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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UPDATE 1-Novelis to close smelter in Brazil
...Novelis Inc, a unit of Indian aluminium maker Hindalco Industries Ltd (HALC.BO: Quote), said it will shut a 60,000 tonnes-a-year smelter in Brazil due to high operating costs and energy prices, affecting about 300 employees...
Ma’aden and Alcoa Sign Bank Financing for Ma’aden Aluminum Smelter and Ma’aden Can-Sheet Rolling Mill
...RIYADH, Saudi Arabia & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ma’aden, the Saudi Arabian Mining Company, and Alcoa today announced that the Ma’aden Aluminium Company and Ma’aden Rolling Company both of which are owned 74.9% by Ma’aden and 25.1% by Alcoa have signed bank financing for the Middle East’s first...
Ma’aden and Alcoa Sign Bank Financing for Ma’aden Aluminum Smelter and Ma’aden Can-Sheet Rolling Mill
...RIYADH, Saudi Arabia & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ma’aden, the Saudi Arabian Mining Company, and Alcoa today announced that the Ma’aden Aluminium Company and Ma’aden Rolling Company both of which are owned 74.9% by Ma’aden and 25.1% by Alcoa have signed bank financing for the Middle East’s first...
Ma'aden, Alcoa get bank financing for Saudi aluminium project
...The Ma'aden Aluminium Company and Ma'aden Rolling Company have signed bank financing for a fully integrated aluminium smelter and food-grade can-sheet rolling mill in Saudi Arabia, joint-venture partners Ma'aden and Alcoa said Tuesday...
Russia's RUSAL denies interest in India's smelter
...Russia's United Company RUSAL (0486.HK: Quote) on Monday denied that it had agreed with India's Gujarat Foils (GUJF.BO: Quote) to issue an expression of interest (EOI) for an aluminium smelter and refiner in Gujarat...
Aluminium smelter on the rocks
...Doubts over the future of the Hydro aluminium smelter at Kurri Kurri have stirred memories of the closure of Coalfields’ mines in the 1960s. Kurri Kurri District Business Chamber is urging the community to rally at Rotary Park, Lang Street at 10am this morning in a bid to sway the state...
Hindalco to complete phase-I of Hirakud plant expansion by Jan
...Hindalco Industries, the Aditya Birla group’s flagship company, is set to complete the first phase expansion of its Hirakud aluminium smelter by December or January 2011. The company missed its original deadline, September 30, due to torrential rain and lightning in July...
Alba organizes key forum on challenges in aluminum smelting
...Aluminum Bahrain's commitment to encourage serious discussions on key issues currently facing the aluminum industry received an impetus when the company organized Challenges in Aluminum Smelting a two day forum for smelter managers and industry experts on November 24th and 25th 2010 at the Alba...
UAE aluminium smelters confirm long term commitment to Japan
...The Japanese market has since 1980 been of strategic importance to the UAE's primary aluminium sector. Dubai Aluminium Company Limited one of the world's largest single site smelters has sold its finished aluminium products to more than 30 customers in Japan for three decades in substantially...
Australia to get new aluminium smelter
...Unconfirmed reports suggest that Australia is the target for a new aluminium smelter. We understand that Yankuang Aluminium, who are already in talks for 1 million tonne alumina refinery are also examining the idea of building a 500,000t smelter...
GMDC advances alumina plant tenders for the second time
...BS reported that Gujarat government owned Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation has extended the deadline to submit Expression of Interest for its 1 million tonne per year alumina refinery and 0.5 million tonne per year aluminium smelter by another week. The last date for the submission now...
Ghana to restart Valco aluminium smelter next year
...Ghana plans to restart its Valco aluminium smelter next year as a prelude to building an integrated aluminium industry as world metal prices and its own energy resources improve, the government said on Wednesday...
Ormet Announces Restart of Aluminum Smelting Capacity
...Ormet Corporation, an independent U.S. producer of aluminum, announced its intention to restart the two idled potlines at its Hannibal, Ohio, smelting facility. The restart preparations will commence immediately with the process expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2011, bringing the...
GMDC advances alumina plant tenders for the second time
...Gujarat government owned Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC) has extended the deadline to submit Expression of Interest (EoI) for its 1 million tonne per year (mtpy) alumina refinery and 0.5 mtpy aluminium smelter by another week. The last date for the submission now stands at...
NALCO JSW and JP plan to set up alumina project in Kutch
...ET reported that National Aluminium Company, JSW Steel and Jaiprakash Industries have evinced interest in setting up an alumina refinery and aluminium smelter in Kutch. The 1 million tonne per annum alumina refinery project and 0.5 million TPA smelter project involves expenditure of INR 10,000...
NALCO JSW and JP plan to set up alumina project in Kutch
...ET reported that National Aluminium Company, JSW Steel and Jaiprakash Industries have evinced interest in setting up an alumina refinery and aluminium smelter in Kutch. The 1 million tonne per annum alumina refinery project and 0.5 million TPA smelter project involves expenditure of INR 10,000...
NALCO JSW and JP plan to set up alumina project in Kutch
...ET reported that National Aluminium Company, JSW Steel and Jaiprakash Industries have evinced interest in setting up an alumina refinery and aluminium smelter in Kutch. The 1 million tonne per annum alumina refinery project and 0.5 million TPA smelter project involves expenditure of INR 10,000...
Bauxite crusher and bauxite crushing equipments
...It is a kind of aluminum ore because they contain iron oxide and yellow to red, it is also known as "iron bauxite.", which is the main raw material for aluminum smelting. Bauxite is a kind of gel composition mixed by three different mixture ratio of the aluminum hydroxide ...
