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This month, Ball and SKIWATER® will be showcasing the Alumi-tek® bottle, one of Ball’s key innovations, at Internorga, Hamburg from 17-21 March 2017.   Austrian based SKIWATER® Beverages is the first European adopter of the Alumi-tek® technology, which combines the portability, recyclability and freshness of an aluminium can, with all the benefits of a bottle, filled with their signature sparkling organic raspberry juice.   The Alumi-tek® bottle from Ball ensures SKIWATER® is accessible to on the go customers. With a wide mouth and...

The Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) recently achieved a significant new certification for the ammonia plant it operates within its affiliate Ma’aden Phosphate Company (MPC). ISO 50001 is a new standard for energy management systems developed by the International Organisation for Standardisation. ISO 50001 enables MPC’s ammonia plant to increase energy efficiency, reduce costs and improve energy performance. The MPC ammonia plant is the largest single line ammonia plant in the world. “We are continuously assessing ways to improve our management of...

This year’s Aluminium China in Shanghai from 19-21 July is set to mark a new period of growth in the aluminium industry and reflect strengthening market conditions in China and across the world. Aluminium China 2017 will focus on the transformation driven by emerging new technologies in areas such as lightweight vehicle manufacturing and consumer electronics.    With China speeding up the upgrading of its vehicle emission standards to control exhaust pollution, the China Automotive Engineering Society’s ‘Energy-saving and New Energy Vehicle Technology...

Alcoa Corporation has announced that it is consolidating its business units to reduce complexity. Effective immediately, the aluminium smelting, cast products and rolled products businesses, along with the majority of the energy segment assets, will be combined into a new Alcoa Aluminium business unit (BU). As a result, the company’s three business units are Alcoa Bauxite, Alcoa Alumina and Alcoa Aluminum. “Our strategic goals include reducing complexity, driving returns to create stockholder value and strengthening the balance sheet,” said Roy Harvey, Chief...

According to reports, Rio Tinto’s Boyne aluminium smelter in Gladstone is set to slash more than 100 jobs and about 80,000 tonnes of annual production — worth $US160 million at current prices — because it has been unable to secure economically-priced power from state power providers. The production and job cuts are almost double those flagged in January, when Rio Tinto said it would cut 8 per cent of production, or 45,000 tonnes, and about 30 jobs because power price spikes were hitting production cuts.

Hulamin, a leading aluminium product and beverage can maker released full year 2016 results earlier this week and reported record sales volumes and double profit after tax.   The company was ridden by irregular electricity supply from Eskom and gas supply problems during the last year. However, the group managed to get over the bottlenecks and achieve record production and sales volumes during 2016, CEO Richard Jacob said. Hulamin failed to pay any dividend in 2015 after paying a 25c dividend in 2014. The group declared a final dividend of 15c and 8c interim dividend to make...

Orbite is approaching 1 tonne per day of HPA production. "We are very pleased with the progress of production, and we are on the doorstep of our intermediate goal of continuous 1 tpd production," stated Glenn Kelly, CEO of Orbite. "In the coming weeks we will continue to produce HPA, while completing test runs to calibrate how equipment and operations respond to certain changes in feed, temperature and throughput. We will then progress towards feeding higher purity ACH crystals to achieve 5N+ product and then continue our ramp up to nameplate capacity."

Emirates Global Aluminium has become the first Middle East-headquartered aluminium company to join the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative, which brings the world’s leading mining and metals companies together with household-name aluminium customers to set global standards for governance, environmental and social responsibility. EGA has invested almost $1 billion since 2010 in environmental technologies and facilities to reduce and manage its emissions and waste, and makes important social contributions including creating employment, spurring broader economic development and...

Danieli Fata Hunter has supplied and installed a cold rolling mill and a tension leveling line at the new Eurometal greenfield plant located in the new Kleszczów Industrial Park in Poland.  The cold rolling mill produces 120,000 tpy of aluminium coils, coming from two casting machines, with a thickness of 10 to 6 mm and which are rolled down to a minimum thickness of 0.15 mm at a max speed of 1200 m/min., with a max strip width of 2.1 meters. Equipped with the induction heating system for tight edges control, a new VOC emission control to guarantee low...