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Aluminium News

Richards Bay casthouse has new owner

By: Dylan Stewart 25th September 2015 Australia-owned bauxite miner and aluminium producer South32 has confirmed the official transfer of ownership of the Bayside casthouse in Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal to Isizinda Aluminium in a deal that will support the economic transformation of Richards Bay and the development of South Africa’s... →

Marquee company manufactures structures the size of a soccer field

By: Dylan Stewart 25th September 2015 Cape Town-based aluminium-frame-structure manufacturer Speed Structures is manufacturing a 120-m-long, 40-m-wide marquee with an apex height of 10 m for hire or sale, says company chairperson Richard Downing. →

CRUCIAL MATERIAL Speed Structures relies totally on aluminium, especially for the extrusion components, which support the polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, covering.

First SA company to manufacture sausage U-clips

By: Dylan Stewart 25th September 2015 Durban-based precision aluminium components manufacturer AC Exports will receive a new machine for manufacturing small aluminium sausage clips this month, AC Exports chairperson Jens Reuning tells Engineering News. →

FULL OFFERING AC Exports' product range, including a spool of U-clips on the far righ

Automotive sector to drive aluminium growth, says metallurgist

By: Dylan Stewart 25th September 2015 Metallurgical plant and rolling mill technology provider SMS group has identified the automotive industry as a crucial target market for the company, where its aluminium rolling technology can be applied, says SMS group Technical Services South Africa executive VP Michael Schäfer. →

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SMOOTH PRODUCTION Consistent flatness is required to feed the material into downstream processing lines

Industrial vacuum delivered to aluminium smelter

By: Sashnee Moodley 28th August 2015 Local furnace and industrial services company Dickinson Group last month delivered its new MegaVac Cyclone Loader to resources company South 32, where the machine will be used for a large basement cleaning project for the company’s Mozal aluminium smelter, in Mozambique. →

MEGAVAC CYCLONE LOADER The unit will be used in South 32’s smelter for the recovery of 90 t/d of bath material

South32 sees opportunity to work with Eskom on further coal supply

By: Martin Creamer 24th August 2015 New diversified mining company South32, which on Monday reported 56%-higher underlying earnings of $1-billion, sees an opportunity to work with Eskom on additional coal supply. The demerged BHP Billiton entity, which is fast-tracking the implementation of its regional operating model in South... →

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Graham Kerr

Scaw may retrench workers as it considers restructuring

By: Natalie Greve 5th August 2015 Steel product manufacturer Scaw Metals Group announced on Wednesday that the company was contemplating restructuring and had issued a notice in terms of Section 189A of the Labour Relations Act, which could result in a reduction in employee numbers. "This unfortunate decision has been... →

Use of aluminium vehicle body panels on the rise

By: Shirley le Guern 29th July 2015 Mercedes-Benz South Africa (MBSA) has begun the second phase of its aluminium localisation initiative, the company’s strategic business development, procurement and export manager Philip Jooste, told the National Localisation Indaba, in Durban, on Tuesday. This included a greenfield project with... →

Hulamin focuses on growing local demand amid global headwinds

By: Megan van Wyngaardt 27th July 2015 Weakened demand from China, paired with the ongoing electricity challenges in South Africa, have led to JSE-listed Hulamin’s headline earnings a share falling to 25c a share for the six months to June 30, compared with 40c in the first half of last year. Further, the company’s earnings before... →

Hulamin CEO Richard Jacob discusses the company's outlook

Creamer Media publishes Real Economy Insight: Steel 2015 brief

8th July 2015 This eight-page brief is a synopsis of key developments in the steel industry over the past 12 months. It provides an overview of the global and South African steel markets, South Africa’s major steel producers and events that have shaped these markets. →

Bahrain-based group to inaugurate $50m Moz aluminium factory

By: Natalie Greve 3rd June 2015 Describing Mozambique as an “excellent” platform from which to serve key markets in Africa, Bahrain-based industrial group Midal Cables would on Wednesday launch a $50-million, 14 500 m2 aluminum factory located adjacent to the Mozal joint venture aluminium smelter, in Maputo, Mozambique. Midal... →

Hazleton Pumps, Scaw come out top in Seifsa Awards

29th May 2015 South African pump manufacturer Hazleton Pumps International took top honours in the Most Innovative Company and Customer Service of the Year categories of the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa’s (Seifsa’s) Awards for Excellence, on Thursday night. Steel products... →

Seifsa reiterates energy constraint, cost concerns

By: Megan van Wyngaardt 20th May 2015 The local metals and engineering sector cannot grow as a result of South Africa’s unreliable energy supply and the fact that, on average, energy costs in the sector account for about 8% of intermediary input costs, Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa) CEO Kaizer... →

