
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), the world's largest aluminium smelter on one site, is pleased to announce the recent promotions of S. Abbas S. Baqer to Manager Calciner & Marine and Ali Aseeri to Manager Engineering & Projects. Since joining Alba in 1989 as a Vocational Trainee, S. Abbas S. Baqer...
Vedanta Aluminium veteran Rajiv Kumar has been appointed Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Jindal Steel after completing a successful stint as Chief Executive Officer of Vedanta Aluminium. Kumar, who brings more than three decades of experience in the metals and mining industry, will now oversee the...
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Sapa’s Jack C. Pell is one of five new persons elected to the U.S. Aluminum Association’s Board of Directors. Pell leads the commercial organization for Sapa’s Extrusion Americas business area, which is responsible for the company’s general extrusion activities in North and South America. He...

Orbite Aluminae Inc. announced today that following his appointment as Chief Financial Officer of Barrick Gold, Mr. Shaun Usmar resigned, effective today, from his position as Director of the Company. “We would like to thank Shaun for his support of the Company during his time on our Board and wish...

Norwegian aluminium company Norsk Hydro ASA will implement several changes in its Corporate Management Board, effective January 1, 2015. Kjetil Ebbesberg will become the new executive vice president (EVP) for the Rolled Products business area, Hanne Simensen the new EVP for People & HSE (health,...

Constellium N.V. today announced that Laurent Musy has been appointed President of its Aerospace and Transportation (A&T) business unit effective December 1, 2014, reporting to Pierre Vareille, Chief Executive Officer of Constellium. Mr. Musy has served as President of Constellium’s Packaging &...

ASX-listed MetroCoal on Monday announced the appointment of Simon Finnis as the new CEO, effective from January 12. Finnis would replace CEO Mike O’Brien, who will continue on as project director. Finnis is currently the CEO of Grand Côte Operations SA, in Senegal, and has been involved in the...

Dr. Niranjan Kumar Singh has been appointed as Part-time official Director of National Aluminium Company Ltd with effect from November 12, 2014 vide Order dated November 12, 2014 of Ministry of Mines, Government of India. Shares of NATIONAL ALUMINIUM CO.LTD. was last trading in BSE at Rs.60.8 as...

UC RUSAL, a leading global aluminium producer, announces the appointment of Vladislav Soloviev, previously First Deputy CEO, as Chief Executive Officer of RUSAL. Oleg Deripaska, who previously held this position, has become the President of the Company. As CEO, Vladislav Soloviev’s focus will be on...

Greco Aluminum Railings Ltd. announced the promotion of Dino Aleo to president and Dave Paquette to vice president of business development. As president, Aleo will oversee day-to-day operations and the execution of strategic growth goals and objectives for both Greco Aluminum Railings Ltd. and its...

Aluminum Corp of China (Chinalco), the nation's biggest producer of alumina, has appointed Ge Honglin, mayor of Chengdu, as chairman, replacing Xiong Weiping, who led the company since 2009. The decision was announced on Monday afternoon during a corporate conference. Ge, born in 1956, worked in...

The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has recommended RINL Director T K Chand's name for appointment as Chairman and Managing Director of aluminium maker Nalco. Chand would succeed Anshuman Das as the head of Odisha-based aluminium maker Nalco, if the government approves his name after...

The Recycling Industry Operating Standard™ (RIOS™) recently named Jeremy Miller of Wm. Miller Scrap Iron & Metal Co. in Winona, Minnesota and Scott Venhaus of Arrow Electronics in Englewood, Colorado to its Board of Directors. Each will serve a three year term. RIOS™ is the recycling industry’s...

Rio Tinto bauxite and alumina president Phillip Strachan has been appointed as the new head of the Australian Aluminium Council. Alcoa of Australia's managing director Alan Cransberg has been appointed as the Council's new vice president. Speaking on his new appointment, Strachan said "I look...

Svein Richard Brandtzæg will stay on as President and CEO of Norwegian aluminium company Norsk Hydro ASA. "We are very pleased that Brandtzæg has decided to continue as President and CEO of Hydro," said Dag Mejdell, chair of Hydro's Board of Directors. "Brandtzæg has led the company in a steady and...

Peter Wall will soon become the new chairman of Aziana Liminted replacing John Morris. The switch will come into effect on 30th September 2014. Wall is a Perth-based corporate lawyer with an experience of over 14 years with expertise in a wide array of corporate and commercial issues. His specialty...

Sun Zhaoxue, a senior executive at Aluminium Corp of China Ltd (Chalco), has resigned according to the company’s statement on Tuesday. The resignation came a day after the declaration that he was under suspicion of corruption by a top anti-graft government agency. Sun Zhaoxue is also the general...

After the 2015 annual meeting of stockholders, Kaiser Aluminium Corporation (KALU) announced that the board of directors has sanctioned an increase in authorized members from 10 to 11. They have even appointed L. Patrick Hassey to the board. Until his retirement in May 2011, Mr. Hassey served as...

The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), the Voice of the Recycling IndustryTM, recently named Paul Brenner of Brenner Recycling (Hazleton, PA) and Scott Miller of Sims Metal Management (New York, NY) to its Board of Directors. Both will serve as directors-at-large through the 2016 term....

First Bauxite Corporation today announced that effective immediately Mr. Alan Roughead has replaced Mr. Hilbert Shields as President and Chief Executive Officer of FBX. Alan brings over 25 years of experience in the industrial minerals industry focused on operations, marketing and finance. Until...