Ghana puts bauxite, lithium and iron ore in the spotlight to woo Australian capital
Ghana has stepped up efforts to attract Australian investment into its growing critical minerals sector, pitching the country as a stable and reform-driven destination for mining and value-added mineral development at the 2026 Africa Down Under (ADU) Summit in Perth. The Ghanaian delegation was led...
Aluminium eggshells take on space debris with nearly 65% impact reduction
Researchers at Dalian University of Technology in China have tested a spacecraft protection structure made from water-filled aluminium eggshells, with the design reducing the velocity of an impact projectile by nearly 65 per cent. The research, published in the Journal of Applied Physics , looked...
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Yunnan Yongshun Aluminium Co., Ltd. joins Aluminium Stewardship Initiative as new Production & Transformation member
Yunnan Yongshun Aluminium Co., Ltd. has joined Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) as a new Production & Transformation member. This brings the total number of ASI Members to 137. Yunnan Yongshun Aluminium Co., Ltd. is a company jointly funded by Yongxin Aluminium Co., Ltd. of Yunnan Aluminium...
Bechtel Corporation secures engineering consultant contract for Egyptalum's 7th production line
The largest aluminium producer in Egypt and one of the largest in Africa, Egyptalum, has assigned the US-based company Bechtel an engineering consultant contract for the former's seventh production line project. The main purpose of the project is to increase Egyptalum's production of aluminium,...
China’s Henan Shenhuo Group expecting to start the second phase of its Yunnan project in Q1 2021
China’s Henan Shenhuo Group is expected to start production at the second phase of its 900,000 tonnes per year aluminium project by the first quarter of CY2021, said an official familiar with the matter. The second phase of the project, located in Wenshan prefecture in Yunnan province, will be...
GIADEC and Bauxite Minerals Group sign MoU for expanding bauxite operations in Ghana
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...
Rio Tinto teams up with Geocycle Canada and Lafarge Canada for circular economy project
Rio Tinto has collaborated with Geocycle Canada and Lafarge Canada for circular economy initiative. The trio will work together to reuse waste from the aluminium smelting process to make cement. Rio Tinto, Geocycle Canada and Lafarge Canada will reduce the need to extract other raw materials and...
Hitachi delivers Aluminium bodied train for Ho Chi Minh City metro line
On 13 th October’20, Hitachi has delivered the first of 17 train-sets for the metro line under construction in Ho Chi Minh City. Line 1 will run for 19·7 km between Ben Thanh Market in the central District 1 and Suoi Tien Theme Park in District 9 to the northeast, with 17·1 km of the route being...
China to boost annual aluminium production capacity by another 3 million tonnes in 2021: Antaike
China will add another 3 million tonnes of annual aluminium production capacity in 2021 – more than half the capacity in the emerging smelting hub of Yunnan province, said Antaike on Wednesday, October 14. The abundant availability of hydropower in Yunnan already bought some major aluminium...
Dutch designer Richard Hutten melts down Amsterdam Schiphol airport’s old chairs for ‘sweeping’ new seating system, starts with aluminium frame recycling
Dutch furniture and interior designer Richard Hutten worked with award-winning design label for contract furniture and office furniture, Lensvelt to develop 27,000 new seats for Amsterdam's Schiphol airport that make use of the building's existing resources. According to Richard Hutten, this:...
SMS group to supply new extrusion line to UACJ Extrusion Nagoya Corporation
UACJ Extrusion Nagoya Corporation, Japan, will expand its extrusion capacity at its plant in Nagoya, Japan with new extrusion press line. The company has given the final acceptance certificate (FAC) to SMS group for the supply of new HybrEx®40 extrusion press line. This extrusion line one of SMS...
Aluminium producer Norsk Hydro setting up two new divisions - Renewables Growth and Batteries
Aluminium producer Norsk Hydro is boosting its sustainability drive by setting up two new divisions - Renewables Growth and Batteries, announced the company on Tuesday, October 14. Hydro provides aluminium to a range of industries, including the construction and automotive industry. Hydro said the...
Govt. of India plans another effort to construct satellite port at Betul in Goa, majorly for Bauxite export
Mormugao Port Trust said three years after that it has shelved plans for the satellite port at Betul, following people’s protests; the Central government has made another effort to construct a satellite port there through Sagarmala V project. As per the industry report, a new multipurpose terminal...
ISGEC Heavy Engineering successfully commissions modified 150 MW boiler for Hindalco’s Aditya Aluminium unit in Odisha
The Indian heavy engineering company, ISGEC has successfully commissioned a combustion modified 150 MW boiler for Hindalco’s Aditya Aluminium unit in Sambalpur, Odisha. The project incorporated the entire modification of the combustion system of a digressive fired boiler to drastically reduce...
Altech Chemicals: €7.38 million of grant support from Saxony State Government in Germany for construction of HPA plant
Altech Chemicals Limited aiming to become the world’s leading supplier of HPA has announced that it has received a commitment letter from State Ministry for Economic, Labour and Transport, Saxony, Germany for a grant of €7,380,000. The grant would be available to Altech towards the support of total...
Australian Mines Ltd. seek out to develop next-gen aluminium alloys using scandium
Founded in 2001 and ASX-listed, Australian Mines Ltd. is seeking to evolve new aluminium alloys using scandium, which will be sourced from the Sconi project in Queensland. The mining company has allied with Victoria-based Deakin University’s Institute for Frontier Materials for the project, which...
Novelis Brazil opt Danieli for supply of new pit furnace to heat Aluminium ingots
Novelis Brazil has selected Danieli Centro Combustion for the supply of a new pit furnace to heat ingots, to be installed at the Pindamonhangaba plant, Brazil. The purpose of the new facility is to heat the aluminium ingots more than 20% faster than the existing facilities. The furnace will load 2...
Hydro teams up with Norway for electric passenger ferry
Hydro has collaborated with Norway to develop the world’s first fully electrical passenger ferry. The project would include extrusions, panels, friction-stir welding, robotic welding, bending larger panels, optimizing CAD (computer-aided design) services and modular design. One ferry can contain...
Azeraluminium LLC signs agreement with Achenbach Buschhütten to increase aluminium production
Azeraluminium LLC, a subsidiary of Azerbaijan Industrial Corporation OJSC, has entered into a preliminary agreement with Achenbach Buschhütten to increase aluminium production in Azerbaijan, reported Day.az. “As a result of the cooperation between AIC and Achenbach Buschhütten, it will be possible...
Lindian Resources reveals Mineral Resource Estimate of its newly-bought Lelouma Bauxite Project in Guinea
Mining stock Lindian Resources (LIN) has announced an update about its recently bought Lelouma Bauxite Project in Guinea. In late September, Lindian acquired a controlling stake in the bauxite project by signing an agreement to buy 75 per cent of its owner Sarmin Bauxite. The deal is, however,...
