
Every tonne of aluminium produced creates more than just the finished metal. Across primary production and recycling, the processes generate aluminium dross-an oxide-rich material that is increasingly attracting attention across the industry. Global aluminium dross generation is projected to rise...
Dr.-Ing. Oliver Moos, Managing Director of CETAG AG, brings decades of expertise in aluminium casthouse technology, offering innovative, cost-efficient and sustainable process solutions through global consulting, project management and equipment design. In an interview for “ Sustainability &...
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Rochester Aluminum Smelting Canada Ltd. has installed a new furnace with a capacity of 100,000 pounds at its facility in Concord, Ontario as it looks to keep pace with a "very competitive" deox market. Rochester started up the reverberatory sidewell melter Sept. 1, allowing it to idle two...

Bahrain-based Taha International Corporation has been awarded a health and safety certification from TUV Nord Middle East. "This important industry certification recognises Taha's commitment to excellence in the GCC region as the new benchmark in aluminium dross management," said managing director...

Facility to recover Aluminium metal from waste —A Bahraini firm has won a contract to construct a dross processing facility downstream of the massive Aluminium plant being set up by Oman Aluminium Rolling Mills (OARM) at Sohar, a local newspaper reported at the weekend. Taha International...

Bahrain-based locally-owned company Taha International Corporation has been awarded the dross management contract with Oman Aluminium Rolling Company's (OARC) plant currently under construction in Sohar. "OARC's plant will begin commercial production in August 2013 and represents a significant...

MHM Metals Limited confirms that salt cake and dross recycling operations in Geelong continue to perform well. Daily operating tonnages are continuing to exceed incoming material allowing reduction in our current stockpile of partly processed material. A recently announced trial of small changes to...

A plant that recycles waste product from the Kurri Kurri Aluminium smelter is one of many downstream industries that will be affected by its closure. While 344 full-time jobs will be lost at the smelter, it is believed hundreds of other indirect jobs will also go. Weston Aluminium has operated...

MHM Metals Limited announced Australian aluminium operations. Financial Results; MHM’s Australian aluminium subsidiary Alreco Private Limited delivered Gross Quarterly Cash Receipts of USD 1,012,764 million with a Gross Quarterly Operating Surplus of USD 12,237. Alreco also had trade receivables of...

Daiki Aluminum Industry, Japanese largest secondary aluminum alloy maker carries out JPY 610 million of CAPEX to raise secondary aluminum alloy output capacity or to install new facilities for metal scrap and substantial material processing at its three subsidiaries in Thailand, Malaysia and...

A Hunter Valley plant that recycles waste material from the Kurri Aluminium smelter will scale down its operations, in response to production cuts at the neighbouring plant. 150 jobs will go at the Hydro Aluminium smelter when one of the three potlines is shut down in a bid to rein in multi-million...

Taha Asia Pacific Ltd., the New Zealand subsidiary of Taha International Corp., Bahrain, has begun processing aluminum dross at its newly opened facility in Tiwai, New Zealand. Taha says it is using a mechanical system to extract all the trace aluminum that will then be returned to an aluminum...

IF you are offering to invest millions of dollars and provide some jobs in the US at the moment, the Americans are happy to roll out the red carpet. Which is why Aussie company MHM Metals managed to get a standing ovation from Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear and a brace of officials this week after...

MHM Metals (ASX: MHM) has reached a milestone in the development of its aluminium waste recycling technology by securing a contract for the supply of feedstock to its first U.S. salt slag and black dross processing facility. The company's first overseas contract is for five years and has been...

A Bahrain-based company wants to expand its dross recycling operations throughout the world after opening a multimillion-dollar factory at Tiwai Point yesterday. Construction of the Taha Asia Pacific recycling plant began this year at New Zealand Aluminium Smelters and was officially opened...

This work is part of a legal order between Kaiser and the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology). The order required Kaiser to conduct what’s called a Remedial Investigation and Feasibility Study at the “Heglar Kronquist” site, 10 miles northeast of downtown Spokane. The public will have until...

Fluctuating fertiliser prices could become a thing of the past in the south if a dross recycling plant starting up at the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter is successful. Taha Asia Pacific expects to complete its $5 million dross recycling plant at New Zealand Aluminium Smelters' site by August. Taha...

A Bahrain company has won a $25 million contract to process dross from an aluminium smelter in New Zealand that could transform the way that waste from smelters across the world is recycled. Bahrain-based Taha International Corporation has won the pilot project at the New Zealand International...

...Victoria’s Environment and Climate Change Minister Gavin Jennings, on October 20, officially switched on state-of-the-art recycling machines at Sims Aluminium that will cut by 95% the amount of hazardous waste going to landfill from its aluminium recycling. Visiting Sims Aluminium secondary...