Alba “Kick Starts” Upgrade of Lines 4 & 5
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. announced yesterday that it has “kick started” its upgrade project to increase the amperage of its smelter’s...
Technology
Texas Firm Partners with Norsk Hydro to Advance Aluminium Sorting Technology
Texas’ Austin AI and aluminium producer Norsk Hydro announced a partnership to develop technology for sorting automotive aluminium alloys. The technology to be developed may lead to greater efficiency in automotive recycling. AAI uses laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) to sort aluminium...
Rusal Debuts Cleaner, More Efficient Electrolysis Cell
Russian Federation aluminium major UC Rusal announced the activation of a new 550 kA electrolysis cell at at the company’s...
Constellium Inks Contract to Supply Aluminium Alloy to US Army R&D Program
Dutch aluminium products firm Constellium N.V. announced yesterday that it has secured a deal with the United States Army Tank...
Events
Alcoa Debuts Versatile New Joining System for Automotive Industry
American aluminium major Alcoa recently announced that it has developed a new way to join dissimilar items in the context of automobile manufacturing. The process, called the RSR joining system, is a new method of resistance spot riveting that is flexible enough to join many different combinations of materials in a manner that is up […]
Sapa Invests in Equipment to Meet Demand for Thinner-Walled Aluminium for Rolling Stock
Norway’s Sapa AS announced yesterday that it will soon be building new production lines in Sweden and Belgium in order to meet an increasing demand for large thin-walled aluminium products in the rail industry. The firm said it is increasing the force on its large aluminium press in Lichtervelde, Belgium from 6,500 metric tons to […]
Sapa to Introduce Welding Machine Capable of Producing Extra-Large Panels for Offshore Use
Norway’s Sapa AS announced an initiative yesterday to develop new machinery that produces large, light aluminium products for offshore and maritime applications. The machinery is of sufficient size to produce aluminium panels 59’ long and 11-1/2’ wide. The machinery in question is a large-scale friction stir welding machine installed at a plant in Finspång, Sweden […]
Pitt Researchers Awarded NSF Grant to Study Formation of Aluminium Alloy Microstructures
Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh are the recipients of a grant from the National Science Foundation to study the formation of microstructures in aluminium alloys as they solidify through a unique transmission electron microscope developed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The university’s proposal, entitled “In-situ transmission electron microscopy of microstructure formation during laser […]
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 [Panama Canal], came up to New Orleans on an ocean-going ship, then they […]
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 old tradition, a one-day field trip for conference delegates was organized to the Aluminium of Greece (AoG) plant, some 180 km from ...
International Aluminium 2019 Conference – Key Takeaways
The FastmaketsMB aluminium conference is the sequel to the Metal Bulletin aluminium conferences, which have traditionally been one of oldest ...
Electric Vehicles (EVs): outlook for sales and aluminium demand
After last year’s electric vehicles (EVs) sales increase of 72% year/year, to 2.02 million, this year’s growth is expected to ...
Are Things Finally Looking Up For The Aluminium Market?
Base metals prices recovered sharply in the first half of September, after a seasonal slump in August, as investors and ...
