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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Century Aluminum Grundartangi Smelter Experiences Temporary Outage; Smelter Operations Resumed
Century Aluminum Company CENX +2.17% announced that the Grundartangi smelter, owned and operated by its wholly owned subsidiary, Nordural Grundartangi ehf, experienced a temporary power outage yesterday. The outage resulted from damage sustained, due to abnormal and extreme weather conditions, at...
Tens-of-millions lost because of power cut
Because of yesterday’s bad-weather-induced power cuts in Iceland production at both the Elkem ferrosilicon plant and the Norðurál aluminium smelter at Hvalfjörður in the west ground to a halt. It is thought the cuts cost the companies tens-of-millions of krónur. Power cuts are very bad for...
Berkeley aluminum plant survives Alcoa's latest round of cuts
Aluminum giant Alcoa announced Monday that it will cut production at three European plants, sparing the 30-year-old Berkeley County plant that's locked in power-cost negotiations with state-owned utility Santee Cooper. The three affected smelting operations are in Italy and Spain. Last week, Alcoa...
Alcoa to cut high-cost European smelter output
Alcoa Inc (AA.N) said on Monday it plans to close its Portovesme, Italy, smelter and slash output at two Spanish smelters as the U.S. aluminum producer takes aim at its high-cost European operations. The measures will throw doubt on the long-term future of the U.S. producer's embattled European...
Aluminium companies' profits to remain under pressure in Q3: Care Ratings
Despite an expected average increase in the global aluminium prices, the profitability of the domestic aluminium producers is likely to remain under pressure in the December quarter, Care Ratings has said in a report. Apart from a rise in raw material prices, increasing cost of power, following the...
Alcan: Big Rivers' rates threaten smelters
In mid-2009, the future looked promising for two of the biggest industries in northwestern Kentucky — the Rio Tinto Alcan and Century Aluminum smelters. They had secured a new long-term contract for the enormous amounts of electricity they need at prices the companies thought could keep them...
Output still curbed at Rio Northumberland aluminium smelter
Rio Tinto Alcan's Lynemouth aluminium smelter in Northumberland is still running at a reduced rate following a power cut in December which knocked out more than half its capacity, a spokesman said on Thursday. "One production line (potline) is completely down and 25 percent of the other is also...
Recycling | Aluminum Cans
In the United States, approximately 31% of all aluminum products comes from recycled scrap. That's a great number, but with more help by everyone, we could make that number climb. By recycling your aluminum products you are helping the environment in several ways. One of which is conserving energy....
DUBAL sets shining example
The ongoing commitment to energy conservation at Dubai Aluminium that operates a one million metric tonne per annum primary aluminum smelter continues apace, yielding good results. For example, as a member of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy, Dubal has whole-heartedly adopted the directives...
Dubai Aluminium sets shining example
The ongoing commitment to energy conservation at Dubai Aluminium (Dubal) that operates a one million metric ton per annum primary aluminum smelter continues apace, yielding good results. For example, as a member of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy (DSCE), Dubal has whole-heartedly adopted the...
Seven companies submit bids for construction of Alum Tulcea thermal power plant
Seven companies are interested in building the cogeneration thermal power plant of 250 MW based in Tulcea, owned by Vimetco NV, according to a release of aluminium producer Alum Tulcea (299 km east of Bucharest). The companies interested in this project are China Huadian Engineering, China National...
Settlement between RUSAL and antimonopoly watchdog approved
A court has approved a settlement between a subsidiary of RUSAL, the worlds largest aluminum producer, and the antimonopoly watchdog in connection with price manipulation in the wholesale energy market. The Moscow Commercial Court has terminated proceedings in the lawsuit filed by RUSAL Krasnoyarsk...
Vimetco finalises bidding process for power plant
Vimetco, the producer of processed aluminium products, has finalised the bidding process for the construction of its own power plant in Tulcea. "We are focusing on increasing the efficiency of the operations, in order to have the most competitive cost structure, and to gain our independence in...
Wanfang Aluminum Plans 3B Yuan Private Placement
Jiaozuo Wanfang Aluminum Manufacturing (000612) plans to issue up to 282 million shares at 10.64 yuan per share in order to raise a maximum of three billion yuan for the construction of thermoelectric units and to boost operating capital, reports Oriental Morning Post, citing a company filing....
DUBAL power expansion project honoured in US
The innovative thinking and quest for operating efficiency through continuous improvement at Dubai Aluminium (DUBAL) has again been recognised on the international stage. DUBAL’s unique GTX project, which was presented by Tayeb M M H Al Awadhi (Vice President: Power & Desalination) at Power-Gen...
India aluminium producers hit by rising coal, transportation costs
Primary producers of Aluminium in India are hit by increasing operating costs which affects their margins. The operating costs have gone up due to increase in price of raw materials, transportation costs, increase in price of Coal and higher employee remuneration, according to Dinsha Patel, India...
Emirates Aluminium Said to Seek $3 Billion for Expansion
Emirates Aluminium Co., building the world’s biggest aluminum smelter, may seek $3 billion for the Abu Dhabi project, two people with knowledge of the matter said. Funding will be split between export credit agencies and commercial banks, the people said, declining to be identified because the...
President Basescu: Romania must be willing to back steel, aluminium and fertilizers industries
Romania must be willing to back the important industries such as steel-making, aluminium-making and the fertilizers industry in the face of the competition based on fuel dumping prices, given that job creation is genuine gold at times of crisis, Romanian President Traian Basescu says. In remarks...
