Europe is likely to remain a net importer of caustic soda as capacity is threatened by the EU's 2017 deadline to make the costly switch to greener technology, Michael Trager, CEO of German PVC producer Vestolit, said this week. "In the ...
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National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO, India's largest domestic aluminium producer) has invited expressions of interest (EoI) for sourcing an environmentally friendly technology for a 10 tonne per annum (TPA) gallium extraction plant that ...
Tags: Recovered gallium, Electrical, Electronics
Ormet, as it winds down its aluminum business in the US, is seeking federal bankruptcy court permission to sell another 24,000 mt, plus or minus 5%, of sandy calcined metallurgical-grade alumina to Swiss commodities trader Trafigura AG for ...
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Rio Tinto will move to suspend alumina production at Gove and focus on its bauxite operations after determining the refinery is no longer a viable business in the current market environment. Rio Tinto will now work on the scope and phased ...
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Rio Tinto said on Tuesday that the company is evaluating the prospects of its Australian Gove alumina refinery losses. It ever shelved the fuel source produce into natural gas plans, due to deteriorating market conditions. Rio Tinto ...
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ET reported that with the commencement of Mahan smelter and Utkal alumina refinery in nearly three months' time, worse days for Hindalco seem to be over. The management of the company expects the Mahan smelter to start production by ...
Tags: Mahan smelter, Utkal alumina refinery, captive coal, coal industry
UC RUSAL the world’s largest aluminium producer, announced the signing of the Annex to the Agreement with the Republic of Guinea specifying details of the development of Dian-Dian, the world’s largest bauxite deposit, with the ...
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Business Standard reported that in a bid to find alternate source of bauxite for the Lanjigarh alumina refinery of the Vedanta Alumininium Ltd which is shut down for want of raw material since December 5, Odisha Mining Corporation has ...
Business Standard reported that the Odisha government has approved a proposal for withdrawal of land acquisition process for Sterlite Iron and Steel Company,a Vedanta group firm,which proposed to set up of a 5 million tonne steel plant in ...
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Premier Colin Barnett has told Rio Tinto and Alcoa that they're dreaming about developing a massive bauxite deposit in the remote Kimberley and flagged the possible return of the resource to taxpayers. The global giants want a two to ...
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ABC reported that the Northern Territory Government hopes a decision will be made this week on a plan to help save a Rio Tinto alumina refinery on the Gove peninsula in remote North East Arnhem Land. The Territory's Chief Minister said ...
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Reuters reported that government of Guinea on Friday cleared a project by state owned China Power Investment Corp to invest nearly$6 billion in an alumina refinery in Boffa,some 120 km(75 miles)west of the capital. The project for the ...
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Business Standard reported that the move of Vedanta Aluminum Limited to lay off staff at its closed alumina refinery in Lanjigarh might be illegal, as the state labour department claims to not have received any official communication ...
Tags: Vedanta Aluminum, Aluminum, alumina refinery, shutdown
Even after 20 years and investments of over INR 5,000 crore, the 1.5 million tonne alumina refinery project of Utkal Alumina International Ltd a subsidiary of the Kumar Mangalam Birla’s Hindalco, is yet to see the light of the day. ...
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Modernization and upgrade of existing facilities 1.The Company continued a major modernization program of its foundries across its Russian aluminium smelters in order to increase the production of value added products.The share of VAP ...
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