Alcoa Debuts 3D Printing Metal Powder Plant in West Pennsylvania
American aluminium major Alcoa announced the opening of a new, state-of-the-art 3D printing metal powder production facility on Wednesday. The...
Technology
Alcoa’s Davenport Plant Receives Massive New Plate Stretcher
Alcoa Davenport Works are the proud new owners of a massive new machine that it says will improve the plant’s aluminium production. “These two big parts today are actually coming from South Korea so they came across the Pacific, went through the...
Rusal Inks Agreement with Sauer to Develop Aluminium 3D Printing Technology
Russian aluminium producer UC Rusal announced an agreement with Germany’s SAUER GmbH yesterday. SAUER, part of German firm DMG Mori...
Nalco in Talks to Build Aluminium-Lithium Alloy Plant
India’s National Aluminium Company (Nalco) and Indian Defence Ministry’s Mishra Dhatu Nigam Ltd (MIDHANI) are in negotiations aimed at establishing...
Events
Czech Scientists Develop Battlefield Shelter From Blast-Resistant Aluminium Alloy
Military forces from the Czech Republic will soon have a new variety of cover for use on the battlefield. Modular shelters made of aluminium are under development at the present time and may soon join the Czech Army on its next expedition. The aluminium shelters have been under development since 2014, but have only come […]
Aluminium Legos Travel 1.7 Billion Miles to Jupiter
Legos have been everywhere on Earth in the sixty-seven years since Denmark’s Ole Kirk Christiansen invented them in 1949, as anyone who has ever stepped on one while barefoot can certainly attest. However, in two years a set of aluminium Legos will travel a total distance of 1.74 billion miles to orbit the largest planet […]
Airbus Subsidiary Designs World’s First 3D-Printed Aluminium Motorcycle
European multinational aerospace and defense corporation Airbus Group SE’s subsidiary APWorks GmbH has developed the world’s first 3D-printed all-aluminium bodied motorcycle. Named the Light Rider, APWorks’ creation weighs 35 kg (77 lbs) in total, and is built on a 6 kg (13 lb) frame. It has a 6 kW (8 hp) electric motor that can […]
GE to Partner with Indian Institute to Develop Experimental Digital Aluminium Smelter
American multinational conglomerate General Electric (GE) announced on Tuesday that it will be establishing an Industrial Internet Centre of Excellence (CoE) at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, a public engineering and research institute located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The CoE will be tasked with developing power intensive applications, focusing initially on rolling out a […]
Swedish Professor Develops World’s First 3D-Printed All-Aluminium Electric Guitar
The logical next step to the world’s first aluminium guitar has been taken by a professor in Sweden – a 3D printed aluminium electric guitar. Olaf Diegel explained that the reason he chose the 3D printing process to see what sorts of objects it was capable of making. “[I also wanted] to better understand the […]
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 ...
