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Recycled aluminium: LIXIL succeeds in mass producing billets for the first time in Japan
LIXIL Corporation, a Japanese building materials, plumbing and construction equipment group, has succeeded in mass producing billets with 100 per cent recycled aluminium for the first time in Japan at its Oyabe plant. By FY2022, the company had already achieved a...
Aluminium: Glencore to buy Norsk Hydro’s Brazilian operations
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro said on Thursday that it will sell its Brazilian assets to Glencore. In detail, it will sell a 30% stake in Brazilian alumina refiner Alunorte and a 5% stake in bauxite producer Mineracao Rio do Norte to Swiss mining and...
Alumina: Alcoa revokes force majeure on production in Western Australia
An Alcoa spokesperson confirmed that the force majeure clause for alumina production in Western Australia was lifted on 26 April. Prior to Alcoa's confirmation, several market sources had claimed to have received notification of the revocation of the force majeure...
DRI d’Italia will build a plant in Taranto
DRI d'Italia, the new company created last year by Italian state-owned Invitalia, the majority shareholder of Acciaierie d'Italia, has completed the feasibility study for the construction of a direct reduced iron (DRI) plant for ADI's Taranto steel complex. DRI...