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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Targray Technology International announces the availability of Giga Solar Materials Corporation’s next generation of Aluminum Paste for mono and multi-crystalline silicon solar cells. Montreal, Quebec, Canada (PRWEB) March 26, 2012 Targray Technology International announces the availability of Giga...
When it opened officially in June 2008, Molten Aluminum Producer Canada (MAPCAN) was to be on the environmental vanguard, a "state-of-the-art, energy efficient 'Green' molten aluminum facility" utilizing "100 per cent recycled aluminum." At the time it was described as "the first Honda supplier in...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. CA:ORT -3.46% (the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has reached three important milestones in its development. It has recently opened a new laboratory facility in Laval, Quebec, which will serve as the Company's principal laboratory. It is also proud to have secured...
January 2012 service center shipments continued to grow on YoY basis in both the US and Canada. In the US, steel shipments grew at 9.0% and growth in aluminum shipments was just over 10% In Canada steel shipments were up almost 3.0% year over year and aluminum shipments grew by over 16% from...
Shares in Orbite Aluminae Inc. spiralled as much as 25% on Friday afternoon, after it said Quebec’s financial regulator notified the company the preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for the Grand-Vallée alumina project did not comply with regulations. “Orbite is reviewing the matter and will...
Rio Tinto Alcan plans to begin restarting its 70-year-old aluminum smelter in Shawinigan, Que. in a few days and have it operating at full capacity by the second quarter, the company announced Friday. A circuit breaker failure on Dec. 29 cut the smelter's annual production capacity in half to...
Global miner Rio Tinto has raised its stake in Canada's Ivanhoe Mines, owner of Mongolia's massive Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project, to a majority holding but said on Tuesday it had no current plans to buy more shares. Rio, which has built its stake in Ivanhoe as it helped to fund construction of Oyu...
About 780 workers at an aluminum smelter run by the mining giant Rio Tinto in Quebec are heading into the fourth week of a lockout, with many still braving the frigid weather to picket though an injunction—in place until April—that bars them from blocking the smelter entrance. Their contract had...
Orbite Aluminae CA:ORT +5.65% ("Orbite") has filed the previously announced detailed Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) prepared by the engineering consultant firm GENIVAR Inc. and the filing of a NI 43-101 compliant report about the first plant of the aluminous project in Grande-Vallee. The...
Canada produces 2 9 million tons of aluminum per year of which 2.6 million tons are produced in quebec.. Even if production is cut by 20 %, Quebec will need Alumina to produce 2.1 million tons of alumina which equates to + or - circa 4 million tons of alumina. Considering that Alumina can be...
U.S. aluminum giant Alcoa Inc. won't say if Canada figures in its plans to curtail another five per cent of its global smelting capacity as the company cuts costs in the face of weak prices. The company said late Thursday it will reduce capacity by another 240,000 tonnes a year to 4.5 million...
Rio Tinto Alcan said on Wednesday that it has declared force majeure on aluminum output from two of its smelters in Canada due to separate operational and labour issues that have curtailed production at the sites. The company, a unit of Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group...
Armtec Infrastructure Inc. ("Armtec") (TSX: ARF)(TSX: ARF.DB) today announced it has been awarded a contract, valued at approximately $32 million, with Bechtel Canada Co., who is acting as the agent for Rio Tinto Alcan, to supply precast components for the Kitimat Modernization...
French group ECL has secured a contract with Rio Tnto Alcan’s Kitimat smelter, British Columbia, Canada. ECL will supply eight pot tending machines, two furnace tending assembly’s, a rodding shop, an anode handling system, two anode beam raising frames, a transfer gantry, simulator and two anode...
It was a day later than scheduled, but that did not dampen Quebec-based Orbite Aluminae's enthusiasm in hosting a call to discuss Genivar's preliminary economic assessment (PEA) of its aluminous clay project in the province, which CEO Richard Boudreault said would prove a “game changer”. The...
Rio Tinto Alcan is pushing ahead with construction of a $3.3-billion (U.S.) smelter in Kitimat, B.C., even as stagnant prices have spurred a selloff of other aluminum assets. London-based Rio Tinto PLC (RIO-N52.15-0.92-1.73%), which acquired Montreal-based aluminum giant Alcan for $38.1-billion in...
Trading in the shares of Orbite Aluminae Inc., developer of the Grande Vallée aluminous clay deposits in Quebec’s Gaspé region, was halted Tuesday after the firm released a favourable Preliminary Economic Statement. The PEA (scoping study) broadly assesses if a mining or industrial project could be...
Marubeni Corp said on Tuesday it would spend about $180 million to double its stake in Aluminerie Alouette, North America's biggest aluminium smelter, to 13.33 percent to tap growing demand in emerging economies. Japan's fifth-biggest trading house said it will buy additional shares in the...
