Coal-heavy Australian aluminium vs renewables-led New Zealand: How Oceania is balancing decarbonisation
Oceania’s primary aluminium industry is facing a fragmented energy transition. While Australia, the leading aluminium producer of the continent, has abundant renewable resources and a well-established aluminium value chain, its smelters remain significantly more dependent on fossil-fuel-based...
Can the US afford to cut Canada off? 75% aluminium and $100b energy tell the story
The US aluminium industry’s dependence on Canada extends far beyond primary aluminium imports. While Canada supplies around 75 per cent of US imported primary aluminium, covering roughly 60 per cent of the country’s annual aluminium usage, it is also a major supplier of crude oil, natural gas and...
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Effective Ways to Improve Aluminum Profiles Competitiveness
Aluminum Enterprises realized that traditional technology and profit points were hard to develop and expand enterprise. The author thinks the following aspects can help to improve products competitiveness. Through 20 years of development building profiles field has cultivated a lot of site...
Bosnia's Aluminij sees $6.6 mln loss in 2012
Bosnia's sole aluminium smelter, Aluminij Mostar, expects to lose 10 million Bosnian marka ($6.7 million) this year, but that would rise if electricity prices go up, its general manager said on Tuesday. Ivo Bradvica said Aluminij recorded a small profit of 1.2 million marka last year and forecast a...
High power costs hindering investment in primary aluminum sector in Brazil - Abal
BNamericas cited Mr Adjarma Azevedo national aluminum association CEO of Abal as saying that Brazil's primary aluminum production is not seeing any investment due to high power costs. Mr Azevedo said that "Energy in Brazil is the third most expensive in the world, behind only China and Germany. The...
MIT Aims To Prevent Contamination In Aluminum Recycling
Aluminum has long been the poster child of recycling. About half of all aluminum used in the United States is now recycled, and this recycling has clear and dramatic benefits: Pound for pound, it takes anywhere from nine to 18 times as much energy to produce aluminum from raw ore as from recycled...
J.F. Ahern teams up with Mid-States Aluminum
J.F. Ahern Co. recently sponsored a joint meeting between the Wisconsin Chapter of the Association of Energy Engineers and the Northeast Wisconsin Chapter of the Association for Facilities Engineering. Mid-States Aluminum Corporation hosted the meeting at its Fond du Lac facility and presented the...
Alcoa Looks to Hike Prices
According to Reuters, the world’s largest producer of aluminum producer, Alcoa Inc. (AA) is targeting to hike the prices by 5% for certain coil and flat sheet products. The increased price would be charged for new orders from March 1, 2012. The price hike would encompass the products like 2xxx and...
Linde to Highlight Low-temperature Oxyfuel Technologies
The highly competitive aluminum industry is constantly looking for economic, environmentally sound ways of melting scrap to produce high quality aluminum. Linde, a leading supplier of industrial gases to the aluminum industry, has just what they are looking for: Low-temperature Oxygen-enhanced...
Hydro Aluminium Featured In Leading Trade Magazine, Australia’s Best Mining
Aluminium is crucial to many everyday things around us, although we may not notice. Without aluminium we cannot fly, travel by high-speed train, high-performance car, or fast ferry. We cannot get heat and light into our homes and offices without it. Therefore, Hydro Aluminium plays a more...
Abu Dhabi residents warm up to can collection drive
Gulf News reported that a campaign to collect aluminum cans and send them for recycling has saved a huge amount of carbon emissions and reduced energy consumption over the past 15 years. The Emirates Environmental Group's annual can collection campaign since 1997 has resulted in the mitigation of...
'Energy target worse than tax', says aluminium industry
THE aluminium industry will ask the federal government for greater relief from its renewable energy laws, warning that over the next few years the laws will have a greater impact than the carbon tax on smelters confronting falling metal prices and a surging dollar. The Australian Aluminium Council,...
Everyone's a winner on can-recycling day
An environmental group is holding a nationwide drive to collect and recycle drinks cans Thursday. The annual event, organised by the Emirates Environmental Group (EEG), has been held since 1997 and has recycled 148.7 tonnes of aluminium cans. Instilling a "culture of recycling is the ultimate goal...
Hulamin headline earnings up 7%, sales volumes rise
JSE-listed aluminium products producer Hulamin on Monday reported a 7% increase in headline earnings to R80-million, while its turnover for the 2011 financial year ended December 31, was up by 20%, at R6.96-billion. Operating profit, before the metal price lag effect, increased by 19% to...
Iranian Aluminium Production Increases alongside Persian Gulf Aluminium Output
Aluminium production in the Persian Gulf currently exceeds 7 percent of the worlds total aluminium production; and is set to increase to 10 percent by 2020. The aluminium industry in Persian Gulf Countries has developed over the years and is set to develop even more through direct and indirect...
Tiwai Point smelter faces losses
The Tiwai Point smelter has lost at least half a million dollars in aluminium production because of continuing high spot power prices. New Zealand Aluminium Smelters general manager Ryan Cavanagh yesterday said the capacity of the smelter's production remained reduced by about five per cent, which...
Hulamin FY HEPS decline
Hulamin (HLM) on Monday reported diluted headline earnings per share of 25 cents for the year ended December 2011 versus 26 cents a year ago. Rolled Products sales volumes increased 11% to 208,000 tons and turnover grew 20% to R6.96 billion, due to strong performances in both Hulamin Rolled...
Alba expansion plans on track
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba), which owns the world's fourth-largest aluminium smelter, yesterday said its planned sixth production line could be completed by early 2015. Feasibility studies are currently underway, with banking feasibility studies seen ready by 2013, chief executive officer Laurent...
NALCO to invest Rs 900 cr in nuclear power business by 2012-13
State-owned aluminium major NALCO plans to spend Rs 900 crore by next fiscal on nuclear power ventures, for which it had signed a joint-venture agreement with Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) in November. As per the plan, the investments will be made on unit 3 and 4 of Kakarapar...
Alumina Nano-Coating Helps Improve Heat Transfer Rate of Solid Surfaces
A research team led by Bo Feng from the Georgia Institute of Technology has doubled the heat transfer rate of a metal surface by applying an alumina nano-coating over it. The research team utilized an atomic layer deposition method for controlling the thickness of the alumina coating. Pool boiling...
