High-flying optimism

While some companies in the global aluminium industry straddle a parallel universe of depressed metal prices, soaring energy costs and smelter closures, Kaiser Aluminum's strategy positions it to avoid these woes and achieve success in good economic times and bad. Matthew Moggridge, Editor of Aluminium International Today meets the company's CEO Jack Hockema.

Realistic optimism

Oleg Mukhamedshin, deputy CEO of UC Rusal, the world's largest producer of aluminium, talks exclusively to Aluminium International Today's editor, Matthew Moggridge

Climate-positive

Svein Richard Brandtzaeg, CEO of Norsk Hydro, talks exclusively to Aluminium International Today about reducing emissions, his short-term concerns for the industry and his long-term optimism.

By Matthew Moggridge, editor of Aluminium International Today.

Forget cheap energy

Trimet's CEO Dr. Martin Iffert says that the days of cheap energy are over and that soon there will be nowhere to hide. Future survival will depend on a smelter's ability to adapt its production processes to renewable energy and the industry's determination to promote the environmental benefits of aluminium in the application phase.

By Matthew Moggridge, editor of Aluminium International Today

AIT Index 2012

An index of all features published in AIT in 2012

Destroying the red menace

Ever wondered whether it was possible to produce alumina without resorting to the Bayer process? It's a subject that has kept Richard Boudreault, president and CEO of Orbite Aluminae, very busy...and now he's perfected a system that might revolutionise the aluminium industry.

By Matthew Moggridge, editor, Aluminium International Today.