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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Guizhou Galuminium plans to expand alumina capacity to 800,000 tonnes; alumina price registers a drop in China
Galuminium in China's south-western province of Guizhou will expand its annual alumina capacity to 800,000 tonnes in the fourth quarter of 2019. Shanghai Metals Market reported that Galuminium planned to commission its second alumina production line for phase-one project in Q4. The company’s...
Kochi Metro's 23 ferries featuring aluminium hull to go live by December
According to a report, India’s first water metro rail project with about 23 ferries as part of project’s first phase, featuring steel body and aluminium hull, is expected to go live by December 2019. The news came after Kochi Metro Rail Corporation (KMRL) officially said at a press conference. The...
Braidy Industries reports on progress of its Eastern Kentucky aluminium rolling mill
Braidy Industries have reported that they have spent US$15.7 million on the construction of its Braidy Atlas aluminium rolling mill in Greenup. It is working towards meeting its anticipated target of bringing the mill to full commercial operation in 2021. Braidy is banking on its proprietary...
Alba starts operations at Casthouse 4, part of Line 6 Expansion Project
According to a report, Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) commenced operations at Casthouse 4 on December 26, 2018, the biggest furnace in the kingdom-based aluminium smelter’s history. Alba’s board of directors Shaikh Daij bin Salman bin Daij Al Khalifa and deputy chief executive officer Ali Al Baqali...
Abba Aluminium holds opening ceremony for its first plant in Myanmar
Abba Aluminium Co, a manufacturer of aluminium and aluminium extruded products in Taiwan, held a ceremony on December 24 to celebrate the opening of a new manufacturing plant in Thilawa Special Economic Zone (SEZ), according to a report by The Myanmar Times. Initial investment amounted to US$13...
UAE knowledge economy milestone as Alba’s potline 6 built with EGA technology starts production
Emirates Global Aluminium has welcomed the start-up of Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) new Potline 6, which has been built utilising EGA’s UAE-developed technology. EGA’s latest technology is amongst the most efficient in the global aluminium industry. Abdulla Kalban, Managing Director & Chief...
Arksen signs deal with aluminium shipbuilder Wight Shipyard Co. for developing hybrid explorer vessels
Arksen, a soon-to-be-launched technology, and innovation company, has reportedly partnered with high-speed craft and aluminium shipbuilder Wight Shipyard Company based in East Cowes for developing, building, and supporting semi-autonomous, hybrid explorer vessels. According to the report, Arksen...
Guangxi Qiangqiang Carbon commissions 200,000 tonnes of prebaked anode project
Guangxi Qiangqiang Carbon, manufacturer and distributer of pre-baked anodes and graphitized carbon products, held an expansion ceremony to expand the annual output of 200,000 tonnes of prebaked anode projects on Sunday December 23. The prebaked anode project will supply raw materials for new...
Noranda alumina commissions last phase of the CGA expansion in its Gramercy refinery
Noranda Alumina updates through a press release that it continues to expand the chemical grade alumina (CGA) capabilities of its Gramercy refinery in Louisiana. It has commissioned a new hydrate dryer and dense phase pneumatic conveying system during the final phase of a CGA expansion project...
Rheinmetall Automotive inaugurates new plant in China
Rheinmetall Automotive has, together with its Chinese joint venture partner HUAYU Automotive Systems (HASCO), inaugurated new plant in Guangde in the Chinese province of Anhui, northwest of Shanghai. Source:www.rheinmetall-automotive.com This is the sixth location of the joint venture in China, and...
Mubadala and Dubal Holding signs agreement with EGA to develop power block and water desalination plant at Jebel Ali smelter
Mubadala and Dubal Holding have signed an agreement with EGA to develop a state-of-the-art power block and a water desalination plant at EGA’s smelter at Jebel Ali in Dubai. The new facilities will improve power efficiency in aluminium smelting; reduce environmental emissions and natural gas...
Austal wins contract to build two more littoral combat ships worth US$1.6 billion for US Navy
According to a report, Austal further receives an order worth up to US$1.6 billion to build two more littoral combat ships for the US Navy. The two ships will be the 18th and 19th aluminium trimaran-variant LCS Austal and will build under a program that began a decade ago. “This latest order from...
Nalco plans to invest INR 45000 crore in expansion projects
National Aluminium Company Ltd. (Nalco) has planned to invest INR 45,000 crore in brownfield and greenfield project expansion in the next few years, its Chairman and Managing Director Dr. Tapan Kumar Chand said. Nalco will invest around INR25,000 crore in brownfield expansions, which include...
Platina Resources completes definitive feasibility study on developing scandium-aluminium master alloy
Platina Resources has successfully concluded a definitive feasibility study for its Platina Scandium Project. Platina Resources Ltd has demonstrated that it can produce 2% scandium-aluminium master alloy from the scandium oxide processed from its Platina Scandium Project in New South Wales....
India's Raebareli MCF plans to manufacture its first aluminium shell coaches with speed range of 250 kmph
Indian Railways is on the verge of manufacturing its first aluminium shell coaches with an estimated speed range of 250 kmph. The Modern Coach Factory (MCF) Raebareli is awaiting approval from the Railway Ministry on a proposal to make 500 aluminium coaches. Despite the worldwide use of aluminium...
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) commissions Potline 6 on December 13, 2018
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) has officially announced the commissioning of its Potline 6 with the First Pot Energisation on Thursday December 13, 2018. This is the smelter’s first step towards becoming the world’s largest aluminium smelter. Alba made a breakthrough by bringing forwards the First...
Zhongfu Industrial to close Henan aluminium capacity and relocate it in its Guangyuan plant for cost advantage
Rising prices of coal and winter production curbs are making aluminium producers in Northern China unprofitable and they are closing down capacities to transfer the same to south China. Henan-based Zhongfu Industrial has decided to shut its subsidiary, Linfeng Aluminum & Power in Linzhou city of...
EPI study reports positive impact of Trump’s tariffs on aluminium production and job creation in US
The American Primary Aluminum Association (APAA) in collaboration with Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) and the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) addressed the economic effects of Trump's steel and aluminium tariffs in a presentation at the...
