The head of ANDE, said the plant could be operating
Dec 11 - China produced 11,732,000 tonnes of primary aluminium in the first 11 months of 2009, down 1.7 percent from the same period a year earlier, figures from the National Bureau of Statistics showed. Production of alumina rose by 1.6 percent over the same period to reach 21,387,200 tonnes. Dec 8 - Germany's biggest aluminium smelter plant, owned by Norway's Norsk Hydro , is facing immediate shutdown due to high environmental costs, a German daily said.
The Rheinwerk plant in Neuss will have to close immediately if the metal industries do not receive aid in the coming days, Die Welt newspaper cited Martin Kneer, managing director of the German Metal Federation WVM, as saying in an e-mail to the German Chancellor's Office. A spokesman for WVM told the newspaper other aluminium and zinc smelters are facing the same risk of being shut down. Dec 7 - Some mineworkers have left Guinea in response to growing tension in the West African country, but production at major minerals operations has not been affected, resources companies said.
A failed attempt to assassinate military ruler Captain Moussa Dadis Camara last week ignited fears of more turmoil in the world's top exporter of aluminium raw material bauxite, where firms including RUSAL, Alcoa , Rio Tinto and AngloGold Ashanti operate. Dec 4 - Brazil's Votorantim Group has signed a deal to join Trinidad and Tobago's government-owned Alutrint in a project to build a 125,000 tonnes-per-year aluminium smelter in the Caribbean nation, a Votorantim official said.
The Brazilian industrial conglomerate replaces Venezuela-based aluminium producer Sural, which had a 40 percent stake in the Trinidad project but withdrew due to financing problems earlier this year. Trinidad and Tobago's government has a 60 percent stake in the smelter project.
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