China’s aluminium export surge in the first half (H1) of 2026, crossing 250,000 tonnes, has come with a surge in its alumina imports as well, feeding the smelting and primary aluminium production. China’s January-June alumina imports marked a drastic year-on-year surge of about 749.4 per cent,...
On July 23, 2026, a delegation from Shanghai Metals Market (SMM) conducted an on-site visit to TRAN HONG QUAN METALLURGY Co., Ltd. (THQ) in Vietnam. The delegation included: Logan Lu, CEO of SMM Cason Lou, Director of Aluminium Processing, Marketing Department Lexi Chen, Key Account Manager for...
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The Ministry of Transport has approved the first phase of National Highway 20 upgrade to transport bauxite ore from the Central Highland province of Lam Dong to southern Dong Nai Province. According to Decision 2525/QD-BGTVT, signed by Minister Dinh La Thang on November 7, the 123km road from Lam...
Reuters reported that the Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group will delay alumina production to the Q1 of 2012 from an earlier target for the end of this year because rain held up construction. In September, the group said it would start producing in November and sell an estimated...
The Viet Nam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin) and Dongyang Gangchul, South Korea's leading aluminium producer, agreed to study proposals for three aluminium projects in Viet Nam, following a co-operation agreement inked yesterday between the two companies. These projects would...
Australia-listed Atlantic Limited said Thursday it has signed an agreement with Vietnam targeting an integrated bauxite "mine-rail-port" supply chain project in the country's Central Highlands. Under the agreement, signed with the Institute of Mining Science & Metallurgy under the Vietnamese...
Authorities of the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong Thursday are considering fining leaders of a government bauxite mining project that has leaked toxic chemicals into a local lake. Inspectors of the provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment had found that chemical substances...
VietNamNet Bridge – About 200 hectares of coffee, tea and fish pools in Bao Lam District, Lam Dong Province have been polluted by the wastewater released by the Tan Rai bauxite plant that contains sodium hydroxide (NaOH). Tran Duong Le, deputy director of the Management Board of the Lam Dong...
The Vietnam Ministry of Transport will invest VND3.9 trillion (US$187.5 million) to upgrade 227km of National Road 20, said Truong Huu Hiep, director of Central Highlands LamDong Province's Transport Department. He said the upgrade would facilitate the transport of bauxite. National Road 20...
Vietnam's first alumina refinery would start producing in November, after several delays, and sell an expected 50,000 tonnes this year directly to clients without any tenders, the company operating the plant said on Friday. Alumina output at the $460 million Tan Rai plant would rise to 350,000...
The Transport Ministry's Directorate for Roads in Viet Nam has submitted a plan to the Government that would upgrade the bauxite transport route at an estimated cost of about VND1.6 trillion (US$76.9 million). "However, the project has been stuck due to a shortage of capital, preventing the Nhan Co...
Vietnam's first alumina refinery will sell its material through tenders rather than directly to China's Yunnan Metallurgical Group under a 30-year sales agreement between the two firms, sources at Yunnan and the Vietnamese firm said on Thursday. The 600,000-tonne capacity Tan Rai alumina refinery,...
Vietnam will test-run its first alumina refinery, being built by a Chinese firm, next month and production is set to start in late 2011, well behind schedule, a state-run newspaper reported on Friday. The $460 million Tan Rai alumina plant, invested in by Vinacomin, Vietnam's top coal mining group,...
The Directorate for Roads of Vietnam under the Ministry of Transport has submitted to the Government a plan for upgrading the alumina transport route at an estimated cost of about VND1.6 trillion, or some US$770 million. The bauxite route, linking the alumina factory Tan Rai in Lam Dong Province...
Nearly two-thirds of labourers working at one of two controversial Chinese-run bauxite mines in Vietnam's Central Highlands do not have permits, local media said Friday. Up to 190 of the 312 Chinese labourers at Nhan Co Aluminum Plant in Dak Nong province are working without the right paperwork,...
Vietnam does not have a policy of allowing Chinese investors in bauxite projects in the Central Highlands, President Truong Tan Sang has said.
Rich in largely untapped natural resources and able to benefit from a low cost labor force, Vietnam has enjoyed 10-percent growth rates (although it has also suffered 11 percent inflation rates last year). The country has never been a major metals producer, but that could be about to change....
Rich in largely untapped natural resources and able to benefit from a low cost labor force, Vietnam has enjoyed 10-percent growth rates (although it has also suffered 11 percent inflation rates last year). The country has never been a major metals producer, but that could be about to change....
Rich in largely untapped natural resources and able to benefit from a low cost labor force, Vietnam has enjoyed 10-percent growth rates (although it has also suffered 11 percent inflation rates last year). The country has never been a major metals producer, but that could be about to change....
Reuters reported that Vietnam will produce the first alumina from a bauxite complex in the Central Highlands in September after months of delays caused by adverse weather, power shortages and slow equipment delivery. Mr Tran Duong Le deputy director of the complex's management board said that the...
