Adapting existing rolling mills to present day market requirements has become imperative for present day aluminium producers. Modernization of old rolling mills has made Aluminum rolled product plants more profitable and competitive in both domestic and export market. Automation helps in increasing uptime and productivity, reduces mill breakdowns by over 35% and product rejection rate […]
AlCircle participates for the second time in Aluminium 2014 trade fair as a media partner and exhibitor. Earlier, it was during Aluminium 2012 that AlCircle made its first visit to the world’s biggest trade fair at Messe Dusseldorf.
It is of course, well understood and acknowledged that Recycling Aluminium saves more than 90 percent of the energy that would be needed to smelt a comparable amount of the metal from its raw materials. It is estimated that recycling of every Kg of Aluminium saves earth 5Kg of Bauxite, 4 Kgs of Chemical products […]
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, […]