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Alcoa Auto and Truck Structures, a unit of Pittsburgh-based Alcoa Inc., has delivered custom aluminum truck bodies from its Kofem facility in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, to Sip-Well NV of Puurs, Belgium, a water cooler company.
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Dubai Aluminium Co. Ltd. (Dubal), the world’s seventh-largest primary aluminum producer, plans to increase production to 2.5 million tonnes per year by 2015.
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Workers at Horsehead Holding Corp.’s zinc smelter in Monaca, Pa., ratified a new four-year contract late Friday, the company said.
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Stepping up to meet the rising costs of CVRD Inco Ltd.’s Goro nickel mine in New Caledonia, Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd. and Mitsui & Co. Ltd. have agreed to pitch in $546 million to maintain their 21-percent interest in the project, the Japanese companies said Friday.
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Jackson Metals, a Columbus, Ohio-based company that sorts and melts coins, has encountered a snag in its effort to reopen after government officials shut it down last December.
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has disclosed extensive contact with its British counterpart, the Financial Services Authority, and the London Metal Exchange over allegations of collusion in the metal market.
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Acadian Mining Corp. subsidiary ScoZinc Ltd. has shipped the first 5,000 tonnes of zinc concentrate from its Scotia Mine in Nova Scotia, the company announced Friday.
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Ford Motor Co. aims to use more aluminum and high-strength steel as part of a wide-ranging bid to cut emissions and increase fuel efficiency in its vehicles.
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Withering conditions in the U.S transportation and residential construction markets drove Indalex Holdings Finance Inc., Lincolnshire, Ill., to a larger third-quarter loss of $13.3 million on lower sales of $274.9 million, compared with a loss of $4.3 million on sales of $326.1 million in the same period last year.
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Acadian Mining Corp. subsidiary ScoZinc Ltd. has shipped the first 5,000 tonnes of zinc concentrate from its Scotia Mine in Nova Scotia, the company announced Friday.
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An unnamed suitor has begun due diligence and signed exclusivity and confidentiality agreements in the latest steps toward a projected $525-million acquisition of Global Alumina Corp., Toronto.
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Jackson Metals, a Columbus, Ohio-based company that sorts and melts coins, has encountered a snag in its effort to reopen its doors after government officials shut it down last December.
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Stepping up to meet the rising costs of CVRD Inco Ltd.’s Goro nickel mine in New Caledonia, Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd. and Mitsui & Co. Ltd. have agreed to pitch in $546 million to maintain their 21-percent interest in the project, the Japanese companies said Friday.
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Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., which is developing the massive Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project in Mongolia together with Rio Tinto, reported a third-quarter loss of $83.14 million, up 25 percent from a loss of $66.45 million a year earlier.
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Medium-carbon ferromanganese prices have risen 15 cents a pound, closing the gap with its low-carbon cousin, market sources said.
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Indalex Holdings Finance Inc., Lincolnshire, Ill., reported a larger third-quarter loss of $13.3 million on lower sales of $274.9 million compared with a loss of $4.3 million on sales of $326.1 million in the same period last year.
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An unnamed suitor has begun due diligence and signed exclusivity and confidentiality agreements in the latest steps toward a projected $525-million acquisition of Global Alumina Corp., Toronto.
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Medium-carbon ferromanganese prices have risen 15 cents a pound, closing the gap with its low-carbon cousin, market sources said.
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The closure of Thompson Creek Metals Co. Inc.’s Endako pit in British Columbia following a rockslide Monday is expected to reduce the company’s fourth-quarter molybdenum output and, if extended, exacerbate a global supply shortage next year, market sources said.
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U.S. spot aluminum premiums have tightened slightly as producers and consumers wind down end-of-year inventories and turn more attention to 2008 business.
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China’s copper producers could come under pressure from the economic slowdown in the United States, denting prospects for the red metal in 2008, market participants warned.
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Century Aluminum Co., Monterey, Calif., and Glencore International AG, Baar, Switzerland, have tentatively agreed on a five-year deal for the supply of 2.3 million tonnes of alumina for Century’s primary aluminum smelters.
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The closure of Thompson Creek Metals Co. Inc.’s Endako pit in British Columbia following a rockslide Monday is expected to reduce the company’s fourth-quarter molybdenum output and, if extended, exacerbate a global supply shortage next year, market sources said.
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U.S. spot aluminum premiums have tightened a bit as producers and consumers wind down end-of-year inventories and turn more attention to 2008 business.