Alcoa strikes $3.1b cash-and-stock deal for South32’s key aluminium assets
Alcoa Corporation is acquiring South32’s key aluminium assets in a USD 3.1 billion deal in cash plus 17,008,960 Alcoa shares, expanding its upstream aluminium portfolio across Australia, Brazil and South Africa. The transaction will also give South32 and its shareholders an equity interest in the...
China’s 45Mt aluminium cap pushes producers overseas as global dominance grows
China’s aluminium industry is running close to its limits in 2026. As Shanghai aluminium prices near a three-month high, historically low raw material costs and strong smelter margins encourage producers to operate at maximum capacity. National aluminium output remains above Beijing’s...
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Key initiatives realise energy savings at DUBAL
Dubai Aluminium Company Limited (DUBAL) — the wholly state-owned enterprise that operates a one million metric tonne per annum primary aluminium smelter, one of the world's largest of its kind — endeavours continually to be a responsible corporate citizen. Evidencing the company’s ongoing...
Emirates Aluminium picks SNC-Lavalin to manage Phase 2 of smelter construction
Emirates Aluminium Company Ltd. has selected SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. (TSX:SNC) to manage the construction of Phase 2 of a major smelter project in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. The project will add 525,000 tonnes of annual aluminum production capacity when it is completed in 2014.
Emal aluminum awards $700m in expansion contracts
Emirates Aluminium (Emal) has awarded $700 million in contracts for an expansion project it plans to complete by 2014, the Abu Dhabi-based company said. Phase two of the aluminum complex will almost double the firm’s production capacity to 1.3 million tons a year, making Emal’s plant the largest...
Century to restart Hawesville potline by year end
Century Aluminum Co. (CENX.O: Quote) plans to restart the idled potline at its Hawesville, Kentucky, smelter by year-end and begin construction on the Helguvik, Iceland, smelter in early 2012 at the latest, company executives told analysts on a recent conference call. "Bottom line, we now believe...
UK aluminium smelter power plant must switch from coal
The coal-fired power station which supplies all of the energy to Rio Tinto Alcan's Lynemouth aluminium smelter in northeast England, must switch to biomass generation if it is to have a long-term future, a spokesman for the company said.
ALSCON sale: BFIG – RUSAL controversy resonates
The controversy over the 2004 sale of the Aluminum Smelting Company of Nigeria, ALSCON, Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State, resonated yesterday as the original Preferred Bidder in the privatisation process, BFIGroup of America insisted that BPE fraudulently sold the company to RUSAL against its own rules.
CVG-Alcasa official postpone planned trip to China to discuss JV
CVG-Alcasa officials' planned trip to China to pin down final details of a $403 million joint venture designed to revive Venezuela's ailing aluminum smelter has been postponed, Alcasa sources told Platts. The Ministry of Basic Industry and Mining "hasn't given the authorization yet," an Alcasa...
Ten Non-ferrous Metal Output Reaches 2.93 Million Ton in July
Ten non-ferrous metal output reaches 2.93 million ton in July up by 9.8% in the corresponding period previous year and total amount reaches 19.84 million ton from January to July increasing by 9.9%. In July,output of copper, aluminum, zinc, tin and nickel grows by 18%, 13.2%, 11.3%, 9.9% and 55.3%...
Century Aluminum Saves Thousands with Upgrade to LED Obstruction Lights
With an operating capacity of 244,000 tons per year, Century Aluminum’s primary aluminum smelting plant in Hawesville, Ky., has been in operation since 1969. The original 400-ft chimney stack featured an incandescent beacon lighting system installed in the 1970s. Looking to upgrade its antiquated...
Outotec Bags Contract from EMAL
Outotec has received two contracts worth €100m from Emirates Aluminium (EMAL) to expand an aluminium smelter in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Under the contract, Outotec will deliver aluminium smelter technology to the second phase of EMAL's smelter expansion project located at Al-Taweelah.
ALSCON sold for N37.5bn, DSC for N4.5bn – BPE
THE Senate ad-hoc committee probing the privatisation and commercialisation activities of Bureau of Public Enterprise, BPE, yesterday commenced with revelations that the Aluminium Smelting Company of Nigeria, ALSCON, which was valued at $3.2 billion (N480 billion) was sold to a Russian company,...
BHP Billiton apply for leave to appeal against judgment handed down by South Gauteng HC
BHP Billiton may apply for leave to appeal against the judgment handed down by the South Gauteng High Court on last week whereby it and power utility Eskom were ordered to disclose the power pricing agreement for BHP’s Mozal and Hillside aluminum smelters.
BHP appeal could stall Eskom pricing release
While the High Court has ordered Eskom to release the details of its pricing agreement with BHP Billiton's Hillside and Mozal smelters, which consume an estimated 5.7% of the South African utility's total supply, the ruling might be opposed by BHP Billiton. BHP Billiton, which is reportedly...
VHE Win Contract to Refurbish Rodding Plant at Alcan's Aluminium Smelter in Iceland
VHE of Iceland has been awarded a major contract for the modification and refurbishment of the rodding plant at ISAL - Rio Tinto Alcan's aluminium smelter in Iceland. The IPU Project - ISAL Production Upgrade - will increase the amperage to 181 kA in Lines 1 and 2 of ISAL's three-line Alusuisse...
Schoeck ComBAR reinforcement chosen for Ras Az Zawr aluminium smelter project in Saudi Arabia
Following the success with other comparable regional projects such as Qatalum in Qatar and Dubal in the UAE, Schoeck ME FZE will be supplying their ComBAR fibreglass-reinforcement bars to the Ras Az Zawr aluminium smelter project in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The ComBAR components were chosen strictly...
Outotec seals €100M Emal contracts
Outotec has secured two contracts to deliver technology to the second phase of Emirates Aluminium’s smelter. The €100M order will see Outotec deliver technology, engineering, supply and installation of a green anode plant with one anode production line, along with a crushing plant for recycled...
RusAl Could Get $1.4Bln VEB Loan
United Company RusAl, the world's largest aluminum producer, may get a 40 billion ruble ($1.4 billion) loan for 15 years from state development bank Vneshekonombank to complete the delayed Taishet smelter in Siberia. The Taishet plant, based in the Irkutsk region, is one of RusAl's largest...
Aluminum Smelting Enterprises win 5.2 billion Yuan from January to May
The Department of Public Letter announced Wednesday about the operational aspect for electrolytic aluminum in the first half year. Electrolytic aluminum price continually runs in low level plus the rising cost, aluminum smelting enterprises win 5.2 billion profit declining by 23.6% in the...
