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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Stub Straighteners Provide Cost Benefits for Aluminium Smelters
Inward bending of anode stubs, generally known as "toe-in", is a well understood occurrence in all pre-bake aluminium smelters. The difference in linear expansion of the carbon anode and the steel yoke or spider of the anode rod at high temperatures in the reduction cell means that the yoke expands...
Dubal regional industry leadership highlighted at Aluminium Dubai 2011
Dubai Aluminum Company Limited flew its corporate flag high at Aluminium Dubai 2011, the specialist regional trade exhibition that took place at World Trade Centre of Dubai from Mr 9th to 11th 2011. As the Platinum Sponsor of the event, Dubal enjoyed a strong brand presence throughout the venue and...
Dubal regional industry leadership highlighted at Aluminium Dubai 2011
Dubai Aluminum Company Limited flew its corporate flag high at Aluminium Dubai 2011, the specialist regional trade exhibition that took place at World Trade Centre of Dubai from Mr 9th to 11th 2011. As the Platinum Sponsor of the event, Dubal enjoyed a strong brand presence throughout the venue and...
Atlas Copco for Ma'aden aluminium project
Stockholm – Atlas Copco has received two orders totaling $50m, related to the Ma’aden aluminum project in Saudi Arabia. Atlas Copco will supply 20 turbo compressors for a power generation application in a new plant outside of Jubail. The customer is a consortium of the Al-Arrab contracting company...
Atlas Copco for Ma'aden aluminium project
Stockholm – Atlas Copco has received two orders totaling $50m, related to the Ma’aden aluminum project in Saudi Arabia. Atlas Copco will supply 20 turbo compressors for a power generation application in a new plant outside of Jubail. The customer is a consortium of the Al-Arrab contracting company...
Kyiv court nationalizes Rusal's factory
The Ukrainian government says the world's largest aluminum producer hasn't fulfilled its investment obligations. A Ukrainian court claims to have renationalized a Zaporizhya-based aluminium smelter owned by Russia’s Rusal, the world’s largest aluminium producer, allegedly for failing to fulfill...
DJ Rusal To Appeal Ruling On Ukraine Smelter Nationalization
Aluminum giant United Co. Rusal (0486.HK), controlled by Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, said Wednesday it will appeal the decision of a Ukrainian court to nationalize its local smelter. "The smelter is controlled as before by Rusal and there are no talks about nationalization," Rusal said in...
UAE funds 48% of GCC aluminum
Production commences at the Emirates Aliminium (EMAL), the worlds largest single-site aluminium smelter at Taweelah in Abu Dhabi. The UAE controls nearly 48 per cent of the total aluminum investments of more than$22 billion in Gulf oil producers and the construction of a mega smelter in Abu Dhabi...
Qatalum sponsors second biennial Dubai Aluminium exhibition
Qatalum, the state-of-the-art aluminium smelter being built as a joint venture between Qatar Petroleum and Hydro in line with Qatar's long-term economic diversification strategy, will be participating in - and sponsoring - the second biennial Aluminium Dubai exhibition, taking place from 9 to 11...
Sohar Aluminum expansion will spur downstream industries - Mr Henk Pauw
Mr Henk Pauw CEO of Sohar Aluminum said that Phase II of Sohar Aluminum will not only provide a favorable advantage for the long term sustainability of the smelter but also supply a fully developed downstream with additional metal that will encourage the generation of employment. Q - What are Sohar...
Mr Mohamed Alabbar signs with Chinese major to build aluminum plant in Malaysia
...Gulf International Investment Group Holdings Sdn Bhd headed by Malaysian entrepreneur Mr Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al Bukhary and UAE based business leader Mr Mohamed Alabbar has entered into JV agreement with Aluminum Corporation of China to develop USD 1.6bn aluminum smelting plant in the State of...
Sarawak aluminum smelter eyes rising world demand
...A USD 1.6 billion aluminum smelting plant that will be put up in Malaysia's Sarawak state by a partnership of two major Chinese and Malaysian groups will have a capacity of 370,000 tonnes a year...
Sector to see second aluminium smelter in Samalaju
...Sarawak’s aluminium sector is expected to progress further with Smelter Asia Sdn Bhd (Smelter Asia) and Syarikat Sesco Bhd (Sesco) expecting to conclude a power purchase agreement (PPA) by the middle of this year, according to analysts...
Venezuela aluminum smelter in trouble -state daily
...Venezuela's government-run aluminum smelter Alcasa is in a "state of emergency" operationally and financially, an official newspaper said on Friday...
Joint agreement on RM5bil aluminium smelting plant
... Gulf International Investment Group Holdings Sdn Bhd, headed by local tycoon Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary and UAE-based business leader Mohamed Ali Rashed Alabbar, has entered into a joint-venture (JV) agreement with Aluminium Corp of China to develop a US$1.6bil (RM5bil) aluminium smelting...
Sohar Aluminum expansion decision expected by end of year
... The Omani cabinet is expected to announce its decision before the end of the year on doubling the capacity of Sohar Aluminum's smelter to a world scale 720,000 tonnes per annum. Mr Henk Pauw CEO of Sohar Aluminum said that the total cost of expanding the smelter, as well as the captive power...
Sohar Aluminium expansion decision expected by end of year
...The Omani cabinet is expected to announce its decision before the end of the year on doubling the capacity of Sohar Aluminium's smelter to a world-scale 720,000 tonnes per annum, Oman Daily Observer has reported...
Beijing shuts smelters to meet energy targets
...BEIJING is shutting down aluminium smelters and targeting other heavy industry to meet tough energy conservation targets, posing risks to Australian export prices...
