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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Switching to low-cost renewable energy could bail out the Australian Aluminium sector
The aluminium sector of Australia could become the model for the sustainable heavy industry by switching to low-cost, zero-emission electricity and investing in plant modernisation. The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), an accomplished think tank for renewables,...
Fine Wine rolls-out Monk fruit wine in aluminium bottles bound for Australia
Fun Wine, the Miami-based low alcohol flavoured wine drink firm rolls-out Monk fruit wine collection range in single-serve aluminium bottles bound for Australia. The monk fruit range features six flavours, including Peach Passion Moscato, Cappuccino Chardonnay and espresso Cabernet. Fine Wine uses...
LAlumina LLC laying off more than 300 employees and seeking new buyer for the facility
According to a recent report, LAlumina LLC is close to the process of employee retrenchment due to the continued economic challenge, as was announced months ago. The news came after former acting plant manager Peter Odgers said the process of laying off more than 300 employees is nearly completed....
Australia: Bell Bay Aluminium unites with West Tamar Council to support local businesses
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the Apple Island’s shores in March’20, many Tasmanian businesses received a financial blow, but a partnership is supporting five businesses in the West Tamar to move ahead towards the future. The West Tamar Council and Rio Tinto's Bell Bay Aluminium smelter united to...
Australian mineral water brand Calm & Stormy initiates a shift from single-use plastic bottles to aluminium cans
Australian mineral water brand Calm & Stormy has reportedly introduced aluminium can packaging as an alternative option to single-use plastic bottles. According to the report, the company’s aluminium can packaging contains 70 per cent recycled content. Calm & Stormy believes aluminium cans are the...
Capral Limited – a new member in the Australian Aluminium Council
According to a recent report, Capral Limited, Australia’s largest extruder and distributor of aluminium products, has joined the Australian Aluminium Council. The news came after the latter announced that it welcomed Capral as a new member, highlighting the growing importance of end-to-end domestic...
Nissan celebrates 'World EV Day' producing 500,000th of its 100% electric car Nissan LEAF
The world is celebrating its first-ever 'World EV Day' on September 9, and to commemorate the occasion, Nissan has announced a major milestone of producing its 500,000 th Nissan LEAF, the world’s first mass-market 100 per cent electric car. With half billion LEAF built globally, customers around...
Metro’s shipment from Bauxite Hills Mine continues to increase amidst slow mining activities
Even amidst the slowdown in mining activities at the Bauxite Hills Mine, Queensland, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Metro Mining Limited has not witnessed any dive in its shipments. Rather the company’s shipments have continued to grow, having August shipping rates returned to the levels...
Alcoa to work with FYI Resources to advance high purity alumina development
FYI Resources has reportedly signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Alcoa of Australia to advance the development of high purity alumina (HPA) refining technologies. FYI has already started developing a process for producing high-quality HPA in the face of a limited supply of the product....
Norweld: The specialist in aluminium “ute tray and canopy” opens its facility in Sydney
Norweld, specialising in aluminium ute tray and canopy installation for four-wheel-drives has opened its facility in Sydney, Australia. This company’s speciality leads the market in innovation. Jonathon Warren has been appointed as the branch manager for Norweld’s Sydney workshop and he will be...
Austal USA delivers 12th Expeditionary Fast Transport ship made from aluminium to US Navy
The US wing of Australia’s global ship-building firm Austal to deliver USNS Newport, the 12 th Spearhead-class Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF) ship and it brings up the total delivered number to 24 in ten years, including three in the current year to the US Navy by Austal USA. David Singleton,...
Cotton On Foundation launches bottled water in 100% aluminium
Cotton On Foundation, in partnership with Wallaby Water, has announced the launch of Australia’s first 100 percent resealable aluminium bottled water. Aluminium packaging will compete against plastic, cartons and glass packaging as the nation’s most recycled and recyclable packaging alternative for...
Alcore signs MoU with Sojitz for Aluminium Fluoride
Australian Bauxite Limited’s subsidiary ALCORE Limited has executed a Memorandum of Understanding agreement (MoU) with the Japanese global trading company Sojitz Corporation (Sojitz). Both the companies will explore a potential business relationship with respect to the business of Aluminium...
A00 aluminium ingot price grows to RMB14750/t; Input costs remain muted except a plunge in Australian alumina FOB price
According to the Shanghai Metals Market, the A00 aluminium ingot price has recorded a rise of RMB 50 per tonne to stand at RMB 14,750 per tonne on Tuesday, August 25, following a downfall on the previous day from RMB 14,840 per tonne to RMB 14,700 per tonne. The average prices are expected to range...
ABx completes 33,405 tonnes of cement-grade bauxite shipment from Bald Hill mine
Last week, on August 20, Australian Bauxite Limited (ABx) announced that it completed the shipment of its most recent sale of 33,405 tonnes of cement-grade bauxite from Bald Hill bauxite mine near Campbell Town, Tasmania. The firm said the loading at the Bell Bay port commenced on Monday, August...
COVID-19 hardly to impact global Bauxite supply: GlobalData Consulting
The global bauxite production for 2020 has been predicted to shrink by 0.1%, to 344 mt, as per the UK headquartered data analytics and consulting company GlobalData, production is hardly affected by the interim halt of mines due to COVID-19 epidemic. GlobalData stated that the production in...
Development Application approved for aluminium extrusion plant at former Electrolux factory site
On Tuesday, August 18, Orange City Council approved a development application for a $4.8 million aluminium extrusion and powder coating plant on the site of the former Electrolux factory. A-Tech Extrusion Systems, an industry leader in supplying high quality aluminium windows & doors across Sydney,...
COVID-19 Impact: Metro Mining forwarding wet-season shutdown at its Bauxite Hills Mine
Metro Mining Limited has announced that it is moving into the planned 2020 wet season shutdown earlier than usual. The decision has been made given the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 which continues to have an adverse impact on the market demand and price in the aluminium industry. Mining at the...
