The future of the smelting plant, Wylfa's main customer, is tied into the power station.
The company runs its mining and smelting operations in North and South America, Indonesia and Africa.
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Once the Italy curtailment is complete, Alcoa says 14% of its highest-cost smelting capacity will be offline.
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This latest work is inspired by Coalbrookdale, where smelting technique was famously developed to produce pig iron without using coal.
In 1996, computers at a New Zealand aluminum-smelting plant failed to process the 366th day in leap year.
Iceland has even lured big aluminum companies to build a massive smelting plants.
Freeport is involved in mining, smelting and refining of coper, gold and molybdenum.
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Also, despite inventories being at a record high, market forces have failed to rationalize supply through shutdown of smelting capacity.
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Smelting, metal products and machine-making fell, as a share of industrial output, from 20% in 1991 to 15% in 1996.
China may now have 45 percent of global capacity for smelting aluminum, but it also consumes 40 percent of global output.
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The Madras High Court said the copper smelting plant had been "letting out effluents into air and water which is having a devastating impact".
At yesterday's FBR event, Marc King discussed Ceradyne's plans to roll out products for automotive coatings, aluminum smelting, chemicals and energy.
Rio Tinto Alcan chief executive Jacynth Cote said the smelting plant was no longer a "sustainable business" because of spiralling energy costs.
Rather than smelting the imperial eggs for precious metals, Josef Stalin secretly sold the majority for hard cash to salvage the Soviet economy.
Globally, there are only two major firms still engaged in rare earth smelting and separation, Rhodia of France and Nippon Yttrium in Japan.
Today, even the mines that have survived are operating at maybe half their potential, and the giant Vinto smelting plant at a third.
They want to provide a series of incentives to mine owners and firms which make gold as a by-product of smelting copper ore.
Dioxin, though, is usually formed as a byproduct in processes such as copper smelting, paper-production and the making of pesticides and chlorine-containing organic chemicals.
An MP is to meet Business Secretary Vince Cable in a bid to save more than 500 jobs at a Northumberland aluminium smelting plant.
He read about something called direct-reduced iron, a technique for smelting without melting--removing the oxygen from iron ore while it's still solid, that is.
According to Comibol's vice-president, Armando Guzman, all the smelting plant's 800 employees have now agreed to the deal, as have three-quarters of the miners.
His group wants smelting companies to audit their supply chains, which would relieve some of the tracing burden for end users like Apple and HP.
Our presence is in fabricating, not in bauxite mining or smelting.
The government has also decided to impose a 20% levy on raw ore exports and requires companies to start smelting all ore locally by 2014.
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The former smelting works is currently run as a country park.
Alcoa has reduced its smelting capacity and beat estimates when it reported third-quarter results in October, but still booked an operating loss for the period.
One big seller: the coal-derived carbon material that is used in the smelting of aluminum, which in turn is in strong demand in the airplane and construction industries.
Power shortages have disrupted mining and smelting in several countries.
On the smelting side, about 45% of all smelters in China are in the top of the cost curve, and 78% of refineries are on the top half of the cost curve.
In September 2010, the Madras High Court had ordered the copper smelting plant to shut down saying it was "letting out effluents into air and water which is having a devastating impact".
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