For instance, Rio Tinto Alcan said it plans to close its U.K.-based Lynemouth smelter.
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Sterlite employs about 3, 000 people in Tamil Nadu, including about 1, 000 at the smelter.
Sterlite, a subsidiary of the UK-based Vedanta mining group, runs a copper smelter in Tuticorin town.
Intel, HP, and GE cofounded a smelter incentive program, which pays for smelter audits.
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In 2006 citizens demanded access to the smelter's environmental audits from Mexico's federal environmental protection agency.
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World smelter capacity will remain ample and despite price falls, producers are not cutting back, Briggs said.
Thus gives you alumina, aluminium oxide, which you then put through a smelter to make aluminium metal.
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Sources at the national power company say the station will only be built if the smelter goes ahead.
Norsk Hydro also said it would delay the planned restart of idled capacity at its Sunndal smelter in Norway.
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And in 2001, it bought out 82.5% of Grupo Simec, a steel smelter with factories in Guadalajara and Mexicali.
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Unemployment is only 2 percent in Iceland and the smelter would be likely to rely upon immigrant labor, he said.
The worst affected is Zitkovac, one of three camps mostly containing children, which is located close to the old smelter.
Alcan runs an aluminium smelter in Northumberland, but has recently announced that it will look to sell or shut the plant.
John Maynard Keynes used the example of a company considering an investment in a copper smelter which could last years and years.
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Even today, if you wanted to build an aluminium smelter you would go to where there is the opportunity to generate cheap electricity.
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The majority of alumina is shipped to third party aluminum smelter customers or is sold to customers that process it into chemical products.
This is great if all you do is run the smelter (as Norsk Hydro does for example, not being an integrated producer).
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The brief glimmer of Olympian Tax Relief in pending tax bills goes in the smelter to be forged into some other tax fix.
The main bit is an aluminium smelter at Turzunzade, 65 kilometres (40 miles) west of the capital Dushanbe, which is Tajikistan's main foreign-exchange earner.
The power company's information manager, Thorsteinn Hilmarsson, admitted that he could not see how Icelanders would fill the 500 or so jobs at the smelter.
Alcoa also cut output at its 265, 000-ton smelter in Rockdale, Texas.
But, even in an era of sophisticated forensic science, definitive evidence can be elusive: in one case, the Serbs burned hundreds of corpses in a lead smelter.
Newfoundland, Canada's poorest province, would not let Inco dig up the site unless the company promised to build a smelter and process the nickel in the province.
It also won a contract to provide power equipment for the Emirates Aluminum smelter complex in Abu Dhabi, and another maintenance contract for a LNG project in Russia.
Despite the arch-capitalist atmosphere, half the sheikhdom's top hotels, its airport, seaports, refinery, dry dock, aluminium smelter and two of its three banks, among other assets, are government-controlled.
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This week the government claimed that, after fierce fighting in Dushanbe and in Turzunzade, its forces had captured the smelter and that the colonel had fled to Uzbekistan.
However, it is also applicable in locations where smelter acid is not available by the purchase of sulfuric acid or the manufacture of sulfuric acid from sulfur or pyrite.
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State-owned power generator Meridian Energy of New Zealand announced last week that Rio Tinto has approached it to renegotiate the electricity contract for its aluminium smelter at Bluff.
The NZAS smelter was put up for sale last year but looking at the slump in the market, Rio is in no hurry to sell at the moment.
From the metals trade which is my daily bread I can tell you that no one is ever going to build another copper smelter in the US ever again.
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