Storvik and Charl-Pol have launched Alumotion to bring proven robotic solutions, local engineering and lifecycle support closer to Canada's aluminium smelters. Canadian aluminium smelters are set to gain a new source of automation expertise as Storvik and Canadian technology company Charl-Pol...
The US Department of Justice has urged a court to dismiss Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s lawsuit filed on the proposed USD 4 billion Oklahoma aluminium smelter, arguing that the project would strengthen national and economic security. The move comes as the joint venture of Emirates...
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Treasury advised the Government not to pay the owners of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter to keep the business running during negotiations over power prices with Meridian Energy, documents released this afternoon show. Early last month the Government made a one-off payment of $30 million to New...
As in prior years, the role of the UAE primary aluminium sector within the global industry will again be promoted by Dubai Aluminium and Emirates Aluminium at the 28th International Aluminium Conference, organised and hosted by Metal Bulletin in Geneva, Switzerland, from 16 to 18 September 2013...
Hindalco Industries stands to benefit from the weakening of the rupee against the dollar, as copper and aluminium prices are dollar-denominated, Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla told shareholders at the company’s 54th annual general meeting on Tuesday. “The only foreign loan we (Hindalco Industries)...
The US firm Bechtel is setting up a Dubai office for its mining and metals division, as the company sees growing opportunities for the sector in the Arabian Gulf. Bechtel, one of the largest engineering and construction companies in the world, wants to tap into a market where it estimates contracts...
Rio Tinto Alcan celebrates the first metal produced at its new US$ 1.1 billion Arvida Aluminium Smelter, AP60 Technology Centre, in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec. This important milestone marks the transition from a world-class construction project to a 60,000-tonne technology development centre...
A group of independent documentary makers has produced videos alleging that two aluminium smelter plants in Sarawak pose health hazards to people living in the surrounding areas. In a series of clips uploaded to YouTube, several people are interviewed about the health problems they have experienced...
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba), one of the largest aluminium smelters in the world, has launched a four-pronged campaign to bolster the safety culture across the firm and establish a zero accident work environment. The main thrust of the campaign is that safety must envelope each and every aspect of an...
China’s Aluminum Corp of China (Chalco) decided to scrap its plans (or at least suspend them) to open a $1 billion aluminum smelter in Malaysia, according to Reuters. Since China’s aluminum market operates in a sort of vacuum from the rest of the global aluminum sector, immediate effects on prices...
Aluminum Corp of China (Chalco) , the top producer of the metal in China, has suspended a smelter project in Malaysia worth more than $1 billion, a company spokesman said on Tuesday. "The project is stalled now," the spokesman told Reuters. Chalco signed a frame agreement with Malaysian company...
After a failed bid to buy surplus alumina from National Aluminium Company (Nalco) to run its alumina smelting facility at Jharsuguda, Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) has sought the intervention of the Odisha government on the matter. With its aluminum smelter at risk, VAL wants the state government to...
Sundry allegations of improprieties against Rusal, embattled managers of the Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria, Ikot Abasi, and self-praise responses from its management seem to be the only products at installed capacity at the company whose ownership and hitch-free operation remain dogged by...
Press Metal Bhd (Press Metal) is expected to start seeing signs of recovery from the fourth quarter of the financial year 2013 (4QFY13) onwards as its Samalaju smelter is expected to stabilise from October while part of its pots in Mukah may be back in operation at the later part of the year,...
UC RUSAL, a leading, global aluminium producer announces a USD 3 mln project aimed at environmental modernization of the carbon area which includes production of anode paste (the anode paste plant, APP) at its Krasnoyarsk Aluminium Smelter (KrAZ). The engineering stage will be completed in 2013,...
The aluminium smelter project, part of Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC)'s ambitious Rs 15,000-crore aluminium park in Kutch, Gujarat, has been put on back burner as GMDC and its partner National Aluminium Company Ltd (Nalco) are yet to finalise the terms and conditions for it. GMDC...
Construction of EMAL's Phase II expansion is more than 70% complete and on schedule to meet its December 2013 deadline. Cooperation with Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC) is helping to ensure that the expansion of Emirates Aluminium (EMAL) into one of the world's largest single-site aluminium smelters...
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) has sought extension of SEZ (Special Economic Zone) benefits for its 1.25 million tonne aluminium smelter project at Jharsuguda. VAL has already invested Rs 12,000 crore on the smelter complex. The project was set up as a sector specific SEZ for producing aluminium metal...
Meridian Energy - the jewel in the Government's portfolio of crown assets - may be worth nearly $2 billion less than it was valued at a year ago when it is finally listed. In its 2012 statement of corporate intent released in September last year Meridian Energy estimated its commercial value to the...
Two Kentucky electric cooperatives are teaming up on a deal that will save hundreds of jobs at an aluminum smelter they serve. Century Aluminum of Kentucky will now be supplied with electricity procured on the open market by Big Rivers Electric Corp. and distributed by Kenergy Corp. Both the G&T...
