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Zhejiang Province: Villagers angered by pollution
Villagers in east China’s Zhejiang Province are demanding a nearby aluminum factory cease polluting the environment after they said 127 people had suffered fluoride poisoning and 84 had caught cancers over the past 27 years. From 1985 to the end of last year, 23 villagers living near the factory in Zhejiang’s Lanxi City died [...]
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Columbia Falls: EPA explains aluminum-plant study
The Flathead Basin Commission got an update Wednesday on an Environmental Protection Agency assessment of the Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. property. A regional director for the EPA recently announced that the agency would conduct an assessment of the property in response to a letter from Montana Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester. The Democratic senators [...]
United States, Montana Aluminum Industry -
Turning ore into profit — for us
AN ALUMINIUM smelter has been operating in Mozambique for the past ten years, taking the country’s electricity to produce metal used in European and Japanese cars and aeroplanes. The profits, however, are benefiting foreign investors far more than anyone in Mozambique. The smelter, known as Mozal, after the company that owns it, is immense. Sited [...]
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New Shape for the Bauxite and Alumina Industry
Bauxite and Alumina 8th Edition The shape and dynamics of the global bauxite and alumina industry are changing, according to a new report from Roskill. New alumina refining and bauxite production capacity will boost supply over the next five years to meet the rising demand for aluminium, mainly from China, but also other growth areas such [...]
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CFAC a candidate for Superfund list
State senator-elect Dee Brown’s Dec. 17 announcement that she had asked the Flathead County commissioners to take the lead in getting the Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. smelter site designated as a Superfund site may have caught some state officials by surprise, but it spurred some action. Two administrators at the Montana Department of Environmental Quality [...]
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EPA, 3 firms agree to plan for W.Va. waste site
RAVENSWOOD, W.Va. (AP) — Three companies have agreed to work on a former industrial site in Ravenswood to prevent a waste pile loaded with cyanide and fluoride from contaminating soil and groundwater, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday. The 2.7-acre waste site is fenced off inside an active industrial complex about 900 feet from [...]
United States, West Virginia Aluminum Industry -
Cryolite: Dangerous substances on Rena lost at sea
Just over a year after the Rena struck the Astrolabe Reef in the Bay of Plenty, containers of hazardous substances still lie beneath the water. The Minister of Transport, Gerry Brownlee, has confirmed the contents of three containers of cryolite, a byproduct of the aluminium smelting process, have been lost at sea. The location of [...]
New Zealand Aluminum Industry -
High Levels of Fluoride Found in Hay in East Iceland
Hay grown in an area of Reyðarfjörður, East Iceland, may have to be destroyed after having been contaminated by high levels of fluoride. The fluoride is thought to have been released from the nearby Alcoa aluminum smelter. According to ruv.is, the plant may release less fluoride per ton of aluminum produced than other plants in [...]
Iceland Aluminum Industry -
EMAL and Fluorsid ‘seal the deal’ for aluminium fluoride
On 25 September, Emirates Aluminium (EMAL) signed a contract for the provision of aluminium fluoride (AlF3) with the Italian-based company Fluorsid. The contract extends the existing relationship between the two companies and ensures the future supply of a crucial element in the aluminium making process to EMAL. The contract – worth US$93m over three years [...]
United Arab Emirates Aluminum Industry -
How Investments Play Into the Story of an Indian Aluminum Park
A Bahrain-based company, Midal Cables, announced its move to set up an aluminum conductor-and-rod manufacturing unit in the Indian state of Odisha. The total project will bring in about US $53 million in investment. The more important part of that story is the location of this new unit. Midal is keen on setting up this [...]
India Aluminum Industry