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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Qatalum aluminium plant to restart mid-September
...Qatar's Qatalum aluminium smelter will resume production in a few days and now aims to hit full capacity by the end of the first quarter of 2011, co-owner Norsk Hydro (NHY.OL: Quote) said on Wednesday...
DUBAL to promote UAE aluminium industry at German trade fair
...Dubai Aluminium Company Limited the entirely 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 which takes place in Messe Essen of Germany from September 14th to 16th 2010...
Trinidad says halting aluminum smelter project
...Trinidad and Tobago's government said on Wednesday it was halting a $600 million project to build a 125,000 tonnes-per-year aluminum smelter in the Caribbean nation...
Noranda Expanding Missouri Aluminum Smelter
...Noranda Aluminum Holding Corp. has announced plans to expand capacity at its aluminum smelter in New Madrid, Mo. When the $38 million project is complete, the company says production capacity will increase significantly...
Aluminium Bahrain posts $200m H1 profit
...Aluminium Bahrain, which runs an 850,000 metric-ton smelter on the island nation in the Arabian Gulf, said it had a first-half profit of $200m, beating its own forecasts...
Alba records $200 million H1 profit
...Aluminium Bahrain (Alba), one of the largest aluminium smelters in the world, said it has registered a profit of $200 million during the first half of this year...
Senator Murray Tours Alcoa Aluminum Smelter
...Murray touted her work with the U.S. Department of Energy to help broker a deal with the Bonneville Power Administration to lower energy rates and keep the aluminum smelter operating...
New Smelter Developments To Increase Production Of Aluminium
...Aluminium is set to face yet another rise in production across the globe. The rise will be due to the fact that most of smelters are developing to produce the metal...
BHP Billiton dims lights on SA growth
...Asked about plans for the group's aluminium smelters in SA and Mozambique, he replied: "We will not deploy capital in those businesses. There have been major changes in smelting technology over the past 10 years." ...
Venezuela’s aluminum smelter operates at 30 percent capacity for labor protest
...About 2,200 contractor's workers and nearly 4,800 workers of Venezuelan aluminum smelter CVG Venalum are demonstrating since Thursday morning in the premises of the plant...
Norsk Hydro force majeure for Qatalum deliveries
...Reuters reported that Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro had declared force majeure for aluminium deliveries from its Qatalum smelter in Qatar after a power failure delayed the plant's ramp up schedule...
Smelter moves to reduce emissions
...A central Queensland aluminium smelter has acknowledged it needs to substantially reduce its emissions to meet tough new environmental guidelines...
Chinese aluminium smelters adjust output under loss making price
...Japan Metal Bulletin reported that some Chinese aluminium smelters started production cut...
Redundancies offered at aluminium smelter
...Voluntary redundancies have been offered to 11 workers at the Alcoa aluminium smelter in Portland...
Rio Tinto Alcan update on Kitimat modernization project
...Rio Tinto Alcan will increase the pace of construction activity and take another step forward with site preparation for the Kitimat Modernization Project. The focus of this work will be on the construction of a new Reduction Services Building. Rio Tinto Alcan will also close and dismantle two of...
Norsk Hydro's Qatar smelter hit by power outage
...said on Tuesday the Qatalum smelter, a 50/50 joint venture between Qatar Petroleum and the Norwegian aluminium company, had suffered a power failure that would delay its ramp-up schedule...
Orissa clears Vedanta, 12 other projects
...London-based Vedanta Resources' proposal to set up the world's largest alumina smelter was cleared by the Orissa government on Tuesday...
Chinese aluminium smelters eying spot sales as profit window opens
...Reuters reported that a window of steady profitability may lead Chinese aluminium smelters to resume spot sales after a gap of 2 months but traders said that any surge in sales from ample stocks would quickly erode prices...
