Novelis to Provide Aluminium for Jaguar XFL
Atlanta’s rolled and recycled aluminium firm Novelis Inc. announced this week that it will be supplying aluminium to Chery Jaguar...
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Lochaber Plant to Produce Aluminium Auto Parts
According to local media, the new owners of western Scotland’s Lochaber smelter intend to use it to produce aluminium automotive parts. Aberdeen newspaper The Press and Journal reported yesterday that Liberty House Group intends to convert the Alcan plant into producing aluminium...
Sapa Develops Lighter Automotive Brake Line Using Aluminium Alloy
Norway’s Sapa AS has developed a revolutionary new automobile brake line using a high-strength aluminium alloy. The new system, which...
Leaked Alcoa Memo: 2018 Jeep Wrangler to Feature Aluminium Doors and Hood
An internal release from American aluminium major Alcoa indicates that the 2018 Jeep Wrangler will utilize aluminium alloy for portions...
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Fracsa Alloys to Double Capacity by Early 2017
Mexico’s Fracsa Alloys Queretaro, S.A.P.I. de C.V. announced recently that it plans to double production by early 2017. Company president Franciso Ruiz told S&P Global Platts of the planned increase during a tour of the firm’s plant in Queretaro, which is in central Mexico, 132 miles northwest of Mexico City. Ruiz indicated that the plant […]
Rusal to Cut Carbon Emissions, Increase Value-Added Output, and Transition to Alloys: CEO
The Russian Federation aluminium smelter United Company RUSAL is planning to spend between US$600 million to US$700 million each year until the end of the decade to increase output capacity of higher value-added aluminium alloy products in an effort to enhance profits in a market with superfluous smelting capacity. In addition, Rusal is planning to […]
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 an aluminium-lithium alloy plant. The two state-owned entities intend to capitalize upon the myriad of new uses for the alloy in, among other places, the defense sector. Highlighted by its use in Elon Musk’s SpaceX […]
Canadian Government Forms Research Group to Develop New Uses for Aluminium in Ground Transport Sector
Recognizing the inexpensive, sustainable, and lightweight nature of aluminium, and taking advantage of the fact that domestic smelters produce more than half of all aluminium used in North America, Canada’s newly-formed ALTec Industrial research R&D Group is working towards merging the country’s aluminium sector’s research on developing new products for ground transportation applications. “By 2020, […]
Steel cannot compete with aluminium in vehicle lightweighting
The lightweighting of automobiles is well underway and that trend will continue throughout the next decade at the very least. Aiming to reduce fuel emissions and meet GHG requirements, automobile manufacturers need to significantly reduce the weight of vehicles, and they have several tools at their disposal. The gradual but increasing use of aluminium alloys […]
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 ...
