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 West African nation Ghana, where women are still counted minority in the construction sector. Despite all the odds, Iddrisu Kande opted to venture into aluminium fabrication and her firm Marouf Aluminum Fabrications, participates in the fight against unemployment. In Ashaiman, a large town in...
The Govt. of Ghana is standing at the final stage to close a deal for bringing in an investor to partner with the Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC) for bauxite exploitation in the country. Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana, while addressing the parliament in his first...
Leonardo DiCaprio, the eminent Hollywood celebrity who acted in movies like Titanic, Blood Diamond and many other movies, has called on the Govt. of Ghana to ensure the 'Atewa Forest' remains safe. On his Twitter handle, the world-renowned actor indicated that the Forest in Ghana is one of the...
Africa is one of the largest producers of aluminium ore BAUXITE. African nation Guinea stands as the world’s highest exporter of bauxite and ranks at number two in bauxite production. The other African countries producing bauxite are Ghana, Cameroon, Mozambique, Ivory Coast, etc. Although having a...
BMW Group, Tetra Pak and Schuco International KG, the three global manufacturing companies have countered to agitate over the usage of aluminium produced from bauxite mined at the Atewa Forest in Ghana. The global manufacturers have communicated in letters their stand to the Concerned Citizens of...
The President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo has stated that a bauxite company will soon commence work at Nyinahin in the Atwima Mponua District in the Ashanti Region, which will benefit for all. While addressing a durbar at Nyinahin at the end of his three-day campaign tour of the region,...
Ghana is home to three out of the four stages in producing aluminium. Only the alumina refining stage does not take place in Ghana. The rest, namely bauxite mining, aluminium smelter producing ingots and the casting of aluminium ingots into sheets, coils and profiles, take place here. The Ghana...
Africa is a continent which is rich by raw materials, concurrently economically poor. The biggest reason for this situation of the African continent is the exports its precious raw materials that are processed somewhere else, thus failing to add value to the resources. This has been causing...
Aluworks Limited, an aluminium continuous casting and cold rolling mill located at the port city of Tema, Ghana is seeking $40 million to revamp its operations to stand strongly against the dumping of cheap Chinese aluminium products on the Ghanaian market. The aluminium plant with a capacity of...
Ukraine imported 4.03 million tonnes of aluminium ores and concentrate (bauxite) in the first ten months of 2020. That was an increase of 6.2% year-on-year, according to statistics released by the State Customs Service. Bauxite imports in monetary terms rose to $190.937 million January-October, a...
The Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC) and Bauxite Minerals Group have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for expanding bauxite mining operations in Awaso, Ghana. The MoU will expand bauxite operation from one million tonnes to approximately 5 million tonnes...
The Ghana International Trade Commission (GITC) has pointed out that the dumping of aluminium coils and circles from China onto the Ghanaian domestic market are causing material injury and posing a threat to the domestic industry. So, on Thursday, October 15, Professor Paul Kuruk, Vice Chairman of...
The governing board and management of the Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC) has organised and inaugurated 19-member committees for various bauxite communities in Asiakwa (Atewa) in the Eastern Region, Awaso in the Western North Region, Nyinahini and Mpasaaso in the Ashanti...
Ghana is the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to achieve the Millenium Development Goal 1, which is the target of halving extreme poverty. Ghana has recently become a middle-income country. Ghana's economic freedom score is 59.4, making its economy the 104th freest in the 2020 Index. Ghana is...
The President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo stated that plans are far advanced to exploit bauxite resources at Atewa in Abuakwa South of the Eastern Region. Nana Akufo-Addo said: “The state-owned Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC) is determined to develop the bauxite mine to...
Fitch Solutions predicts Ghana to emerge as an automotive production hub in West Africa in the years to come. The ratings agency report suggests that comprehensive policy by the Ghana Government could be a potential factor for the nation to dominate West African automobile space in the future. “We...
Ghana is looking for domestic or international partners to support the restoration and upgrading the state-owned Volta Aluminum Company’s (VALCO) smelter, to reach its production capacity of 300,000 tonnes per year by 2025. The Ghana Integrated Aluminum Development Corporation (GIADEC) has conveyed...
The President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo on 31st August’20 laid the foundation stone for the construction of Foundry and Computer Numerical Control (CNC) Machine Tooling Centre at the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) in Accra. The factory will manufacture tools, spare parts, bolts and nuts and...
