Novelis Inks Aerospace Aluminium R&D Partnership With Airbus
Atlanta’s rolled aluminium firm Novelis Inc. last week entered into a Cooperation Research Agreement with European aerospace firm Airbus Group...
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AMAG Austria Metall Extends Specialty Aluminium Supply Agreement With thyssenkrupp
Austrian metals firm AMAG Austria Metall AG and German industrial supplier thyssenkrupp AG announced this week the six-month extension of their aerospace aluminium supply agreement. The half-year extension will have AMAG continue to supply thyssenkrupp’s aerospace division with premium aluminium featuring a...
Rio Tinto’s Quebec Plant Produces North America’s First High Purity Scandium Oxide
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group’s affiliate Rio Tinto Fer et Titane (RTFT) delivered the initial batch of high purity...
AMAG Inks €100 MM Deal With Ruag For Supply Of Aluminium Parts For Airbus A320
Austrian aluminium firm AMAG Austria Metall AG announced last week a multi-year agreement with Swiss aeronautical supply firm Ruag Aerostructures...
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Russian Scientists Develop New Highly Heat-Resistant Aluminium Alloy
Russian researchers have developed a new process for producing a heat-resistant aluminium alloy that is more durable than comparable alloys. Researchers from the National University of Science and Technology “MISiS” (NUST MISIS), the Siberian Federal University and the Research and Production Centre of Magnetic Hydrodynamics (Krasnoyarsk) published an article in the Materials Letters academic journal […]
Australian Metal Firm Amaero Closing In On Global Patent For New Scandium-Aluminium Alloy
Australian metals additive innovator Amaero International Limited advised the Australian stock market last week that the process for securing its intellectual property rights to a new high-performance aluminium alloy is in the final stages. Amaero said it is in the “national” stage of securing the patent for its new aluminium alloy, which would give it […]
Constellium Lands Ten-Year Agreement To Supply Specialty Aluminium Alloy To Airbus
Amsterdam rolled and extruded aluminium leader Constellium N.V. said yesterday that it has entered into a decade-long contract with Airbus to supply specialized aluminium for the aerospace firm’s entire product lineup. Per the firm, the ten-year agreement will have Constellium supply a wide variety of specialty rolled and extruded aluminium, including components like wing-skin panels, […]
Chinese Researchers Develop Aerospace Aluminium Alloy That Could Lighten C919 By 15 Percent
Chinese passenger jets may soon be 15 percent lighter thanks to a breakthrough achieved by Chinese researchers in the arena of aluminium alloys. Per domestic media, Shanghai’s JuneYao Group has developed a nano-ceramic aluminium alloy that, while lighter than standard aerospace alloys, is up to 30 percent stronger. JuneYao estimates that the new alloy is […]
Constellium Inks Deal To Provide Specialty Aluminium For New Blue Origin Heavy-Lift Launch Vehicle
Amsterdam rolled and extruded aluminium leader Constellium N.V. revealed yesterday the signing of a multi-year contract with American aerospace manufacturer Blue Origin to provide specialty aluminium for the production of the firm’s launch vehicles. Constellium says this new agreement is but the latest in a long collaboration between the two firms. The aluminium manufacturer has […]
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 ...
