EGA Expands Bauxite Residue Research Partnership With Belgian Firm
UAE’s Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) announced earlier this week the widening of a partnership with Belgian research and technology...
Innovation
Rusal To Build Pilot Plant For Production Of Fine Precipitated Aluminium Hydroxide
Russian Federation aluminium titan U.C. Rusal announced yesterday that it has readied construction on a ₽500 million (US$7.84 million) pilot plant at Achinsk Alumina Refinery (AGK) dedicated to the production of fine precipitated aluminium hydroxide (FPAH). Rusal says the pilot plant, which...
Aluminium Alloys in the Automotive Industry: a Handy Guide
Looking at the flurry of announcements of new aluminium alloys developed by some of the big aluminium producers (Novelis, Constellium,...
Researchers Develop New Aluminium Alloy Using Microscopic Diamonds
A team of Russian and British scientists announced the development of a process to add nanoscale diamonds to molten aluminium,...
Events
Constellium To Provide Aluminium Structural Components For BMW X Model SUV
Amsterdam rolled and extruded aluminium leader Constellium N.V. revealed yesterday that it has been chosen as a supplier of aluminium structural components for BMW AG’s newest model, the BMW X Model Sports Activity Vehicles. The company’s contract for supply of aluminium structural components includes the Crash Management System on the X4 and X5, both of […]
UCLA Scientists Develop Welding Method For 7075 Aluminium Alloy
Researchers at a Southern California university announced earlier this week a breakthrough in welding technology that makes binding a popular aluminium alloy possible. A team from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering says their new method for welding 7075 has overcome the limitation experienced up to now, namely the fact that heating of the metal […]
Site Preparation Begins For Altech’s High-Purity Alumina Plant In Western Malaysia
Australian innovator Altech Chemicals Ltd. said yesterday that the firm’s Development Order for its high-purity alumina (HPA) plant in Malaysia has received all necessary approvals from the state, and the establishment works at the plant’s site have begun. Per Altech, activity currently ongoing at the site includes hoarding of the site; establishment of a site […]
EGA Joins UAE’s Open Labs Initiative
UAE aluminium smelter Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) has entered into an agreement with the Emirates Scientists Council (ESC) to allow access to EGA’s nine laboratories for scientific research purposes. The agreement is part of UAE’s Vice President and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s “Open Labs” initiative, which is a campaign to […]
ALCORE Ltd. Completes Stage 1 Aluminium Fluoride Lab In NSW
Australian Bauxite Limited (ABx) announced the acquisition by its subsidiary ALCORE Limited of the necessary equipment to produce test samples as well as the completion of construction of its Stage 1 Core Laboratory, both of which milestones it reached ahead of schedule and under budget. Per the firm, construction of the laboratory began on July […]
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 businesses and policymakers to accelerate decarbonization efforts. However, with COVID-19 disrupting lives and economies in an unprecedented manner, countries across the globe ...
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 ...
Aluminium of Greece (AOG): is the Pechiney spirit still alive?
Between September 24-25, FastmarketsMB organized its annual aluminium conference in Athens. A day before the conference, in accordance with an ...
