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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State-owned liquidator Nemzeti Reorganizációs Nonprofit is to take over the management and operation of Hungarian alumina maker MAL after a court has ordered the company to be liquidated based on a claim submitted by one of the creditors, the National Development Ministry (NFM) said on Wednesday....
Retirees from Century Aluminum's Ravenswood plant are grateful, despite the position they've been put in by the company. The retirees plan to gather at the Capitol Feb. 26 to hand-deliver letters of thanks to Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and other lawmakers who passed a bill at the end of the 2012...
Local politicians warned of a jobs crisis on the island with confirmation that the Penhros plant will stop operations within two months, with 20 workers kept on until the site is sold. The Holyhead smelting operation shut in 2009 with the loss of nearly 400 jobs. The remaining 80 staffs have been...
A crunch meeting on the future of Anglesey Aluminium’s remaining workforce was cancelled last week, but is due to take place this Friday. But some of the remaining workers are already leaving, with the actual decision to close down the aluminium re-smelting line, still not been made by the company....
The State Labor Department announced Monday that the Oberdorfer Aluminum Castings plant in Syracuse will close. All 86 of the plant’s employees will lose their job due to the closure. The plant is scheduled to close on May 3. The reason for the closure, according to the Labor Department is economic...
A total of 650 workers in Nigeria’s aluminium industry were sacked in December 2012, with 1,100 other facing an uncertain future, the Country Head, Tower Aluminium Plc, Dr. Jinesh Dugad, has said. Dugad, who said this during a press conference and factory tour of the company at Sango Ota, Ogun...
Rio Tinto said on Wednesday that it was producing alumina in Australia's Queensland state at lower rates following heavy rains and flooding caused by ex-tropical cyclone Oswald. Rio said production was temporarily suspended at its Yarwun alumina refinery due to record rainfall around the Gladstone...
Platts Australian alumina assessment at $338/mt FOB was unchanged from Friday despite news of production cuts in Queensland, Australia due to storms and flooding. Reports of the run cuts came during the Asian business day, but market participants mostly said they planned to wait and see what impact...
Soon-to-be state Sen. Dee Brown, R-Columbia Falls, on Monday asked Flathead County commissioners to take the lead in getting the Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. property declared a Superfund site. Brown said Glencore, the Swiss-based parent company of the mothballed aluminum plant, has been stringing...
The bauxite mining company in Bua has set up a team to assist government officials with evacuation and clearing of roads when Tropical Cyclone Evan hits us this weekend. Mine manager Basilio Vanuaca said work at the site had been shelved until TC Evan passes. "The only people at the mine site are...
Eight years ago, Kada Majhi, a tribal woman of Kinari, a village in the Kalahandi district of Odisha, eked out a living with paltry wages as a daily labourer. When Vedanta Aluminium started constructing a one-million-tonne-per-annum aluminium refinery at Lanjigarh, she, along with her husband and...
Alcoa Inc. on Tuesday confirmed plans to close its Auburn plant, putting 43 out of work. The news is the final chapter in a long, sad saga that has seen the factory’s employment dwindle in the past decade. Almost 400 worked at the auto and defense parts plant in 2005. Alcoa’s global footprint has...
A building at Hydro Aluminum caught fire around 1 p.m. after molten aluminum spilled from a piece of equipment, said St. Johns County Fire Rescue spokesman Matthew Sara. The fire started around 12:44 p.m. in a “re-melt” building at the plant on 200 Rivera Blvd. off U.S. 1 South. When Fire Rescue...
A mechanical failure at a central Queensland alumina refinery has released an unknown amount of chemical waste into a residential area of Gladstone. Queensland Alumina's refinery in Gladstone is the largest in the world. The refining process creates the toxic by-product 'red mud', which is stored...
Primary aluminum output in Guayana, south Venezuela, continues to dwindle. Aluminum makers Venalum and CVG Alcasa comprise 1,301 cells, yet only 387 cells are operative. Both companies are running at 29% of their installed capacity. The current number of operative cells slightly represents two out...
Base metals were firmer in premarket trading on the LME on Tuesday but volumes remain thin while the US East Coast struggles with the impact of Hurricane Sandy. Copper and aluminium recovered from near-two-month lows set in the previous session, with analysts ascribing the recovery to dip buying....
Century Aluminum Company announced today that in light of the anticipated severe weather associated with Hurricane Sandy and the unexpected close of the financial markets early this week, the company has rescheduled its third quarter 2012 earnings announcement to Thursday, November 1, 2012. The...
In the 1990s, the Columbia Falls Aluminum Company (CFAC) employed more than 500 workers producing aluminum that was sent to customers around the world. Cheap power within the region made this energy-intensive industry a perfect match for the Flathead. Unfortunately, in 1999 a foreign company named...
