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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Shawinigan Aluminum: Once abandoned by Rio Tinto, is set about on large-scale aluminium recycling with an investment of 10 million.
A new smelter will be built adjacent to its billet manufacturing facilities to recycle scrap aluminium from Rio Tinto and its customers who turn ingots into value-added products. The facilities will have the capacity to remelt 30,000 tonnes of scrap per year to manufacture new billets. The billets...
Tankoa floats all-Aluminium 50m Olokun superyacht
Born from a passion for the sea, Tankoa Yachts embodies the concept of “thinking big” and this time it has floated a highly anticipated 50m all-aluminium superyacht M/Y Olokun. The third hull of Tankoa’s S501 features exquisite exterior design by Francesco Paszkowsk and interiors by Casadio...
Chalco’s Huasheng alumina refinery begins trial production, expects to reach up to 50,000 tonnes output in Sept
Huasheng alumina refinery, located at Fangchenggang Port, Guangxi, started trial production on September 10, having come online in August, said several sources to Fastmarkets on Monday, September 14. The commencement of trial production at Huasheng refinery followed after Chalco received a license...
“Thyssenkrupp Elevator” collaborates with “Amplus” for a solar plant at Pune facility in India, carport entirely made of Aluminium
Thyssenkrupp Elevator, one of the global leaders of elevator technology, has collaborated with Amplus Solar, a member of the Petronas Group to layout an onsite solar power unit at their Pune facility in Western India. Thyssenkrupp Elevator (India) has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with...
Lotte Aluminium expands cathode foil capacity at its plant
Lotte Aluminium Co. announced plans to boost its production capacity of its production lines for cathode foil, a key material in making EV batteries, at the company’s Ansan facility in Seoul. This would meet growing demand for electric vehicle batteries amid the global race for zero-emissions cars....
ISGEC won order from Hindalco’s Mahan Aluminium
ISGEC Heavy Engineering, an Indian heavy engineering firm has won an INR 126.50-crore order for a semi-dry circulating fluidised bed scrubbers (FGD) system from Hindalco Industries. The FGD system will be used at one of the Hindalco's 150 MW units at Mahan Aluminium at Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh....
Kiira Motors in Uganda to start manufacturing Electrics Vehicles in 2021; G Das Industrial to supply Aluminium components
The Government of Uganda has publicized June 2021 as the date for the start of manufacture of electric cars in Uganda, however, failed to hit the deadline in 2018. Kiira Motors on social media conveyed: “Expect us to start manufacturing Ugandan made vehicles from our Vehicle Plant by June 2021.” On...
NALCO adding new wind power capacity of 25.5 MW to its existing wind energy portfolio of 198.4 MW
According to a recent report, National Aluminium Company has initiated the process of increasing its wind portfolio to 223.9 MW by adding 25.5 MW of new wind power capacity to renewable energy portfolio. The news came after Nalco’s Chairman and Managing Director Sridhar Patra said in a report that...
Azelio collaborates with Atria Power for 65MW energy storage in India
Azelio, the Swedish energy storage firm and Atria Power of India have signed an MOU towards the collaboration of installation of over 65MW capacity of Azelio’s energy storage until 2025 in India. This is Azelio’s first landing foot in India and it is visualised as a market with the huge...
Alcoa to work with FYI Resources to advance high purity alumina development
FYI Resources has reportedly signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Alcoa of Australia to advance the development of high purity alumina (HPA) refining technologies. FYI has already started developing a process for producing high-quality HPA in the face of a limited supply of the product....
Nalco’s CAPEX plans possibly to squash cash flows, refinery expansion project causing a flutter
The industry analysts said: “National Aluminium Company Ltd (Nalco) shareholders may have a thing or two to worry about in the coming years. The firm is going ahead with an expansion plan that will deplete cash flows and raise its debt levels. That may just be weighing on the stock.” As on 7 th...
Shanghai Huafon Aluminium launching IPO on Shanghai Stock Exchange
According to a recent report, Shanghai Huafon Aluminium (601712) will start trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange – Main Board from Monday, September 7, at a public offering price of RMB 3.69 per share, to raise RMB 921.13 million. Its initial listing shares will account for 25 per cent of the...
Vitex Extrusion opens new plant to expands aluminium extrusion manufacturing capacity
Vitex Extrusion has expanded its aluminium extrusion manufacturing business with the long-term lease of a 50,000-square-foot facility. The new plant, adjacent to its existing 115,000-square-foot manufacturing facility, will focus on machining, fabrication and assembly of aluminium extrusions. “Over...
Rusal’s Taishet anode plant to have SCHADE Technology for stockpiling and reclaiming of petroleum coke
United Company Rusal Plc (Rusal)’s new plant, to be commissioned in 2022 on 400 km east of Krasnoyarsk in Taishet in Russia, will reportedly have SCHADE technology. The Russian aluminium producer had first placed its order with SCHADE Lagertechnik GmbH at the end of 2019, for a wagon tippler and...
Borneo Alumina Indonesia appointed Progesys for PMC consortium towards development of smelter grade alumina refinery project
During the mid-2019, PT Borneo Alumina Indonesia (PT BAI) created a consortium, formed of three companies, for the Project Management Consultancy (PMC) towards the development and execution of a One Million Tonne Per Annum (MTPA) smelter grade alumina refinery project and a 2×40,000 normal cubic...
Ball to construct new U.S. aluminium beverage can plant
Ball Corporation has planned to construct new U.S. aluminium beverage packaging plant in Pittston, Pennsylvania with an initial investment of more than $300 million spread over multiple years. The plant is scheduled to begin production in mid-2021. This will create approximately 230 manufacturing...
President of Ghana lays foundation stone for metal casting factory, largely for manufacturing aluminium cast products
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...
BAGR Berliner Aluminiumwerk commences a new casting line to manufacture high-quality aluminium rolling ingots
BAGR Berliner Aluminiumwerk GmbH, Europe's leading independent secondary aluminium slab producer, has announced on Tuesday, September 1, that it has started a fully-automated continuous casting line to manufacture high-quality rolling ingots in large widths. On commissioning of the new casting...
