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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Bauxite production to climb sharply from 2021: Fitch Solutions
Fitch Solutions Country Risk and Industry Research says: “New projects coming on line in key producers Guinea, Indonesia and Australia, as well as a ramp-up in Indian and Indonesian production, will drive rapid production growth of bauxite in 2021.” The bauxite mining sector of Australia...
Azizi Developments to infuse AED 3.5 Billion in Dubai construction projects, affirms to use locally sourced aluminium
Azizi Development based in UAE has announced its plans to infuse over AED 3.5 billion ($953 million) in the construction of 45 buildings covering Dubai over the next two to three years. The project incorporates developing 14 and 22 buildings in Riviera Phase 3 and 4 respectively, its three Avenue...
CANPACK starts aluminium beverage cans production at its greenfield facility in Stribro
CANPACK announced that it has started commercial production of aluminium beverage cans at its greenfield investment in Stribro. The company is manufacturing beverage cans for the Plzeňský Prazdroj, a prominent Czech brewery and a member of the Asahi Group. “This facility is a landmark in Canpack’s...
Wheels India plans to start cast aluminium wheels export to the US from September
Wheels India Limited has planned to export forged aluminium wheels to the US. This would meet the market demands in the US market. The company’s new cast aluminium wheel plant will begin exports to the market from September. “The financial year will be a difficult one due to declining economies in...
Altech announces quarterly reports ended June 2020: Cash flow from operating activities down at A$939 year-to-date
Altech Chemicals Limited has released its quarterly reports ended June 2020 mentioning the recommencement of its high purity alumina site in Johor Bahru, Malaysia on June 3, 2020, following the lifting of the Malaysian government COVID-19 pandemic Movement Control Order (MCO). The quarterly reports...
Southern Indian state Tamil Nadu secures another INR 5100 investments, SAF to set up aluminium auto parts production facility
On 23 rd July’20, the State Government of Tamil Nadu signed 16 MoUs apprehending fresh investments worth more than INR 5100 crore. As per the Govt, it will support to deliver over 6500 jobs. In two months the Govt has signed MoUs valued for INR 30,664 crore investment which is visualized to create...
Hydro signs MoU with Golar Power for possible use of natural gas at Alunorte alumina refinery
Hydro announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Golar Power for the use of environmentally friendly natural gas at the Hydro Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil. The company aims to replace a major part of its current fuel oil consumption at the refinery with natural gas....
Romanian Alumina producer ALUM stands as one of the grantees for € 8.8 million by European Commission to ReActiv project
The Industrial Residue activation for continual cement production, project 'ReActiv' will create an ultra-modern and feasible value chain, clamping bauxite residue, the offshoot of the alumina production with the cement industry. The only calcined alumina producer of Romania, ALUM takes part as a...
Govt. of India–Ministry of Mines: Projects to auction 5-6 mineral blocks in Madhya Pradesh over next 3 months, includes 2 Bauxite mines
The Ministry of Mines, Govt. of India has projected to auction 5-6 mineral blocks, including bauxite mines, in the central state of India, Madhya Pradesh over the next three months, as per a government official. However, the 11 blocks that were up for sale by the state recently, received a response...
Poralu Marine and Western Australia Department of Transport collaborate for a new jetty, heavy-duty aluminium structures to be installed
Poralu Marine has made public towards its involvement in the design and construction of a new jetty at Two Rocks Marina, Western Australia. The project will be completed in collaboration with Poralu Marine distributor Shorewater Marine for the Western Australia Department of Transport (DoT). The...
A fresh look: AMAG’s new materials research and testing center – “CMI”
The ceremony had to be kept small due to the coronavirus. The AMAG management board joined Herbert Ortner, Chair of the AMAG Austria Metall AG supervisory board to open AMAG’s new materials research and testing center, the “Center for Material Innovation” (CMI). The strategic expansion of the AMAG...
Minister of Economy, Georgia: Officially opens koç kablo’s aluminium and copper wires producing plant
Natia Turnava, Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, officially opened a Koc Kablo’s new enterprise of aluminium and copper wires in Tbilisi. Over 100 people have been employed and 15 million GEL has been invested in the enterprise established by the Turkish company Koç Kablo...
Elvis & Kresse aspires to build sustainable fashion accessories from recycled aluminium cans
Multi-award winning fashion accessories brand Elvis & Kresse is reportedly working with a group of researchers from Queen Mary University of London’s School of Engineering and Materials Science on a project to recycle aluminium drink cans into zips and buckles, in a bid to drive forward sustainable...
CANPACK to build first aluminium beverage can plant in the United States
The CANPACK Group, a global packaging manufacturer with its headquarters in Krakow, Poland, and GIORGI GLOBAL HOLDINGS, INC., based in Blandon, Pennsylvania, and owner of the CANPACK Group, jointly announced that CANPACK will build aluminium beverage can body and ends manufacturing plant, its first...
Altech Chemicals Limited executes option for second high-purity alumina (HPA) plant
Altech Chemicals Limited executed an option to purchase agreement for a ~10 hectare industrial site within the Schwarze Pumpe Industrial Park, municipality of Spreetal, Saxony, Germany. The company had received an official invitation from the State Government of Saxony in September 2019 to consider...
Royal Huisman delivers the world’s largest aluminium sailing vessel Sea Eagle II
The world’s largest aluminium three-masted schooner Sea Eagle II has been successfully delivered by Royal Huisman and is now on the way to Mediterranean. Designed by Dykstra Naval Architects and Mark Whiteley, Sea Eagle II comes with an impressive plumb bomb and modern Panamax rig by Rondal, which...
Tiwai Point smelter shutdown: Making solar panels to Tesla battery Gigafactory projects or another smelter are among ideas proposed
The moment Tiwai Point aluminium smelter shutdown news got publicized, ideas cropped up from manufacturing of Solar Panels to attracting Elon Musk to erect a massive Tesla battery Gigafactory. On 9 th July’20, Rio Tinto announced its planning for the eventual closure of New Zealand Aluminium...
British automotive company LOTUS Cars to create 125 jobs in Norfolk
British Car manufacturer Lotus is to bring its steel fabrication and lightweight structures facilities together under one roof in Norfolk in a drive that will create 125 jobs. Headquartered in Hethel, the company will invest in its Hurricane Way factory in Norwich to create a new high-tech...
