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Every Can Counts brand at Latitude Festival
in July and at Leeds Festival in August.
Matt Winterburn, head of Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR) at Carlsberg UK said:
“Joining Alupro and in particular working
with its Every Can Counts programme, helps
us to engage with our customers, suppliers
and consumers on a variety of CSR initiatives,
specifically on the aluminium recycling message.
We aim to demonstrate leadership in
social responsibility and this partnership with
Alupro further underlines our commitment to
being engaged with society.”
Constellium is to sell its
Sabart plant in France
Constellium N.V. is exploring the potential
sale of its plant in Sabart, France. The plant
is a European supplier of hard alloy billets,
and has only limited synergies with Constellium’s
core businesses. With 34 employees, the
facility generated about €16m of the €3.6bn
Aluminium semis
of revenue Constellium generated in 2012.
The company only recently announced that
it is seeking a buyer for its precision castings
operations in Ussel, France.
Befesa sold to Triton
Abengoa has closed the sale of its subsidiary
Befesa to funds advised by Triton, following
the approval by competition authorities.
Spain-based Befesa specialises in the integral
management of industrial waste – steel dust
and salt slags recycling – with plants in Europe,
Middle East and South America.
Befesa had signed an agreement in April
with rolling mill company Novelis to manage
the scrap from its new USD250m aluminium
recycling centre in Nachterstedt, Germany.
Befesa is going to build a new €30m 50,000
tpy aluminium recycling plant in Bernburg,
which will come on stream by the first quarter
of 2014.
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casting complex dedicated to rolling slab production,
where it delivered safety and quality
improvements and increased casting capacity.
The second project replaced a pusher furnace,
dedicated to homogenising and preheating
slabs before rolling. This should decrease energy
consumption while increasing throughput
and optimising quality.
Two new similar projects, also involving the
modernisation of an additional casting complex
and the replacement of another pusher
furnace, have been launched for start up in
2014.
Noranda to invest USD45m
in aluminium rod mill
Noranda Aluminum will invest USD45m to
expand its operation in New Madrid, Missouri.
The expansion will allow production of redraw
rod for electrical infrastructure applications.
Tennessee-based Noranda will receive
a package of incentives from the state of Missouri
if the company meets job-creation and
investment criteria.
Novelis opens aluminium
rolling operations in Brazil
Novelis Inc. has opened its expanded aluminium
rolling facility in Pindamonhangaba,
Brazil, as it looks to meet growing demand
for flat-rolled products in South America. The
USD340m expansion should boost capacity
at the plant by approx. 50% to more than
600,000 tpy of aluminium sheet. The project
also represents Novelis’ biggest investment in
South America in the past decade. The project
included installing a third cold-rolling mill
at the Pindamonhangaba complex as well as
Mitsubishi Aluminium to boost
capacity in USA and Thailand
Mitsubishi Aluminium Co. will spend ¥1.7bn
(USD20m) to increase production capacity in
the US and Thailand. The company plans to
spend nearly ¥950m on Thermalex, its subsidiary
in Alabama, to install a new press for
processing heat exchanger parts. The factory’s
capacity is expected to rise from its current
capacity of 10,000 tpy to 13,000 tpy by November
2014. The company will also spend
¥790m by August 2014 to boost output at its
Thailand plant by 50% to 7,200 tpy.
Demand for heat exchangers has been
growing as a result of brisk car production in
North America and Southeast Asia, with output
in the two regions expected to continue
growing at an annual rate of 4-6%.
Constellium invests in plant
modernisation at Neuf-Brisach
Constellium N.V. has finalised modernising its
rolling and recycling facility in Neuf-Brisach,
France. The plant is a major supplier and recycler
of rolled aluminium products to the
beverage, food packaging and automotive
markets. Two major projects, representing a
total investment of €23m, upgrade the Neuf-
Brisach facility. The first project modernised a
The Author
The author, Dipl.-Ing. R. P. Pawlek is founder
of TS+C, Technical Info Services and Consulting,
Sierre (Switzerland), a service for the primary
aluminium industry. He is also the publisher
of the standard works Alumina Refineries and
Producers of the World and Primary Aluminium
Smelters and Producers of the World. These
reference works are continually updated, and
contain useful technical and economic information
on all alumina refineries and primary
aluminium smelters of the world. They are
available as loose-leaf files and / or CD-ROMs
from Beuth-Verlag GmbH in Berlin.
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