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...
Rio Tinto adds Aurukun's 8 tpa bauxite opportunity to growing Cape York pipeline
The acquisition gives Rio Tinto control of a major undeveloped Cape York resource as it expands its existing Weipa operations and advances new mining areas. Rio Tinto is expanding its Cape York bauxite portfolio by acquiring the Aurukun bauxite project from Glencore and Mitsubishi, adding a...
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Alcoa renews power sourcing agreement with AGL Energy for Portland Aluminium Smelter
On Friday, August 18, Alcoa Corporation, the world’s eighth-largest aluminium producer, announced the renewal of the agreement with AGL Energy Limited (AGL) to source 300 megawatts of power for its Portland Aluminium Smelter in Victoria. The new agreement will be valid for nine years, effective...
Australian aluminium extruder Capral Limited posts strong H1 result than expected
Capral Limited, manufacturer and distributor of fabricated and semi-fabricated aluminium and associated products in Australia, has reported strong result for H1 2023 that has outperformed expectations. As per the report, the company’s net cash stood at $41.2 million at the end of the year’s first...
Bobby, the newly launched soft-drink company uses recycled aluminium for its packaging
Bobby, the newest "healthy" soft drink to enter the market, is a low-sugar, sustainable soft drink alternative devoid of preservatives and artificial flavours and contains gut-friendly bacteria. Sustainability is at the core of Bobby, and is known for using ecologically friendly packaging made of...
Alinta locks deal to construct a 200MWh big battery near Alcoa's Wagerup alumina refinery
Alinta Energy, an Australian energy business, has announced its plant to construct a 200MWh battery next to the Alcoa alumina plant to help stabilise the grid and supply backup power. On Thursday, Alinta said it hired Shanghai Electric Power Design Institute and Sunterra to construct the 100MW,...
China’s A00 aluminium ingot price drops by RMB10/t; Australian alumina FOB price inches up by US$1/t
On Wednesday, August 9, SMM aluminium reported that China’s A00 aluminium ingot price has dipped by RMB 10 per tonne to close at RMB 18,470 per tonne, with the spot contract prices expected to be traded at a discount price of RMB 30 per tonne to a premium price of RMB 10 per tonne. The average...
Reko Rennie's artwork featuring aluminium panels celebrates eel's heritage in Parramatta
Reko Rennie's 'Where Eels Lie Down' pays homage to the eel's heritage in Parramatta with a large-scale piece depicting two eels emerging from the earth and crossing each other as they play. Visitors can walk under, around, and through portions of the 7.5-metre-tall painted aluminium and granite...
KOMBI modular aluminium stairs get selected for API’s Marsden Park distribution centre in Sydney
Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (API), the parent company of popular brands such as Priceline, Soul Pattinson and Pharmacist Advice, has established a brand new 32,506 sqm distribution centre in Marsden Park, Sydney. After vivid scrutiny, KOMBI aluminium stairs and walkways were chosen by the...
Australian University embarks on a quest to recycle end-of-life photovoltaic panels
University of New South Wales (UNSW) researchers in Australia have developed a new technique for recycling end-of-life photovoltaic (PV) panels, which can separate 99% of PV cell particles. Recycling PV panels is quite a task because innumerable components, such as glass, silicon, aluminium,...
Greater Geelong initiates blister pack waste recycling drive with Pharmacycle
The City of Greater Geelong has launched an innovative end-to-end recycling program to divert blister packs from landfills. In collaboration with the Rotary Club of Geelong East and recycling business Pharmacycle, the Rotary Club of Highton has installed 60 blister pack collection boxes in ten...
Alumina Ltd appoints Alistair Field as a new Non-Executive Director to the Board
Alumina Limited, a leading Australian company focused on investing in long-life, low cost bauxite and alumina assets, announced the hiring of Mr Alistair Field as a Non-Executive Director with effect from January 15, 2024. Mr Field has retired from Sims Limited as the Chief Executive Officer and...
Dongara Marine sourcing Capral Aluminium for its project since 2012
Dongara Marine has been a cornerstone of the West Australian maritime sector since 1975. Established in its eponymous town by boat designer John Fitzhardinge, the company relocated to a newly built waterfront shipyard in Geraldton's harbour in 2022. Dongara Marine has been sourcing Capral Aluminium...
Innovision, the award-winning aluminium trailer boat business celebrates 10 years of journey
In 2013, Simon Minoprio, ex-professional sailor and marine electrician, founded the award-winning NZ aluminium trailer boat business named “Innovision Boats”, which has made its own identity among the other participants of the same industry in Australasia. Being a man from the waters, he believed...
Rio Tinto takes $1.7 billion hit: Alumina refineries write-off attributed to Australia's decarbonization scheme
The global mining and metal giant Rio Tinto has expressed concern that the expenses associated with renewable energy could severely impact Australia's industrial prospects. This comes in the wake of the company's absorption of a significant $1.2 billion loss and depreciation related to its alumina...
Surefire unlocks milestone: Produces 4N HPA from Victory Bore
The Australian-based mineral-exploration company Surefire Resources has made its way onto the global stage for battery and LED markets by confirming 99.99 per cent pure alumina in test work utilising waste rock from its 100 per cent-owned Victory Bore vanadium mine, located roughly 400 kilometres...
South32 concludes 'Fiscal Year' with impressive performance, aluminium production witnessed significant growth
The Perth headquartered mining and metal company, South32, which is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange with secondary listings on the Johannesburg and London Stock Exchanges, reported that during the fiscal year ending in June, there had been three consecutive annual production records...
“Due to the intense amount of energy required to create aluminium from raw materials, the need to recycle aluminium is extremely important to reduce our country’s energy consumption in creating this resource.” – PanelCycle
PanelCycle Bio (extracted from LinkedIn): We are pleased to offer a comprehensive solution for the responsible recycling of combustible ACP cladding that has been removed from buildings in Australia. Our team will expertly collect the materials from your site and transport them to our...
Top 8 alumina-producing countries and companies in the world
Alumina is essential for the production of primary aluminium. It is obtained from bauxite ore through the Bayer process and serves as the primary feedstock in the Hall-Héroult process , which extracts the non-ferrous metal, aluminium from its powder form. Alumina production is energy-intensive but...
Rio Tinto to build hydrogen plant with Sumitomo for Yarwun alumina refinery aiming to curb carbon emissions
According to a report on Wednesday, July 12, Rio Tinto, an Anglo-Australian metals and mining group, will build a pilot hydrogen plant in Gladstone and retrofit an alumina refinery to replace natural gas use with clean hydrogen for the alumina refining process. It will be done with the help of...
