Aluminium International Today News
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Jamaica: Rusal announces alumina refinery modernisation programme
UC Rusal’s Alpart and Windalco alumina refineries in Jamaica, which are currently being idled, will soon be up and running following a modernisation programme that will include a shift from coal to gas as the main energy source for steam production.
25 April 2013 -
RTA's du Plessis says Alcan purchase was "badly timed"
Rio Tinto Alcan has admitted to shareholders in London recently that its 2007 purchase of Alcan was a mistake and that the company was now focused on raising funds by selling off assets.
23 April 2013 -
USA: Alcoa to submit draft clean-up plan for Reynolds' Columbia River site
The site of a former aluminium smelter owned by Alcoa on the banks of the Columbia River near Longview are to be cleaned up and transformed into $643 million coal export terminal.
23 April 2013 -
China: ETT resumes coal delivieres to Chalco – but still wants to renegotiate the contract
Reuters reports that the Mongolian Tavan Tolgoi coal mine, which is just under 200 miles from the Chinese border, intends to resume supplies of coal to the Aluminium Corporation of China (Chalco) having initiated a cost-cutting programme that has reduced the mine's losses.
23 April 2013 -
USA: Century to close Hawesville in August – unless it can strike a better power deal
The closure of Century’s Hawesville, Kentucky, USA, smelter drew a step closer this week when the company gave its employees notice that the plant would be shutdown in August – unless it could negotiate a better power contract with Big Rivers Electric Corporation.
18 April 2013 -
China: Sapa's Shanghai extrusion plant raises its game
Sapa Profiles' extrusion facility in China, located North West of Shanghai, which represents a strategic step for the company in establishing the group's first aluminium extrusion plant in China, has recently benefitted from the Sapa Group's capital improvement plan.
17 April 2013
