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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Alcoa pact with China power producer to focus on energy, aluminium projects
... ALCOA and a Chinese state-owned power generator today signed a pact to co-operate on investment projects potentially worth $US7.5 billion. The $7.5bn in projects that Alcoa and the China Power Investment Corp will collaborate on cover a broad range of aluminium and energy investments over the...
VALCO finalizes supply agreements to local companies?
... Volta Aluminum Company says it will soon resume supplies to the local aluminum industry. The company is back in operation after it was forced to temporarily shutdown for inadequate electricity supply and a slump in aluminum prices that made production unprofitable. ...
Zaporizhia Aluminum may stop production in May
...Ukrainian Journal reported that Zaporizhia Aluminum Plant part of RUSAL could stop producing primary aluminum starting May production at the plant is unprofitable because of significant overhead costs, outdated equipment and high electricity tariffs...
Steel Guru : Gulf Industry Fair 2011 bucks the trend - 185640 <b>...</b>
... and aluminium smelters, dedicated downstream manufacturing facilities ... The Energy, Aluminium and Logistics Pavilions are sponsored ...
RUSAL may halt or sell Ukraine plant, power costly
... Ukraine's only primary aluminium maker ZALK, owned by the world's biggest aluminium producer UC RUSAL (0486.HK: Quote), could be sold or stop production because of high electricity costs, the company said on Tuesday. ...
Voice from Afar: Towards An Integrated Aluminium Project
... Kwame Nkrumah decided on an integrated aluminium project based on Volta electricity as a major prank of the industrialisation and prosperity of Ghana. ... the American firm Kaiser Aluminum to process the Jamaican alumina in Ghana while the World Bank was assured of payment of the loan for the...
RUSAL and ministry of energy agree on wholesale electricity market?
... UC RUSAL the world’s largest aluminium producer and the ministry of energy of the Russian Federation announced that the terms and conditions governing the purchase by the company’s smelters of energy on the wholesale market due to energy providing agreements entering into effect in Russia have...
Norsk Hydro's guiding hand
... The company, which is 51% owned by the Norwegian government, has activities in over 60 countries, comprising oil and gas, energy, fertilisers, magnesium, aluminium, petrochemicals, industrial chemicals and fish farming. Slightly more than half the 35,000 employees are outside Norway. ...
Norsk Hydro's guiding hand
... The company, which is 51% owned by the Norwegian government, has activities in over 60 countries, comprising oil and gas, energy, fertilisers, magnesium, aluminium, petrochemicals, industrial chemicals and fish farming. Slightly more than half the 35,000 employees are outside Norway. ...
Tiwai smelter to cut production by 5pct
... the Tiwai Aluminium Smelter is cutting production by 5% due to soaring electricity prices. Mr Ryan Cavanagh General manager of Tiwai Aluminium said it will result in a reduction of 30MW of power demand and a decrease in aluminium production of about 1500 tonnes per month. ...
China Henan Cuts Aluminum Power Supply; May Keep Capacity Idled
... Reduced power supply in China's Henan province due to a coal shortage may lead to delays in bringing idled aluminum capacity back online ... "Less power would mean less production as it requires a large amount of electricity to turn alumina to (galvanized) aluminum, so if the supply shortage of...
China Henan Cuts Aluminum Power Supply; May Keep Capacity Idled
... Reduced power supply in China's Henan province due to a coal shortage may lead to delays in bringing idled aluminum capacity ... Benchmark Shanghai Futures Exchange aluminum has gained 2.2% since the start of this month and closed at CNY16,760 a metric ton Thursday. ...
Aluminum smelters in China face winter power shortage
... According to Macquarie Group Ltd, aluminum smelters in China may face a “critical shortage” of power that prevents them from ramping up output in the first quarter of 2011, helping to buoy prices as stockpiles decline further. ... The report said that the power curbs led to a drawdown in...
Nalco’s global outlook makes local connection secure
... Naperville-based Nalco focuses on helping customers reduce energy, water and other natural resource consumption. And while the company has been profiled a lot recently for new worldwide initiatives taking place as far away as Russia, India and Brazil, one component remains constant: the better...
Alro to receive energy at price pegged to aluminium listing
... aluminium industry a national priority and compels the state company Hidroelectrica to provide energy to Alro Slatina at a price pegged to aluminium listings on the stock market. ... According to Videanu, state backing in this sector would result in direct investments, into the Romanian...
Aluminum Smelters in China May Face Winter Power Shortage, Macquarie Says
...Aluminum smelters in China may face a “critical shortage” of power that prevents them from ramping up output in the first quarter of 2011, helping to buoy prices as stockpiles decline further, according to Macquarie Group Ltd...
China Henan cuts power supply to aluminium, lead smelters
...Henan, China's top aluminium and lead producing province, has reduced power supplies to aluminium and lead smelters by 20 percent from this week, smelter sources said on Thursday...
Rio Tinto New Zealand Aluminium smelter cuts production by 5pct
...Reuters reported that global miner Rio Tinto said production at its New Zealand Aluminium Smelters Ltd subsidiary was being cut by about 5% in response to high electricity prices...
