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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NALCO continues output cut as coal supply stays thin
The state-run National Aluminium Company Ltd continued to cut its daily aluminium output by ten percent because of the prevailing coal crisis, a senior company official said Thursday. The production cut at its smelter in Orissa's Angul town, about 160 km from here, is likely to continue for some...
Alcoa drops Iceland smelter plan
Alcoa , the largest U.S. aluminum producer, has dropped long-held plans to develop a new smelter in Iceland, saying on Monday it had decided it could not get long-term, cheap power for the project. The decision to cancel the smelter will be a blow to Iceland, still recovering from a deep recession...
Chalco Liancheng Branch Named “Energy-saving Advanced Enterprise”
Chalco Liancheng Branch was named “energy-saving advanced enterprise” by Gansu government and was awarded 120,000RMB. During the period of “Eleventh Five-Year Plan”, Chalco Liancheng Branch seriously implemented China’s energy saving and emission reduction policies. In order to establish ecological...
Rio Tinto Alcan: Rising Energy Prices Will Push Up Aluminum Costs
Rising electricity prices pose a challenge for the global aluminum industry as the cost of aluminum production continues to climb, Gordon Hamilton, a vice president of sales and marketing at aluminum maker Rio Tinto Alcan, said Tuesday. Aluminum production is a very energy intensive process, where...
ERM signs gas supply deal with Alcoa
Energy company ERM Power has secured a deal to sell gas from its Gingin reserves to aluminium giant,Alcoa. Under the agreement, ERM will provide Alcoa with 15,000-terajoules of gas from its Gingin and Red Gully fields, north of Perth. Alcoa will make a staged pre-payment of $25-million, allowing...
Alcoa Main Partner in New Center for Sustainable Development in Montreal
Alcoa announced today that its Canadian Global Primary Products Operations has made one of the most substantial financial contributions in its history, a partnership agreement totaling $3 million over five years with the new Centre for Sustainable Development. A portion of this contribution, coming...
NALCO to attain full aluminum production level by October
With coal supply well on the path of recovery, National Aluminum Company Limited announced that it was all set to achieve full production levels by the end of October. Mr BL Bagra CMD of Nalco said that the aluminum major has started rebuilding on production stock as supplies have resumed from...
Raman Singh to visit US to invite investors
Chief Minister Raman Singh will embark on a week-long trip to US from October 10. He will have discussions with business groups in the US and invite them to invest in Chhattisgarh. The CM believes that Chhattisgarh is set to witness revolutionary changes in the energy sector and soon the state will...
NALCO targets Rs.25,000 crore turnover by 2020
Aiming to become an important global player in metal and energy sectors, aluminium major National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) is targeting a turnover of Rs. 25,000 crore by 2020 with ambitious diversification and expansion plans involving an investment of Rs. 40,000 crore. “As per its Vision...
NALCO plans to diversify into nuclear power
State-run aluminium major NALCO today said it plans to diversify into nuclear power generation by investing Rs 11,450 crore jointly with Nuclear Power Corporation of India in a project. Addressing at the annual general meeting, NALCO CMD B L Bagra said that the company has identified Kakarapar...
Aluminium is the clear winner in the game of substitution with copper
While the opportunity varies by application, aluminium is the clear winner in the game of substitution with copper and to a much lesser extent steel, likely to bear the largest brunt of aluminum's gain. While the market opportunity for aluminium as a replacement for steel is much larger than as a...
Venezuela aluminium company eyes slow recovery
Venezuela's state aluminium smelter Venalum is hoping for gradual but sustained improvement in production after being badly hit by a power crisis and low prices. Mr Rada Gamluch president of Venezula said that production sank to 258,000 tonnes last year from a capacity of 430,000 tonnes and output...
NALCO losing Rs 1 cr/day due to coal shortage
State-run aluminium producer NALCO is facing a production loss of about Rs 1 crore per day due to coal shortage, a company official said on Monday. "We are losing about Rs 1 crore per day due to coal shortage ... the production has to be scaled down as there has been very less availability of coal...
Tester, Baucus push for CFAC plant reopening
Montana Senators Jon Tester and Max Baucus spoke this week with the Bonneville Power Association about finalizing a deal with the Columbia Falls Aluminum Plant so that the plant can begin operating again. A power purchase agreement between the BPA and CFAC would supply the plant with 140-megawatts...
Guangxi Yinhai Aluminium cuts total capacity by 190,000 mt/year
China's Guangxi Yinhai Aluminium has slashed its total primary smelting capacity of 450,000 mt/year by about 190,000 mt/year on the back of prevailing power shortages, a company source said Friday. The South Central Chinese producer had cut capacity by 50% at its 200,000 mt/year plant in Baise city...
Carbon tax puts alumina plant at risk, warns Rusal
THE world's largest aluminium producer has warned that soaring coal, gas and electricity prices are seriously undermining the competitiveness of operations in Queensland's booming Gladstone region and that the carbon tax will aggravate the situation. Russian aluminium giant Rusal, which has a 20...
Sixty more pots shut down
Faced with further cut in power supply, the National Aluminium Company (Nalco) has shut down another 60 aluminium making pots at its smelter plant here. With this, a total of 120 pots have now gone out of operation out of 960 pots in the smelter plant. The company had shut down 60 pots two weeks...
Guangxi Yinhai Aluminium cuts total capacity by 190,000 mt/year
China's Guangxi Yinhai Aluminium has slashed its total primary smelting capacity of 450,000 mt/year by about 190,000 mt/year on the back of prevailing power shortages, a company source said Friday. The South Central Chinese producer had cut capacity by 50% at its 200,000 mt/year plant in Baise city...
