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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High-Capacitance Capacitors Lead the Global Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor Market
The global market for aluminum electrolytic capacitors is expected to hit a value of US$10.4 billion by the year 2017, driven by the rising demand for these products in end-use markets such as energy and environment, and their increasing use in products such as inverters. The lower price of these...
Only 50% of fly ash utilized in 2010-11
Fly ash utilization in the state has left a lot to be desired as only half of the total fly ash generated was utilized in 2010-11. According to information provided by state energy minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak in the state assembly, 27 coal-based power plants generated 21.18 million tonnes of...
Only 50% of fly ash utilized in 2010-11
Fly ash utilization in the state has left a lot to be desired as only half of the total fly ash generated was utilized in 2010-11. According to information provided by state energy minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak in the state assembly, 27 coal-based power plants generated 21.18 million tonnes of...
Nordural Helguvik Receives Results of Power Arbitration
Century Aluminum Company CENX -5.56% announced today that its subsidiary, Nordural Helguvik hf, has received the results of its arbitration with one of the power suppliers to its Helguvik greenfield smelter. The arbitration panel ruled that the parties' power contract remains in force in accordance...
Update on operating cost of aluminium in India
Mr Dinsha Patel minister of state for mines (independent charge) informed the Rajya Sabha that the primary producers endeavor to reduce their operating cost through a slew of measures like reducing power consumption by adopting energy conservation methods, modernization of equipments, increase in...
Delegation from Hydro Aluminium Visit Huadong Aluminium
A delegation from Norway Hydro Aluminium visited Huadong Aluminium recently. The two sides introduced basic information of each company and exchanged opinion on technical indicators of cathode electrolytic cell. The delegation visited Huadong Aluminium’s electrolytic aluminium plant and highly...
Nalco Smelter bags National Energy Conservation Award
Smelter Plant of Navaratna PSU National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) has bagged the prestigious National Energy Conservation Award for 2011. NALCO?s smelter received the award for its contribution in energy conservation, primarily in reduction of DC energy and HFO consumption in Potlines and...
Cable Demand for Aluminum May Around 140-200 Thousand Tons
Apart from copper aluminum is the most widely used material in Cable Industry. In the process of national economy development, huge demand for power cable is a must for industrialization and urbanization. Owing to lack of historical data just on a rough calculation for the demand of aluminum....
Power loss damages Rio UK aluminium smelter
A power cut this week at Rio Tinto Alcan's Lynemouth aluminium smelter in northeastern England has knocked out one of the plant's production lines and partially curtailed the other, a company spokesman said on Thursday. Loss of power in the energy-intensive aluminium smelting process becomes...
Deputy General Manager of Chinalco Visits Fushun Aluminium
Deputy General Manager of Chinalco Ren Xudong visited Fushun Aluminium recently. Ren listened to a report made by Fushun Aluminium’s general manager Tian Fuquan. Tian introduced the company’s production and management situation and energy saving work. Ren appreciated Fushun Aluminium’s achievements...
Odisha-based PSU Nalco Smelter bags National Energy Conservation Award
The Smelter Plant of National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO), the Navratna PSU under Ministry of Mines, Govt. of India, has bagged the prestigious National Energy Conservation Award for the year 2011. Shri B.L. Bagra, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, NALCO, received the award from Shri Sushil...
Power cut hits Lynemouth Alcan plant
Production at part of an aluminium plant in Northumberland has been halted after a large power cut. The Rio Tinto Alcan plant at Lynemouth lost power in the early hours. Management launched full emergency procedures but say no-one was hurt. The firm says it is too early to tell what caused the...
Barr seeks guarantee for Hydro
Member for Cessnock, Clayton Barr, is calling on the O'Farrell Government to provide a guaranteed supply of electricity to Hydro Aluminium smelter at Kurri. The call follows the announcement by the O'Farrell Government that it will privatise all NSW electricity generators – putting any agreement...
Long haul for aluminium
Much to the relief of aluminium producers, the white metal has not stayed for long below the psychologically unsettling level of $2,000 a tonne when 30 per cent of smelting capacity is found in the red zone. At no point in current weeks, however, did the scene come anywhere close to the scare that...
Qatar set to tap gas-to-solids energy source
After emerging as the world's top exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and the world's GTL (gas-to-liquids) capital, Qatar is all set to tap another innovative energy source, gas-to-solids (GTS). As part of the strategy, Qatalum, the state-of-the-art aluminium smelter, is taking the lead in...
China Aluminum output At 10-Month Low
Aluminum production was the lowest since February. Aluminum production fell to its lowest level since February as expected new capacity failed to come online and power restrictions in some provinces kept capacity idled, analysts said. China produced 1.38 million tons of primary aluminum in...
Middle East's aluminium to meet demand
Aluminium from the Middle East, where output capacity will double by 2015 powered by cheaper energy, will feed growing long-term demand as smelters elsewhere fall by the wayside, hit by high power costs and a weaker market. Smelter capacity in top user China will continue to rise, but as time wears...
RUSAL to buy Bogoslovsk power plant to keep aluminium plant working
The Russian aluminium major RUSAL will buy the Bogoslovsk power station to keep the Bogoslovsk aluminium plant working, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a meeting over the plant's critical situation on Thursday. "A solution to the problem should be found, two documents should be...
