August 2, 2019
Alcoa Tops Targets for Sustainable Rehabilitation
Alcoa of Australia has exceeded rehabilitation targets at the Huntly and Willowdale bauxite mines in the Peel and South West...
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November 19, 2018
Nespresso to use world’s first responsibly sourced aluminium from Rio Tinto in coffee capsules
Nespresso will become the first company to use responsibly-sourced aluminium, supplied by Rio Tinto, to produce its coffee capsules. Read...
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August 28, 2018
Rio Tinto’s Amrun Project has spent over A$1.5 billion with local companies
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Rio Tinto chief executive Jean-Sébastien Jacques visited Rio Tinto’s world-class Amrun bauxite project on Cape...
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August 8, 2018
“NEG AND GAS AND ACCC”, SAYS THE ALUMINIUM INDUSTRY
Australia’s largest users of electricity – the aluminium industry – today called on the Federal and State Governments to approve...
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July 30, 2018
Rio Tinto to offer independently certified responsibly produced aluminium
Rio Tinto has become the first mining and metals company to be granted the aluminium industry’s Chain of Custody certification...
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December 1, 2017
First Gumatj Mine Training Centre Graduates Secure Local Jobs
Ten local and regional Indigenous employees attended a graduation ceremony at the Gulkula Regional Training Centre four months after commencing...
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June 10, 2017
Joint Statement Finkel Review June 2017
The energy industry, its customers and other stakeholders agree: the imminent Finkel Review deserves full and fair consideration before governments...
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November 27, 2015
Rio Tinto Approves Amrun (South of Embley) Bauxite Project
Rio Tinto will expand output from one of the world’s premier bauxite deposits following approval of the $1.9 billion Amrun...
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November 9, 2015
Boyne Smelters Begins Aluminium Can Recycling
In time for National Recycling Week (9-15 November), Boyne Smelters Limited (BSL) is now operating Queensland’s only and Australia’s largest...
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June 29, 2015
Climate Policy – Broad Alliance Points to Common Ground – Media Release
MEDIA RELEASE Monday 29 June 2015 BROAD ALLIANCE POINTS TO COMMON GROUND ON CLIMATE POLICY The Australian Climate Roundtable, an...
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April 8, 2015
Aluminium sector calls for final RET resolution
The Australian Aluminium Council responded optimistically to the news of Labor leader Bill Shorten’s announcement of support for a 33,500...
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September 30, 2014
Phillip Strachan of Rio Tinto Alcan appointed AAC President
The Australian Aluminium Council has appointed Phillip Strachan (President and Chief Executive Officer, Bauxite & Alumina, Rio Tinto Alcan) as...
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August 28, 2014
Warburton Review calls for significant RET changes
The AAC noted that the RET Review Panel had acknowledged that the RET was impacting electricity prices for trade exposed...
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May 29, 2014
Crunch time for the future of Australian Aluminium
The Australian Aluminium Council called for the carbon tax to be repealed and for the burden of renewable energy subsidies...
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July 30, 2013
What Market? – Is there really a deep domestic gas market in Australia?
“We do not have a functional domestic gas market in Australia,” said Miles Prosser, Executive Director at the Australian Aluminium...
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