Austal USA Delivers Newest Aluminium-Hulled Fast Transport Ship to U.S. Navy
Austal USA, the American branch of Australian shipbuilding company and defense contractor Austal announced the official hand-over of the aluminium...
Technology
Altech’s Malaysian High-Purity Alumina Plant Sticking to Construction Schedule
Altech Chemicals Ltd. issued an update today on the progress of its high-purity alumina (HPA) plant to be built in Johor, Malaysia. According to the press release, design and engineering of the plant is progressing according to schedule. The project’s engineering, procurement,...
Constellium Fires Up New High-Tech Aluminium Recycling Furnace at Alabama Plant
Dutch rolled and extruded aluminium firm Constellium N.V. debuted a new recycling furnace at its facility at Muscle Shoals, Alabama...
Increased Aluminium Content Drives into the Geneva Motor Show
The 87th Geneva Motor Show begins on Thursday at the Geneva Palexpo in Switzerland. As one of the world’s premier...
Events
EGA Places Order for Seventh Aluminium Billet Furnace from Austria’s Hertwich
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has ordered an additional batch homogenizing furnace from Austrian aluminium equipment manufacturer Hertwich Engineering. The order, placed late last month, is for a furnace to be utilized in the heat treatment of billets and is expected to go into operation later this year. The furnace in question, which is the seventh […]
GE and Aluminium of Greece Sign Agreement to Develop Digital Smelting Technology
American conglomerate General Electric (GE) and Mytilineos Group subsidiary Aluminium of Greece (AOG) entered into a ten-year agreement on Monday to develop digital smelter technology at GE’s laboratory in Dubai. According to officials from both firms, the technology under development is expected to usher in new and improved methods in smelter monitoring worldwide, leading to […]
Austal USA Christens Latest Aluminium-Hulled Combat Ship
Austal USA, the American branch of Australian shipbuilding company and defense contractor Austal, announced last weekend that it christened the new USS Tulsa (LCS 16), the sixteenth aluminium Independence-class trimaran littoral combat ship (LCS). The US$3.5 billion vessel is a 419-foot combat ship constructed with an aluminium trimaran hull. The aluminium construction makes the ship […]
IAI Introduces New Global Trade Data Visualization Application
Global aluminium trade group International Aluminium Institute (IAI) announced the launch of a new web-based application for visualizing the aluminium value chain. The institute’s new mass-flow visualizer aids the user in understanding the aluminium value chain from its beginning at the bauxite mine to its end as scrap. The program also details inter-regional trade flows […]
Tapping Aluminium opportunities in India for defence, aerospace applications
India’s aluminium industry sits on the cusp of sweeping changes in the way the metal will be consumed in the future. With both demand and consumption of aluminium in positive territory, the time is now opportune for producers to move beyond their traditional strengths in electricals and building segments and shift gears to the emerging […]
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 ...
