Alcoa has confirmed that Alcoa World Alumina LLC has completed its previously announced transaction to acquire BHP Billiton’s bauxite and ...

BHP Billiton has announced first production from the expansion of the Alumar alumina refinery in Brazil....

Suriname Aluminum Company LLC (Suralco) has said that production at the Paranam, Suriname alumina refinery was being cut by approximately 40...

Aluminium producer Alcoa has said that it will cut production at its Portland Aluminium operation in Australia by another 38,000t as part of...

The current economic downturn is affecting many industries, not least the production of alumina and aluminium....

Alcoa has announced that it will curtail an additional 350,000 tpa of aluminum production, beginning immediately....

Chalco, China's largest producer of aluminium, has said that it has shut down 38% of its total annual production of alumina - the main mater...

After years of delay and frustration, the development of the Coega aluminium smelter project looks increasingly unlikely....

Aluminium is now marketed as being part of the solution to global climate change, and as being a ‘green’ resource....

The development of the aluminium smelter at the new port of Coega in South Africa has been cast in doubt yet again. The project was original...

Climate change is a business issue and one that should be at the top of every company’s corporate agenda....

Aluminium production involves two inde pendent processes for converting naturally occurring aluminium oxide ores to the extracted metal. The...

A growing shortage of electrical power on the US West Coast is beginning to affect the aluminium industry, which is leading to a decline in ...