Seifsa alarmed by unhealthy metals and engineering data

By: Megan van Wyngaardt 19th May 2015 Economic data released during the first quarter of the year show alarming trends in the metals and engineering sector, the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa) said on Tuesday. The data also confirmed the organisation’s forecasts from earlier this year that the... →

Power cuts to shrink Hulamin’s H1 earnings 20%

By: Natalie Greve 23rd April 2015 While noting that it was not possible to forecast the extent of electricity curtailment over the remainder of the year, aluminium manufacturer Hulamin says it is “already clear” that its earnings per share (EPS) and headline earnings per share (HEPS) for the six months to June 30 will be more... →

Creamer Media publishes Steel 2015: A review of South Africa's steel sector research report

By: Creamer Media Reporter 21st April 2015 Creamer Media’s Steel 2015 report provides an overview of the key developments in the global steel industry and particularly of South Africa’s steel sector over the past year, including details of production and consumption, as well as the country's primary carbon steel and stainless steel... →

Slow growth ahead for global steel demand – worldsteel

By: Natasha Odendaal 20th April 2015 A slowdown in China’s demand for steel is set to restrain global steel industry growth over the next two years, the World Steel Association’s (worldsteel’s) latest Short Range Outlook (SRO) for 2015 and 2016 revealed on Monday. Following a marginal 0.6% uptick in 2014, global apparent steel use... →

Auto components crucial for aluminium industry

By: Dylan Slater 10th April 2015 South Africa’s automotive sector is currently one of the key drivers of aluminium demand in the country, which stakeholders attribute to the global trend of manufacturers using an increasing amount of aluminium for vehicle components, particularly for passenger vehicles. →

VISION 2020 The aluminium industry is embarking on a strategy aimed at doubling the volume of cars manufactured a year in South Africa by 2020, from 600 000 to 1.2-million

Better receivers, engineering benefit MeerKAT, SKA

By: Schalk Burger 10th April 2015 Multiple and more sensitive receivers are being deployed on the 64 antennas of the MeerKAT radio telescope array, which will improve the scientific data it gathers, says Square Kilometre Array (SKA) South Africa science and engineering associate director professor Justin Jonas. “The good design... →

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MEERKAT 63 RECEIVERS A host of receivers on the antenna provides high fidelity and sensitivity and was informed by the KAT-7 prototype

Aluminium can market, auto sheet demand drives FY growth for Hulamin

By: Natalie Greve 23rd February 2015 Sales volumes of South African aluminium manufacturer Hulamin’s rolled products increased 3% to 196 000 t in the year ended December 31, with heat-treated plate and canstock products emerging as the portfolio’s strongest performers. Exports of rolled products by the JSE-listed group contributed... →

Seifsa calls for robust intervention in environmental law

9th February 2015 The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa) on Monday said South Africa’s strict environmental legislation was a significant challenge for small-, medium-sized and microenterprises (SMMEs) that could hamper further growth of this sector if not dealt with “as a... →

Neasa to contest Labour Minister’s metals industry extension

9th February 2015 The National Employers' Association of South Africa (Neasa) on Monday lodged a review application in the Labour Court in Johannesburg to set aside the decision by Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant to extend the 2014 to 2017 wage agreement between the Steel and Engineering Industry Federation of... →

Hulamin CEO returns from medical leave of absence

By: Creamer Media Reporter 30th January 2015 Richard Jacob will return as CEO of JSE-listed Hulamin following a medical leave of absence. Jacob took medical leave in July last year. →

Hulamin CEO Richard Jacob

Metal sector strike cost SA growth – SARB

By: Sapa 8th December 2014 The month-long strike in the metal sector knocked back the third-quarter growth rate of the South African economy by more than half of what it could have been, the SA Reserve Bank (SARB) said on Monday. In its latest Quarterly Bulletin, the bank said the annualised real economic growth rate... →

Hulamin likely to swing to profit in 2014

By: Natalie Greve 20th October 2014 After a R1.5-billion impairment charge resulted in Hulamin reporting negative earnings per share (EPS) of 422c for the 2013 financial year, the aluminium supplier said on Monday that EPS and headline earnings per share for the 2014 financial year were expected to exceed 70c. Hulamin expected to... →

Metals and engineering sector set to contract in 2014 - Seifsa

By: Terence Creamer 3rd October 2014 The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa) warned on Friday that the metals and engineering sector could contract by between 2% and 3% in 2014, owing primarily to the fallout from a month-long strike in July. The sector, which made up about 30% of the broader... →

