$11.5b Adani-IRH aluminium project set to strengthen Odisha’s aluminium value chain
Odisha has handed over more than 7,000 acres of land for the Adani Group-International Resources Holding (IRH) joint venture’s proposed USD 11.5 billion integrated aluminium complex. This covers planned alumina refining, aluminium smelting and downstream manufacturing facilities across Sundargarh...
Dr Sanja Miskovic joins American Rare Earths to advance Halleck Creek processing
American Rare Earths has appointed Dr Sanja Miskovic as Chief Technical Advisor, with her work focused on process optimisation and recovery as the company advances the feasibility study for its Halleck Creek Rare Earths Project in Wyoming, USA. Miskovic will work on flowsheet development, mineral...
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Alba Line 6 CAPEX down to around US$ 3 billion
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), the Bahrain-based international smelter, announced that the CAPEX associated with Line 6 Expansion Project was brought-down from US$ 3.5 billion to around US$ 3 billion. As per the initial Bankable Feasibility Study, the CAPEX for Line 6 Expansion Project -...
Altech receives $1.75 mln balance of proceeds from sale of E70/3923
Altech Chemicals Limited has confirmed the receipt of $1.75 million, being the balance of proceeds from the sale of its Meckering exploration licence E70/3923 to Dana Shipping and Trading S.A. (Dana). The funds will be applied towards finalising the detailed design of the company’s proposed high...
Snap lock aluminium roofing panels selected for Queensland Waters Residence project
Snap lock aluminium roofing panels from ZC Technical were selected by the architect, Jared Poole Design for the Paradise Waters Residence project. The client, who was provided with several roofing options, worked with the architect to select the best fit for the residence. ZC Technical’s high...
Magna announces new aluminium casting facility in the UK
Magna International Inc. today announced it will build a new world-class aluminium casting facility in Telford, United Kingdom, to support Jaguar Land Rover, the UK's leading vehicle manufacturer. The new facility is expected to be approximately 225,000 square feet and will create up to 295 jobs at...
Amerlux supplies LED Light Engines with aluminum heat sink for LA Retrofit project
Amerlux recently supplied 600 Avista LED light engines for part of a major retrofit project in the downtown Los Angeles area. The Bureau of Street Lighting reported that over half of its streetlights have already been retrofitted to LED, including 600 fixtures that now use Amerlux’s Avista light...
Aequs partners AMS to make aerospace products in India
Karnataka-based aircraft component maker Aequs Aerospace has entered into an agreement with All Metal Services Limited (AMS), a subsidiary of Reliance Steel and Aluminum Company, to manufacture aerospace materials and applications in Belgaum. The facility will provide various metals, including...
Nalco and Iranian mining company sign MoU to set up aluminium smelter in Iran
State-owned major, National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco) and Iranian Mines & Mining Industries Development Renovation Organization (IMIDRO) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly explore the possibility of setting up an aluminium smelter in Iran. The signing of the MoU...
ASAS Alüminyum completes its foil production plant, set up with Achenbach technology
As a strong brand in the market for aluminium extruded products over a long time, ASAS Alüminyum Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. in Sakarya, Turkey, can look back on four successful years of building an ultramodern production plant of aluminium flat rolled products. By recent-ly placing an order with...
SinterCast AGM 2016 focuses on energy consumption issues in aluminium manufacturing
The SinterCast AB (publ) Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held on 19 May 2016 in Stockholm. During the AGM, presentations were provided by Dr Mark Jolly, Professor of Sustainable Manufacturing at Cranfield University, and by Dr Steve Dawson, President & CEO. Professor Jolly made presentations on...
Altech’s Meckering mining lease granted
Altech Chemicals Limited announced that its kaolin mining lease (ML) application M70/1334 at Meckering, Western Australia has been granted by the Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP). The ML is estimated to contain ~11 million tonnes of kaolin mineral resources, representing over 250 years of...
Orbite closes a $5 mln financing with Resources Quebec
Orbite Technologies Inc. announced the closing of an equity financing in the amount of $5 million with Ressources Quebec inc., a subsidiary of Investissement Quebec, acting as agent of the Government of Quebec. As part of the financing, Ressources Quebec purchased 20,746,888 Class A shares of...
Metallica Minerals hopeful about starting bauxite production by H1 2017
Metallica Minerals is looking forward to starting bauxite production by the first half of 2017. Metallica CEO, Simon Siesarewich said in a recent interview that the company is likely to have the approvals in place over the wet season 2016/17. Since that is not the right time up around Weipa to be...
Queensland Alumina eager to explore possibilities of red mud dam project
Red mud, a byproduct of alumina refining from bauxite (the principal ore of aluminium) could be the key to creating a new industry in Gladstone that would lead to thousands of new jobs. Extracting iron ore from the waste product of aluminium to make steel is the latest idea from the group behind...
UAE based aluminium cable manufacturer chosen by Korean nuclear power plant builder
Ducab , the UAE-based leading manufacturer of high-quality copper and aluminium wire and cabling products; which is 50 per cent owned by Senaat and 50 per cent owned by Investment Corporation Dubai (ICD), has announced that its nuclear power-qualified cable range, NuBICC was selected by the Korean...
iRecyle in Pretoria to reward donors of recyclable aluminium cans and bottles
An initiative to encourage people to recycle will launch on June 6 in Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa. The project will be launched with the introduction of a recycling machine that rewards donors of recyclable bottles and aluminium cans. Mfundo Mkhize‚ project manager for...
GE ties up with IIT-M to set up Digital Twin of an aluminium smelter
US-based conglomerate GE has signed an agreement with the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT Madras), to set up an Industrial Internet Centre of Excellence. The Centre is being established to develop applications that will help companies save costs. The first of these will be the Digital...
Bahrain's 'green' building projects to boost demand for aluminium construction systems
Bahrain is working on 40 environment-friendly building projects as part of its sustainable development initiative aimed at reducing power and water consumption besides carbon emissions at these facilities. The initiative will likely boost the demand for aluminium construction systems in the Gulf...
Bauxite Hills EIS open for public comment
The environmental-impact statement (EIS) for the proposed Bauxite Hills project, in Cape York, has been opened for public comment after the Queensland government accepted the document. ASX-listed Metro Mining in April submitted the EIS to the Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage...
