ALUMINIUM

Major Rio Tinto will close one of its four potlines at Tiwai Point aluminium smelter, in New Zealand, as part of measures to combat Covid-19.

CEO and GM of the New Zealand’s Aluminium Smelter, in which Rio holds a 79.36% interest, Stewart Hamilton sa…

Meridian Energy, New Zealand’s top power producer, on Wednesday played down market expectations that Rio Tinto would keep its New Zealand Aluminium Smelter (NZAS) open when it decides on the plant’s fate in the next month.

The global miner’s smelter a…

Mining giant Rio Tinto and aluminium equipment supplier STAS have agreed to terms to commercialise Rio’s advanced compact filtration (AFC) technology for aluminium cast houses.

The ACF technology developed by Rio will now be manufactured and sold unde…

Diversified mining major Rio Tinto has announced a strategic review of the ISAL smelter in Iceland, to determine the operation’s “ongoing viability and explore options to improve its competitive position”.

The smelter, which the company unsuccessfully…

ASX-listed Alpha HPA has tipped Gladstone, in Queensland, as the preferred site for it’s A$200-million high purity alumina (HPA) plant.

The company has secured an option with Economic Development Queensland on a 10 ha land parcel, and would now seek…

Russia’s En+ Group has raised its stake in aluminium giant Rusal to 56.88% after completing an asset swap with Glencore, part of a deal that has helped companies controlled by Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska to ward off US sanctions.

En+ Group and Glenc…

Power to Alcoa’s Portland aluminium smelter has returned to normal levels after a blackout on Friday caused by heat waves in Australia’s south, the company said in a statement on Monday.

One of two transmission lines to the smelter remains out of serv…

Alcoa Corp’s Australian aluminium smelter was hit by a power cut on Friday after a transmission line tripped amid soaring temperatures in the country’s southeast, the Australian Energy Market Operator said.

AEMO, which manages electricity supply, said…

PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium has set a long-term goal of tripling its production capacity by expanding operations to the island of Borneo as it seeks to utilise the region’s abundant bauxite reserves.

The State-owned company known as Inalum plans to …

India’s Supreme Court has permitted Vedanta to bid for alumina from State-run National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco) for the former’s bauxite starved smelters in the eastern state of Odisha. Under the court order, Vedanta has been permitted to part…