BLACK CHINA BLOG

Thanks to the many people who sent me the piece from the Wall St Journal last week regarding the stockpile of metal in Mexico. The story talks about a pile of aluminium growing to as much as 1 million tonnes, and names Zhongwang as the company who is parking the metal there. The allegation […]

Many thanks to all of you who attended and helped make the AZ China conference a great success. It was great to see so many familiar faces last week, and to meet some new people for the first time. I received a lot of very positive feedback from many of you. It seems […]

An interesting press release came across my desk this morning. A trio of companies has announced an agreement to manufacture and market green collector bars to aluminium smelters around the world. For those of you who are not familiar with what goes on underneath the electrolytic cell that generates pure aluminium, a collector bar is […]

As you know the conference is a little over two weeks away so we’re adding the finishing touches. We’ve sent out confirmation forms to the attendees for administrative purposes,. This will ensure we have all your correct information, which will enable us to cater for any specific dietary needs should you have one. If you […]

Henan Province had its most expensive environmental fine handed out to a polluter since the new law was introduced. The company who incurred this fine will be quite familiar to us because it is the second time we mentioned this company in our blog this month. It is Luoyang Xiangjiang Wanji Aluminium. Wanji Aluminium received the fine […]

Around 7pm on 8th of August, Xiangjiang Wanji Aluminium’s red mud storage had a landslide accident. Xiangjiang Wanji Aluminium is a private alumina refinery. It was established in 2005 by Xinjiang Group Co. Ltd and Luoyang Xinan Power Grid Group Co. Ltd. The established annual capacity is 1.2 million tonnes of alumina. The red mud storage which […]