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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Rio Tinto’s first bauxite shipment arrives in Gladstone
The first shipment of bauxite from Rio Tinto’s $2.6 billion Amrun bauxite project in Queensland has arrived at the Port of Gladstone. More than 80,000 tonnes of bauxite were loaded onto the vessel RTM Weipa for departure from the Western Cape York Peninsula on December 3, achieved six weeks ahead...
Alcoa secures three new gas supply contracts for Western Australia alumina refineries
Alcoa of Australia has reportedly acquired three new gas supply agreements. All three agreements, together, will supply close to 25 per cent of the company’s requirements in Western Australia from 2020. The agreements with BHP, Woodside, and Chevron, coupled with other gas supply contracts,...
Austal confirms the receipt of TT$ 486 million high-speed vehicle contract from Trinidad and Tobago
On December 4, 2018, Australian ship-building company Austal Limited confirmed that it bagged a contract of almost half a million TT dollars for designing and constructing a high-speed vehicle and passenger catamaran for Trinidad and Tobago. Contracted by the National Development Company (NIDCO),...
ABx announces the completion of stage 1 aluminium fluoride lab in NSW
Australian Bauxite Limited (ABx) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary ALCORE Limited completed the construction of stage 1 aluminium fluoride lab and acquired the necessary equipment to produce test samples. Per the firm, both the tasks reached ahead of schedule and under the budget. The...
Rio Tinto loads first shipment of bauxite from Amrun mine
Rio Tinto has loaded first shipment of bauxite from its US$1.9 billion Amrun project in Queensland, six weeks ahead of schedule. More than 80,000 tonnes of bauxite are expected to arrive at Rio Tinto’s Yarwun alumina refinery in Gladstone next week. Rio Tinto Aluminium chief executive Alf Barrios...
Deco introduces a new range of colours to its powder-coated aluminium finish DecoWood
Deco, the producer of decorative powder-coated aluminium finish DecoWood, has reportedly unveiled six woodgrain colours for its timber-finish colour range. This brings the DecoWood colour series to a total of 30 different woodgrains, replicating natural timber species from Australia and across the...
Nalco to bid for bauxite blocks and start merchant mining of the raw material
The state-run National Aluminium Company Limited has reportedly decided to bid at the auctions of 21 bauxite blocks to be put up for allocation by the governments of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, and Madhya Pradesh. According to the report, Nalco will put in bids for captive consumption and start...
Australia’s Pure Alumina Limited distributes HPA samples from its Yenden project
The Australian firm Pure Alumina Limited last week distributed samples from the undeveloped Yenden project to potential customers for assessment. The company originally named Hill End Gold Limited changed its name to Pure Alumina, with effect from 5 November 2018, in order to reflect its focus on...
Metallica Minerals inks contract for the build of a haul road to link Urquhart Bauxite project
An Australian bauxite developer Metallica Minerals Ltd. reportedly announced today, on November 9, that it signed an agreement that would allow the construction of a haul road to link Metallica’s Urquhart Bauxite project and the barge loading facilities at the nearby Hey Point in Queensland. This...
Altech Chemicals reports steady development in HPA site in its September quarterly report
Altech Chemicals published Quarterly Report for September 2018. The company organized the official ground breaking ceremony for Altech’s held at Johor HPA site during this quarter. The Australian High Commissioner and German Ambassador to Malaysia unveiled official opening plaque. The ceremony was...
Darley Aluminium adds a new, unique trickle ventilation system to its product range
Darley Aluminium reportedly introduces a new trickle ventilation system to its range. The new product, named the Darley Ventient trickle ventilation system, is designed in a way to allow fresh air into a space without the need for operable windows. It can ventilate a space even when doors and...
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) helps Japanese company sell stake in Australian mine
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) advised ITOCHU Corporation on its $250m sale of its 5% stake in a bauxite mining and alumina refinery in Western Australia. The Japanese general trading company sold its interest in the Worsley Alumina project near Boddington to Press Metal Bintulu, which is 80% owned...
Bauxite Resources Ltd updates on it September quarter activities and JV with HD Mining
Bauxite Resources Ltd (BRL) has released its September 2018 Quarterly Report. The report updates on its ongoing projects and future plans. The company continued work on silica sand projects at Albany, Esperance and Gingin and hard-rock quartz projects in Halls Creek, South West WA and Far North...
SeaLink’s first new lightweight aluminium vessel to start operating end 2019
The United Kingdom-based ferry company SeaLink said that it would build the first new vessel at Richardson Devine Marine (RDM) in Goodwood, Hobart, adding that the service of the new vessel would expectedly start in December 2019. The service of the second new vessel is expected to launch in 2021....
South32 firm on alumina production guidance for FY 19 despite lower output in the first quarter
Australian metals miner South32 Limited released production results for Q1 FY 2019 on 18 October, reporting lower outputs at both alumina and aluminium operations. In the just-ended September quarter, South32 refined 1.15 million tonnes of alumina, off by 11 per cent from the preceding quarter....
Press Metal acquires 50pc stake in Australia-based Japan Alumina Associates for A$250m
Press Metal Aluminium Holdings Bhd, the largest aluminium smelter in Southeast Asia, is buying a 50 per cent stake in Japan Alumina Associates (Australia) Pty Ltd (JAA) for A$250 million (RM739 million). JAA holds a 10 per cent stake in Worsley Alumina unincorporated joint venture which owns and...
Altech awarded patent for kaolin to high purity alumina production process
Altech Chemicals Limited has received the Certificate of Grant for an Innovation Patent from the Australian Patent Office (IP Australia), for its process of producing high purity alumina (HPA) from kaolin (aluminous clay). Altech Chemicals managing director Iggy Tan said, “The journey to patent...
Australian aluminum imports to US rise, discounts grow: sources
Increasing Australian aluminum imports to the US have created ample ingot supply, which market sources believe is causing wider discounts on P1020. "There is some Australian product coming in, I wouldn't say it's a massive volume, but we've definitely seen some uptick in that market," a port source...
