Hydro’s collaborative research project in Brazil aims to restore and protect biodiversity. With our bauxite mine situated in an area earlier covered with rainforest, Hydro has set a goal to balance the opening of mining area with reforested areas by 2017 and has a long-term aspiration of no net loss of biodiversity. One of the […]
Presently China produces 50% of the World’s alumina and aluminium. Since the 1950-ies, about 35 alumina refineries and 60 aluminium smelters were built in China using domestic and imported raw materials. Consequently, there are multiple refinery technologies in China, e.g., high temperature and low temperature Bayer process, sintering process, flotation-Bayer process and sweetening process. Absence […]
India has a known reserve of around 300 Million tonnes of Bauxite (12 % of World Reserve ) of which nearly 250 Million tonnes of Bauxite are available in the eastern coast of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. The balance quantity is available in Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat, etc. While Gujarat Bauxite is […]
During the past few decades, application areas for aluminium have steadily expanded. The metal’s properties like recyclability, non-corrosiveness, low density and high strength benefit the industrial, construction and manufacturing sector in a number of ways. Aluminium production is rapidly developing all over the world and the growth of the industry in a specific country is […]
There seems to be a common belief in the World that the Industrial and Mining activities are Environmentally harmful. In 1960s, the Club of Rome in its book Limits to Growth indicated that the Dooms Day for the mankind was within sight as the mineral resources on the Earth were getting exhausted fast limiting the […]
Aluminium, the most abundant metal on earth’s crust has touched human lives in a number of ways. According to the statistics from European Aluminium Association & CRU, the total primary aluminium consumption in the world was of 50.2 million tons in 2013 and it is growing every year. Due to its inherent qualities like infinite […]
An interesting press release landed on my desk the other day. According to the press release, China’s Chalieco, the engineering division of Chinalco, has signed an agreement with an Australian company for the supply of graphite from a mine in Mozambique. The press release was issued by the miner, a company called Syrah Resources, […]
No prizes for guessing what is the situation in global Aluminium industry today. LME is below sustainable price range for more than 1500 days now, premiums are volatile and highest ever, smelter shutdowns and production cuts have been on since over 5 years, one of the longest recessionary phases experienced since the 1960s. Most new […]
Obama’s 2010 mandate that obligates car manufacturers to double new-car average fuel economy by 2025 has pushed the car industry to produce more fuel efficient cars at a faster rate. Ford’s next F-150 — the US’s largest selling vehicle — is currently being redesigned and rebuilt with an all-aluminum body, a huge helping hand to […]
Those forced to pay the new record highs in the aluminium premiums in the USA may not feel like breaking into song, but they will certainly be asking “What’s going on?” Midwest premiums shot up at the start of the year, and are now north of US$400 per tonne. (Midwest premiums are quoted in US […]