The ongoing geopolitical tensions, especially with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, are deemed to be creating an adverse impact on Jamaica's bauxite and alumina sector. As warned by the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI), the country is now grappling with increased production costs and a feeding...
The global aluminium price is on a rising trend, reaching a four-year high, especially because of the ongoing tensions in the Middle East. In March 2026, the aluminium price rose to USD 3,492 per tonne. In the upcoming African Mining Week (AMW) 2026, which is being scheduled for October 14-16 in...
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Fire erupted at the Rio Tinto Alcan’s ISL aluminium smelter in Straumsvík, Southwest Iceland at night on September 3. According to Bjarni Már Gylfason, PR person for Rio Tinto in Iceland, workers managed to extinguish the fire without much injuries and minor damages. The fire erupted mainly at the...
China Hongqiao Group, leading aluminium producer updated on Tuesday that it was operating as normal after its home province of Shandong was lashed out and flooded by Typhon Lekima during the weekend. “The facilities are not damaged by the typhoon. There was flooding outside the factories but no...
Bosnia’s only operating aluminium smelter and one of the country’s biggest exporters Aluminij Mostar finally closed down its operations on Wednesday midnight after it was disconnected from the power grid. The smelter was under a huge debt of 380 million Bosnian marka (US$218 million) because of...
A fire broke out at Norsk Hydro’s Gloucester extrusion facility in the UK on Sunday. This has caused damages to parts of the production facilities, while offices were affected by smoke. The plant had halted production over Easter and was not operating when the fire started. The maintenance person...
Austria based aluminium packaging manufacturing company Conseal GmbH has filed for bankruptcy. The company has requested for reorganization procedure without self-administration in the Graz Civil Enforcement Tribunal. The company has also announced that they are looking for an investor to pull them...
Gas and iron ore operations on Australia’s west coast are likely to be affected by an approaching cyclone just as a severe storm in the nation’s northeast dumps heavy rain on Rio Tinto Group’s biggest bauxite mine. The tropical cyclone Veronica is taking place at 545 kilometers (339 miles) north of...
The oil-rich but crisis-ridden South American country of Venezuela suffered a massive blackout on March 7, affecting at least 18 of its 23 states. The power cut put the transport system in chaos and many facilities had to shut down in absence of power. The blackout started at 1:05 a.m. and lasted...
On Sept 12, Platts reported that JSW Aluminum's sheet mill in Goose Creek, South Carolina, and Bonnell Aluminum's extrusion facility/cast house in Newnan, Georgia, could be impacted by Hurricane Florence. According to the latest update from Platts quoting a company official, JW Aluminum temporarily...
In June 2018, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) announced China will expand environmental inspections to more cities and regions from June till April next year, as a part of a three-year anti-pollution plan. Two hundred teams with a total of some 18,000 inspectors and support staff...
Century Aluminum Sebree LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Century Aluminum Company, announced today that it was forced to temporarily stop production on one of its three potlines due to an electrical failure at the Sebree aluminum smelter. No injuries were sustained in connection with these events...
A large wildfire in Southland is threatening electricity supply to the country's aluminium smelter. The fire at Tiwai Peninsula near Bluff burned through the night after it began just after 7pm yesterday. The fire has now claimed 100ha of native scrub. Nearly a dozen fire crews have been battling...
Hurricane Irma which has left behind heaps of twisted metal and busted appliances has indirectly caused an increase in aluminium scrap intake in the scrap yards in Lee County. Mountains of metal debris are pouring in every day in the local scrap yards. All Scrap Recycling is one of the few scrap...
<p>According to reports, National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) today witnessed a major fire break- out at its Captive Power Plant (CPP) in Angul, Odisha. The incident caused severe damage to the transformer of the CPP.</p> <p><img style="vertical-align: middle; display: block; margin-left:...
<p>Vedanta Resources plc's subsidiary Vedanta Limited has made an announcement yesterday, 20th April, 2017, that it faced pot outage at its aluminium smelter and the coal handling plant was affected in another incident of fire. Both the incidents occurred earlier this week at its two different...
<p>The Bahrain-based global aluminium smelter Alba experienced a power station outage on Wednesday April 5, 2017. The company had faced a temporary loss of power in all five Reduction Lines for approximately 3 hours. The company has restored all power operations.</p> <p><img style="vertical-align:...
<p>A century old Freeport Brick Co., which was bought by Fuzion Technologies in 2005, will shut down on April 30, according to the United Steelworkers union in Pittsburgh. The plant produces fire bricks that line industrial equipment such as kilns and furnaces and supplies to steel mills and...
<p>Michigan based Muskegon Castings has shifted its production operations to its other factory after a fire broke out in the company’s building earlier this week. The company resumed its aluminium die casting operations and started supplying its primary customer, as confirmed by an official...
<p>Alcoa started 2016 on a 52-week low like any other mining companies and the stock continued with rise and fall throughout the year with the volatile commodity market. During November 2016, after the split into Alcoa Corporation and Arconic and Donald Trump’s election Alcoa saw some upward...
