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Alexin LLC, a start-up company in Bluffton, Ind., has broken ground on a $56-million aluminum billet casting facility that is scheduled to be operational by November next year.
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Thompson Creek Metals Co., Toronto, has revised its 2007 production forecast down by between 9 and 12 percent to account for a rockslide at its Endako Mine in British Columbia and lower ore grades at its Thompson Creek Mine in Idaho.
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Eurasian Natural Resources Corp. Plc (ENRC), London, has begun ramping up production at its $900-million aluminum smelter in Kazakhstan, the country’s first.
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Seven bismuth producers in China’s main nonferrous metals production base in Chenzhou, in the southern province of Hunan, are looking to create what would become the world’s largest bismuth producer.
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Kaiser Aluminum Corp., Foothill Ranch, Calif., has increased its revolving credit facility to $265 million from $200 million and repaid its only outstanding funded debt, a $50-million term loan.
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Nymex Holdings Inc., parent of the New York Mercantile Exchange, has appointed Thomas Gordon as vice chairman and Howard Gabler to the board of directors.
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Alexin LLC, a start-up company in Bluffton, Ind., has broken ground on a $56-million aluminum billet casting facility that is scheduled to be operational by November next year.
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Bolton Metal Products Co., Bellefonte, Pa., plans to lay off 78 union workers by Dec. 31 as part of a restructuring that will see the company focus more on specialty brass products, sizes and alloys.
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Thompson Creek Metals Co., Toronto, has revised its 2007 production forecast down by 9 to 12 percent to account for a rockslide at its Endako Mine in British Columbia and lower ore grades at its Thompson Creek Mine in Idaho, the company said Thursday.
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Roca Mines Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, has shipped its first molybdenum concentrates from its Max molybdenum mine near Revelstoke, British Columbia.
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Corporacion Nacional del Cobre de Chile (Codelco) is seeking a legal ruling on efforts by the country’s national labor directorate to force it to hire 4,934 contract workers as full-time employees.
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Kaiser Aluminum Corp., Foothill Ranch, Calif., has made several executive appointments, including naming John Barneson as senior vice president of corporate development with responsibility for the company’s external growth activities.
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BHP Billiton temporarily halted operations at its Olympic Dam copper and uranium mine in Australia following a fatal accident Wednesday. A worker struck by a falling object died soon after being taken to the Roxby Downs Medical Centre, the company said.
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Thompson Creek Metals Co. has appointed Kevin Loughrey, president and chief executive officer, to the additional post of chairman.
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Japanese copper smelters could come under more pressure to accept lower annual treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs) following reports of at least one Chinese smelter agreeing on 2008 terms with BHP Billiton at $47.20 per tonne/4.72 cents a pound.
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Roca Mines Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, has sent its first shipment of molybdenum concentrates from its Max molybdenum mine near Revelstoke, British Columbia, the company said Tuesday.
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Thompson Creek Metals Co. has appointed Kevin Loughrey, president and chief executive officer, to the additional post of chairman.
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Most Chinese ferromolybdenum exporters have stopped offering material, mainly because of export policy uncertainty or the drying up of their export quotas.
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JSC Kamensk-Uralsky Metallurgical Works (Kumz) of Russia and its U.S. sales agent, A.S. Mill Products Inc. (ASMP), Red Bank, N.J., have signed a long-term supply agreement with Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Renton, Wash., a unit of Chicago-based Boeing Co.
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Kaiser Aluminum Corp., Foothill Ranch, Calif., has made several executive appointments, including naming John Barneson as senior vice president of corporate development with responsibility for the company’s external growth activities.
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JSC Kamensk-Uralsky Metallurgical Works (KUMZ) of Russia and its U.S sales agent, A.S. Mill Products Inc. (ASMP), Red Bank, N.J., have signed a long-term supply agreement with Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Renton Wash., a unit of Boeing Co., Chicago.
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Indalex Ltd., an operating unit of aluminum extruder Indalex Holding Corp., Lincolnshire, Ill., has reached a new three-year labor agreement at its Toronto facility with United Steelworkers union Local 9042.
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Japanese copper smelters could come under pressure to accept lower annual treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs) following reports of at least one Chinese smelter agreeing on 2008 terms with BHP Billiton at $47.20 per tonne/4.72 cents a pound.
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Indalex Ltd., an operating unit of aluminum extruder Indalex Holding Corp., Lincolnshire, Ill., has reached a new three-year labor agreement at its Toronto facility with United Steelworkers union Local 9042.