Rusal nears final approval for new bauxite-to-alumina project in Kalimantan, Indonesia
Russian aluminium producer Rusal is nearing the final stage of the permitting process for a planned bauxite-to-alumina processing project in Kalimantan, Indonesia, according to Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Bahlil Lahadalia. The project will process bauxite into alumina as part of...
$11.5b Adani-IRH aluminium project set to strengthen Odisha’s aluminium value chain
Odisha has handed over more than 7,000 acres of land for the Adani Group-International Resources Holding (IRH) joint venture’s proposed USD 11.5 billion integrated aluminium complex. This covers planned alumina refining, aluminium smelting and downstream manufacturing facilities across Sundargarh...
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China Guizhou's precision aluminium foil project to go on stream in January
Guizhou Xintianli Aluminum Foil Co. is scheduled to put online its precision aluminium foil project in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, in January 2016. The project, with total investment at 1.2 billion yuan ($ 185 million), is now in debugging process and has an annual capacity of 50,000 tonnes....
Novelis partners with Cayuga Community College to develop a robust talent pool
Novelis, the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, today announced a long-term commitment to the Cayuga Community College’s Fulton campus to launch an Advanced Manufacturing Institute, including an industrial maintenance technician program and an advanced laboratory and training center....
Tianjin Zhongwang’s aluminium plate stretcher finishes its trial run
In a recent announcement Tianjin Zhongwang Aluminium Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liaoning Zhongwang Group Co., Ltd, said the aluminium plate stretcher in its production mill has finished its trial run. The stretcher is imported from SMS MEER Company in Germany, and is a key device in...
Kaiser Aluminum announces capital investment project at its Trentwood facility
Kaiser Aluminum Corporation announced that it has commenced a five-year, $150 million capital investment project at its Spokane, Washington facility to further advance the Company’s cost and quality leadership position and to meet continued demand growth. The investments will focus on equipment...
BSTDB supports aluminium producer in Romania
The Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (BSTDB) provided a USD 60 million long term loan to Alro S.A., Romania’s only aluminium producer. The loan will help finance the company’s investment program with the total cost of USD 190.3 million to be co-financed by other IFIs and commercial banks. The...
Orbite provides HPA construction update
Orbite Technologies Inc. announced today that a dispute, now resolved, with one of its contractors will push the end of construction of its HPA production facility and start of commercial production into Q1 2016. An Orbite contractor, in breach of the contract between the parties, withheld from...
Inner Mongolia Liansheng puts online over $1.5 billion aluminum flat rolling project
Inner Mongolia Liansheng Light Alloy Co. put online first two casting & rolling lines of its 10 billion yuan ($1.55 billion) aluminum plate, strip and foil project several days ago, local media reported. Another two casting & rolling lines are scheduled to enter operations on December 15, 2015 and...
Government allocates Pottangi mines to Nalco, shares gain over 1%
Pottangi mines located in Odhisa has been allocated to state-run aluminium producer Nalco for manufacturing one MTPA alumina refinery by 2020. This was informed by Vishnu Deo Sai, Minister of State for Steel and Mines. The alumina refinery (stream-5) will come up at Damanjodi, Koraput district in...
Alba CEO delivers keynote at AmCham's business luncheon
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C (Alba), one of the world’s leading aluminium smelters, Chief Executive Officer Tim Murray delivered a keynote address at the American Chamber of Commerce in Bahrain’s Business Networking Luncheon, which was held at the Four Seasons Hotel Bahrain Bay on Tuesday, December 08,...
Mumtalakat's aluminium plans not price-driven, opine experts
Recent developments within Bahrain's aluminium sector, spurred by investment from sovereign wealth fund Mumtalakat, are not in response to global commodity prices, observed industry experts keeping a tab on GCC aluminium developments. Mumtalakat confirmed in November that it has entered a 49% joint...
Altech Chemicals inches towards German credit support for HPA
Altech Chemicals has taken a step closer to clinching the support of an export credit insurance scheme which could cover most of the total capital cost of the company’s high-purity alumina (HPA) project. Altech has received a letter of interest from the administrator of Germany’s export credit...
NAPCO hired as official aluminium extruder for Oman project
National Aluminium Products Company (NAPCO) has entered into an agreement with Profils Systemes Gulf for a partnership project in Oman. Under the terms of the agreement, NAPCO will be the official aluminium extruder for windows and doors for the premium beachfront development. The mixed-use Saraya...
Alba gears up for Line 6 expansion project
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), one of the world’s leading aluminium smelters, continues to look forward as the company prepares for future growth according to a statement issued by the Chairman of Alba’s Board of Directors, Shaikh Daij Bin Salman Bin Daij Al Khalifa. The statement was made...
Nalco teams up with Gujarat Alkalies for a caustic soda plant at Dahej
Aluminium major National Aluminium Corporation (Nalco) on Tuesday launched a joint venture with Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Limited (GACL) to set up a caustic soda plant at an investment of Rs 1,800 crore, an official source said. The two firms will come together to set up a caustic soda plant...
Tianjin Zhongwang’s cold rolling mill for aluminium plates and sheets finishes its first load trial run
Tianjin Zhongwang announced another good news that the two cold rolling mills for wide-width aluminium plates and sheets produced the first aluminium coil in success. Till now, both of the two sets of single-stand cold rolling mills for wide-width aluminium plates and sheets have entered into the...
Rio Tinto to go ahead with $1.9 bln bauxite expansion
Rio Tinto expects to produce 2.8 million tonnes of bauxite a year and replace the output from the depleting East Weipa mine. It slashed its budget for major projects to roughly $5.5 billion for 2015 from more than $17 billion three years ago. The project also provides further expansion options...
Altech Chemicals Ltd: Kerrigan exploration licence granted
Altech Chemicals Limited advises that exploration licence E70/4718 (Kerrigan project) has been granted. The licence covers an area of approximately 480km2, is on freehold agricultural land and contains Inferred Kaolin Mineral Resources of 85 million tonnes at 85.1% brightness (JORC 2004). The...
Rio Tinto delivers productivity gains and cost savings in aluminium
Rio Tinto will today provide an update on the significant progress being made on costs and productivity in its Aluminium business and unveil further detail on the recently approved Amrun bauxite project which positions Rio Tinto as the industry-leading supplier of bauxite. By the end of 2015, the...
