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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AP&C, a GE Additive company to produce aluminium alloy F357 powder from Q1 2019
AP&C, a GE Additive company and specialist in metal powder production for additive manufacturing, has announced that it will produce aluminium alloy F357 powder in Q1 2019 and start supplying to customers from April 2019. Aluminium alloy F357 offers good weldability, high strength and better...
Novelis Invests US$175 million to expand aluminium rolling and recycling facilities in Brazil
Novelis Inc. has invested US$175 million for the expansion of its Pindamonhangaba plant, located in the Paraíba Valley between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The expansion at the company's flagship Brazil facility will add 100 thousand tonnes of rolling capacity and 60 thousand tonnes of...
Hindalco to inject INR 6000 crore for establishing downstream units in Odisha & Gujarat
Hindalco, the world’s largest aluminium rolling company, has announced to invest INR 6,000 crore towards setting up of downstream facilities in Odisha and Gujarat. While in the Sambalpur district of Odisha the company will establish a flat-rolled products unit, in Mudra at Gujarat the company is...
Vedanta to invest INR 15,000 crore in Odisha to raise alumina refinery capacity
Vedanta Resources Chairman Anil Agarwal announced on Monday, November 12, about its plan to invest INR 15,000 crore for ramping up the alumina refinery capacity at Lanjigarh to 6 million tonnes per annum and firming up the downstream sector in Odisha in next three years. “The expansion of the...
Ducab signs three contracts to supply cables and all aluminium alloy overhead conductors for Adnoc projects
Ducab has signed three major contracts in Abu Dhabi, UAE, for the supply of over 5,000 km of cables and all aluminium alloy overhead conductors for Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) projects, a company statement said. The company will supply extra-high-voltage (EHV), high-voltage (HV),...
Vedanta on right track to ramp up capacity at Lanjigarh alumina refinery
Vedanta Ltd’s proposal for expansion of Lanjigarh alumina refinery was recently cleared by the High-Level Clearance Authority (HLCA), the apex body to approve investments in Odisha. The company plans to expand the capacity to six million tonnes per annum from its current 1 million tonnes. “Our...
New-energy vehicles production and sales during Jan-Oct soared 70% & 75.6% Y-o-Y in China
The data from China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) indicates that sales and production of automobiles in October have extended weak performances. In October, production of cars stood at 2.33 million units, 10.05 per cent lower from the same period last year and 0.92 per cent down...
Liberty’s alloy wheel manufacturing facility planning is still on progress: Operators confirm
The operators have confirmed that Liberty smelter plant is still on progress with its plan for establishing an alloy wheel manufacturing facility at Fort William. According to the report, Highland councillor Andrew Baxter and his colleagues lambasted the aluminium company last week for its slow...
Ardagh Group to manufacture aluminium cans for Stabburet’s seafood can project
Ardagh Group, a leading global supplier of value-added, infinitely-recyclable, metal and glass packaging solutions, has announced a partnership with Stabburet to manufacture lightweight and fully recyclable aluminium can for mackerel filet, a national dish in Norway. Patrick Savouré, Commercial...
Liberty seals funding agreement for Rio’s Dunkirk aluminium smelter
British-owned Liberty, part of Sanjeev Gupta’s global GFG Alliance, has received the financing for the purchase of Aluminium Dunkirk, Europe’s largest aluminium smelter from Rio Tint. The company has entered into a committed financing agreement with a syndicate of major international banks. The...
Aluminium manufacturing and installation firm AB Glass completes Specsavers contract in Guernsey
The United Kingdom-based company AB Glass has reportedly completed a contract for the refurbishing work at Specsavers’ support office in Guernsey. Rihoy & Son, Guernsey’s longest established building contractors, had appointed the award-winning aluminium manufacturing and installation company AB...
Metallica Minerals inks contract for the build of a haul road to link Urquhart Bauxite project
An Australian bauxite developer Metallica Minerals Ltd. reportedly announced today, on November 9, that it signed an agreement that would allow the construction of a haul road to link Metallica’s Urquhart Bauxite project and the barge loading facilities at the nearby Hey Point in Queensland. This...
First locomotives for EGA’s bauxite mining project arrive in Guinea
Emirates Global Aluminium announced the arrival of two SD40-2 shunting-locomotives that will be used on its under-construction bauxite mining project in in Guinea. The locomotives will be used to move rail wagons around Guinea Alumina Corporation’s loading area at its mine location and at its...
Altech Chemicals finalises site layout and building design for its Malaysia HPA plant
Altech Chemicals Limited has finalised the site layout and building design for its proposed Malaysian high purity alumina (HPA) plant. The final layout is based on the recently completed site geotechnical survey and feedback from pre-construction consultation meetings between SMS group GmbH, local...
Canyon appoints Mr. Tolga Kumova as strategic advisor for its Minim Martap bauxite project
The Australia-based bauxite explorer Canyon Resources announced on November 5 that it appointed a leading mining entrepreneur Mr. Tolga Kumova, who ranked no. 26 on Financial Review’s Young Rich List this year, for the role of strategic advisor. As per the job role assigned, Mr. Kumova will help...
Aluminium conglomerate EGA inks stadium construction agreement with Abu Dhabi City Municipality
Dr. Ali Al Zarouni, Deputy Executive Director of Production, Technology Development and Transfer at Emirates Global Aluminium Company (EGA) has reportedly inked an agreement on behalf of the company with HE Saif Bader Al Qubaisi, General Manager of Abu Dhabi City Municipality to construct a sports...
EGA completes construction of bauxite residue management system at Al Taweelah alumina refinery
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) announced on November 4 that the bauxite waste management system is ready at its under-construction Al Taweelah alumina refinery in Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi. This is another milestone in the preparation towards production launch of the Al Taweelah alumina...
Hindalco to expand Brazil plant capacity to 100 thousand tonnes
Hindalco plans to scale up the rolling capacity to 100 thousand tonnes by investing around $180 million in Brazil. Hindalco’s Managing Director and Chief Executive officer Satish Pai made the announcement on Friday, November, 2. “We will do a bit of capacity addition in Brazil where we have 80%...
