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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RUSAL to complete a feasibility study for an industrial-scale scandium plant in 2018
UC RUSAL, a leading global aluminium producer, is pleased to announce that it intends to complete the development of a feasibility study in 2018 for the construction of a scandium oxide production unit at one of its Russian operations. Such a development adds to the Company completing another...
Gränges signs LOI with Scandium International for scandium aluminium alloys
Gränges AB, a manufacturer of rolled aluminium for aluminium heat exchangers, announced signing of a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Scandium International Mining Corporation for testing scandium aluminium alloys in heat exchanger applications. Gränges will test alloy in R&I Centre in Finspång to...
Spark Minda inaugurates aluminium die casting factory in Pune
Spark Minda, Ashok Minda Group has opened third die casting facility with an initial capital investment of INR 100 crore in Phase -1. The Group has established manufacturing facility exclusively for aluminium gravity die casting & low pressure die casting with machining in Pune for two and four...
Ball Corporation to construct new beverage can facility in Paraguay
Ball Corporation has planned to construct a new beverage can manufacturing facility in Asunción, Paraguay. One-line facility is expected to start production in the fourth quarter of 2019 and its capacity is contracted under long-term agreements. Carlos Pires, president of beverage packaging South...
Australia bauxite export readies for a competitive year ahead
Australian bauxite export market is pegged at around US$30 million in 2018. After reaching an estimated 24 million tonnes in 2017, total bauxite export from the country is expected to total at 21 million tonnes this year. An earlier Department of Industry, Innovation and Science (DIIS) report had...
Vivocom unit bags RM27.57m contract for aluminium and glazing works in Melaka
Vivocom Intl Holdings Berhad’s subsidiary Neata Aluminium (M) Sdn Bhd has secured a contract worth RM27.57 million for aluminium and glazing works in Pulau Melaka. Neata Aluminium had accepted the Letter of Award (LOA) from China Construction Third Engineering Group (M) Sdn Bhd. The project will...
First Sealed Cathode Achieved for Alba’s Line 6 Smelter
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), the Bahrain-based international aluminium smelter, announced that its Line 6 Smelter, of the iconic Expansion Project, achieved a significant milestone - the First Cathode Sealing Operation - on Wednesday January 31, 2018. The first cathode is an integral part of...
Israeli Firm Delek Group Pondering Plan to Build 1 MTPA Aluminium Smelter
Israeli conglomerate Delek Group is weighing the prospect of building an aluminium smelting operation powered by natural gas. According to domestic media, the company is closing a feasibility study on a project that is expected to require a capital investment of roughly US$1.2 billion. Local...
Britvic to produce aluminium and steel cans from its new production lines
Leading soft drinks company Britvic has announced £100milllion investment in new production lines at its manufacturing site in Rugby. The company has already installed three new can lines at the site. The new production lines will manufacture cans from aluminium and stainless steel. “The new can...
GFG Alliance wins council’s approval for a new aluminium alloy wheel plant in UK
Sanjeev Gupta led GFG Alliance has won Highland Council’s permission for a new aluminium alloy wheel factory in Fort William, UK. The plant, which will come up next to its Liberty British Aluminium Smelter, will be the first large-scale alloy wheel plant of UK. Construction work at the site is...
Hydro starts aluminium production at Karmøy technology pilot
Hydro starts aluminium production at its technology pilot in Karmøy that aims at verifying the credibility of the world's most climate-and energy efficient aluminium technology in an industrial scale. Hilde Merete Aasheim, Executive Vice President for Hydro's Primary Metal business area confirms...
Good Sense Factory for aluminium panels launches with investments worth EGP 200m
Ahmed Abdelrazek, chairperson of the Industrial Development Authority (IDA), has laid the foundation stone of a factory of Egyptian company Good Sense Egypt for aluminium panels, with Egyptian and Saudi investments in Ataqa, Suez worth nearly EGP 200m. Abdelrazek said that the new factory is very...
Utkal Alumina seeks environment clearance for its expansion programme
Utkal Alumina International Limited, a subsidiary of Aditya Birla Group owned Hindalco Industries, has applied for environment clearance for its expansion of the alumina refinery in Odisha. The estimated cost of the proposed expansion project is INR 4000-5000 crore. With the proposed expansion, the...
Ducab Aluminium Company officially inaugurated at Khalifa Industrial Zone of Abu Dhabi (KIZAD)
The Ducab Aluminium Company (DAC), a joint venture between Ducab and Senaat has been inaugurated today at Khalifa Industrial Zone of Abu Dhabi (KIZAD) by HH Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, chairman of the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince’s Court. The company makes aluminium rods and overhead conductors....
Alba Launches Project Titan - Phase III
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), the home-base for Line 6 Expansion Project, announced the launch of Phase III of its company-wide, cost reduction programme Project Titan with the aim to reduce cash-cost by US$ 60 per metric tonne of aluminium and step-up its production capacity to 1,000,000 metric...
Axion to develop sorting technology for recovery of high-grade recycled aluminium
Resource recovery firm Axion announced that it is undertaking further research into increasing recycled aluminium content in new vehicles as part of REALITY project led by Jaguar Land Rover. The company will develop techniques for sorting and separating specialist alloys from aluminium derived from...
RUSAL to invest around USD 250 million to implement Eco-Soderberg technology
UC RUSAL announces that it will invest around USD 250 million to implement Eco-Soderberg technology at the Company's smelters between 2018 and 2022, a press release from the company confirms. The transition involves a number of engineering activities, like the construction two-stage gas-cleaning...
Novelis to invest $300 million in auto aluminium sheet manufacturing facility in Kentucky
Novelis Inc. will spend $300 million in an automotive aluminium sheet manufacturing facility in Guthrie, Kentucky. The investment is the latest addition to company’s' extensive network of automotive finishing lines. The greenfield facility will have an annual nameplate capacity of 200,000 metric...
