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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. |
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. |
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 ... |
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. |
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... |
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 ... |
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... |
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... |