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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Alunorf gets yet another energy award
Alunorf, the world's largest aluminium rolling plant and a 50-percent Hydro joint venture, has won yet another energy award in Germany. DENA (the German Energy Agency) has conferred an Energy Efficiency Award 2014 to Alunorf, one of three energy-efficiency projects in the private sector to receive...
Rexam Plc to increase prices to bear rising premiums and energy costs
By revenue, Rexam Plc is the second-largest beverage can maker in the world but the rising aluminium premiums and high energy costs in Brazil are pushing the company to contemplate raising the price for their customers. On Thursday, Rexam came out as one of the biggest losers in the FTSE-250 Midcap...
Brazil’s worst-ever drought severely crippling its aluminium industry
Brazil, which was once the sixth largest aluminium producer in the world has now slipped two spots down to the eighth position primarily due to their severe bout of drought which has made electricity a scarce commodity. While the world primary aluminium production has increased by 3% from 2012 to...
Inalum to speed up power plant project
State-owned aluminum producer PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium (Inalum) plans to accelerate the development of its power plant project, an Inalum executive says. Inalum president commissioner Agus Tjahajana said the company was inching closer to completing the feasibility study for the planned 1,000...
Pre-bent busbars now available
Sapa delivers high-conductive aluminium busbars to the energy-supply segment. Now, customers can further reduce costs and improve the environmental footprint of their systems by ordering pre-bent busbars. Busbars are extruded round tubes mainly in the 6101B T6/T7 aluminium alloy, to ensure high...
Inalum refuses to increase power supply to North Sumatra
State-owned aluminum producer PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminum (Inalum) has revealed that it will reject the government’s request to supply additional power to North Sumatra to overcome the province’s power crisis. In a meeting with the North Sumatra Council on Monday, Inalum Workers Union (SP Inalum)...
Sarginsons Industries upgrades foundry
Coventry-based Sarginsons Industries is gearing up for expansion thanks to a six-figure finance package. Established in 1936, the aluminium castings manufacturer services the automotive sector and its supply chain across the Midlands, UK and overseas. The company, which employs a team of 85 staff,...
Hydro’s Alunorf wins energy ‘Oscar’
Alunorf, the world's largest aluminium rolling plant and a 50-percent Hydro joint venture, has won an Energy Award 2014 from the German Energy Academy. The Energy Awards 2014 were recently presented at a ceremony in Berlin, with more than 300 guests from politics, economy and science present. The...
Hydro’s Alunorf wins energy ‘Oscar’
Alunorf, the world's largest aluminium rolling plant and a 50-percent Hydro joint venture, has won an Energy Award 2014 from the German Energy Academy. The Energy Awards 2014 were recently presented at a ceremony in Berlin, with more than 300 guests from politics, economy and science present. The...
Hydro’s Alunorf wins energy ‘Oscar’
Alunorf, the world's largest aluminium rolling plant and a 50-percent Hydro joint venture, has won an Energy Award 2014 from the German Energy Academy. The Energy Awards 2014 were recently presented at a ceremony in Berlin, with more than 300 guests from politics, economy and science present. The...
Tiwai Point Smelter’s future to decide Meridian Energy’s fate
Meridian Energy says, in the possible scenario of Rio Tinto not renewing their contract post July 1 next year, they will watch for the closures of fossil-fuel powered stations before making a decision about their response. Rio Tinto is the major owner of the Tiwai Point Aluminium smelter. According...
Anil Agarwal requests the Chhattisgarh government to start the Korba power plant
Anil Agrawal, the founder and executive chairman of the London-listed Vedanta Resources travelled to Raipur on Monday to talk to the authorities about the power plant in Chhattisgarh’s Korba district which has been stalled and is affecting the other projects in the state. The 1200-Mw power plant...
2030 Energy and Climate Package: EEA expects concrete EU measures
In response to the EU Council Conclusions on the 2030 Climate and Energy package, the European aluminium industry welcomes the confirmation that measures to stop investment leakage will continue after 2020. After a decade of disinvestment, it is now high time to deliver the concrete measures that...
Boyne Smelters to continue at full capacity
Business hasn't been easy in the world of manufacturing. Australia has been left with just four aluminium smelters after yet another one closed down in recent weeks. But Boyne Smelters Ltd has continued to work on ways to cut costs and keep its 1200 employees in a job. The biggest unknown is a...
Alro paid 66 million dollars as energy costs in Romania
Alro Saltino has reportedly paid 66 million dollars as energy costs last year and it is difficult to afford similar expenditure for another year according to Gheorghe Dobra, the CEO of Alro at a conference concerning energy issues. He says that including ecotaxes, the company spent more than 1,000...
High-tech 'jackets' to help aluminium producers regulate energy use
New research at the University of Auckland developing retrofit technology for the production of aluminium would be the first in the world to allow the industry to more easily regulate electricity use. Professor Mark Taylor and Dr Golbon Zakeri from the University’s Faculty of Engineering will...
Vimetco Extrusion starts production on new extrusion press from SMS Meer
Vimetco Extrusion has successfully commissioned a 32/35-MN-short-stroke front-loading extrusion press supplied by SMS Meer at its works in Slatina, Romania. The company uses the machine to produce aluminum profiles for the automotive industry and for building applications. Compared with...
JNARDDC and NFMTDC researching to produce high performance aluminium power cables
The Jawaharlal Nehru Aluminium Research Development and Design Centre (JNARDDC) is undertaking a research that could change the face of the power sector in the next three to four years. A new aluminium and zircon alloy based alloy conductor could replace the current All Aluminium Alloy Conductor...
