Alamtri Resources enters new growth phase as aluminium smelter ramps up
PT Alamtri Resources Indonesia Tbk (ADRO), the Jakarta-listed natural resources company, is entering a new stage of growth as its aluminium smelting investments begin to take shape alongside stronger margins from its metallurgical coal business. The outlook has strengthened Sucor Sekuritas' view of...
New Alumotion JV brings robotised anode assembly to Canadian aluminium smelters
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...
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DUBAL power expansion project honoured in US
The innovative thinking and quest for operating efficiency through continuous improvement at Dubai Aluminium (DUBAL) has again been recognised on the international stage. DUBAL’s unique GTX project, which was presented by Tayeb M M H Al Awadhi (Vice President: Power & Desalination) at Power-Gen...
Dubal, Emal ink technology licence accord
Dubai Aluminium said it has formalised a deal to instal its in-house developed proprietary high amperage smelting technology at Emirates Aluminium Company (Emal), a gaint aluminium smelter complex in the UAE with an annual output of 750,000 tonnes. As per the technology licence agreement, Dubal's...
Bosnia Aluminij to end '11 with small profit
Bosnia's sole aluminium smelter, Aluminij Mostar, will post a small profit this year and expects a loss in 2012 due to lower prices on the world market, General Manager Ivo Bradvica said on Thursday. "The profit will not be high and I can only say that we shall end the year positively," Bradvica...
Emirates Aluminium Said to Seek $3 Billion for Expansion
Emirates Aluminium Co., building the world’s biggest aluminum smelter, may seek $3 billion for the Abu Dhabi project, two people with knowledge of the matter said. Funding will be split between export credit agencies and commercial banks, the people said, declining to be identified because the...
Nigerian Senate Votes to End Deals With Rusal, Global Steel
Nigeria’s Senate voted for the cancellation of the sale of 12 state-owned companies, including an aluminum smelter sold to United Co. Rusal Plc of Russia and a steel company bought by Global Steel Holdings Ltd. of India. The process of privatizing the companies “was marred by political interference...
Armtec Awarded Contract to Supply Precast Components to Rio Tinto Alcan's Kitimat Modernization Project
Armtec Infrastructure Inc. ("Armtec") (TSX: ARF)(TSX: ARF.DB) today announced it has been awarded a contract, valued at approximately $32 million, with Bechtel Canada Co., who is acting as the agent for Rio Tinto Alcan, to supply precast components for the Kitimat Modernization...
Nanoceramic Coating of Nanostart-Holding ItN Nanovation AG Passes Field Trials at the World's Largest Aluminium Smelter RUSAL
Nanostart (otcqx:NASRY)-holding ItN Nanovation AG, (ISIN DE000A0JL461) announces that RUSAL's IRKAZ, an aluminium smelter based in Irkutsk, and specialists from RUSAL's Engineering and Technology Center, have successfully tested Nanocomp Metcast, nanocoatings developed by ItN Nanovation AG...
Hundreds backing campaign to save Alcan plant
SUPPORT is growing for the campaign to save Lynemouth’s Rio Tinto Alcan aluminium plant from closure. Further meetings have taken place between the General, Municipal, Boilermakers (GMB) union and MPs, and more than 770 people have so far signed petitions calling on the government to intervene....
Recession economics returns to metals
Northumberland, a county in northern England, does not usually feature on the radar screen for metals investors. Yet Lynemouth, the site of an aluminium smelter owned by Rio Tinto, is the latest flashpoint for a debate that was last heard in the depths of the 2008 financial crisis. The miner...
RUSAL faces tough choices over ALSCON acquisition
All is not looking good for RUSAL, a Russian firm that acquired the multi million naira Aluminium Smelter Company (ALSCON) in Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State. The company appears to be in a fix over mounting challenges and unresolved issues relating to its acquisition of Nigeria ’s only smelter plant....
Update on operating cost of aluminium in India
Mr Dinsha Patel minister of state for mines (independent charge) informed the Rajya Sabha that the primary producers endeavor to reduce their operating cost through a slew of measures like reducing power consumption by adopting energy conservation methods, modernization of equipments, increase in...
Rumors swirl around Century Aluminum reopening
Jackson County that, after a nearly three-year shutdown, Century Aluminum is beginning to work toward restarting its Ravenswood smelting plant. More than 650 people lost their jobs when the company shut down the almost 50-year-old aluminum smelter at the height of the global recession in February...
Nalco Smelter bags National Energy Conservation Award
Smelter Plant of Navaratna PSU National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) has bagged the prestigious National Energy Conservation Award for 2011. NALCO?s smelter received the award for its contribution in energy conservation, primarily in reduction of DC energy and HFO consumption in Potlines and...
CSR to rethink stake in Tomago aluminium plant
CSR has revealed it will use Rio Tinto's planned sale of its $US5 billion ($5.01bn) aluminium asset portfolio to review its 25 per cent interest in the Tomago aluminium smelter in NSW, which could result in the building materials group quitting the stake. In his first public comments on the issue...
Power loss damages Rio UK aluminium smelter
A power cut this week at Rio Tinto Alcan's Lynemouth aluminium smelter in northeastern England has knocked out one of the plant's production lines and partially curtailed the other, a company spokesman said on Thursday. Loss of power in the energy-intensive aluminium smelting process becomes...
DJ LME: Receives Applications To List Aluminum Alloy, NASAAC Brand CC
The London Metal Exchange Wednesday said metal producer Charng Chyi Aluminum Co. Ltd. has applied for its brand, known as CC, to be listed under the exchange's aluminum alloy and North American special aluminium alloy contracts. The company's smelter, in Tainan City, Taiwan, has an annual plant...
Odisha-based PSU Nalco Smelter bags National Energy Conservation Award
The Smelter Plant of National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO), the Navratna PSU under Ministry of Mines, Govt. of India, has bagged the prestigious National Energy Conservation Award for the year 2011. Shri B.L. Bagra, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, NALCO, received the award from Shri Sushil...
Tiwai smelter pours 10 millionth tonne
New Zealand Aluminium Smelters equipment improvement engineer Stu Templer shows off the pot that held the 10 millionth tonne of aluminium, which was poured at the smelter. New Zealand Aluminium Smelters has hit a milestone, pouring its 10 millionth tonne of aluminium. The smelter, at Tiwai Point,...
