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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BHP Billiton came out with its annual report recently showing that the record annual production at the Alumar refinery, Brazil, contributed to a 4% increase in total alumina production in FY2012. Metal production was lower as potline capacity at Hillside in South Africa was temporarily curtailed...
The State of Pará in Brazil has decided that, effective from September 10, 2012, ICMS tax will again be collected from the fuel oil distributors, exempting Hydro's alumina refinery Alunorte from the ICMS tax. A change took place March 1, 2012, changing the collection point for ICMS tax from...
Alumina Limited chief executive John Bevan has said that the miner could be interested in buying BHP Billiton Ltd's alumina assets, following reports that BHP is considering selling its bauxite, alumina and aluminum assets in Brazil, according to The Australian Financial Review. “Alumar [in Brazil]...
Votorantim Metais (VM) is discussing the development of a bauxite project in the northern Brazilian state of Pará, local media reported. The complex will be set up in the city of Rondon, will extract about 7.1 million tpy of bauxite and will include a refinery producing about 3 million tpy of...
Brazilian smelters produced 727,300 metric tons of primary aluminum in the first half, up 2.5% from the same period of 2011, the Brazilian aluminium association Abal said Friday. Output in the month of June was 117,800 tons, or 0.6% greater, than a year earlier, Abal said in a statement. Output in...
Global miner BHP Billiton has appointed advisers to explore a sale of aluminium assets in Brazil, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. BHP declined to comment on the report that it was considering selling its stakes in the Alumar aluminium and Mineracao Rio do Norte bauxite joint ventures. BHP...
Nexans, a worldwide leading expert in the cable industry, has worked with Light, Rio de Janeiro's electric utility, to develop the innovative Lo-Sag conductor to help solve Brazil's crucial issue of supplying more electricity to its large urban centres, where the construction of new overhead...
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Aluminum Industry in Brazil - Market Opportunities and Entry Strategies, Analyses and Forecasts to 2016: Market Profile" report to their offering. Brazil was the sixth-largest aluminum producer in the world in 2010. The country's domestic...
As part of Brazil’s “Green Municipalities” program, Hydro is joining a project that will monitor deforestation throughout the Amazon region. Hydro’s bauxite mining operation in Paragominas signed an agreement June 18 with the Pará State Secretariat of the Green Municipalities Program and...
Around 6,000 lawsuits have been filed against Norway-based aluminium firm Norsk Hydro in a Brazilian small-claims court in relation to a 2009 water spill at an alumina refinery, the firm said on Friday.A spill at Hydro's majority-owned Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil in 2009 has resulted in a...
Alcoa is using a new, natural method for reforestation at its Juruti bauxite mine in Brazil that is efficient, cost effective and sustainable. The technique is based on the theory of nucleation, where small dense nuclei of plants and animals facilitate the arrival of other species. At Juruti, birds...
Novelis, the US based subsidiary of Hindalco Industries, has earmarked capital expenditure of $600-700 million primarily focused on its global expansion of projects in Brazil, South Korea, China and the United States. “We will have negative cash flow in the first quarter of 2012-13. We will invest...
The global market for Bauxite and Alumina is forecast to reach 211.3 and 76.2 million metric tons, respectively, by the year 2017. With global economy on the growth path post recession, both production and consumption levels are expected to display a positive trend, spurred by rising demand from...
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff plans to cut and simplify taxes for electricity producers and distributors, two senior officials told Reuters, as part of a strategy to reduce Brazil's high business costs and stimulate its struggling economy. Electricity prices are a big component of the...
Research and Markets as announced the addition of the "Aluminum Industry in the BRIC Countries - Market Opportunities and Entry Strategies, Analyses and Forecasts to 2016" report to their offering. The BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries play a dominant role in global aluminum industry...
Alcoa Inc. (AA) , the largest U.S. aluminum producer, said returns on $3 billion of investments in Brazil “have not yet come” because of “unbelievably high” energy costs. “We’ve invested $3 billion there and frankly the returns have not yet come,” Alcoa Chief Executive Officer Klaus Kleinfeld said...
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Brazilian Bauxite Mining Industry to 2015: Market Profile" report to their offering. Brazil is ranked 3rd among the leading bauxite producers worldwide, the other leading countries being Australia and China. This report provides top-level...
The aluminum sector in Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) countries is expected to continue to see healthy growth until 2016, according a new report by the UK based research firm BRICdata. The BRIC countries play a dominant role in global aluminum industry in terms of production as well as...
