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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Japan reconstruction to boost demand for timber, aluminium
...Aluminium and timber, New Zealand's two most valuable exports to Japan at more than $1 billion, could be even more in demand after the devastating earthquake and tsunami...
Rio, Alcoa Win Deadline Extension on Bauxite Plan, West Says
...Rio Tinto Group and Alcoa Inc. (AA) have been given a two year extension to a deadline to submit a development plan to the Western Australian government for the Mitchell Plateau bauxite project, the West Australian newspaper reported...
Australian updates on aluminum operations
...Alreco Private Limited, MHM Metals’ wholly owned operating subsidiary for the Australian aluminum operations has been granted planning approval to commence construction of salt evaporation ponds in Moolap of Victoria...
Australian updates on aluminum operations
...Alreco Private Limited, MHM Metals’ wholly owned operating subsidiary for the Australian aluminum operations has been granted planning approval to commence construction of salt evaporation ponds in Moolap of Victoria...
$300,000 for landowners
...BAUXITE mining continues to fill pockets of landowners in Bua with another two landowning units receiving more than $300,000 over the weekend from Aurum Explorations Fiji Ltd...
Cape Alumina begins search for new CEO
...Brisbane-based exploration company Cape Alumina is on the hunt for a new CEO following the resignation of managing director and CEO, Dr Paul Messenger. As announced in a statement to ASX today, Messenger will be stepping down on February 28 to manage “family business interests” but will remain...
Asia Pacific alumina stable despite further rise in metal futures
... The price of alumina was rangebound in the Asia Pacific Wednesday at $382/mt FOB Australia, unchanged from Tuesday. Platts' Australian alumina price benchmark was up $1/mt on the week and $10/mt from a month ago, ...
Bauxite mining to start in April
...The Acting Permanent Secretary for Lands and Mineral Resources Mr Filimone Kau today confirmed that the bauxite mining at Nawailevu in Bua will begin in April this year. He said the Ministry and the Land Use Unit is now awaiting the legal vetting of the regulations that will kick start mining in...
Rio getting back on track after flood disruption
...The domestic and international supply of aluminium from Rio's Boyne Island smelter was disrupted in early January, with the company declaring a force majeure as the result of the floods which devastated Queensland and parts of northern NSW...
Rio getting back on track after flood disruption
...The domestic and international supply of aluminium from Rio's Boyne Island smelter was disrupted in early January, with the company declaring a force majeure as the result of the floods which devastated Queensland and parts of northern NSW...
Rio Tinto Aluminum Shipments Return To Normal After Queensland Floods
... Aluminum shipments at Rio Tinto PLC's (RIO) Boyne smelter in the Queensland port of Gladstone have returned to normal and a force majeure on contracts has been dropped after severe floods disrupted operations, the miner said Friday. ...
Boyne aluminium smelter up and running after floods
... The Boyne aluminium smelter near Gladstone in Queensland has restarted operations. The Rio Tinto Alcan smelter had stopped production after the company declared force majeur when roads to and from it was flooded. ...
Australia's Brisbane aluminum shipments remain under force majeure
... Shipments of aluminum products from the flood-hit Brisbane port in Queensland, Australia, remained halted Monday as the force majeure, declared last Thursday, stays in place, said a spokesman for Rio Tinto Alcan Monday. ...
New Zealand Smelter celebrates safety
... The Southland Times reported that for the first time in its 40 year history, the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter has had a year free of lost time injuries. ... Mr Ryan Cavanagh GM of New Zealand Aluminium Smelters said that the smelter had previously come close to achieving one year LTI free but...
Flooding impacts supply of aluminium from Boyne Smelters of Rio
...Rio Tinto Alcan gave notice to its affected customers of a force majeure event impacting the supply of aluminium from Boyne Smelters Limited near Gladstone as a result of the severe flooding across Queensland...
Business as usual at QAL
...THERE are no plans to curtail production or close Queensland Alumina Limited (QAL) operations, according to QAL...
Asia alumina freight rate drops 8% on week during holiday lull
... The cost of freight for alumina and other dry cargoes on handysize ships continued to weaken Tuesday within the Asia Pacific, ... It will now cost $24/mt to ship 30,000 mt of alumina from Bunbury and Kwinana in Western Australia to Qingdao in northern China, if the cargo were to be lifted in...
Rio Tinto New Zealand Aluminium smelter cuts production by 5pct
...Reuters reported that global miner Rio Tinto said production at its New Zealand Aluminium Smelters Ltd subsidiary was being cut by about 5% in response to high electricity prices...
