Production up at Votorantim Metais

The company also attributed the lower Ebitda to the depreciation of the Brazilian Real. “The Brazilian Real devaluation of 6% year-on-year was not enough to offset the London Metal Exchange prices decrease across all base metals,” it said. But its alu Read More..

Granco Clark supplies Extrudex Aluminium

With two extrusion manufacturing plants in Canada - Woodbridge, Ontario, and Saint- Nicolas, Québec - and one in the USA at North Jackson, Ohio, Extrudex Aluminum has a total of nine extrusion presses, all of which now have Granco Clark Pullers. Read More..

Aluminium Association applauds signing of Maryland recycling bill

Under Maryland law, an apartment building or condominium containing more than ten dwellings is required to have recycling available to residents. “Recycling is the easiest way for everyone to ‘go green’ in their daily lives and we applaud those involved in the passage of this law,” said Heidi Brock, president of the Aluminum Association. “Access to recycling in multifamily units Read More..

Extrusions group in $7M expansion

The new production line installation completed in December, increased plant output capacity from 18,000,000lbs to 30,000,000lbs/y. The modernised equipment produces extruded aluminium profiles with tighter dimensional tolerances and superior surface finishes to what was previously available in the market. Also, having strategic excess capacity shifts the service paradigm from reacting to a Read More..

Alcoa invests in Quebec

Alcoa Canada Global Primary Products (GPP Canada) will spend roughly $75M in the communities of Bécancour, Deschambault and Baie-Comeau, the three locations where it operates smelters. GPP Canada plans to allocate about $62M designed to maintain its operations and to reduce costs. These include the modernisation of Baie-Comeau’s port facilities, the refurbishment of a transforme Read More..

Chinalco challenges anti-dumping ruling

It is fighting the conclusions reached by the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service in 2010 about dumping by the Chinese group, which is 41% owned by Chinalco, a 100% government-owned aluminium corporation. Chalco was identified as the largest producer of primary aluminium, or ingots, in the country, and was a primary supplier of all the Chinese manufacturers caught up by the cus Read More..

UK groups highlight their sustainable skills

The UK groups Mil-Ver Metal Company and CMK Treatments highlighted their recycling and energy saving technology during a visit by Adrian Bailey, MP for West Bromwich West has long been a supporter of UK manufacturing. During the visit to Mil-Ver Metal Company Adrian was introduced to its aluminium recycling technology for secondary production. Investment has secured the future of the oper Read More..

Government plots Montenegro smelter revival

The country will focus on finding a strategic partner similar to the situation with another Montenegrin company, Ironworks. Montenegro has equal shares in a 58% stake in the aluminium plant with the EN+ group of Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska. Luksic said that KAP had the potential to become a serious development opportunity. "However, in its present condition, KAP is only a problem Read More..

Alcoa: Global demand remains solid

Chris Ayers, Alcoa EVP and President, Global Primary Proucts told the CRU 17^th World Aluminium Conference in Abu Dhabi that the global primary demand growth rate will be 7% in 2012. This compares to a 10% growth rate in 2011. Driving growth will be the aerospace market where a 13% rise will occur. Aircraft manufacturers Boeing and Airbus have backlogs of seven to eight Read More..

Qatalum receives automotive certification

This has been made possible with it becoming the first company to achieve the ‘ISO/TS 16949’ certification in Qatar, announced by the certification body, Det Norske Veritas. The ‘ISO/TS 16949:2009’ certification is a global standard for quality, awarded by the International Automotive Task Force. It defines the quality management system requirements for the design and development, production Read More..