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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India's NALCO issues tender to buy 225,000 T coal
India's state-run National Aluminium Company (NALCO) has issued a global tender to buy 225,000 tonnes of non-coking coal, a senior company official said on Friday. The last date for submission of bids is Sept. 12, said the official, who is close to the tendering process but could not be named due...
Nalco keen to set up three hydro power projects in state
As part of its plan to diversify into the energy business, National Aluminium Company (Nalco) has proposed to set up three hydro power projects with a combined capacity of 645 MW in locations identified by the state water resources department. Nalco wishes to execute these hydel projects either...
Alcoa Earns AIRG Medal for its Novel Alumina Refining Technology
Alcoa has declared that its Technology Delivery Group (TDG) at the Kwinana Refinery located in Western Australia has earned the inaugural Australasian Industrial Research Group (AIRG) Medal for its pioneering technology that decreases energy consumption by the company. The AIRG presents the medal...
Aluminum can recycling rate highest in a decade
The U.S. recycling rate for aluminium beverage cans reached its highest level in a decade, with 58.1% of all cans recycled last year—a rate that is more than double than that of any other beverage container, according to the Aluminum Assn., Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) and Institute of Scrap...
Improving Business Performance-Southwest Aluminum
Official of Southwest Aluminum said at present “we actively carry out effective management mould to create a first-world aluminum processing enterprise by strictly corresponding to the requirement of fine profit management and energy conservation”. Southwest Aluminum is Chinese largest...
Vedanta's Alumina Refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa gets ISO 50001:2011 Certification
Vedanta Aluminium Limited, (VAL), an Associate Company of the globally diversified, metals and mining group Vedanta Resources PLC. became the first Mining & Metal Industry in the country to get accreditation for its Energy Management System for ISO 50001:2011 from the British Standards Institution,...
Southwest Aluminum Business Performance Increasing
Official of Southwest Aluminum said at present “we actively carry out effective management mould to create a first-world aluminum processing enterprise by strictly corresponding to the requirement of fine profit management and energy conservation”. Data indicates that since the implementation of...
Chinalco Purchases Electric Energy to Guarantee Aluminum Cell Production
Guang xi subsidiary company of Chinalco runs in full production in spite of the shortage of electricity market and electricity cut from local network. The company is endeavoring to cut power consumption in the non-production areas and has bought little electric power to guarantee the over-loaded...
Centre approves mining lease of Utkal-E Coal block to Nalco
The Union Coal Ministry has granted in-principle approval for mining lease of Utkal-E coal block in Angul, with an estimated reserve of 70 million tonnes and covering an area of 212 hectares, in favour of aluminium major NALCO, sources said today. The allocation was made to meet coal requirement of...
Qingtongxia Energy Aluminum Corporation on the List of 100 Ningxia Enterprises
Ningxia Qingtongxia Aluminum Corporation ranks the third in the first hundred enterprise of Ningxia province on August 18th.autonomous region leaders Wang Zhengwei and Qi Tongsheng etc. attends the conference and gives prize for the qualified enterprises. Vice-president of Qingtongxia Aluminum as a...
Alcoa hints at leaving S.C.
Santee Cooper’s largest customer could pull out of the Lowcountry if it doesn’t get a competitive power rate. Aluminum-maker Alcoa, one of the Charleston region’s largest employers, is renegotiating its power contract with the state-owned utility and is threatening to leave if those talks go sour,...
Nalco moves SC over levy by Orissa on captive power
Public sector company National Aluminum Company (Nalco) has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Orissa government’s decision to levy higher electricity charges on companies which generate energy for their captive consumption. The aluminum company has challenged the October 2001 notification...
Hindalco- Belgaum Special Alumina Project
A feasibility study on the Specials Plant expansion from 189 KTPA to 301 KTPA, with a coal based co-generation power plant, along with natural gas firing for its rotary kilns, is currently on.
Landsvirkjun's results for the first six months of the year 2011
Landsvirkjun's operating revenue amounted to USD 217.9 million, which is an increase of 20.3% compared to the same period last year. Profit after tax amounted to USD 23.4 million, compared to USD 15.7 million for the same period last year. Hordur Arnarson, the CEO: „The improvement in the operating...
Siberia IDC continues to plead with KrAZ
The Arbitration Court of Krasnoyarsk region has appointed on September 1 meeting the claim IDC Siberia to the Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Plant to conclude a contract for electricity transmission. The preliminary hearing took place on August 10th 2011. Siberia IDC requires a court to KrAZ contract on the...
Alcoa: Santee Cooper's rates too high
Aluminum producer Alcoa has started negotiating with Santee Cooper over its electricity rates, saying it can’t continue to pay at the current rate. “When you look at what our rate’s been recently, it’s much too high for us for a long-term solution. We’ve got to do something different,” said Alcoa...
Alcoa Spent $590,000 on Second-Quarter Lobbying
Alcoa Inc. spent $590,000 in the second quarter to lobby Congress on issues ranging from cap-and-trade to defense appropriations, according to a recent disclosure report. From April through June, Alcoa lobbied on cap-and-trade issues such as allocation credit for early action and international...
Key initiatives realise energy savings at DUBAL
Dubai Aluminium Company Limited (DUBAL) — the wholly state-owned enterprise that operates a one million metric tonne per annum primary aluminium smelter, one of the world's largest of its kind — endeavours continually to be a responsible corporate citizen. Evidencing the company’s ongoing...
