HPCL Brings Energy Leaders, Researchers and Startups Together at IISc Bengaluru to Accelerate energy Innovation through MC²+ IGNITE
The Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. today hosted the Bengaluru edition of MC²+ IGNITE – India’s flagship energy innovation accelerator at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru, bringing together leaders from the energy industry, academia, research, startups and the investment...
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...
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Rio Tinto is in talks with Apple for the next phase of an agreement for its carbon-free aluminium project
Rio Tinto’s Chief Executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques said that Rio Tinto is in talks with Apple to move into the next phase of an agreement for a low-carbon aluminium smelting project. He said this during the inauguration of Rio’s new Amrun bauxite mine in northern Australia. The world’s top miner is...
Hazlemere Commercial receives aluminium fenestration contract
Hazlemere Commercial, manufacturer of aluminium windows, doors, and curtain walling for the commercial sector, announced that it has received a contract to manufacture and install aluminium windows and doors for one of the new mixed use blocks next to the Eden Centre in High Wycombe. “Local...
Alba records 30 million working-hours without LTI at its Line 6 Smelter
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) announced a major safety milestone as its Line 6 Smelter project achieved 30 million working-hours without Lost Time Injury (LTI) as of 31 December 2018. A ceremony was held on Sunday 10 March 2019, to mark the occasion. It was attended by Alba’s Deputy Chief...
Constellium to add aluminium extrusion press at its Singen plant
Constellium is installing a new aluminium extrusion press to expand capacity at its plant in Singen, Germany. The company will construct a dedicated 8,000 sq m hall on its Singen campus for an expected start of production in mid-2020. Paul Warton, president of Constellium’s Automotive Structures...
Altech’s HPA plant is gradually progressing from establishment phase to construction phase
Following the news last week that Altech Chemicals officially mandated Macquarie Bank as the preferred mezzanine lender for the HPA, the update comes that the stage one construction work of Altech’s high purity alumina (HPA) processing plant in Johor, Malaysia, is progressing as planned. The...
EGA’s 2018 net profit declines 64% and adjusted EBITDA 33% despite surge in revenue
Emirates Global Aluminium has announced its annual financial report of 2018, where it is found that the UAE’s biggest industrial company outside the oil and gas sector has earned a net income of AED 1.2 billion ($325 million), 64 per cent down from AED 3.3 billion ($900 million) in 2017. This havoc...
Altech signs mezzanine finance mandate with Macquarie for high purity alumina (HPA) plant
Altech Chemicals Limited has officially mandated Macquarie Bank (Macquarie) as the preferred mezzanine lender for its proposed high purity alumina (HPA) plant. Both the companies have reached agreement on mezzanine debt terms and executed a mandate letter appointing Macquarie as the exclusive...
Perini Navi launches its first 42-metre, aluminium hulled hybrid sailing yacht from E-volution series
According to a recent report, Italian yard Perini Navi launched its first 42-metre hybrid sailing yacht from E-volution series last weekend. Here ‘E’ stands for electric. The yacht’s concept was first presented at the Monaco Yacht Show 2017 and then was sold to an Italian owner in July 2018. The...
Nalco CMD invites investors and technology suppliers to its Angul Aluminium Park at PDAC 2019
India Day was celebrated at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC 2019) in Toronto—the world’s leading mineral exploration and mining convention, on 5th March 2019. On the occasion, Nalco CMD Tapan Kumar Chand invited global investors, technology suppliers and equipment...
SOPerior Fertilizer seeks funding for its project to extract alumina and SOP from alunite
SOPerior Fertilizer Corp. is working on offtake agreements and funding discussions with several international and US-based commodity trading and construction groups for a project to extract alumina and SOP from alunite. SOPerior Fertilizer plans to produce soluble SOP fertilizer, alumina, and...
Incat Crowther to design aluminium high speed passenger ferry
Incat Crowther has reportedly bagged a contract to design an aluminium-made high speed passenger ro-pax ferry that will operate between Pingtan Island in mainland China and Taiwanese cities of Taichung, Taipei, and Kaohsiung by Fujian Strait Shipping Co (CSF). The construction of the vessel will be...
Alba accelerates Line 6 project to 50% of capacity
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba), the Bahrain-based aluminium smelter, announced that the company has moved one step closer to become the world’s largest smelter. Alba’s Line 6 Expansion Project has gained further momentum with the handover of 172 pots for commissioning on 01 March 2019. Commenting on this...
Bosai invests US$23 million for expanding its bauxite operations
Chinese-owned Bosai Minerals Group Guyana Inc. is reportedly investing US$23 million as part of its expansion plan for Linden, Region 10, bauxite operations. The news arrived after Bosai made the announcement on Friday morning, March 1, which also said that this expansion would create additional...
SHoP Architects designs the first tower of the Essex Crossing clad in anodized aluminium curtainwall modules
Aluminium is opening up more avenues for the architects to experiment with design and utility performance. SHoP Architects completed the first tower of the Essex Crossing mega-development located in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, clad in anodized aluminium curtainwall modules. An architectural...
Pershing launches its first aluminium superyacht
According to a recent report, Pershing has launched its first aluminium superyacht, the flagship Pershing 140. It is 42.53 metre in size, and hit the water in the Ferretti Group’s Super Yacht Yard in Ancona, a facility specialising in building steel and aluminium superyachts above 40 metres, said a...
Major piece of equipment arrives for EGA’s bauxite mining project in Guinea
Emirates Global Aluminium announced that the final major piece of equipment for its under-development bauxite mining project has arrived in Guinea. The Barge Loader will now be installed at the end of the mining project’s 1.5 kilometre pier, where it will load bauxite ore into self-propelled barges...
Heesen’s first 5000 aluminium yacht Aquamarine to be ready for delivery by January 2021
A Dutch shipbuilding company Heesen Yachts reportedly announced that it began the construction of a new 50-metre yacht named Aquamarine (YN 18950), a new addition to its Aluminium Class of yachts. According to the shipyard, the yacht is expected to be ready for delivery by January 2021. For this...
Zhongwang Group to invest in aluminium alloy processing project in Henan in collaboration with government
According to a news release on the Henan people’s government on Saturday February 23, Luoyang government of Henan province has signed a contract with aluminium extrusion producer Liaoning Zhongwang Group last week to construct an aluminium alloy processing plant in Yichuan country of Luoyang....
