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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Maaden to meet lenders over $10.8bn aluminium project
...Saudi Arabian Mining Co (Maaden) and Alcoa have met with lenders in Dubai to work on the documentation for the financing of its $10.8bn aluminium project, Meed has reported. The project comprises of an aluminium smelter and a rolling mill, with later phases including a bauxite mine. The smelter...
Maaden to meet lenders over $10.8bn aluminium project
...Saudi Arabian Mining Co (Maaden) and Alcoa have met with lenders in Dubai to work on the documentation for the financing of its $10.8bn aluminium project, Meed has reported. The project comprises of an aluminium smelter and a rolling mill, with later phases including a bauxite mine. The smelter...
Maaden to meet lenders over $10.8bn aluminium project
...Saudi Arabian Mining Co (Maaden) and Alcoa have met with lenders in Dubai to work on the documentation for the financing of its $10.8bn aluminium project, Meed has reported. The project comprises of an aluminium smelter and a rolling mill, with later phases including a bauxite mine. The smelter...
Aluminium Bahrain may demolish 2 potlines
...MEED reported that Aluminium Bahrain is considering plans to demolish the 2 original two potlines at its smelter as part of its USD 1 billion to USD 2 billion modernization and expansion plans...
Valco to Be Reactivated
...Accra — The Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO), an aluminium smelting plant which was shut down two years ago due to power supply constraints, is to be reactivated...
Rio Tinto Alcan: Plan To Expand Production Capacity At Kitimat By 40%
...Rio Tinto PLC (RTP) said Thursday that it is closing two pot lines representing 67,000 metric tons of capacity at its Kitimat, British Columbia, aluminum smelter as part of a modernization plan that will see output expand by 40% to 400,000 tons a year...
China's Kaiman Aluminium Starts up New 350,000 mt/yr Smelter
...China's Kaiman Aluminum, previously known as Coalmine Aluminum, started up its new 350,000 mt/year 99.7% grade primary aluminium smelter in August, a company source said Wednesday...
China Aluminium Smelters Eye Spot Sales As Profit Window Opens
...A window of steady profitability may lead Chinese aluminium smelters to resume spot sales after a gap of two months, but traders said any surge in sales from ample stocks would quickly erode prices...
Japan offers to invest in Indonesian aluminium smelter
...Reuters reported that a consortium of Japanese investors has offered to invest USD 367 million to expand an aluminium smelter in Indonesia, an effort to maintain their majority ownership as Indonesia wants to increase its stake...
Japan offers to invest in Indonesian aluminium smelter
...Reuters reported that a consortium of Japanese investors has offered to invest USD 367 million to expand an aluminium smelter in Indonesia, an effort to maintain their majority ownership as Indonesia wants to increase its stake...
Russia's RUSAL says VEB approves $1.7 bln loan
...The world's top aluminium producer UC RUSAL (0486.HK: Quote) said state-run lender VEB had approved a 50 billion rouble ($1.66 billion) loan to help it complete the construction of a smelter and power plant...
Vneshe?onombank approves project financing for the completion of the construction of the Boguchanskaya HPP and the first start-up complex of the Boguchansky Aluminium Smelter
...Moscow, 29 July 2010 – UC RUSAL (HKSE: 486, Euronext: RUSAL/RUAL), the world’s largest aluminium producer, announces that the Supervisory Board of Vnesheconombank has approved a financing package amounting to RUR 50 billion (about USD 1.7 billion) for RUSAL and RusHydro to complete the...
Tianyuan Aluminum shut down facilities at smelting plant
...Tianyuan Aluminum Company Limited announced that it will shut down the 172 electrolytic tank facilities at the Phase II of its smelting plant by the Q3 this year, in line with the State Council's policy of eliminating outdated production facilities...
Dubai Aluminium sets import records through Jebel Ali Port
...The annual value and volume of strategic raw materials imported by Dubai Aluminium Company Limited (Dubal) through Jebel Ali Port reached record levels in 2009, boosted largely by the procurement of materials for Emirates Aluminium Company Limited PJSC (Emal) — the high-tech green-field...
Dubai Aluminium sets import records through Jebel Ali Port
...The annual value and volume of strategic raw materials imported by Dubai Aluminium Company Limited (Dubal) through Jebel Ali Port reached record levels in 2009, boosted largely by the procurement of materials for Emirates Aluminium Company Limited PJSC (Emal) — the high-tech green-field...
No Threat to Environment From Mozal Bypass
...The management of the MOZAL aluminium smelter at Beluluane, in the outskirts of Maputo, on Friday insisted that its plans to rebuild the smelter's two fume treatment centres (FTCs), although increasing emissions, will not present any significant threat to the environment or to human health...
Extend the Life of Anodes in Aluminium Smelters with Stub Straightening Systems
...Anode stub toe-in is a known and understood phenomenon in all pre-bake aluminium smelters. The high temperature in the reduction cell causes both the carbon anode and the steel yoke to expand. Carbon expands much less than steel when heated. Because the lower parts of the stubs are cast into the...
Steel Guru : EMAL inks USD 737 million deals for smelter <em>project</em> <b>...</b>
... 155002 - 2010-07-13 - Emirates Aluminium, JV between Dubai Aluminium ... and Dubai will produce primary aluminium with a product mix of sow, ...
