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Friday, June 13, 2014 Alcoa Inc. Moving Down the Cost Curve » Alcoa Inc (NYSE: AA), the largest U.S. aluminum producer, expects aluminum demand to outpace supply in 2014. If this happe...
Friday, June 13, 2014 There's No Light at the End of the Tunnel for the Coal Industry » The first thing that Joy noted was that seaborne thermal coal markets remain challenged as supply of the mineral outpaces...
Friday, June 13, 2014 Noranda seeks Ameren rate cut to preserve smelter jobs » Noranda Aluminum Holding Corp., Missouri’s biggest electrical consumer, says Ameren is overcharging its customers. The com...
Friday, June 13, 2014 Data Show Mixed Picture of China's Economy » China's economy is struggling to find equilibrium, data released Friday shows, with government stimulus measures gaining t...
Friday, June 13, 2014 BOJ Raises Export Hopes on Overseas Outlook » The Bank of Japan raised its view on overseas economies Friday, building up hopes for a future pickup in exports that the...
Friday, June 13, 2014 China's faster lending in May seen helping steady economy » China's new bank lending and money supply rose faster than expected in May, as the government ramps up policy stimulus mea...
Friday, June 13, 2014 Environmentalists: Burning Trash is Not Clean Energy » Jack Schmitt, deputy director, Michigan League of Conservation Voters, thinks House Bill 5205 flies in the face...
Friday, June 13, 2014 Chicago Petcoke: The piles are getting big - and the piles are getting bigger » The other shoe dropped last week as the public got a peek at data coming from new air pollution monitors near Chicago’s no...
Thursday, June 12, 2014 Eagle Ford to Rival North Slope Output at its Peak, Says Wood Mackenzie » Eagle Ford Shale crude and condensate production in 2020 will rival Alaska's entire North Slope field at its peak, hitting...
Thursday, June 12, 2014 Meridian boss briefs investors - Tiwai Smelter » Tiwai is Meridian's largest customer and uses about 15% of the country's electricity supply. Despite renewing its electric...
Thursday, June 12, 2014 Detroit's Appetite for Aluminum Keeps Growing » Auto makers plan a broad shift to aluminum from steel in larger vehicles over the next decade in North America, and 18% of...
Thursday, June 12, 2014 Michigan bill would count industrial waste as renewable » State Rep. Aric Nesbitt, a Republican who represents a district near Kalamazoo, is sponsoring legislation that would elimi...
Thursday, June 12, 2014 ThyssenKrupp bags deals worth Rs 1,000 cr » One of the contracts won by ThyssenKrupp Industries India (TKII) is from Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd’s Kochi refine...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 OPEC Ministers Agree to Maintain Output Quota - Group to Keep Official Output Quota at 30 Million Ba » Delegates of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed to roll over the group's production quota, maint...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 LME aluminium to test support at $1,895 » LME aluminium is expected to test a support at $1,895 per tonne, as it has failed to break a resistance at $1,920. The res...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 Chinese firms to spend $1.6b on alumina smelter, industrial park » China’s second-biggest aluminum producer Shandong Nanshan Aluminium Co. Ltd. recently began the construction of its proces...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 Green Cement Reduces Carbon Footprint by 40% » Cement, a vital ingredient in modern concrete, accounts for nearly a tenth of humanity’s carbon dioxide emissions. The rep...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 The drive to cut energy costs in production of aluminium » To help ensure it ends up in the former category, Emirates Aluminium Company (Emal), the UAE’s state owned aluminium smelt...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 U.K. Says CO2-Capture Cash May Spur October Climate Deal » Europe-backed finance for carbon capture and storage may help seal a European Union climate-protection deal by October, ac...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 Ghana Ensures World Cup on TV by Slowing Aluminum Smelter Power » Ghana will boost power production during its World Cup matches and asked the nation’s largest aluminum smelter to reduce c...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 Cedigaz: Europe faces crisis in electric power reliability » Europe faces "a major structural crisis" of electric power reliability as thermal generation capacity needed to back up el...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 Gas-Fired Power Exceeds Coal in U.K. for First Time in a Year » Natural gas displaced coal in U.K. power generation for the first time in a year as the pace of the fuel’s price decline m...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 Sharply Split Testimony -- Industry vs.Enviros -- As LB Harbor Comm'n Votes 5-0 » As seen LIVE on LBREPORT.com, after sharply split testimony from industry representatives and environmental and health adv...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 Seven out of 10 North American trucks will be aluminum bodied by 2025 -study » The estimate calls for North American automotive aluminum demand to hit 4.5 million tonnes in 2025, up from forecasts of 3...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 Legislators, consumers turn out for Noranda hearing » Union representatives from Noranda’s massive aluminum smelter in Missouri’s Bootheel area, consultants, lobbyists and stat...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 Petcoke handler says it will consolidate terminals » A company that stores giant mounds of petroleum coke on Chicago's Southeast Side says it's consolidating operations at one...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 If Oilsands Crude Can't Get to China, then Europe Instead? » Any day now Prime Minister Stephen Harper will announce whether he's approving Enbridge's Northern Gateway proposal. ...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 Texas, North Dakota tell happier shale tales than California » Two weeks after government officials all but demolished California’s shale-oil reserve estimate, Houston oil analysts offe...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 No plans to store petcoke at Gary industrial park » Contrary to what you may have heard, petcoke will not be shipped to Buffington Harbor, at least not as part of the first p...
Monday, June 9, 2014 China’s Daily Crude Oil Imports Fall From Record on Maintenance » China’s daily crude oil imports fell in May after reaching a record high the previous month, as refining capacity dropped...
Monday, June 9, 2014 EPA takes aim at Southeast Side petcoke facility » The Environmental Protection Agency has officially linked KCBX Terminals and its mounds of petroleum coke on the Southeast...
Monday, June 9, 2014 Port of Long Beach's coal exports tarnish its "green" reputation » The State of California is known internationally as an environmental leader. Both of Southern California’s biggest...
Monday, June 9, 2014 Port of Long Beach's vote to lock in coal exports for another decade » While the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced last week the nation’s first regulation to limit carbon pol...
Monday, June 9, 2014 The chief executive of Rio Tinto Ltd.’s aluminum division is stepping down » The company announced Wednesday that aluminum industry veteran Jacynthe Côté is leaving Rio Tinto Alcan to pursue other in...
Monday, June 9, 2014 In Chicago, nurses take up fight against petcoke piles » “Stunning, just stunning, just stunning,” said Sheilah Garland, shaking her head as she stared out the window of the bus r...
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