Bahrain’s Alba Acquires Aluminium Dunkerque, the EU’s Largest Aluminium Smelter, for USD 2,2 Billion
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), the world’s largest single-site aluminium smelter, has agreed to acquire Aluminium Dunkerque/FR – the largest aluminium smelter in the European Union – in a transaction valued...
Rio Tinto and Hydro Partner on Carbon Capture Technologies for Aluminium Smelters
Rio Tinto/GB and Hydro/NO will join forces to identify and evaluate available carbon capture technologies for future implementation in the aluminium electrolysis process. The companies have signed a partnership agreement...
ALUMINIUM 2024: Optimism and Confidence in the Global Aluminium Industry
Current major challenges, but even greater prospects for the future: Aluminium continues to be a key enabler across a variety of industries. The positive sentiment in the international aluminium industry...
Green Aluminium: TRIMET Starts Project for CO2-free Aluminium Production
TRIMET is the largest German primary aluminium producer. In 3 smelter plants in Germany and 1 in France, TRIMET produces approx 540 000 t of primary aluminium per year. Aluminium...
Alcoa Announces Agreement on Industrial-Scale Demonstration of ELYSIS™ Carbon-Free Smelting Technology
Alcoa Corporation (USA) announced further progress on ELYSIS technology with Rio Tinto’s plans to launch the first industrial-scale demonstration of the breakthrough technology, which eliminates all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions...
Trimet: Sophisticated Alloys with a High Level of Recycled Material
Next to energy-efficient drive systems, lightweight construction materials are a key technology in the transport sector when it comes to reducing the environmental impact through increased resource efficiency. Various aspects...
Innovations in Lining of Aluminium Processing Furnaces
Close and fruitful cooperation between this two companies lasts for nearly 25 years. DITHERM a.s. Praha, engaged in engineering, innovative designs and installations of refractory linings of thermal aggregates, and...
Refractories for Non-Ferrous Metals
Although the combined needs of the global iron and steel industry still continue to dominate the market, the cement and glass industries refractories requirements are also increasing, and although the...
Optimised Aluminium Smelting System
ZPF GmbH/DE was established in 2013 from ZPF therm Maschinenbau GmbH/DE, which was founded in 1993, and – like its predecessor – focuses on the development, design and manufacture of...
Reaction of some Oxide Ceramics with Molten Aluminium
TiO2, Y2Ti2O7, Y2O3 and MgO ceramics are immersed into molten aluminium at 1000 °C for 25 h and the reaction of the ceramics was investigated.