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Norks Hydro To Expand Operations At The Slovalco Plant In Slovakia

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 […]

Norsk Hydro’s Brazil Alumina Plant Closure Sends Prices Rocketing

10/04/2018

Aluminium rallied to a three-month high on Wenesday after Norsk Hydro announced a full curtailment of operations at its Alunorte alumina refinery plant and Paragominas bauxite mine in Brazil. The production stoppage sent the Norwegian titan’s share price down 11 per cent and added to increasing uncertainty about the […]

Norsk Hydro To Double Husnes Plant’s Aluminium Production

09/20/2018

Norwegian aluminium maker Norsk Hydro ASA decided to invest NOK 1.4 billion (EUR 146 million) into its aluminium plant in Husnes, Norway. The project aims to double production and create 90 new jobs. With its expansion project at the Husne’s facility, Hydro will upgrade and start-up the plant’s […]

EGA and Aludium sign five-year rolling slab supply deal

06/26/2018

Emirates Global Aluminium and Aludium have signed a five-year agreement for rolling slabs. EGA has been supplying Aludium with the metal since 2017. The rolling slab is processed into plate, sheet and foil products and used in the automotive and packaging industries. Signing the agreement at EGA’s Al Taweelah […]

Alumina Prices Putting Pressure on Downstream Products

06/13/2018

For years — decades, even — the price of alumina was taken to be one-third of the primary aluminum price. For many years, such a relationship was enshrined in long-term supply agreements with alumina producers sharing in the ups and downs of the primary aluminum price experienced by the smelters. […]