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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Emirates Aluminium (EMAL) smelter complex project at Abu Dhabi, UAE is being built on a 6 km2 site in two phases. Phase 1 was completed early in 2011 and comprised the construction of two potlines, with a total of 756 reductions cells. Supporting units included a 2 000 MW power plant; a carbon...
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has confirmed that it received BHP Billiton’s official response this week to Eskom’s application for a review of the utility’s electricity supply contracts with the miner’s aluminium smelter in terms of Section 32 of the Electricity Regulation...
Bosnia's regional government said on Friday it had made proposals to help aluminium smelter Aluminij Mostar settle a debt to state-run power utility EPHZHB and stave off the company's closure. Aluminij, a mainstay of Bosnia's economy, began to shut down its smelter on Tuesday after Mostar-based...
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) that is struggling to commission its 1.2 million tonne aluminium smelter at its Jharsuguda Special Economic Zone (SEZ) for want of alumina, has sought partial de-notification of the zone’s non-processing area. Responding to VAL’s request, the Odisha government has...
China’s Shandong Nanshan Aluminum had allocated at least $5 billion to build a facility to process bauxite in Bintan, Riau Islands, Industry Minister M.S. Hidayat has announced. “They already started the project with a purchase of 1,000 hectares of land,” the minister said after a meeting with the...
The world’s largest aluminum company says it has won $275 million in damages from Tajikistan’s largest enterprise. Moscow-based Rusal said in an emailed statement on October 16 that a Swiss tribunal had found the Tajik Aluminum Company (TalCo) in breach of two 2003 agreements with Rusal subsidiary...
US aluminum producer Ormet has been given a three-month extension -- until February 20, 2014 -- to file a Chapter 11 reorganization plan by a federal bankruptcy court in Delaware. In a Tuesday order, US Bankruptcy Court Judge Mary Walrath also gave the Hannibal, Ohio-based company until April 22,...
UC Rusal plans to invest RUR 367.9 million modernising gas treatment equipment at the Irkutsk aluminium smelter (IrkAZ). According to the emissions reduction plan, approved by the Ministry of natural resources of the Irkutsk region, between 2013 and 2015, seven electrostatic precipitators in the...
On 16 October, Alcoa announced that the smelter at the Ma'aden-Alcoa joint venture, which remains in initial start-up phase, has halted production on one of two potlines. The temporary shutdown was undertaken after a period of pot instability. The joint venture is actively working to restore the...
The aluminium maker Aluminij Mostar, a crucial pillar of Bosnia's economy, began shutting down its smelter on Tuesday and said it would be forced into bankruptcy unless the government helped it settle a debt to the state-owned power company. The company, EPHZHB, succeeded on Monday in freezing...
The Management of Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria (ALSCON) at Ikot Abasi in Akwa Ibom state has pleaded with the Federal Government to link its internally generated gas fired electric power plant to the national grid as it could serve as an important backup of electricity supply to the smelter...
Ohio Governor John Kasich suggested Monday that bankrupt Ormet Corp.'s troubles are tied mainly to the weak global aluminum market, and that the state has provided more than its share of financial aid to the embattled US aluminum producer. Kasich, a first-term Republican, did not respond...
Creditors of insolvent German aluminium plant Voerde Aluminium voted to extend production to the end of next year while the search for a buyer continues, a spokesman for Voerde's insolvency administrator said on Monday. The Voerde smelter, which makes about 10 percent - or 115,000 tonnes - of...
The joint participation of Dubai Aluminium and Emirates Aluminium at the 3rd Aluminium Technologies, Machinery and Products Trade Fair ("ALUEXPO 2013") - which took place in Istanbul, Turkey from 3 to 6 October 2013 - achieved its overall objectives. Awareness was raised of the two primary...
An alumina plant and aluminium smelter project worth INR 15,000 crore would be set up near Mundra in Kutch district of Gujarat, Union Minister of State for Mines Dinsha Patel said today. "The plant will come up near Mundra in Kutch district of Gujarat. It is a joint venture between National...
ALCOA'S miserable earnings from its global fleet of aluminium smelters in the September quarter has raised fresh concerns over the future of the loss-making Point Henry smelter at Geelong and its 500 local jobs. In an earnings call in the US on the third-quarter result, Alcoa chairman and chief...
Slovalco has signed a long-term electricity supply contract with power utility Slovenské Elektrárne (SE). Slovalco, the Slovak aluminium producer, wants to achieve such total price of electricity which is its most important expenses item that would equal the level of other European producers....
The woes of Vedanta, which has invested Rs 45,000 crore in the aluminium and power sectors in Odisha, is not limited to the denial of bauxite from the Niyamgiri hills for its Lanjigarh refinery alone. While all the attention is focused on the agitations against bauxite mining at Niyamgiri, another...
