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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Century negotiates Ravenswood contract, no progress
...Century Aluminum Co (CENX.O) continues to negotiate terms of a labor contract that expired last month for its idled aluminum smelter at Ravenswood, West Virginia, but no details have been decided about a plant restart, a United Steelworkers union representative said on Monday...
UAE firm in Indonesia rail deal
...“This is part of our $1 billion (Dh3.67 billion) investment plan in which India’s state-owned National Aluminium Co (Nalco) will invest $4 billion to build a 500,000-tonne aluminium smelter and power plant in East Kalimantan,” Madhu Koneru, Managing Director of RMMIRMMILoading... and Executive...
China Jiaozuo Wanfang Aluminium cuts smelting capacity
... China's Jiaozuo Wanfang Aluminium said on Tuesday it would cut its aluminium smelting capacity by one-third ... aluminium smelting capacity of 420,000 tonnes, said it will reduce its capacity by 140,000 tonnes per year,...
Smelter protest goes to St Ann's
..."The reason why we are pushing the smelter is because the plans for the smelter are already there. It has started, things are in train, $6 billion has already been spent on it, why shelve it now to go and look for something," said Ezra Vaughn, spokesperson for the group called Southwest...
KhAS produced first million tonnes of aluminum
...It is reported that Khakas aluminum smelter produced the first million tons of aluminum yesterday. The manufacture benchmark has been exceeded in less than for 4 years since the enterprise start-up date...
Rio Tinto Alcan to invest US$487 million in Icelandic smelter
...Rio Tinto Alcan has today announced an investment of US$140 million in a leading-edge casting facility to produce value-added billet at its aluminium smelter in Straumsvik, Iceland (ISAL), bringing total investment announced in recent weeks in ISAL to US$487 million...
Rio Tinto Alcan's Laterriere Works smelter returns to full production ahead of schedule
...Rio Tinto Alcan's 235,000 tonne Laterriere Works aluminium smelter in Quebec, Canada, has returned to full production after a July 2010 power outage forced the temporary closure of one of the plant's two potlines. The process of gradually restarting the 216 pots on the suspended production line...
Tiwai smelter solves decades-old byproduct problem
...The Tiwai Point aluminium smelter has solved an almost 40-year-old hazard waste problem and opened a new shipping route from Bluff at the same time...
Sumitomo joins Malaysia aluminium smelting project
...Sumitomo Corp (8053.T), Japan's No.3 trading house, said it will join an aluminium smelting project of Malaysia's biggest aluminium maker Press Metal Bhd (PMET.KL) (PMB) to tap growing demand there...
Sumitomo to buy stake in RM2.78bil smelter project in S'wak
...Sumitomo Corp, Japan’s third-largest trading company, will invest in an aluminum smelting project costing as much as US$900mil (RM2.78bil) in Sarawak...
Old Knox County aluminum smelter added to Superfund list
...A South Knox County site is among seven the EPA added to its list of hazardous waste sites with possible risks to human health and the environment...
Rio Tinto Alcan to Increase Production at Iceland Smelter
...Rio Tinto Alcan will move forward with its planned $347 million modernisation project to increase the annual production capacity of its aluminium smelter in Straumsvik, Iceland (ISAL), after finalising the landmark energy supply agreement reached earlier this year with Landsvirkjun, the...
BHP Billiton was guilty of double standards by complicating public access to documents about a planned filter shutdown at its Mozambican aluminium smelter, an activist said on Friday.
...BHP Billiton was guilty of double standards by complicating public access to documents about a planned filter shutdown at its Mozambican aluminium smelter, an activist said on Friday...
BHP 'did not consult industries about pollution'
...Maputo - BHP Billiton's Mozambique aluminium smelter did not consult its industrial neighbours about a planned six-month-long air pollution, an official said on Thursday...
Rio Tinto Alcan Moves Forward With US$347 Million Project to Modernise and Increase Production Capacity at its Iceland Smelter
...Rio Tinto Alcan will move forward with its planned $347 million modernisation project to increase the annual production capacity of its aluminium smelter in Straumsvik, Iceland (ISAL), after finalising the landmark energy supply agreement reached earlier this year with Landsvirkjun, the...
UPDATE 2-Hydro triples aluminium cost-cutting goals
... Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro (NHY.OL) tripled its cost-cutting goal on Wednesday, saying it now intends to reduce its smelter costs around the world by $300 per tonne of metal produced....
Dubai Aluminium to attend German trade fair
...Khaleej Times reported that Dubai Aluminium Company Limited the state owned enterprise that owns and operates one of the world’s largest single site aluminium smelters will take part in the 8th World Trade Fair and Conference Aluminium 2010 which takes place in Messe Essen of Germany from...
UAE aluminum producers plan to purchase more raw materials
...It is reported that two of the largest aluminum smelters, Dubai Aluminium Company and Abu Dhabi based Emirates Aluminium Company are planning to buy more raw materials such as calcined petroleum coke, liquid pitch and alumina in order to meet strong growth in demand...
