sarawak will have the capacity to produce 300kt/y of ingots and billets when its second smelter in the Samalaju Industrial Park begins operations in September. Group executive vice-president Koon Poh Min said that the company had invested RM3bn ($953M) in the new plant. He said the higher combined...
Sarawak will have the capacity to produce 300,000 tonnes of high-quality ingots and billets a year when its second aluminium smeltering plant in the Samalaju Industrial Park begins operations in September. The first plant, sited 38km from here, produces 120,000 tonnes a year. The two plants are...
State-owned Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC) today said its board will take a decision next month on setting up an alumina plant and aluminium smelter project in joint venture (JV) with the Navratna PSU Nalco. Nalco, a leading aluminium producer, recently had qualified as the sole...
United Company RusAl said its smelters can turn a profit should aluminum prices fall to $1,900 a ton, while as much as 45 percent of Chinese capacity may already be running at a loss. "It's difficult, but it can work," Vladislav Solovyov, first deputy chief executive, said in an interview published...
A Hunter Valley plant that recycles waste material from the Kurri Aluminium smelter will scale down its operations, in response to production cuts at the neighbouring plant. 150 jobs will go at the Hydro Aluminium smelter when one of the three potlines is shut down in a bid to rein in multi-million...
Press Metal Bhd, a Malaysian maker of aluminum products, climbed to the highest level in more than two months in Kuala Lumpur trading after Bernama reported that the company invested RM3 billion in its second smelting plant to increase total production capacity from September. The stock gained 2.7...
U.S. aluminium giant Alcoa said on Friday it will push ahead with its plans to close a smelter in Italy, rejecting Rome's calls to keep operations on the island of Sardinia running as a battle around the struggling plant heated up. Alcoa said on Monday it planned to close its Portovesme smelter in...
Dry conditions are forcing the Tiwai Pt aluminium smelter to pay about five times the average spot power price and could result in reduced production if it continues. NZ Aluminium Smelters acting general manager Stewart Hamilton said the smelter was watching the spot prices as the cost of...
State-run NALCO is set to finalise a deal with a miner by next month for supply of coal to its $ 3.8 billion aluminium-cum-power project in Indonesia. "We are looking at a coal mine basically to provide coal to our power and smelter project there (Indonesia). We need 5 MTPA for 25 years. We have...
Although forecasts say global aluminium prices may go up for the first quarter of 2012, prospects are bleak for the aluminium sector in Australia. The Norsk Hydro aluminium smelter plant at Kurri Kurri closed on of its three potlines which would result in the lay off of 150 workers. The Tomago...
Canadian-British billionaire Victor Dahdaleh has rubbed shoulders with royalty, palled around with senior politicians and run a successful business empire whose interests stretched from Switzerland to Singapore. But on Friday the 68-year-old tycoon is set to appear before a British court charged in...
Qatalum, the state-of-the-art aluminium smelter constructed in line with Qatar's long-term economic diversification strategy, was present as a representative of Qatar's newest energy-related industry: aluminium. The smelter, which achieved full production earlier this year, was also a Gold Sponsor...
United Co. Rusal (486), the world’s largest aluminum producer, said its smelters can turn a profit should prices fall to $1,900 a metric ton, while as much as 45 percent of Chinese capacity may already be running at a loss. “Our smelters can work with $1,900 a ton,” Vladislav Soloviev, first deputy...
Century Aluminum Company CENX +2.17% announced that the Grundartangi smelter, owned and operated by its wholly owned subsidiary, Nordural Grundartangi ehf, experienced a temporary power outage yesterday. The outage resulted from damage sustained, due to abnormal and extreme weather conditions, at...
The jobs of a further 600 aluminium smelter workers at Hydro’s Kurri Kurri aluminium smelter could be at risk, Hunter MP Joel Fitzgibbon has warned. Mr Fitzgibbon and his state Labor counterpart, Cessnock MP Clayton Barr, met with executives of the Norwegian-owned company on Thursday, a day after...
