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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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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, the official Vietnam News Agency reported. The country's first alumina plant in Lam Dong province is now...

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, the official Vietnam News Agency reported on Wednesday. The Tan Rai refinery is slated to produce...

Thai Beverage Can Ltd yesterday officially signed a US$60 joint venture agreement with America's Ball Corporation to build a $60 million aluminium can plant in Viet Nam's southern province of Binh Duong. The project, slated for operation in mid 2012, will cover an area of 80,000 square metres in...

... A Hanoi court declined to hear the bauxite case against the prime ... International Financing Review · Project Finance International ...

...Alcoa Inc. rejected a report published yesterday in the Tuoi Tre newspaper that it agreed to temporarily halt a bauxite project in Vietnam pending a government review of the industry...

... This was the first operation of the Lam Dong Bauxite-Alumina Complex, nearly four years after the mining project received approval. The project, conducted by the Ha Tu Coal Joint Stock Company under the Vietnam Coal and Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin), will supply materials for aluminium...

... Work on Vietnam's maiden alumina refinery is expected to be completed in June, a source at project owner Vinacomin said Wednesday. The 600,000 mt/year refinery in Lam Dong province in the country's south is being built by state-owned Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group, or...

... Capitalized almost USD 700 million, Tan Rai complex located in the Central Highland's Lam Dong province is expected to supply 600,000 tonnes of alumina per year and post 2015 the total output will rise to 1.2 million tonnes to 1.8 million tonnes per year. ....

... An aluminium-bauxite project in the Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) province of Lam Dong should turn out its first batch of aluminium product in the second quarter of this year, according to the Viet Nam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group. By the end of 2010, VND99.5 trillion had been...

...Dongyang Gangchul (001780.KS) will import 600,000 tonnes of alumina, or 25 percent of South Korea's annual use, from Vietnam as it plans to build a $350 million aluminium refinery, the Korean government said on Tuesday...

...South Korea's Dongyang Gangchul will review building a $350 million aluminium refinery in Vietnam to meet 25 percent of South Korea's aluminium demand, the company and Korean government said on Tuesday...

..."This morning our entrepreneurs signed 13 contracts worth $8.6 billion," Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during their talks at the Gorky residence outside Moscow, the report said...

...Bauxite reserves in Vietnam may total 11 billion metric tons, enough to ensure the long-term supply to the country’s alumina industry, according to Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung...

...Oslo, Norway, Nov 23, 2010 (Thomson Reuters ONE via COMTEX) -- Sapa acquires 65% of the shares of the aluminium extrusion company Vijalco and forms a joint venture with the Vietnamese Ben Thanh Group. The new company will be called Sapa BTG...

...Though he paid special attention to bauxite mining in the Central Highlands and sent a letter to the National Assembly Chair on this issue, deputy Duong Trung Quoc didn’t question Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang about bauxite projects in the Q&A session on November 22...

...Hungary's bauxite processing technology is quite different from that in Viet Nam. Hundreds of tonnes of red sludge spilled from a broken dam at a plant in Hungary that processes bauxite to produce aluminium. Viet Nam has learnt from Hungary's breakdown...

...Hoa said that the incident in Hungary is the first of its kind in the world and Vietnam should not cancel the bauxite mining projects because of this accident...

...Vietnam will remove the import tax on some non-alloy aluminum products from Sept. 18, the Ministry of Finance said Monday. The ministry said in a statement that the current tax rate on the products, including plate, sheet and strip of non-alloy aluminum, is 3%...