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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Steelworkers ratify labor agreement with Century Aluminum of Kentucky
... Century Aluminum Company announced that the membership of United Steelworkers ... the company's Hawesville, KY aluminum smelter. ... the parent of Century Aluminum of Kentucky, owns primary aluminum capacity in the United States and Iceland. Century's corporate offices are located in Monterey,...
Union OKs deal with Century Aluminum
...Members of United Steelworkers Local 9423 voted to accept Century Aluminum's most recent collective bargaining agreement at the company's Hawesville smelter...
Russal to pay USD 120 million - Report
...RusAl Aluminium Company Limited, the core investor in Aluminium Smelter Company, ASLCON, Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State, must refund USD 120 million to the Federal Government coffers with all interests and charges accruable, three years after it reneged on a contract to dredge the Imo River...
Rio Tinto New Zealand Aluminium smelter cuts production by 5pct
...Reuters reported that global miner Rio Tinto said production at its New Zealand Aluminium Smelters Ltd subsidiary was being cut by about 5% in response to high electricity prices...
Dubal in clean up drive
...Dubai Aluminium Company Limited Dubal), which owns one of the largest single-site smelters in the world, recently arranged an internal housekeeping campaign at its Jebel Ali site...
Bosnia's aluminium smelter in jeopardy over strike
...Aluminij Mostar urged Bosnia's regional government on Wednesday to halt a railway workers strike which could close the country's sole aluminium smelter and lead to 900 job losses...
Rio backs aluminium expansion
...RIO TINTO has kept its faith that aluminium will shake off its price doldrums by committing an initial $US1.05 billion to modernising and expanding its aluminium smelters in Canada...
More money committed to Kitimat smelter modernization
...It's another major step forward for the $2.5 billion Kitimat Modernization Project. Rio Tinto, the parent company of Rio Tinto Alcan, has announced a major investment to improve production efficiency of its Canadian aluminum smelters through modernization and expansion...
BHP Billiton strike continues
...About a third of workers at BHP Billiton's Hillside aluminium smelter in Richards Bay were on strike, the company said late on Monday. ..
Rio's to expand with to spend $760m on Quebec aluminium
...The mining giant said it would spend $US758 million ($A760.59 million) on the first phase of a smelter in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec...
Rio Tinto may sell some plants
...Rio Tinto is planning to sell some of its Alcan aluminum smelters and bauxite refineries, The Australian newspaper reported Monday...
Rio Tinto may sell some plants
...Rio Tinto is planning to sell some of its Alcan aluminum smelters and bauxite refineries, The Australian newspaper reported Monday...
While it is sad to see more jobs leaving Birmingham, it's good to know that Bermco Aluminum's move will leave Birmingham a less-polluted city ("Aluminum smelter sets sights on Lincoln," Business, Dec.
...The Department of Justice, via the EPA, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky has announced that they have filed an accusation of violations of the Clean Air Act’s National Emission Standards. The alleged violation involved what is seen by the EPA as hazardous air pollutants for secondary aluminum...
Clifford Chance advises on the financing of a $5.01bn aluminium smelter project developed by Ma'aden Aluminium Company
...Clifford Chance and Al-Jadaan & Partners Law Firm have advised the financiers on the financing of a $5.01bn aluminium smelter plant, casthouse and related infrastructure forming part of what will be the largest fully integrated aluminium complex in the world and will be located at Ras Az Zawr in...
BHP ups wage offer to end strike in SAfrica -union
...BHP Billiton raised its wage offer for striking workers at the Hillside aluminium smelter in South Africa to 8.5 percent, a National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) spokesman said on Thursday...
Strike Hits BHP Billiton S. African Aluminum Unit
...Hundreds of workers at BHP Billiton's (BLT.L: Quote) (BHP.AX: Quote) aluminum smelter in South Africa went on strike on Wednesday, demanding better wages and changes in work conditions, a union official said...
Century Aluminum to restart potline
...The Hawesville smelter has a capacity of 250kt/y of primary aluminum from five potlines. One of the five potlines was idled in March 2009 due to the cost struture of the plant and the economic downturn...
VALCO's reactivation to provide 8,000 jobs
...The re-activation of the Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO) which received Cabinet approval last month, would provide a unique opportunity to create 8,000 direct jobs, says Dr Joe Oteng-Adjei, Minister of Energy...
