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Front-end engineering and design of a new bauxite terminal for Metro Mining is ready
24 DEC 20192MINS

Front-end engineering and design of a new bauxite terminal for Metro Mining is ready

Rocktree Consulting, a leading provider of marine dry-bulk cargo handling and delivery solutions, has reportedly finished the front-end engineering and design (FEED) of a new floating transhipment terminal for bauxite export from Australia’s Bauxite Hills Mine to China. The terminal is expected to...

Dixon designs a 70-metre yacht concept featuring an aluminium alloy superstructure
22 DEC 20192MINS

Dixon designs a 70-metre yacht concept featuring an aluminium alloy superstructure

Dixon Yacht Design has reportedly designed the concept of a 70-metre yacht - Project NewDawn, in a way that it offers effortless sailing performance with the interior comfort conventionally found on motor yachts. To offer maximum sailing potential with minimal sailing effort, the yacht has easy to...

Nalco allotted Pottangi bauxite mines amicably after the public hearing on November 17
20 DEC 20192MINS

Nalco allotted Pottangi bauxite mines amicably after the public hearing on November 17

The National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco) was allotted the Pottangi bauxite mines in Koraput district after the public hearing for environment clearance approved the mining project. Thousands of villagers around Pottangi block attended the meeting and expressed their support for the project....

Alba partners with Regain for its Spent Pot Lining Treatment Plant
19 DEC 20192MINS

Alba partners with Regain for its Spent Pot Lining Treatment Plant

Aluminium Bahrain (Alba), the world’s largest aluminium smelter ex-China, has signed Regain as the technology partner for its Spent Pot Lining (SPL) Treatment Plant. In September, Alba announced the establishment of the first-of-its-kind SPL Treatment Plant in the GCC and Bahrain. The company will...

Metro refinancing current debt facilities, part of Bauxite Hills Mine Stage 2 expansion funding package
19 DEC 20192MINS

Metro refinancing current debt facilities, part of Bauxite Hills Mine Stage 2 expansion funding package

Metro Mining Limited is reportedly refinancing its current debt facilities to enable the $47.5 million loan from North Australian Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) to be senior secured first-ranking. This loan is part of the funding package for Metro Mining's Stage 2 expansion at Bauxite Hills Mine in...

Weiqiao begins the construction of its aluminium smelting and hydropower project in Yunnan
19 DEC 20191MINS

Weiqiao begins the construction of its aluminium smelting and hydropower project in Yunnan

According to a recent report from Shanghai Metals Market, Shandong Weiqiao Pioneering, on Wednesday, December 18, began the construction of 2 million tonnes per year aluminium smelting and hydropower project in Southwest China’s Yunnan province. Ground-breaking ceremony of the integrated project...

JW Aluminum expansion will increase its annual intake of  recycled aluminium by 100 million pounds or more
18 DEC 20192MINS

JW Aluminum expansion will increase its annual intake of recycled aluminium by 100 million pounds or more

JW Aluminum Company will increase the annual intake of UBCs and other forms of recycled aluminium by at least 100 million pounds when it finishes an expansion project in the Southeast U.S. next year. JW Aluminum laid out details of the US$225 million expansion of an existing manufacturing site in...

Australian Bauxite Limited to lodge mining lease application for Binjour in early 2020
16 DEC 20192MINS

Australian Bauxite Limited to lodge mining lease application for Binjour in early 2020

According to a recent report, Australian Bauxite Limited (ABx) announced today, on December 16, that it would lodge a mining lease application early next year and if approved, it would ship unrefined bauxite produced at Binjour bauxite project from the port of Bundaberg in bulk tonnages. “A mining...

Recap 2019: Top downstream and recycling aluminium projects in 2019
13 DEC 20198MINS

Recap 2019: Top downstream and recycling aluminium projects in 2019

Continued from Part I Almost all major aluminium producers are expanding into downstream and independent semi-finished aluminium projects are coming up to cater to the growing aluminium demand in recent years. The steady growth in aluminium demand was mostly driven by automakers’ focus on making...

