The aluminium industry is entering the second half of 2026 with demand signals moving in different directions. Beverage cans are finding new consumption opportunities in Brazil, extrusion demand remains resilient in key markets, and aluminium producers are benefiting from firmer prices. At the same...
Alurion Resources has started infill drilling and bulk-sample trenching at its Amargosa Bauxite-Gallium Project in Bahia, Brazil, as the newly listed company advances the asset toward a targeted mid-2027 pre-feasibility study. The field programme marks a shift from defining the project’s resource...
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Alcoa, the world’s largest bauxite miner, today announced that Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals (AWAC) has secured multiple bauxite supply contracts valued at more than $350 million over the next two years. Under the contracts, the Company will supply bauxite to external customers from three of...
Alumina import to China rose 13 per cent year-on-year in February 2016 and 23.12 per cent year-on-year during January - February 2016, revealed data released by the General Administration of Customs, China on March 21. Total alumina imported in February stood at 372,375 million tonnes, while it...
Technavio has announced the top five leading vendors in their recent Brazilian mining industry outlook 2015-2019. Out of the top five vendors, three hail from the aluminium value chain, that is, they either have operations in bauxite mining or run integrated facilities including alumina refinery....
South32, the spin-off of mining giant BHP Billiton, posted underlying first half earnings of US$26mn. The figure, for the six months ended December 31, compares with underlying earnings of US$460mn a year earlier, the firm said in a release. The new company took operational control of its assets a...
Noranda Aluminum Holding Corp, which smelts and refines aluminum and mines bauxite, filed for bankruptcy on Monday and joined a growing list of commodity-related businesses in Chapter 11. Over the past year scores of commodity-related businesses have filed for bankruptcy as prices for metals,...
According to the data revealed by Brazil’s foreign trade ministry, alumina exports of the country remained nearly stable year-on-year in December 2015. A total of 699,456 tons of alumina (aluminium oxide powder refined from bauxite) was shipped abroad last month, a rise from 698,969 tons in...
The Research Council of Norway and the state of Pará in Brazil has agreed on a new research collaboration. The agreement is important for Hydro's research on biodiversity and forest rehabilitation after bauxite mining. In 2013, Hydro joined an extensive research collaboration (Biodiversity Research...
Protectionist action is clearly on the rise and even as economies slowly recover next year anti-dumping action can be surely expected to get worse not better across the world. Aluminium along with other industrial metals have hit the headlines most this year, not surprisingly as the volumes are...
Ball Corporation has won Brazilian approval of its proposed £5.4bn ($8.2bn) acquisition of Rexam. The tribunal of Brazil’s competition watchdog, the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) approved the merger last week on condition it adopts structural and behavioural measures settled in...
Brazil's primary aluminum production fell 20.5% through November to 708,500t, local Aluminum Association Abal reported. Primary aluminum output in November dipped 11.5% year-on-year to 69,300t. Brazilian production of the metal began declining in March 2014 and has yet to bounce back. For full-year...
Ball Corporation could be forced to sell off more assets than originally anticipated to satisfy competition concerns over its £4.3bn takeover of Rexam, the UK drinks can maker. US-based Ball announced on Monday that it would sell approximately €1.5bn of bonds denominated in euros and dollars to...
Alberto Fabrini, Executive Vice President Bauxite & Alumina, says Hydro’s ambition is to return the forest impacted by bauxite mining to the same or better state than before mining activity. At a climate and biodiversity seminar in Belem, Brazil, on Wednesday this week, Fabrini stressed Hydro’s...
Brazil, the world's biggest collector of aluminium cans, broke its own record for recycling the material in 2014, the Brazilian Aluminium Association, or Abal, said. The numbers can be attributed to the rising costs of energy and the fragility of an economy plagued by recession and accelerating...
Ball Corp. announced that it will acquire the minority interest owned by its joint-venture partners in Latapack-Ball that supplies cans and ends to the Brazilian market. Ball Corp. said it will acquire the remaining 39.9 percent minority interest in the Latapack-Ball beverage-can business in...
Brazil’s Federal and State Public Attorneys in Pará and the State Public Defender has requested that the Brazilian federal court halt activities at the Vila do Conde port to clean up after a ship, carrying cattle, capsized in the port on October 6. Hydro’s operations at the nearby Albras and...
HyPlus aluminium line sets are lighter and cost less than their copper equivalents. Sapa presented the aluminium tubes to HVAC&R companies at the Febrava trade exhibition in São Paulo, Brazil. The selling points of the HyPlus line sets are plenty, including lighter weight, corrosion resistance, and...
Hydro has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with Brazilian mining company Vale for the possible acquisition of Vale's 40 % interest in Brazilian bauxite producer Mineração Rio do Norte (MRN), which would strengthen Hydro's global position as a long player in bauxite and alumina. An eventual agreement...
Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Economico or CADE concluded the first stage of its investigation and the General Superintendent issued an opinion that expresses competition concerns regarding unconditional clearance of Ball Corp.'s proposed acquisition of Rexam Plc. While Ball respectfully...
