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Owners of former Reynolds plant shift focus to below-ground contamination
A cleanup of the contaminated Longview industrial site where Reynolds Metals Co. made aluminum for 60 years will take roughly three more years and cost a total of about $65 million, the owners of the property say. Dozens of workers have been dismantling the defunct smelter and cleaning up buildings and old aluminum potlines over […]
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Reynolds site contamination timeline
Here’s a quick look at some of the pollution issues and complaints involving Reynolds Metals Co. since the aluminum plant opened in 1941: 1946: Reynolds installs a $500,000 fume control system that hoses dangerous fumes from potlines into local drainage ditches. 1948: Dozens of farmers and dairymen begin filing lawsuits in federal court against the […]
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Hindalco aluminum plant damaged crops
SAMBALPUR, Oct. 8: More than 140 acres of paddy fields with standing crop got damaged after severe rain on the 18th of last month. Farmers of Gundurupada, Nua Jamada, Nua Gujatal, close to Hirakud township, alleged that fluoride gas from the Hindalco plant producing aluminium from alumina was responsible from the crop damage. The reports […]
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SA energy crisis affects Mozambique aluminium export
Mozambique’s production and exports of aluminium will be lower than hoped for this year, owing to electricity shortages in South Africa. Resources giant BHP Billiton’s Mozal aluminium smelter MD Raitt Marshall confirmed earlier this year that 2008 would see a reduction in exports, but he did not put a figure on this. Marshall said that, […]
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South Iceland: Pollution from Smelters Damages Teeth in Sheep
Sigurdur Sigurdarson, a veterinarian at Keldur in south Iceland, claims that fluorine pollution from aluminum smelter is causing teeth-damages in livestock and encourages sheep farmers who live near smelters to pay close attention to the symptoms. “[Fluorine] accumulates in the bones of the animals and can at first be detected as brown spots or sores […]
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Spain’s Minersa to become main shareholder in SA hydrofluoric acid venture
Spanish fluorspar producer Minersa would replace Tunisian aluminium fluoride maker ICF as the major shareholder and technology partner of Alfluorco, a South African hydrofluoric acid and aluminium fluoride joint venture, diversified-miner Metorex said on Tuesday. Minersa would own a 50% stake in the company, which is studying the feasibility of a R500-million hydrofluoric acid plant, […]
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Antitrust: Commission fines aluminium fluoride producers € 4.97 million for price fixing cartel
The European Commission has imposed fines of €4 970 000 on aluminium fluoride producers for colluding to fix prices in violation of the ban on cartels and restrictive business practices in the EC Treaty (Article 81) and the EEA Agreement (Article 53). Aluminium fluoride is a chemical used to lower the smelting temperature of aluminium. […]
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Hazardous Waste in Sumgayit City of Azerbaijan not Purified; Flows Directly into Caspian
Azerbaijan, Baku, 15 February / corr.Trend News S. Ilhamgizi/ 95% of hazardous plants in the industrial Sumgayit city of Azerbaijan which houses many chemical plants from the former USSR, do not operate today. However, there are still many ecological problems which exist in the city. This was stated during a roundtable meeting on the subject […]
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Alcoa worker treated at hospital in Galveston for eye injury
POINT COMFORT – A 55-year-old Alcoa operator was treated at a Galveston hospital and released early Friday afternoon after he got a caustic chemical in his eye. The man, who was not identified, was taken by air ambulance to the University of Texas Medical Branch from the Point Comfort plant around 8:30 a.m. Friday, said […]
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Abu Dhabi firm eyes $500mn fluorides complex
Abu Dhabi-based Gulf Fluor plans to invest $500 million to build a fluorides complex in the Gulf emirate with a capacity of 70,000 tonnes a year to meet the region’s increasing demand, its chief executive said on Sunday. The new complex, the first of its kind in the Gulf Arab region, is expected to start […]
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