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...
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...
American aluminium major Alcoa announced the opening of a new, state-of-the-art 3D printing metal powder production facility on Wednesday. The...
Russian aluminium producer UC Rusal announced an agreement with Germany’s SAUER GmbH yesterday. SAUER, part of German firm DMG Mori...
India’s National Aluminium Company (Nalco) and Indian Defence Ministry’s Mishra Dhatu Nigam Ltd (MIDHANI) are in negotiations aimed at establishing...
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 ...
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both ...
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...