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11/27/2018
Slovenian aluminium producer Talum is expecting positive financial results at the end of this year despite the on-going uncertainty in the global aluminium market, reports the Slovenian Press Agency (STA). Chairman Marko Drobnič told the local media that the group was increasingly diversifying its primary aluminium business by […]
11/23/2018
FACE Aluminium brings you a roundup of this week’s aluminium news. Among the main news this week: EU’s energy chief warns that Europe could become more dependent on raw materials imports at the time when the Union needs more materials for the green transition, Nespresso signs a green aluminium […]
11/18/2018
Romanian group ALRO released production numbers for the first nine months of this year, showing that the net profit went down by 12.8 per cent year-on-year despite higher turnover in raw materials. The company – one of the biggest aluminium producers in Europe – experienced a decline in the sales […]
11/16/2018
British-owned Liberty, part of UK’s “Man of Steel” Sanjeev Gupta’s global GFG Alliance, has struck a financing deal to go ahead with the acquisition of Aluminium Dunkerque –Europe’s largest aluminium smelter – from Rio Tinto. The company intends to make substantial investments in the plant to become a major integrated manufacturing […]
11/16/2018
FACE Aluminium brings you a roundup of this week’s aluminium news. Among the main news this week: the LUISS University presented in Rome the upcoming study on the downstream EU aluminium industry, Hydro’s plant in the Netherlands became the world’s first extrusion plant to be certified by ASI, the […]
10/19/2018
The U.S multinational company Alcoa announced on October 19th that it will shutter two of its three aluminium plants in Spain. The two smelters have a combined annual production of 180,000 metric tonnes. While keeping the third plant in Lugo open, the company decided to initiate negotiations with […]
10/16/2018
Around 900 workers at Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Aluminij Mostar – one of the largest aluminium smelters in the Balkans – plan to stage protests in front of the country’s parliament against the government’s inaction to secure the future of the company, reports Balkan Insight. The Federation government is […]
10/12/2018
Romanian aluminium company ALRO published an update on its 2018 investment programme into high value-added and very high value-added aluminium products. The investment plan focuses on increasing the company’s market share, enhancing the quality of its hot-rolled products and reducing production costs. In order to increase the production […]
10/10/2018
Norway’s Hydro and its Italian joint-venture partner PENTA plan to purchase a new furnace and expand operations at the Slovalco plant in Slovakia. The investment will enable the plant to increase primary aluminium production and expand remelt operations. The decision to expand operations at the Slovak plant is […]