India’s government has taken steps to obtain technology for producing all-aluminium railway coaches, phasing out heavier and less efficient conventional rolling stock. Commenting to India’s Lok Sabha last week, Railways Minister Piyush Goyal said that, from the current fiscal year forward, Indian...
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced yesterday the planned upgrade of equipment at Hydro Husnes that will allow it...
Russian Federation aluminium major U.C. Rusal announced yesterday the signing of a memorandum with state-run technology firm Tiocomposite to commence...
Automakers are employing an effective way to slim down electric vehicles, just as they have lightened their traditional combustion-engine lineup....
New Zealand’s Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter is in line to possibly become the world’s first carbon-free aluminium smelter after a productive discussion between the heads of Rio Tinto Group and the New Zealand government last week. A Kiwi news source says Rio Tinto chief executive Jean-Sébastien Jacques and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern discussed the matter […]
German automaker Audi AG is marking five years of production at its Münchsmünster facility, which has been producing diecast aluminium components for a wide range of Audi, VW, Bentley, and Lamborghini production models. Begun in the fall of 2013, the Münchsmünster facility now employs 900 individuals across three shifts. Last year the site produced 25 […]
UAE aluminium smelter Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) announced earlier this week a deal with Mubadala Development Company PJSC and Dubal Holding to develop a high-tech water desalinization plant and power facility at EGA’s Jebel Ali smelter in Dubai. Under the terms of the agreement, Mubadala and Dubal Holding will establish a joint venture to […]
Australian innovator Altech Chemicals Ltd. announced yesterday that it has finalized the design for its high-purity alumina (HPA) plant that is soon to be built in Johor, Malaysia. Per the company’s press release, the site’s design is the product of data collected during a recent geotechnical survey and consultations among EPC contractor SMS group GmbH, […]
Atlanta’s rolled and recycled aluminium firm Novelis Inc. announced yesterday that it has been chosen as the exclusive supplier of aluminium to Jaguar Land Rover Limited for its new all-electric vehicle, the Jaguar I-PACE. Novelis will be supplying the latest entrant in Jaguar’s PACE family of vehicles with its proprietary Novelis Advanz aluminium alloy, which […]
At least three companies (including Swiss commodity trader Glencore and German Trimet Aluminium) have expressed interest in buying Rio Tinto’s aluminium assets in Iceland, Sweden and the Netherlands, priced at up to US$ 350 million, news agencies reported earlier this month. A ...
Battery enclosures for electric vehicles (also called frames, housings or battery packs) have a pretty straightforward purpose: holding and protecting ...
Base metals prices continued to slide in May and early June, with metals traded on the LME witnessing some serious ...
Base metals prices tumbled in the last week of April and at the start of May, with the aluminium price ...
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