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...
Grow with
AL Circle
Pine logs at bauxite mine to be removed soon
Work on the removal of pine logs at the bauxite mining site in Bua is expected to get underway soon. This is after Fijivillage while on a trip to the North noted that while tenders were called for the removal of the logs in April, nothing had been done. Tropik Woods of Fiji Executive Chairman, Faiz...
OSC and Sohar Aluminum sign agreement for 15 year alumina transportation
Reportedly, Oman Shipping Company SAOC and Sohar Aluminum signed a 15 year agreement for alumina carry which will ship 690,000 tonnes of alumina to Oman from Australia. Meanwhile, Sohar Aluminum’s annual aluminum production is at around 360,000 tonnes to 370,000 tonnes. The company’s raw materials...
PIONEERING PROJECT DEAL
A Bahrain company has won a $25 million contract to process dross from an aluminium smelter in New Zealand that could transform the way that waste from smelters across the world is recycled. Bahrain-based Taha International Corporation has won the pilot project at the New Zealand International...
Enerpac Demonstrates High-Pressure Hydraulic Technologies at RTA’s Ergo Expo
Enerpac (A Division of Actuant Corp) showcased their high-pressure hydraulic technologies at the Manual Handling Ergonomics Expo hosted by Rio Tinto Alcan (RTA) at Queensland Alumina Limited (QAL) Gladstone. The Ergo Expo featured some of the world’s most compactly powerful non-impact bolting...
Road opens up to bauxite mining site
LAND-clearing and road construction works at the bauxite mining site at Nawailevu in Bua are progressing well, says Aurum Exploration (Fiji) Limited manager Sang Lei. Mr Lei said the company was focused on completing the road to the proposed site. So far, the contractor hired by Aurum Exploration...
Weather hinders start of Bauxite Mining in Bua
The million dollar Bauxite mining operation in Bua has been further delayed. This report from our Reporter Tokasa Rainima who is in Bua. There is an audio file attached to this story. Please login to listen. This is the third delay that the owners Aurum Mining Limited are facing, the first being...
Smelter plans big spendup
The Tiwai Point aluminium smelter has ramped up its capital expenditure and is planning to spend about $80 million annually for the next four years, with southerners expected to benefit. New Zealand Aluminium Smelters is anticipating doubling its normal spending until 2015 after it secured a...
Limited amount of workers for bauxite mine
Only 10-15 overseas workers will be allowed to work at the bauxite mine in Bua. Human Resources Manager of Aurum Exploration Fiji Limited Basilio Vanuaca said if only there are specialized jobs that locals cannot do then they will look to hire more Chinese workers. Vanuaca said if these specialists...
Holden to dress Commodore in aluminium
HOLDEN will become the first Australian car manufacturer to employ mass-produced aluminium body panels – most likely the bonnet and boot – to snip the fuel consumption of its next-generation VF Commodore due in 2014. The “light-weighting” exercise, plus a switch to electric-powered steering and new...
Fiji expected to rake in $20m
Fiji is expected to rake in twenty million US dollars through the bauxite mine in Bua. Chinese Ambassador Doctor Han Zhiqiang said that the company - Xinfa Aurum will export 1 million tonnes of Bauxite mineral which will equate to twenty million US dollars. Zhiqiang added that there will be a lot...
Monadelphous boosts order book by $200m
...They include a three-year contract for capital work with Queensland Alumina at its Gladstone Alumina Refinery, a one-year maintenance contract with Rio Tinto Dampier Salt, a one-year extension of a general maintenance contracts for Chevron at Barrow and Thevenard islands and a three-year...
Australia CO2 tax to have minor impact on steel, aluminium-govt
...Australia's government played down the impact of a carbon price on steel and aluminum producers on Wednesday, saying its planned carbon tax would add only a fraction to the cost of their goods...
Alcoa trucks in water as supplies run dry
...WA's once-in-a-century drought has forced Australia's biggest alumina refinery to start trucking in millions of litres of water. Water is essential to operations at Alcoa's refinery in the South West town of Pinjarra and the recent drought has put a dent in supplies...
L&M announces deal to supply power to smelter
...L&M Energy has provided markets with some welcome news it will sell electricity from its Ohai coal-seam gas pilot project to the Tiwai aluminium smelter...
New Zealand Aluminium Smelters Reallocates Orders To Help Japanese Customers
...New Zealand Aluminium Smelters Ltd. is reallocating and reprioritizing customer orders to help Japanese customers whose operations are affected by the earthquake, the company said Friday...
Ad campaign targets Tasmania Bell Bay conditions
...The Australian reported that the Australian Workers Union has launched a 3 month advertising campaign designed to pressure Rio Tinto Alcan into increasing pay and condition at its Bell Bay aluminum smelter near Launceston...
AWU launches next step in Rio Tinto Tasmania campaign
...The television ads, to be run on Tasmanian television and nationally onl Sky News, over the next two weeks, was first shown to meetings of Rio’s Bell Bay Tasmania workforce during a three-day tour of Tasmanian workplaces by Paul Howes...
Axion International to supply Recycled Structural Composite railroad ties to Alcoa in Western Australia
...Axion International (OTCBB:AXIH.ob), a producer of industrial building products and railroad ties made from 100% recycled plastic, reported on Friday the receipt of its first order for railroad ties with aluminium producer Alcoa Inc (NYSE:AA)...