Increasing use of aluminium in US growing scrap availability; Recyclers to expand capacity
12 DEC 20192MINS

Increasing use of aluminium in US growing scrap availability; Recyclers to expand capacity

Significant growth in the use of aluminium in transport and packaging industries in the US has resulted in the increasing availability of aluminium scrap and thereby, encouraging recyclers to expand their capacity. Those who are already expanding include Novelis, Matalco, and JW Aluminium. Novelis...

Braidy Industries appoints Mike Otero as Chief Operating Officer
10 DEC 20192MINS

Braidy Industries appoints Mike Otero as Chief Operating Officer

Braidy Industries has appointed Mike Otero as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the company with effect from January 6, 2020. He joins the Braidy Industries executive team with the added designation of Head of the Ashland Headquarters facility. He will report directly to Craig Bouchard, CEO and...

China's CMEC to take over stakes in Tajik Aluminium Company in exchange of  an investment of US$545 million
06 DEC 20192MINS

China's CMEC to take over stakes in Tajik Aluminium Company in exchange of an investment of US$545 million

Tajikistan would be selling a stake in its main industrial concern Tajik Aluminium Company to a Chinese firm in exchange of much needed cash investment. This was reported by local media on December 4 citing Beijing’s former ambassador to Tajikistan, Yue Bin. He said that the acquisition would be...

Hindalco Industries hands over India’s first all-aluminium freight trailer to UltraTech Cement
05 DEC 20193MINS

Hindalco Industries hands over India’s first all-aluminium freight trailer to UltraTech Cement

Hindalco Industries Limited has handed over India’s first all-aluminium freight trailer in Rajasthan to Kamal Exim Pvt. Ltd., a leading Jaipur-based transporter of UltraTech Cement Limited. The 34-foot long aluminium freight trailer can ferry a wide range of materials such as cement, alumina, fly...

Alliance Metals gets air quality permit for its proposed secondary aluminium smelting plant in La Paz County
05 DEC 20192MINS

Alliance Metals gets air quality permit for its proposed secondary aluminium smelting plant in La Paz County

Arizona Department of Environmental Quality has approved Alliance Metals’ application for an air quality permit for its proposed US$30 million secondary aluminium smelting plant in La Paz County, Arizona, a local media report says. Loren Barton, vice president of Miami-based Alliance Metals USA...

FYI Resources secures a site in Kwinana industrial area for high purity alumina refining facility
04 DEC 20191MINS

FYI Resources secures a site in Kwinana industrial area for high purity alumina refining facility

The Australian listed resources company FYI Resources has reportedly received an industrial site in the Kwinana industrial area for its high purity alumina refining facility. The facility, as per the report, will refine kaolin feedstock arrived from FYI’s Cadoux Project. The company’s managing...

Sigma to build a 200,000 tonnes per annum liquid aluminium factory by June 2020
04 DEC 20191MINS

Sigma to build a 200,000 tonnes per annum liquid aluminium factory by June 2020

China’s largest secondary aluminium producer Sigma Group will reportedly build a liquid aluminium factory in Gongxi, Henan, with an annual capacity of 200,000 tonnes. According to Shanghai Metals Market report, this liquid aluminium will be supplied to the processing plant of Zhongfu Industry, as...

Union Petroleum Minister requests Centre to restart infrastructure upgrade at Angul Aluminium Park
04 DEC 20192MINS

Union Petroleum Minister requests Centre to restart infrastructure upgrade at Angul Aluminium Park

According to a recent report, Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has urged the Centre to resume the project for upgradation of infrastructure at Angul Aluminium Park in Odisha. He wrote to Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal seeking his personal intervention to direct the...

Perth based Lindian Resources expands its bauxite target area at Guinea's Gaoual project after surface mapping
04 DEC 20192MINS

Perth based Lindian Resources expands its bauxite target area at Guinea's Gaoual project after surface mapping

Perth based Lindian Resources has announced that the bauxite ore body of its Gaoual bauxite project in northwest Guinea is significantly larger than they expected. This was confirmed by the surface mapping conducted by the company's geological expert, Mark Gifford, and project geologist, Hashimu...