Alcoa’s 16kg aluminium wheel could change fleet efficiency equation
A truck’s overall weight comes from dozens of components, including the engine, chassis, tyres, etc. Wheels are one area where fleets can explore lightweighting. Traditional steel wheels, widely used across the transport industry, are known for their robustness. Forged Alcoa aluminium wheels offer...
Coal-heavy Australian aluminium vs renewables-led New Zealand: How Oceania is balancing decarbonisation
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...
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State team notes improvement in Bua bauxite mine
A Government monitoring team that visited the bauxite mine in Bua last week has noted improvements in the state of the site. Divisional environment officer North Senimili Nakora said the visit was part of the monthly visit and meeting with the bauxite team. "The visit was to facilitate the monthly...
Tiwai Pt sale to be a risky move for Rio Tinto
All the cards do not rest with Rio Tinto in the stalled negotiations over electricity contracts with the Tiwai Pt aluminium smelter, accounting firm WHK New Zealand's chief executive Phil Mulvey says. "Rio Tinto has hived off its smelter assets into Pacific Aluminium ... If it shuts the plant, it...
Ess Dee Aluminium in sale talks with Australian packaging giant Amcor
Aluminium foil maker, Ess Dee Aluminium BSE 0.77 % is in talks with Australian packaging giant Amcor to sell controlling stake in the company, sources with direct knowledge said. Amcor has offered to buy the company at a valuation of $365 million and the top officials of both the companies are...
Fletcher Aluminium returns as TPA sponsor
Fletcher Aluminium is the latest company to sign on as an official sponsor of Ensign Media’s Thailand Property Awards. This will be the third year the international aluminium extrusion manufacturer, which operates as part of the Australia and New Zealand-based Fletcher Building Group, has sponsored...
Council discusses Tiwai smelter future
A meeting to discuss a strategy to save the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter was called by the Invercargill City Council today. The Southland Chamber of Commerce told the meeting a closure would see thousands of people leave the region. Chamber chief executive Richard Hay says a closure "would have a...
Green group wants Cape York bauxite plans downsized
The Wilderness Society says it could support a proposed bauxite mine on western Cape York in far north Queensland if it was significantly scaled back. Rio Tinto Alcan has released a final environmental impact statement for its proposed South of Embley project at Weipa. Wilderness Society spokesman...
New Zealand Aluminium Smelters optimistic about power supply talks
New Zealand Aluminium Smelters, which curtailed aluminum production mid-March, is optimistic about reaching a feasible electricity supply agreement, a spokesman for Pacific Aluminium said on Tuesday. NZAS is 79.36% owned by Rio Tinto subsidiary Pacific Aluminium, and 20.64% by Japan's Sumitomo...
NZ Aluminium Smelter’s electricity contract up for discussion
The Government is offering to subsidise electricity used by the aluminium smelter at Tiwai Point as state-owned electricity company Meridian Energy and the smelter have failed to reach agreement on electricity prices. State-Owned Enterprises Minister Tony Ryall says the Government has been in touch...
Energy Matter announces commercial solar leasing program
National solar solutions provider Energy Matter has announced a commercial solar leasing program offering South Australian businesses the opportunity to install a solar power system with zero up front costs. The announcement was made at the recent formal unveiling of Ullrich Aluminium's latest...
Novagen to acquire the business of Argon Aluminium
Novagen Solar Inc. today announced that on March 7, 2013, Novagen Solar Inc. through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Renegade Engine Company Pty Ltd., entered into a written agreement with Newscope Enterprises Pty Ltd. to acquire the business of Argon Aluminium, of Tweed Heads, NSW, Australia....
Tiwai smelter cuts back on electricity
Production at the Tiwai Aluminium Smelter will be reduced by about 400 tonnes a week as the company starts to cut back on its electricity usage. The smelter is reducing its electricity load from 572MW to 540MW because of extremely low hydro lake levels. New Zealand Aluminium Smelter general manager...
Smelter worries 'dampen consumer spending'
Southland Chamber of Commerce says locals are spending less due to continuing uncertainty over the future of the Tiwai Point smelter. In August last year, owner New Zealand Aluminium Smelters said the plant was losing money and renegotiating the price it pays Meridian Energy for electricity was...
Ullrich Aluminium facility makes another solar switch
Ullrich Aluminium have announced the completed installation of its second Energy Matters designed, supplied and installed solar power system; this time at their distribution centre in Pooraka, South Australia. To celebrate, Energy Matters and Ullrich Aluminium will be holding a solar open day at...
Bauxite mining operations at a standstill at Nawailevy in Bua due to adverse weather
The adverse weather conditions in Vanua Levu have affected bauxite mining operations at Nawailevu in Bua. Bauxite mine manager Basilio Vanuaca said operations had come to a standstill as a result of the bad weather experienced in the Northern Division. "We will resume normal operations during fine...
Pacific Aluminium Automates IT Service Delivery in 30 Days With ServiceNow
ServiceNow, the enterprise IT cloud company, today announced that Pacific Aluminium is using ServiceNow software-as-a-service to successfully provide a new level of IT service delivery across its mining, refinery and smelter operations in Australia and New Zealand. Pacific Aluminium went live in 30...
Queensland Alumina resumes trucking activity
Trucking activity into the Queensland Alumina Limited plant will increase from today as the company feels the impact of recent heavy rain. QAL said heavy rainfall had limited its ability to receive coal by rail, and the refinery had had to source alternative coal supplies. Coal will be transported...
ATDC presents S09 aluminium security doors designed for protection and style
Australia’s leading security door group, The Australian Trellis Door Company (ATDC) presents the S09 Alumax designed to enhance security for home and business owners. Combining superior materials, secure locking technology and stylish contemporary design, the S09 Alumax aluminium security doors...
Bauxite mine in Bua earned about $15million from bauxite export
The bauxite mine in Bua has raked in about $15million from the exported 300,000 tonnes of bauxite so far. Mine manager Basilio Vanuaca in an interview with this newspaper yesterday said a tonne of bauxite cost about $F50.00. "We have so far sent six shipments to China last month from the Northern...
