Coal India, the world’s largest coal producer, is evaluating bauxite opportunities in Ghana as the Indian state-controlled miner eyes expansion beyond coal and to secure overseas mineral assets. The Ghana interest is part of a wider plan to establish Coal India’s first overseas trading office in...
Volta Aluminium Company Limited (VALCO) plans to move further into Ghana’s aluminium value chain with a new continuous casting and rolling mill that will produce aluminium rods for electrical cable manufacturers. The company has already supplied test samples to Nexans Kablemetal and Reroy Cables,...
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised concern about the Chinese government potentially gaining access to Ghana's mineral, majorly bauxite and electricity revenues, citing Ghana's failure to meet loan terms. The IMF is a 190-member country organisation that promotes global monetary...
Ghana's President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has established the Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC) will add value to the country's raw bauxite resources. Ghana's overdependence on exporting raw products has prevented the country from benefiting optimally from its...
The Volta Aluminium Company Limited (VALCO) has announced that it might conclude all conversations with a strategic investor before the end of the last quarter of 2023. The state-owned company has been given permission by the Cabinet and its parent company, the Ghana Integrated Aluminium...
The New Zealand Aluminium Smelter (NZAS) and Meridian Energy are expected to sign a new agreement specifying flexible power demand from the smelter amid grid stress or hydro scarcity, according to a report on April 5. On Thursday, April 6, both LME aluminium cash bid price and LME aluminium...
Samuel Abu Jinapor, the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources of Ghana, has invited the investor community to fund Ghana’s integrated aluminium industry. He has appealed to the investor community to consider Ghana’s stable democracy, steady economy, and resilient democratic institutions for...
On Tuesday, April 4, Samuel Abu Jinapor, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources of Ghana, revealed his anticipation that a comprehensive development of an integrated aluminium industry, with an estimated bauxite resource base of over 900 million tonnes, would create around 2 million sustainable...
The downstream aluminium sector has witnessed sensitive yet structured growth this week. International Aluminium Institute (IAI) launched the Aluminium Forward 2030 with some of the most prominent players in the aluminium sector, including Jaguar, Land Rover, cable manufacturers Nexans, aluminium...
Samuel Abu Jinapor, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has emphasised the need to develop the downstream aluminium industry in Ghana. He claimed that the nation has lost out on enormous cash and job prospects for young people by not doing so throughout the years. The Minister emphasised...
The Ghana International Trade Commission (GITC) has denied a petition for a waiver of 35.77 per cent Anti-Dumping Duty (ADD) imposed on consignments of aluminium coils and circles imported from China by the Asadtek Group of Companies. The GITC stated, “The imported consignments were not brought...
The Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC) has been charged by the national director of A Rocha Ghana (ARG), Dr Seth Appiah-Kubi, for damaging a section of the Atewa forest through experimental bauxite mining. According to him, the mining carried out was illegal. This is his...
The primary driver of bauxite demand is aluminium production, which is anticipated to rise in response to increasing demand from the building, transportation, and packaging sectors. In 2021, the global bauxite market was valued at $15.59 billion, and from 2022 to 2030, it is forecast to grow at a...
Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC) is reportedly working on increasing the production capacity of the Ghana Bauxite Company (GBC) from one million tonnes per annum to two million tonnes per annum. The news came after Mr Michael Ansah, the Chief Executive Officer of the...
The Ghanaian holding company, Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC), dealing with all government investments and interests in the nation's integrated aluminium business, has introduced OPCL as the new majority shareholder of Ghana Bauxite Company (GBC) to the traditional...
According to our report from West Africa, almost all of the unloading operations for two Bedeschi shiploaders and one echopper shipped fully erected from Jebel Ali Port, Dubai to Ghana Takoradi Port have been accomplished. Jebel Ali is a deep port located in Jebel Ali, Dubai, United Arab Emirates...
The Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO), a subsidiary of Kaiser Aluminium operating from Ghana, has halted its operations due to the ongoing dispute among workers for a salary bar adjusted with the dollar rate. The VALCO workers are now entitled to salaries in dollars but are paid in equation with the...
On 21 st September, the President of the West African nation Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, declared during the 77 th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that Ghana is developing an integrated bauxite and aluminium industry. He added that Ghana was refining its natural resources -...
Ghana Integrated Aluminum Development Corporation (GIADEC) believes it can raise nearly US$6 billion in private finance to achieve a unified aluminium sector. It also hopes that the integrated aluminium development plan would help Ghana's packaging, pharmaceutical, electric cable manufacturing, and...
The Akufo-Addo government in Ghana has inked an agreement with Messrs Thelo DB Consortium of South Africa and Ghanaian firm Transtech Consult Limited for upgrading the Western Corridor railway track to simplify the coherent movement of freight as well as passengers. As part of the government's...
