Indian state-run National Aluminium Co Ltd said it expects to resume full bauxite produ...

Indian state-run National Aluminium Co Ltd said it expects to resume full bauxite production after an attack by Maoist rebels crippled operations a month earlier. [ID: nBOM472092] May 11 - Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) said it has put plans to boost its production capacity to 1.2 million tonnes per year on hold. [ID: nLB618645] May 11 - The future of an aluminium smelter project at Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah Economic City is "uncertain" in the current economic climate, an executive of state-owned smelter Dubai Aluminium Co (Dubal) said. [ID: nLB633973] The company also said it expects its Q2 aluminium sales to fall 20 percent from a year earlier. [ID: nLB643327] May 10 - Oman's Sohar Aluminium, part-owned by Rio Tinto, said it has put the second phase of its plant on hold.

The annual rate of primary U.S. aluminium production in April slid 36.5 percent year-on-year to 1,764,641 tonnes from 2,779,160 tonnes in April 2008, and was down 2.5 percent from March's annual rate of 1,809,788 tonnes, the Aluminum Association said. For the year through April, the annual production rate tumbled 29.5 percent to 1,948,969 tonnes. [ID: nN08505702] May 6 - Noranda Aluminum Holding Corporation said annual production rate of smelter-grade alumina at Gramercy refinery in the United States halved to 500,000 tonnes per year (tpy). Continues to evaluate options to cut purchase cost of alumina, including assessing the curtailment of Gramercy. May 6 - A deal signed on Tuesday with the government of China has cleared the way for Trinidad and Tobago to move ahead with construction of its first aluminium smelter. Under the deal, China agreed to provide $112 million, the balance of a $300 million concessional loan for the construction of the 125,000 tpy plant near La Brea in southern Trinidad.

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