Oceania’s primary aluminium industry is facing a fragmented energy transition. While Australia, the leading aluminium producer of the continent, has abundant renewable resources and a well-established aluminium value chain, its smelters remain significantly more dependent on fossil-fuel-based...
New Zealand’s aluminium extrusion industry is calling for urgent government action as it faces growing pressure from low-priced imports. The Aluminium Extruders Association of NZ (ALENZ) says a rise in imported aluminium extrusions, particularly from China, is affecting local manufacturers, with...
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Born in Sydney, Ampersand Projects has once again stirred the Australian beverage market by starting to offer its drinks in a recently released ‘first to market’ range of aluminium bottles, which come with convenient packaging of resealable bottle and the ability to add whatever you want due to its...
The direct supplier of “Fire Safe” aluminium facade panels to the construction industry Australia wide, Aodeli appointed Lorraine Jedid to the newly created position of National Specification Consultant and Darryl Smith as business development manager in the Queensland team. Since May 2021, Jedid...
New Zealand’s only aluminium smelter, NZAS has a reported loss and a large write-down of its assets at a time when aluminium prices are recovering. Pacific Aluminium, a joint venture between the Anglo-Australian multinational Rio Tinto holding 79.36% stake in NZAS, and the Tokyo-based Sumitomo...
In April 2021, world alumina production stood at 11.598 million tonnes, reflecting a month-on-month downfall of 2.63 per cent, found the International Aluminium Institute's data. In March, the output amounted to 11.911 million tonnes, climbing 2.59 per cent from 10.610 million tonnes in February...
The New Zealand Aluminium Smelter at Tiwai Point is confident in its environmental record after releasing 25 years of monitoring reports on Tuesday, May 18, to prove its commitment toward transparency and collaboration. The company has confirmed that it expects to release the contamination of soil...
The Australia-based clean-tech company listed that produces graphene and hydrogen by cracking methane instead of mining graphite has shared the initial performance data when tested in coin cells for the patent-pending surface perforation of graphene in aluminium-ion batteries developed by the...
The Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter will reportedly cut its production for reducing electricity usage by about 11 megawatts, as it has been receiving warnings over the continuing power market squeeze. This electricity cut is on top of the earlier 6 megawatts, reducing Tiwai’s energy consumption to...
Stew Hamilton has reportedly stepped down as Chief Executive and General Manager of the Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter to join one of New Zealand’s big power companies. Stew Hamilton has been associated with Rio Tinto, the smelter’s majority owner, for the past 22 years. In 2018, he took over as...
Rio Tinto has reportedly estimated about 217,000 tonnes of spent cell lining at the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter, around 20 per cent more than the previously reported amount of 181,000 tonnes. This additional amount was found in a report audit, which was part of the smelter’s annual financial...
The producer of sustainable ultra-high purity aluminium products Alpha HPA has inked a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with CleanCo Queensland to supply up to 100% of the power for its HPA First Project in Gladstone. The project is earmarking the production of around 10,000 tonnes per annum...
Rio Tinto owned Tiwai Point Aluminium smelter consumes around 13% of New Zealand’s electricity produced, however, it has now outreached an agreement with Meridian Energy to curtail its usage by up to 30.5 megawatts per hour (MWh) until the end of May 2021. Tiwai aluminium smelter has a supply...
According to the International Aluminium Institute, world alumina production in March 2021 stood at 11.832 million tonnes, bringing the total output to 34.199 million tonnes in the first quarter of 2021. The production in March reflected a hike of 11.41 per cent month-on-month from 10.620 million...
The fresh documents released under the Official Information Act, an important part of New Zealand's constitutional framework showcased, in 2020, the owners of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter refused the offer of direct payment from the Government. As an opening offer to the aluminium smelter, a...
New Zealand Aluminium Smelters Limited (NZAS) has reported that coastal erosion is starting to threaten bores used for monitoring groundwater at its site at Tiwai Point. The company has shown in its reports that how seawater has begun affecting an area near which NZ Aluminium Smelter stores a...
The peoples of Southland in New Zealand have met with officials foremost trying to get an assurance over the contaminated Tiwai Point aluminium smelter cleaning up measures. The nation’s Environment Ministry, Regional Council and Department of Conservation met a group of four rūnaka called Murihiku...
Aluminium Façade Systems has appointed Brisbane-resident Hilary Flynn as the new Business Development Manager for Queensland. Flynn brings in a wealth of knowledge for her nine years of experience in the construction industry, which also includes four years of experience in facades. Flynn came into...
New Zealand's GDP sprouted 2.2% in 2019 against 3.2% in 2018 but fell to -6.1% in 2020 due to the outbreak of the COVID-19. It is expected to pick up to 4.4% in 2021 and 2.6% in 2022 according to the updated IMF forecasts from January 2021. The island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean has...
The delay in the delivery of the Royal Australian Navy's new $350 million fleets of Cape Class patrol boats has been blamed on the supply of inferior quality aluminium from China. The West Australian shipbuilder Austal has secured a contract in May’20, to build six of the 58-metre vessels, which...