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Henk Langenhoven

Aluminium growth boosts company

By: Mia Breytenbach 26th September 2014 Owing to the continuous expansion of its specialised services in the aluminium industry, local furnace and industrial services company Dickinson Group of Companies has registered a 60% increase in business from this industry in the past 20 years. “We can now offer more products and services that... →

KEY SERVICES PROVIDER DRS Mozambique has been rendering site-wide smelter services to the aluminium industry, which include pot delining and relining

Success for aluminium glass industry

By: Mia Breytenbach 26th September 2014 Manufacturing management software developer Bizmantools has registered a ten-fold increase in business from the aluminium and glass manufacturing industries in the past year, in addition to significant positive response towards its labour productivity management software solution,... →

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SYSTEM NEUTRAL Productivity enabled a user to optimise aluminium purchases and cutting of aluminium

New cold-rolling mill supplied to Turkey aluminium producer

By: Mia Breytenbach 26th September 2014 Steel and aluminium plant processing technology, equipment and services specialist SMS Siemag supplied a complete cold rolling mill to Turkey-based aluminium company Asas-Alüminyum for its new works at Adapazan-Akyazi, about 150 km to the east of Istanbul. Asas-Alüminyum’s new works, valued at... →

COMPLETE SOLUTION The cold rolling mill comprises a six-high mill stand, three shearing lines and a strip-coating line designed for 50 000 t/y

Aluminium industry awaits policy amendments

By: Mia Breytenbach 26th September 2014 The secondary aluminium industry has remained uncompetitive in the world market of beneficiated aluminium products, despite the directive of the preferential pricing on scrap metal, issued by the Department of Economic Development in September last year, Non-Ferrous Metal Industries Association... →

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INDUSTRY DECLINE Without significant amendments to the preferential policy, the aluminium and scrap beneficiation industry will continue to decline

Stable energy source key challenge for aluminium industry

By: Mia Breytenbach 26th September 2014 The availability of stable energy sources at competitive prices remains a core challenge for the South African aluminium industry, says EY Africa mining and metals leader Wickus Botha. “As aluminium smelting processes are significantly energy intensive, these smelters and foundries require a... →

INDUSTRY NEED To maintain a sustainable South African aluminium industry, the companies would need to secure electricity supply

Aluminium use to grow in US

By: Mia Breytenbach 26th September 2014 By 2025, more than 75% of all new pickup trucks produced in North America will be aluminum-bodied, according to a survey of vehicle manufacturers conducted by US-based consulting and research firm Ducker Worldwide. The study, which confirms a significant breakthrough for automotive aluminium into... →

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DEMAND INCREASE Ford, General Motors and Fiat Chrysler will become the biggest users of aluminium sheet in the next decade

Local aluminium demand can double in the next five years

By: Mia Breytenbach 26th September 2014 Aluminium industry body Aluminium Federation of South Africa (Afsa) predicts a doubling in local demand for rolled aluminium products in the next five years and a subsequent increase in employment for the industry. “Exciting potential for the future remains, as the aluminium industry is an... →

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BENEFICIATION NEED Rather than exporting the sheet and rolled aluminium products, the local aluminium industry can focus on more value addition

‘Cautious’ Hulamin ups H1 earnings, to seek import tariff protection

By: Natalie Greve 28th July 2014 Aluminium products supplier Hulamin, which on Monday reported a 42% year-on-year lift in earnings for the first half of 2014, has revealed that it is preparing an application for reciprocal import tariff protection, which it plans to lodge shortly with the International Trade Administration... →

Hulamin CEO to take medical leave of absence

By: Creamer Media Reporter 1st July 2014 JSE-listed aluminium products manufacturer Hulamin announced on Tuesday that its CEO, Richard Jacob, would take a medical leave of absence from July 18 to receive specialist medical care in South Africa and neurological surgery in the US. Jacob is expected to return to his CEO position after a... →

Creamer Media publishes Steel 2014 research report

20th May 2014 Creamer Media’s Steel 2014 report provides an overview of the global steel industry and particularly of South Africa’s steel sector over the past year, including details of production and consumption, as well as the country's primary carbon steel and stainless steel producers. →

Evraz appoints Valenta as CEO

By: Natasha Odendaal 16th April 2014 Steel and vanadium producer Evraz Highveld Steel and Vanadium on Wednesday appointed executive director and FD Jan Valenta CEO, with immediate effect, after Michael Garcia stepped down. Olga Luzik would replace Valenta, who was appointed FD and director in 2011. →

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Michael Garcia

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