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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Crown inaugurates first Indonesian aluminium beverage cans facility
Crown Asia Pacific, a division of Crown Holdings, has inaugurated its new aluminium beverage can manufacturing plant in Jakarta, Indonesia. The new facility is Crown’s first beverage can plant in Indonesia and 16th in the Asia Pacific region. The plant has an initial annual capacity of 650 million...
TRIMET Aluminium signs JV agreement with Bohai Automotive Systems
TRIMET Aluminium SE announced it has signed a joint venture agreement with Bohai Automotive Systems Co., Ltd (Bohai) for the materials specialist’s Automotive Division. Bohai Automotive will hold the TRIMET Automotive Holding GmbH, which along with its subsidiaries at the plants in Harzgerode and...
ASI launches new certification program for the aluminium value chain
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced the launch of new certification program for the aluminium value chain, focused on responsible production, sourcing and stewardship of the metal. The new program will cover all stages of the value chain for aluminium, including bauxite mining,...
Hazlemere Commercial secures contract for supply of new aluminium windows & doors
Hazlemere Commercial, one of the largest suppliers of architectural aluminium products in the South East of England, has secured contract to supply all the new aluminium windows, doors and curtain walling. Kier Construction has awarded contract for their new build project at Green Ridge Primary...
Hydro to double primary aluminium production at Husnes
Norsk Hydro today announced that it will reopen and upgrade the second production line at Hydro Husnes, Norway. The company will introduce new technology elements that will give better results. The production line is expected to begin operations in the first half of 2020. Hydro will make total...
AMR's bauxite mine starts production in Guinea
Alliance Miniere Responsable (AMR), Paris-based company developing bauxite project in the Boké region of Guinea, announced on Tuesday that the company began production at its Guinean bauxite mine. AMR is expected to increase bauxite production to 10 million tonnes per annum in the next two years....
EGA sends female engineers to Ma’aden’s alumina refinery in Saudi Arabia
Emirates Global Aluminium has sent 13 female UAE National engineers to Ma’aden’s alumina refinery in Saudi Arabia as part of preparation work for the start-up of its Al Taweelah alumina refinery in Abu Dhabi. The new group are the first women to participate in the programme. Eleven of the women are...
Alba and Bechtel sign MoU to explore further opportunities
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), the Bahrain-based aluminium smelter, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with International Bechtel Co. (Bechtel) to explore further opportunities of growth with Line 6 Expansion Project, which will result in Alba becoming the world’s largest single-site...
Australian Bauxite reports ALCORE project update
Leading bauxite producer, Australian Bauxite Limited reported progress on the ALCORE project as per schedule announced to the Australian Stock Exchange on November 13, 2017. The project aims at developing bauxite beneficiation and refining technology that will be used to produce Aluminium Fluoride...
Inalum charts ambitious growth plans: To double aluminium production capacity by 2020
Indonesia Asahan Aluminium, the country’s only aluminium producer, is undergoing a major transformation. The company aims to double its aluminium production capacity to 500,000 tonnes per annum by 2020, and to one million tonnes by 2025. It further intends to take control of its supply chain...
AfDB approves $100 million loan for bauxite mine in Guinea
The African Development Bank (AfDB) is providing $100 million loan to support bauxite mine construction in northwest Guinea. AfDB said in a statement on Saturday that Guinea Alumina Corporation will operate the new bauxite mine with an annual production capacity of 12 million tonnes. Guinea Alumina...
China's Shenhuo Group starts aluminium foil project
China’s Henan Shenhuo Group announced on Thursday, December 8, that the company has started work on the aluminium foil project. The project worth 3.6 billion yuan ($544 million) will have an annual production capacity of 105,000 tonnes, according to news published by Reuters. The aluminium foil...
TALCO’s aluminium production declines 23% during January-October
Tajikistan Aluminium Company (TALCO), the largest state-owned company in Tajikistan with the designed capacity of 500,000 tonnes of aluminium per year, produced 85,600 tonnes of aluminium in the first ten months of 2017. The company reduced its production by 23 per cent during that period. TALCO’s...
Canadian company Hatch reaches safety milestone in under-construction Al Taweelah alumina refinery
Emirates Global Aluminium, the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside oil and gas, today received His Excellency Masud Husain, Ambassador of Canada to the United Arab Emirates, to celebrate a safety milestone by a Canadian company working to build EGA’s Al Taweelah alumina...
Alba, General Electric sign MoU for GT block
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), home-base of the Line 6 Expansion Project, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with General Electric (GE) to implement a fourth Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (GT) block using GE 9HA technology in the company’s Power Station (PS) 5. The fourth GT block will...
SMB plans Guinea alumina refinery by 2022
A consortium of the Societe Miniere de Boke (SMB) and Singapore’s Winning Shipping plans to build Guinea’s first alumina refinery in a $3 billion effort to develop the West African country’s bauxite industry, it said on Monday. Guinea has about a third of the world’s bauxite reserves and expects to...
Dudley’s Aluminium secures new Cardiff Capital Quarter contract
Cardiff-based aluminium fabricator Dudley’s Aluminium announced that it has won a new Cardiff Capital Quarter student accommodation contract worth £1million. The company will install the Kawneer capped curtain walling, windows and doors as well as state-of-the-art doors. Work will begin early next...
China aluminium alloy prices increase in tandem with A00 ingot on encouraging Nov PMI data
Aluminium alloy prices in major markets of China improved slightly after 4-days of consecutive decline since November 27. From RMB 16,150 per tonne on Monday, the average aluminium alloy price has declined to RMB 15,850 per tonne, as on November 30. Today, Aluminium Alloys (ADC12) price has...
