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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EarthCam’s new campus renovated with translucent aluminum panels on its facade
EarthCam, founded in 1996, is a global leader in providing webcam content, technology, and services. An expansion of their current headquarters, located on a 10-acre campus in northern New Jersey, is the result of a recent collaboration between Steven Davis of Davis Brody Bond and Spacesmith. The...
Altech Chemicals signs agreement with EPC contractor SMS Group for stage 1 construction of HPA plant
Altech Chemicals Ltd has signed the final agreement to construct stage I of its high purity alumina (HPA) plant in Johor, Malaysia with its EPC contractor SMS Group GmbH (SMS) of Germany. The scope of work is valued at around $10 million and includes bulk earthworks, foundation piling and the...
Collerina to raise fund for its high purity alumina first process
Australia based company Collerina Cobalt Limited has declared that it is going to raise a fund of around A$ 4 million through a one-for-ten rights issue, priced at 8c each, for advancing high purity alumina (HPA) first process at its Collerina project in New South Wales. The issue price of 8c a...
Rohas Tecnic’s unit bags contract worth RM37.8 mil from Power Grid Company of Bangladesh
HG Power Transmission Sdn Bhd (HGPT), a 75 per cent-owned subsidiary of Malaysian Rohas Tecnic Berhad, has secured a contract worth RM37.8 million from Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Limited. The contract involves the supply, installation of aluminium conductor composite core (ACCC). "The scope...
Altech to raise up to A$20 in capital to commence construction of HPA plant in Malaysia
Altech Chemicals Limited is raising up to $20 million to start construction of its high purity alumina (HPA) plant in Malaysia. The company said it has received from institutional and professional investors for a share placement of A$17 million. Altech will offer a Share Purchase Plan (SPP),...
The world’s first POAL recycling plant to go online in September
The world’s first POAL recycling plant for producing Ecoallene will start in Italy in September 2018. POAL is a polyethylene + aluminium polycomposite recovered from food packaging. The plant will recover POAL and then turn it into a new recyclable material suitable for use in automotive,...
Kochi Metro Rail considers aluminium as an option for the hull of its water metro ferries
Kochi Metro Rail Limited (KMRL) has published a corrigendum in its tender to procure vessels for its water metro project including aluminium as an option for the hull of 36 Water Metro ferries and extended its last date. The metro agency had earlier zeroed in on marine-grade steel for the hull and...
Utkal alumina expansion worth of INR 1300 crore to be completed in next 30 months
Utkal Alumina International, a fully-owned subsidiary of Hindalco, declared on July 4, that it would most likely finish its 500-kilotonne expansion over the next 30 months. This project involves a capital outlay of INR 1300 crore. Hindalco managing director Satish Pai told, “Our Utkal plant remains...
Can-Eng Furnaces bags contract to supply aluminium casting heat treatment system
Can-Eng Furnaces International Limited, a global supplier of high-quality furnaces, announced that the company has been contracted to design, manufacture, install, and commission an Aluminium Automotive Casting Heat Treatment system by an India based conglomerate in South Carolina. Can-Eng was...
Skilled manpower will be highly valued: Says Nalco
On the expected three-fold growth in steel and aluminium consumption by 2030, Nalco CMD Tapan Kumar Chand declared that skilled manpower will get their due values. He said, “The pattern of employment is undergoing a drastic change. The skill sets need to be realigned to meet the demands of the...
Altech Chemicals to utilize 'disruptive technology' to lower HPA production costs
Altech Chemicals Limited has provided an update on the development of its high purity alumina (HPA) project in Malaysia. The company’s Managing Director Iggy Tan updated Proactive Investors that Altech’s HPA plant can lower production costs by utilising disruptive technology. Altech is aiming to...
Jisco backed industrial park in Jamaica to start construction in January
The phased construction of the Jamaica-Gansu Industrial Park, the island's first Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is expected to start next January, Government minister Mike Henry said this to the Jamaican House of Representatives last Wednesday. Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company (JISCO) that operates the...
Bilgin 263 – Turkey’s two largest sister yachts are under construction
Bilgin shipyard announced two sister yachts from Bilgin 263 series are under construction at the Istanbul shipyard. Turkey’s largest yachts Bilgin 263-I is expected to launch in the latter half of 2019 and Bilgin 263-II is likely to make a debut in 2020. Bilgin 263-I has achieved 75 per cent of...
Dudley’s Aluminium makes new investment to boost its operations
A Cardiff-based aluminium fabricator Dudley’s Aluminium announced it has invested £200,000 for the expansion of its facilities. The company has invested in a new storage and offtake facility and a second Combilift multidirectional forklift, according to news published by Insider Media. The...
EGA completes 50% work on its Guinea bauxite mine project
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), which is building $1.4 billion bauxite mine in Guinea, announced that it has completed 50 per cent work on the project. EGA is currently developing a bauxite mine and associated export facilities in the Republic of Guinea, West Africa. First bauxite exports from...
Alba Casthouse 3 commissions new Batch homogenizer for specialised billets
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba), the Bahrain-based international aluminium smelter, has commissioned the state-of-the-art Batch homogenizer in Casthouse 3 for specialised billet requirements. The company said that the new Batch homogenizer was supplied by Hertwich Engineering, a company of the SMS group....
Trinidad and Tobago to see $23 billion investments in energy and aluminium over next four years
According to a report from Trinidad Guardian citing a “secret” Ministry of Energy document, Trinidad and Tobago could expect $23 billion in investments in the downstream energy and aluminium sector over the next four years. The projects have the potential to create thousands of jobs during...
EGA receives first bauxite from Guinea for Al Taweelah alumina refinery
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) announced it has received first shipment of 61,450 tonnes of bauxite from Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée for the commissioning of its under-construction Al Taweelah alumina refinery. Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée will supply some five million tonnes of bauxite...
