Aluminium extrusion 2035 demand nears 44.22Mt: Industry experts decode next decade drivers
Global aluminium extrusion demand is entering a phase with consumption projected to rise from 35.25 million tonnes in 2025 to 35.93 million tonnes in 2026 and 44.22 million tonnes by 2035, representing a 2.29 per cent CAGR. While building and construction will remain the largest end-use sector and...
Alba reaches 50m hours without LTI, strengthening aluminium safety record
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) has reached 50 million safe working hours without a Lost Time Injury (LTI) . The milestone was achieved on September 7, 2026, marking a record in the company’s history. The achievement reflects Alba’s continued focus on workplace safety across its aluminium...
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UAE grants license to build two nuclear reactors for power
Reuters reports that the United Arab Emirates will be the first gulf state to start construction of a commercial nuclear power plant in the region. The UAE has committed itself to this energy path to avoid using increasingly scarce natural gas supplies for electricity generation, water...
State Committee for Property Affairs launches production of Ganja Alumina
The State Committee for Property Affairs of Azerbaijan continues measures aimed at supporting national productions. The Committee reports that its chairman Kerem Hasanov, speaking at the SCPA Collegiate Organ’s meeting, said that the taken measures allowed start of production at facility Ganja...
Paci, Sohar Aluminium tie up for training programme
A signing ceremony between the Public Authority for Crafts Industries (PACI), represented by their Deputy Chairman Dr Isam bin Ali al Rawas, and Sohar Aluminium, represented by their CEO Henk Pauw, took place at PACI’s premises in Ghubrah yesterday. The agreement is a Memorandum of Understanding...
Abengoa’s Turkey Waste Treatment plant might require $300 Million Investment
Abengoa SA (ABG) will spend $120 million on two steel-dust-waste treatment plants in Turkey and the investment could rise to $300 million if it decides to expand capacity and build an aluminum waste treatment plant. The Spanish engineering company’s Befesa Medio Ambiente SA unit will build the...
Sohar Aluminum to boost output three-fold
Sohar Aluminium is keen to triple its production capacity from its current 375,000 metric tonnes of aluminium per annum to one million metric tonnes, said Henk Pauw, chief executive of Sohar Aluminium. Speaking at the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Sohar Aluminum and the...
Growing market for smelter grade alumina
The market for smelter grade alumina is primarily controlled by integrated aluminium companies. In 2008, worldwide alumina refining capacity totalled approximately 90 million metric tons per year including non-metallurgical aluminiums. It is estimated that approximately 80% of alumina production...
Nigeria’s Supreme court order against Rusal may harm its economic cooperation with Russia
A decision by Nigeria’s Supreme Court to strip Russian aluminum giant RusAl of its ownership of its Nigerian aluminum processing plant may harm economic cooperation with Russia, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. “The decision by the Nigerian Supreme Court on Alscon (Aluminum Smelter...
Qatalum set to showcase plant technology at ARABAL 2012
MENAFN reported that Qatalum's state of the art environment friendly smelting technologies will attract the attention of manufacturers and delegates attending 16th Arab International Aluminium Conference to be hosted by Qatar. Qatalum said that ARABAL 2012 will be held at the Grand Hyatt here in...
Bahrain Company TIC wins dross processing contract from OARM
Facility to recover Aluminium metal from waste —A Bahraini firm has won a contract to construct a dross processing facility downstream of the massive Aluminium plant being set up by Oman Aluminium Rolling Mills (OARM) at Sohar, a local newspaper reported at the weekend. Taha International...
South African company awarded aluminium smelter contract
Cape Town-based Air Compressor Engineering (ACE) was awarded a compressed-air supply contract in March by diversified resources group BHP Billiton for its Mozal aluminium smelter, in Mozambique. As an official representative of Italy-based air compressor manufacturer Mattei, it supplies...
Russia warns of row with Nigeria over Rusal
Russia’s Foreign Ministry warned Nigeria on Thursday, of potential damage to bilateral relations and urged action against a court decision that stripped the world’s largest aluminium producer, Russia’s Rusal, of its core African asset. Nigeria’s supreme court ordered last week that Rusal, which...
Taha is awarded major Oman plant contract
Bahrain-based locally-owned company Taha International Corporation has been awarded the dross management contract with Oman Aluminium Rolling Company's (OARC) plant currently under construction in Sohar. "OARC's plant will begin commercial production in August 2013 and represents a significant...
Alcoa Inc. offers Alba $45 million to settle a federal lawsuit
Alcoa Inc. has offered a Bahrain-controlled company at least $45 million to settle a federal lawsuit that alleges Alcoa-related firms paid millions in bribes that resulted in the other company overpaying for raw materials. Attorneys for Aluminum Bahrain BSC, also known as Alba, did not immediately...
Coal, aluminum firms to invest in East Kutai plants
Two foreign firms plan to develop projects worth Rp 45 trillion (US$4.76 billion) in East Kalimantan, the province’s top official says. The projects will be funded by Rhas Al Khaima, a United Arab Emirates-based coal mining company, and National Aluminium Co. (Nalco), an Indian-based manufacturer...
Qatalum Set to Showcase smelting Technology at ARABAL
Qatalum's state-of-the-art environment-friendly smelting technologies will attract the attention of manufacturers and delegates attending 16th Arab International Aluminium Conference (ARABAL 2012) to be hosted by Qatar, the smelter has said. ARABAL 2012 will be held at the Grand Hyatt here in Doha...
DUBAL's energy conservation efforts yields positive result
The energy conservation efforts at Dubai Aluminium ("DUBAL") - the wholly state-owned corporation that operates a one million metric tonne per annum primary aluminium smelter, the world's largest using pre-bake anode technology - continue to achieve good results. A member of the Dubai Supreme...
Alumina reviews pre-tax settlement charge booked by Alcoa
Alumina Limited is reviewing a $US45 million pre-tax settlement charge booked by its joint venture partner Alcoa in relation to a Bahrain bribery case. The Australian-listed company, commenting today after Alcoa's quarterly earnings release, said that it was evaluating the basis for the $US45m...
Guala Closures to acquire South African metal closure division
Guala Closures has commenced acquisition of the metal closures division of MCG Industries, a manufacturer of aluminium closures in Cape Town, South Africa. The acquisition is subject to the approval of the South African Competition Commission and is expected to be given in the last quarter of 2012....
