Alcore Produces Aluminium Fluoride From Dross In Proprietary One-Step Process
Australian Bauxite Limited (ABx) announced this week that its 87%-owned subsidiary ALCORE Limited (Alcore) used its proprietary technology to produce...
Innovation
EGA’s Suggestion Scheme Saves AED416 MM In Forty Years
Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) marked the 40th anniversary of its Suggestion Scheme last week. Over the previous four decades the Suggestion Scheme has received over half a million suggestions from EGA employees and has saved the company roughly AED416 million (US$113...
Altech Opens R&D Facility And Offices In Germany
Australian innovator Altech Chemicals Ltd. and its subsidiary Altech Industries Germany GmbH (AIG) announced last week the opening of an...
Altech Opens New Research Facility In Perth
Australian innovator Altech Chemicals Ltd. announced this week the establishment of its in-house research and development laboratory in Perth, Australia....
Events
Russian Scientists Develop New Highly Heat-Resistant Aluminium Alloy
Russian researchers have developed a new process for producing a heat-resistant aluminium alloy that is more durable than comparable alloys. Researchers from the National University of Science and Technology “MISiS” (NUST MISIS), the Siberian Federal University and the Research and Production Centre of Magnetic Hydrodynamics (Krasnoyarsk) published an article in the Materials Letters academic journal […]
Altech Lodges Patent With Australian Government For Process Of Alumina Coating In Lithium-Ion Batteries
Australian innovator Altech Chemicals Ltd. said this week that it has lodged a patent with the Australian government for its unique process for alumina-containing coating. The firm said it entered the verification phase of its method for coating graphite particles with alumina last fall. The method Altech tested was a process for applying uniform, nanometer-scale […]
Novelis Inks Memorandum of Understanding With China’s Tsinghua University On Automotive Aluminium R&D
Atlanta’s rolled aluminium firm Novelis said this week that its operations in the Peoples Republic of China has linked up with one of the country’s top universities in an agreement to collaborate on increasing the use of aluminium in the country’s automotive industry. Novelis’s Shanghai Customer Solution Center (CSC) will be working with the Tsinghua […]
Constellium Joins GHG Emission Reduction Project ACHIEF
European value-added aluminium firm Constellium NV announced yesterday its participation in ACHIEF – Innovative high-performance Alloys and Coatings for HIghly EFficient intensive energy processes along with several other European metals firms. Constellation explained that the organization is almost a dozen partner firms from six different countries on the continent plus Turkey, and it aims to […]
Altech Pre-Feasibility Study For Germany High-Purity Alumina Coating Site Yielding Positive Results
Australian innovator Altech Chemicals Ltd. updated investors this week on the progress of its pre-feasibility study (PFS) for its planned high-purity alumina coating plant in Germany. Per the firm, the report, which is being carried out by its 75 percent owned subsidiary in Germany, is being carried out according to plan. Suppliers for utilities and […]
Biden Infrastructure Bill A Big Boon To Aluminium Industry: Norsk Hydro VP Mike Stier
Earlier this month the United States Congress passed into law President Joe Biden’s US$1.2 trillion infrastructure package. The Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America Act (or the INVEST in America Act) will allocate US$550 billion ...
The Net-Zero Shift Starts With Low Carbon Aluminium
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both ...
Aluminium at the LME Week – Key Takeaways
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Aluminium Market Oversupplied, Demand Growth Flat
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...
