China’s 45Mt aluminium cap pushes producers overseas as global dominance grows
China’s aluminium industry is running close to its limits in 2026. As Shanghai aluminium prices near a three-month high, historically low raw material costs and strong smelter margins encourage producers to operate at maximum capacity. National aluminium output remains above Beijing’s...
India's ₹9,150b power grid push could drive new aluminium demand
India's planned transmission investment and renewable-energy expansion could lift aluminium consumption in electrical applications to 4 million tonnes by FY30. India's push to expand its electricity transmission network is emerging as a major potential growth driver for aluminium, with the...
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Surefire unlocks milestone: Produces 4N HPA from Victory Bore
The Australian-based mineral-exploration company Surefire Resources has made its way onto the global stage for battery and LED markets by confirming 99.99 per cent pure alumina in test work utilising waste rock from its 100 per cent-owned Victory Bore vanadium mine, located roughly 400 kilometres...
FEAL Aluminium expands its production capacity with new pressing line
Bosnia based FEAL Aluminium announced installing a new pressing line, which would raise its annual output capacity of 40,000 tonnes by 15,000 tonnes. The Spanish business SpanisIt provided the manufacturing line, the company's sixth profile pressing plant, FEAL stated in a news statement last week...
Hydro Rein and GreenGo Energy extend partnership, plans to set up two early-stage solar projects in Denmark
Hydro Rein and GreenGo Energy are extending their current collaboration to create two additional early-stage solar projects in Denmark, totalling 410 MW. The two early-stage plants, with a yearly output capacity of 522 GWh, are in Jylland, Denmark. A 114 MW project is planned to begin construction...
Primary aluminium recap: VALCO seeks fresh capital injection to expand and retrofit its smelter
Vedanta Aluminium was certified as a Great Place to Work® (GPTW) for the fiscal year 2022-2023. The praise goes to Vedanta Aluminium's countrywide operating divisions, whose tenacity and dedication earned this coveted award. Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) and Japan's Itochu Corporation signed a...
“The ambitious staffs of Ad Rem is putting in all possible effort to maintain Ad Rem’s position as a front-runner in the industry”, Jelle Saint-Germain, Sales Engineer, AD REM
In 2013, Jelle Saint-Germain earned his degree in chemical engineering from the University of Ghent and immediately embarked on his career as a project engineer at Valvan. Shortly after completing his studies, he embarked on a professional journey as a project engineer at Valvan, the leading...
VALCO seeks fresh capital injection to expand and retrofit its smelter
The Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO) revealed that it requires US$600 million in cash to modernise its operations. The struggling state-owned company desperately needs more funding to upgrade its ageing gear and expand the smelter to more than 7.5 times its present installed output capacity. The...
Tetra Pack and Axjo Group to deploy approx. €24 million for new polyAl recycling plant in Sweden
Tetra Pak and Axjo Group are working together to explore the possibility of constructing a new recycling plant specifically for the polyAl layers found in carton packaging. This plant would have the capability of recycling up to 10,000 tonnes of material annually. PolyAl layers, made from a...
Bharat Forge's retrofitment unit to convert diesel trucks into zero-emission vehicles
Kalyani Powertrain Ltd (KPTL), the electric mobility division of Bharat Forge Ltd, has announced the establishment of a "re-powering factory" in Pune. This facility is dedicated to converting current diesel-powered commercial vehicles into electric vehicles through retrofitting. Retrofitting has...
Coal India plans to build water transport corridor to move products like aluminium
India is planning to build an industrial water transport corridor in the east. The plan, backed by Coal India, Paradip Port Authority (PPA) and the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI), would cater to a major industrial cluster in India for the movement of finished products like aluminium,...
Alstom to utilize new aluminium technology for Vande Bharat trains
Alstom has reportedly announced deploying new aluminium technology for Vande Bharat trains. The news came after the company’s CEO Henri Poupart-Lafarge officially said that new tech would be deployed for Vande Bharat for the first ever. Alstom’s engineering team in Bengaluru will design the Vande...
Stellantis' Mulhouse facility to produce die-cast aluminium housings for electric cars
Stellantis, the multinational automotive manufacturing corporation, has announced that its Mulhouse foundry would produce die-cast aluminium housings to equip a new family of compact electric cars. For this, Stellantis will convert its foundry to electricity. The automaker has recently informed the...
Plansee technology sets ambitious goal of achieving carbon-free aluminium production
The Plansee Group, based in Reutte, Austria, initiated an ambitious project beginning in the spring of 2022. The project involves collaboration with Trimet, an aluminium manufacturer headquartered in Essen, Germany, as well as Arctus, a technology enterprise from Iceland, and Saarland University....
Sustainability weekly: Rio Tinto and Sumitomo join hands for a clean hydrogen switch at the Gladstone alumina refinery
Rio Tinto will build a hydrogen pilot plant in Gladstone and replace natural gas with clean hydrogen at an alumina refinery. Sumitomo Corporation will assist with the project. Hydro's North American extrusion unit received the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative Performance Standard V2 certification...
Downstream weekly recap: Jindal Aluminium invests INR150 cr to augment its Bhiwadi plant’s aluminium production
The downstream aluminium sector witnessed significant developments this week. According to Pragun Khaitan, Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of Jindal Aluminium Ltd (JAL), the company plans to spend INR 100-150 crore to increase the production capacity of its Bhiwadi plant by 60,000 tonnes...
End user weekly: Azerbaijan to house a new aluminium beverage can plant worth $211 million
According to our report, a new aluminium beverage can manufacturing and filling factory would be built in Azerbaijan. It will be a collaboration between Hungary, a central European nation, and Azerbaijan, a country in eastern Transcaucasia. The Vision EQXX concept car from Mercedes-Benz, a German...
70 RVMs and 26 smart bins across the emirate to help recycle aluminium cans & single-use plastic bottles
On Wednesday, June 12, Abu Dhabi launched an ambitious plant of recycling 20 million single-use plastic bottles yearly, an initiative to focus on a sustainable and healthy environment. For the same, the Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi established a bottle return scheme to encourage households and...
Alba and Nasser unite to explore AI for the Green Anode project
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), one of the world's largest aluminium smelters, has demonstrated its commitment to advancing in Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) by completing the "Green Anode Density Prediction" project with Nasser Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Centre. To celebrate...
Ontario spends $1 million to introduce complete sustainability in a Bradford packaging brand
On July 11, 2023, the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) Minister Filomena Tassi, and Vance Badawey, Member of Parliament for Niagara Centre, announced a $1 million investment for Lintec Label and Print Solutions in Brantford. The investment and a $500,000...
