Canada's retaliatory tariffs on US goods, including aluminium and steel products, take effect as Washington intensifies pressure on Canadian industry. Canada is escalating its trade confrontation with the United States, imposing tariffs of up to 50 per cent on US imports worth CAD 27.6 billion (USD...
The aluminium industry stands at a juncture material quality, recycling capacity, cross-border cooperation, carbon compliance and energy security are falling into a network of interconnectivity. The aluminium supply chain is evolving from simply securing enough metal to securing the right quality,...
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As automakers and their suppliers from around the world strive to develop fuel-saving technologies, the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) has announced a new program to help the Canadian transportation industry reduce the weight of cars, trucks, trailers, buses, and trains by developing...
Orbite commissioned and recently received two independent capital cost and timeline estimates for completing the high-purity alumina production plant in Cap-Chat, Quebec, including the installation of the new calcination system. These were subsequently reviewed and analysed by Orbite management and...
The Canadian International Trade Tribunal initiated an expiry review of its findings made on March 17, 2009, in Inquiry No. NQ-2008-003, and as amended on February 10, 2011, in Inquiry No. NQ-2008-003R, concerning the dumping and subsidizing of aluminum extrusions from the People’s Republic of...
North America’s aluminum exports through shipments increased during April, increasing their daily shipment rates. The information is based on the Metals Service Center Institute’s Monthly Activity Report, which is based on data supplied by participating metals service centers for both countries....
APEL Extrusions, which is based in Calgary, Canada, plans to expand its West Coast operations by moving them to Coburg from Springfield in July 2014, President Mike Flynn said this week. To serve a growing number of West Coast customers, APEL plans in the next two years to add 25 to 30 people to...
Alcoa announced last week that it is closing two potlines at its Baie-Comeau smelter in Quebec- 105,000 tonnes of annual production- scheduled to close by August. It is the first tranche of a total 460,000 tonnes of capacity placed under review by Alcoa at the start of May. “Given the company said...
Following the immediate appointment of three independent directors to Canadian alumina producer Orbite Aluminae’s board, the company’s TSX-listed shares on Tuesday jumped more than 28% in value to make up some of the ground it had lost since the start of the year. Orbite announced that Peter...
The Honourable Denis Lebel, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec, and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, today announced that Universite du Quebec a Chicoutimi's Centre d'Entrepreneuriat et...
On Thursday, the top TSX mover was Orbite Aluminae Inc. The stock lost 9.2% and was trading at $0.99 on volume of 3.6 million. On April 3, the alumina producer filed a preliminary short form base shelf prospectus with the securities regulatory authorities in each of the provinces of Canada. The...
Orbite Aluminae Inc., the Montreal- based company seeking to extract alumina and rare-earth metals without toxic residue, fell to the lowest in more than two years as equipment delays threaten production goals. Orbite dropped 22 percent to C$1.07 at 10:56 a.m. in Toronto, the lowest intraday price...
Aluminum demand in the United States and Canada (shipments by domestic producers plus imports) totaled an estimated 1,996 million pounds during January 2013, up 4.4 percent over January of 2012. Demand for semi-fabricated (mill) products totaled 1,299 million pounds, rising 4.2 percent. Apparent...
Orbite owns and operates a facility in Cap-Chat, Québec, that was originally operated as a pilot plant up to and until March 2012. The 2,600 m2 pilot plant has since been converted into a full-scale 5,903 m2 high-purity production plant, designed to produce alumina at a purity level of 99.99%...
Windsor-based Greco Aluminum Railings Ltd. has a new subsidiary, Greco Aluminum Railings USA Inc., which shares an office with Bloomfield Hills private equity firm O2 Investment Partners LLC. But the new majority owners expect its U.S. footprint to grow considerably from there. Last August, O2,...
Sixty-three years after its opening, the bridge made of Arvida aluminum and renovated at a cost of $ 5 million this summer will be closed in 26 weeks. Minister of Transportation and Municipal Affairs, Sylvain Gaudreault, made the announcement yesterday, a week after one of the lanes on the bridge...
Metal shipments in 2013 decreased from last January’s levels at small single digit rates in both the United States and Canada. In January, 126,100 tonnes of aluminum products were shipped by US service centers, a decrease of 5.6% from the same month in 2012. Inventories of aluminum products were...
Montreal’s Orbite Aluminae Inc. has received Russian and Chinese patents for producing alumina from aluminous clays found in Quebec’s Gaspé area and from other ores. Both countries are among the world’s largest producers of alumina, the intermediate material used in smelting aluminum metal. The...
On 22nd Jan, Orbite Alumina announced that it successfully produced its first tonne of high-purity alumina (HPA) during the last week of December 2012 and early January 2013 as part of the initial commissioning and testing activities at its commercial-scale HPA production plant in Cap-Chat, Quebec....
Orbite Aluminae Inc. shares rose more than six per cent in heavy trading Tuesday on news that the Quebec company has produced its first tonne of high-purity alumina. The stock reached $2.82 in midday trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange, up from the previous close of $2.65, with more than 2...
