DRC lifts export ban on Glencore's copper and cobalt unit

Glencore unit in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) had a ban on imports and exports from its giant copper and cobalt mine lifted by authorities in the country.

Monday, November 19, 2018

Nespresso to use Rio Tinto’s responsibly-sourced aluminium in coffee capsule production

Nespresso, an operating unit of Nestlé Group, will be the first company to use responsibly-sourced aluminium from global miner Rio Tinto to produce its coffee capsules.

Monday, November 19, 2018

GCL-Poly to expand new Xinjiang polysilicon production plant to 60,000MT

Leading polysilicon and solar wafer producer GCL-Poly Energy Holdings has announced that its new Xinjiang polysilicon production plant’s annual nameplate capacity will be increased to 60,000MT, up from the revised plans mid-year to increase the capacity from ...

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

New facilities reduce suplhur emissions and save energy

In October, Elkem Carbon finalised its project to clean sulphur emissions from its calcination furnaces at the Fiskaa plant in Norway.

Thursday, September 6, 2018

Shin-Etsu Chemical to make ¥110 billion facility investment in its silicones business

Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Tokyo, President, Yasuhiko Saitoh) will implement close to ¥110 billion in facility investments for its silicones business, one of its main businesses. It will expand its production capacity of silicone monomer, the i...

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Shandong Innovation Group become Chinese largest Aluminum alloys base plant

[Ferro-Alloys.com] In 2002, Shandong Innovation Group only have more than 10 employees and the company annual output value only more than RMB2 million to produce Aluminum alloys materials processing, also called a “small plant” , Now the capacity of company ...

Friday, August 10, 2018

Rusal overview of trends in the aluminium industry and business environment

Rusal announced that during 1H 2018 aluminium among other base metals was affected by series of supply disruptions. The lock-out of workers at the 450ktpa ABI smelter in Quebec has caused Canadian output fall over 8% year-on-year YTD. Meanwhile, Albras in Braz...

Thursday, August 9, 2018

Sale of controlling stake in China’s largest poly maker has fallen

Shanghai Electric’s move to take over GCL-Poly’s Jiangsu Zhongneng has fallen through because conditions are not ‘mature enough’. The development, announced this afternoon to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, will be closely watched by the global solar industr...

Monday, August 6, 2018
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