
Australia’s aluminium industry is entering a defining phase of its transition. As demand for low-carbon aluminium accelerates worldwide, the country is seeking to leverage its abundant renewable energy resources, supportive policy framework and growing industrial investment to emerge as a major...
Shares of Aluminum Corporation of China (Chalco) rose on Monday after its controlling shareholder, Aluminum Corporation of China (Chinalco), announced plans to increase its stake in the state-owned aluminium producer by up to USD 300 million (CNY 2 billion), reflecting confidence in the company's...
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Aluminum Corporation of China Limited, popularly known as Chalco, announced on Tuesday, November 3, that it would sell a smelting capacity quota of 135,000 tonnes per annum to Yunnan Aluminium. Like Chalco, Yunnan Aluminium is also a subsidiary of state-owned Chinalco, the world’s biggest aluminium...

China’s Henan Shenhuo Group is expected to start production at the second phase of its 900,000 tonnes per year aluminium project by the first quarter of CY2021, said an official familiar with the matter. The second phase of the project, located in Wenshan prefecture in Yunnan province, will be...

China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) has alleged the state-run Aluminium Corp of China (Chinalco) for repeatedly violating environmental regulations at a plant in Guangxi. A week earlier, a central government environmental inspection team found that affiliates of the Chinalco...

Yunnan Aluminium’s 500,000 tonnes per year smelting and hydropower project in China’s new smelting hub of Wenshan has officially started its operation, said the local government on Monday, May 19. The launch ceremony of the project, held on Friday, May 15, was attended by Yunnan province vice...

The discharge ceremony for the first shipment of bauxite from Chinalco’s Boffa bauxite project in Guinea was held in the Rizhao port in Shandong province on 26 th February’20. The company announced that the transportation mission was completed by M.V. QU SHAN HAI under COSCO Shipping bulk, which...

The board of directors of Yunnan Aluminium on 26 th December’19 has collectively declared the consent of building a 210,000 tonnes/year second phase in its aluminium smelting project at Heqing county, Yunnan province of southwest China. It is the same company that commissioned the phase one of the...

The 8th International IBAAS-GAMI 2019 conference and exhibition concluded successfully on September 7, 2019 in Guiyang China. About 280 delegates from all over the world participated in this mega Aluminium event in Guiyang during September 4 to 6. 2019. The conference was inaugurated by officials...

According to the International Aluminium Institute (IAI), the global aluminium production grew at its slowest pace in a decade in 2018, totalling at 64.34 million tonnes, up by 1.5 per cent from 2017. Most of this production occurred in the first half of the year, while in the second half did no...

Aluminum Corp. of China Ltd. (Chinalco), the world’s largest aluminium group reported 40% YoY increase in profits during H1 2019 on Monday attributing its success to sweeping organizational reforms. Higher debt continues to remain a burden to the group. The company reported a profit of about RMB...

Aluminium Corporation of China (Chinalco) again increased the floor price of non-metallurgical alumina, as further shutdowns in Shanxi province grew market concerns about lower supplies, as updated by Shanghai Metals Market. The company raised alumina floor price for the fifth time since April....

According to Shanghai Metals Market, Aluminium Corporation of China (Chinalco) further raised the floor price of non-metallurgical alumina. This is the fourth time since April that Chinalco has increased the floor price of alumina. The further rise brings the price to RMB 3,050 per tonne, which...

According to an update from Shanghai Metals Market, Shanxi Chinalco Huarun is set to commission 52 more electrolytic baths, in a bid to reach to full production of its phase-one aluminium alloy project. As per the report, Shanxi Chinalco Huarun intends to achieve this by mid to late June....

Aluminium Corporation of China Limited (Chalco), the listed arm of China’s biggest state-run aluminium firm Chinalco, reported that it recorded a net loss of RMB 626.1 million ($92.92 million) in the fourth quarter of 2018. According to Refinitiv Eikon data, the company faced the first quarterly...

Shanxi Chinalco Huarun will begin 125,000 tonnes primary aluminium capacity by the end of this month, a source told Shanghai Metals Market. The plant, which currently operates at an annualised capacity of 125,000 tonnes, will eventually increase its capacity in the phase-one project into 432,000...

According to an update from Shanghai Metals Market, Guangxi Hualei New Materials has raised its prebaked anode purchasing price today by RMB 24 per tonne month-on-month for March. Guangxi Hualei New Materials is a subsidiary of the state-owned aluminium giant China Aluminium Corporation (Chinalco)....

According to Shanghai Metals Market, some 800,000 tonnes of alumina capacity got affected in Shanxi Huaxing, an alumina producer located in Shanxi province of China. This occurred as the company upgraded its generators to meet ultra-low emission standards from mid-December. The company told SMM...

According to Shanghai Metals Market, prices of bauxite remained high as of Tuesday, December 25, buoyed by winter stockpiling across alumina producers amidst growing bauxite supplies after the output resumption at some miners in Shanxi and Henan. As of December 25, bauxite with alumina/silica ratio...

Chinalco sees the company’s future overseas, as told by Ao Hong, deputy general manager of Aluminum Corp. of China, or Chinalco in an interview. The company is looking at business opportunities overseas as the domestic market is crippled by metal aluminium oversupply and higher raw material costs....