Constellium To Provide Aluminium To Mercedes-Benz For C-Class Line
European value-added aluminium firm Constellium NV announced this week it has been chosen to provide auto body sheet to Mercedes-Benz...
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Novelis Opens New Aluminium Customer Solution Center In Suburban Detroit
Atlanta’s rolled aluminium firm Novelis Inc. commissioned its new US$35-million automotive Customer Solution Center (CSC) in suburban Detroit yesterday. The new CSC joins Novelis’s other such centers around the world to shorten the time to market of automotive aluminium solutions by collaborating...
Rio Tinto Plans US$29 MM Addition Of Scrap Aluminium Recycling Facility At Arvida Plant In Quebec
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group announced this week a US$29 million capex to build a new aluminium recycling plant...
Norsk Hydro Plans US$15 MM Expansion To Aluminium Remelting Plant In NW Kentucky
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced a planned US$15 million expansion of its aluminium remelting facility in Henderson, Kentucky...
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Novelis Partners With Sortera Alloys And Breakthrough Energy Ventures On AI Aluminium Scrap Sorting Technology
Fort Wayne, Indiana’s industrial scrap metal sorting and recycling firm Sortera Alloys, Inc. announced late last week US$10 million in funding from Novelis and Breakthrough Energy Ventures to develop new methods for sorting automotive aluminium alloys for end-of-life recycling. Sortera utilizes artificial intelligence to sort mixed aluminium alloy scrap into individual alloys, allowing for quicker […]
EGA Plans Solar-Powered Silicon Metal Production Unit For UAE
Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) announced on Friday a new project to manufacture silicon metal domestically in the United Arab Emirates in order to assure a constant supply for use in producing premium grades of aluminium alloy. At present, the UAE imports the entirety of silicon it uses in industry, and EGA is the country’s […]
Novelis Plans New Automotive Aluminium Recycling Plant For SW Kentucky
Atlanta’s rolled aluminium firm Novelis announced plans yesterday to build a $365 million automotive recycling center outside of Clarksville, Tennessee. Novelis’s new plant in Guthrie, Kentucky will expand its closed-loop recycling operations by reclaiming aluminium from vehicles at the end of their useful lives and aluminium scrap leftover from automotive production and make it reusable […]
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative Grants Gränges Finspång Full Chain Of Custody Certification
Trade group Aluminium Stewardship Initiative announced this week the certification of Gränges aluminium plant at Finspång against its Chain of Custody standard for sustainable aluminium production. The plant was also given full Performance Standard Certification status, replacing the provisional status it was awarded in February of this year. Gränges Finspång AB designs and manufactures rolled […]
Evtec Takes On GFG Alliance Subsidiary Liberty Aluminium Technologies Upon Jaguar Land Rover’s Urging
GFG Alliance sold off two aluminium parts factories last week and will be closing a third after Jaguar Land Rover asked a third party to step in and secure its aluminium parts supply from those plants. Coventry, England’s Evtec has agreed to taking on those sites after JLR’s invitation to do the same. It will […]
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 ...
