85% recycled aluminium: Recorp raises the bar for sustainable beverage cans
Aluminium cans are under the spotlight among consumers and beverage manufacturers looking for more recyclable packaging, with the material already holding a strong circularity position against plastic and glass. Recorp tunes it further with ReCan85, an aluminium beverage can containing 85 per cent...
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...
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India’s estimated alumina imports from Australia and Vietnam grow YoY in 2018
According to the global export-import data, India’s estimated aluminium imports from Australia and Vietnam in 2018 grew year-on-year in tandem with the rise of the country’s total alumina imports. In 2017, India had imported 1.50 million tonnes of alumina from Australia and 339,459 tonnes from...
Pilot processing plant to help FYI Resources to build HPA plant
FYI Resources declared that it will get help from a pilot processing plant for getting offtake partners and finances to build high purity alumina (HPA) plant. FYI will build a smaller and cheaper version of pilot plant as part of advance studies into its Cadoux project in Western Australia. The...
Australia’s alumina export likely to grow marginally in 2019: South Africa to top the importers list
With seven refineries operating, Australia is the world’s second largest producer and exporter of alumina. It mostly produces smelter grade alumina for both the domestic and export markets and accounts for 22 per cent of the global production. Rio Tinto, Alcoa, South32 are some of the few...
De.mem secures water treatment contract for Rio Tinto’s Amrun bauxite mine
Water and wastewater treatment company De.mem Limited announced that the company has secured A$780,000 ($564,868) operations and maintenance contract for Rio Tinto’s Amrun bauxite mine in Queensland, Australia. De.mem will manage potable water and sewage treatment plants at the mine, for 12 months...
Aluminium systems designer Alspec collaborates with Dulux Powder Coatings
Alspec, Australia’s leading designer of innovative aluminium systems, has collaborated with Dulux, the largest powder coating manufacturer in Australia and New Zealand. Alspec said the new partnership between Alspec AluSpace and Dulux Powder Coatings brings together the depth of experience and...
Australian Bauxite Limited commences mining operations at Bald Hill Bauxite Project
Australian Bauxite Limited has begun mining and screening operations at its Bald Hill mine near Campbell Town, northern Tasmania, as it prepares for the next cargo of seaborne cement-grade bauxite. The company has worked with the customer for the 4 months to achieve the optimum product...
Metro Mining's Bauxite Hill mine reported 2 million WMT bauxite shipment to China in 2018
Metro Mining has published its 4th Quarter Report. Bauxite production for the quarter was 743k wet metric tonnes (WMT). About 816k WMT bauxite was shipped in the quarter. The shipment volume remained same as the third quarter while production dropped slightly due to bad weather. Annualised...
Australian Bauxite to ship it next bauxite shipment from Bell Bay port in March
Australian Bauxite Limited announced that they would ship about 30,000 tonnes of Tasmanian bauxite from the Bell Bay port around March 1. The cement grade bauxite will be from Australian Bauxite’s Bald Hill mine, near Campbell Town. The negotiations with the customer took three months as Australian...
Extreme heat and tight power supply caused two hours power outage at Alcoa's Portland aluminium smelter
As the temperature soared above 40 degrees, it triggered power outages on Australia's strained grid on Friday. Demand for air-conditioning soared and coal-fired generators struggled to meet the surge in consumption leading to power shortage. To manage the power shortage, Australian Energy Market...
Incat launches aluminium-hulled high-speed catamaran
Australian shipbuilder Incat Tasmania reportedly launched a new aluminium-hulled catamaran in December, named Saint John Paul II, for Malta-based ship owner Virtu Ferries. The vessel, which is going to be the largest high-speed catamaran in the Mediterranean, is due to begin sea trials in January...
Rio Tinto reports 14% decline in bauxite production in Q4 2018
Global miner Rio Tinto announced fourth quarter and full year 2018 production results. Rio’s bauxite production in 2018 was one per cent lower than 2017, with strong production at Gove and the Andoom mining area in Weipa was offset by lower production at two non-managed operations. The CBG mine in...
Tellus Holdings receives Australian Government approval for kaolin mine
Tellus Holdings Ltd announced that it has received approval from the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy (DEE) for its Sandy Ridge Facility in Western Australia. The company said the Sandy Ridge Facility or the “Action” is a proposed open-cut kaolin clay mine and arid...
Australian Workers Union to challenge decision related to agreement termination at Alcoa
According to a report, The Australian Workers Union (AWU) has condemned the Fair Work Commission’s (FWC) decision taken at the end of 2018 in favour of Alcoa that it could terminate its enterprise agreement with 1600 workers. On January 4, the union said it would fight against the FWC’s decision....
Queensland container refund scheme 2018 recycles 102 million cans and collects $10 million so far
According to a report, Queenslanders have collected millions of dollars in just two months by recycling 102 million cans and bottles through the state’s container refund scheme. Queensland’s container refund scheme for most plastic drink containers, beer bottles and aluminium cans started from...
A cyclone may hit Rio Tinto’s Weipa bauxite mine in Australia
A cyclone is expected to hit the north coast of Australia’s Queensland state Weipa on Tuesday and affect Rio Tinto’s Weipa bauxite mine while disrupting shipping, reported the weather bureau. The Port of Weipa, which handles Rio’s bauxite mine as well as general cargo, remained shut for the third...
Metro Mining achieves 2018 production guidance, ships 2 million tonnes of bauxite
Metro Mining Ltd has achieved its production guidance for 2018 and has shipped 2,037,106 Wet Metric Tonnes (WMT) from its Bauxite Hills mine. The 33rd and final vessel for 2018, MV Sadlers Wells, completed loading on the 28 December and has departed for China. Despite suspending ship loading...
Deborah O’Toole Buys 8,000 Shares of Alumina Limited (AWC) Stock
Alumina Limited (ASX:AWC) insider Deborah O’Toole purchased 8,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, December 19th. The stock was bought at an average cost of A$2.25 ($1.60) per share, with a total value of A$18,000.00 ($12,765.96). ASX AWC opened at A$2.26 ($1.60) on...
Australian Bauxite confirms sale of 30,000 tonnes of cement-grade bauxite
Australian Bauxite Limited has confirmed a sale of 30,000 tonnes of bauxite from its Bald Hill Bauxite Project, Campbell Town, Northern Tasmania. The company announced through its press release that it had been the successful tenderer for its next sale of seaborne cement-grade bauxite to be...
