TOKYO -- Shin-Etsu Chemical will build a new rare-earth refinery in Japan to achieve mass production of products and reduce reliance on China, people familiar with the matter have told Nikkei.

The Inola City Council declined to pass a six-month moratorium on development projects in the town’s industrial park, a move that would have halted progress on a proposed aluminum smelting plant that ...

Oklahoma’s proposed aluminum smelter in Inola has become a legal fight, an environmental flashpoint and a campaign issue in the state’s governor’s race. On Tuesday, June 2, Attorney General Gentner ...

Attorney General Gentner Drummond filed a petition in Rogers County District Court to block a proposed heavy-industrial aluminum plant in Inola. Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has filed ...

In February, the company announced that it is partnering with Emirates Global Aluminium to build the first new aluminum smelter in the U.S. in 46 years, in Oklahoma. Once the new Oklahoma smelter is ...

A dormant copper smelter in Hayden, Arizona, may reopen after its parent company, Grupo Mexico, announced plans to expand production. The smelter, once a top polluter, was designated an EPA Superfund ...

INOLA — Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality officials on Thursday night outlined the permitting process for air-quality control regarding a planned $4 billion aluminum smelter at the Port of ...

Alcoa is in talks to sell its idle Massena East aluminum smelter in upstate New York to bitcoin mining firm NYDIG. Alcoa is in talks to sell its idle Massena East aluminum smelter in upstate New York ...

SEOUL, April 2 (UPI) --The world's leading non-ferrous metal manufacturer, Korea Zinc, said Thursday it launched a $7.4 billion initiative to build a smelter for strategic materials in Clarksville, ...

FERNDALE, Wash. — Sixty years after it first started operating near Ferndale, the Intalco-Alcoa aluminum smelter is being dismantled, taking an economic engine and a community fixture with it. Carl ...

Aluminum slipped as European stock markets fell, with the metal giving up gains seen after a major Middle Eastern smelter closed almost a fifth of capacity because of the war in Iran. Aluminium ...

Shipping disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz and Iranian strikes on critical infrastructure are threatening the global supply of aluminum, raising the risk of production cuts and higher prices for a ...