Daiki To Build Automotive Aluminium Alloy Plant In South India
A Japanese firm announced plans last week to invest ₹2.5 billion (US$36.1 million) in an aluminium alloy ingot plant to...
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced yesterday the planned upgrade of equipment at Hydro Husnes that will allow it to offer advanced aluminium products to automotive manufacturing customers. Hydro says the NOK150 million (US$17.6 million) investment will consist largely of the...
A Japanese firm announced plans last week to invest ₹2.5 billion (US$36.1 million) in an aluminium alloy ingot plant to...
An Icelandic firm announced the debut of the country’s first vehicle to be made almost entirely of domestically-produced aluminium earlier...
Amsterdam rolled and extruded aluminium leader Constellium N.V. revealed plans earlier this week to expand its extrusion operations at a...
American value-added aluminium firm Arconic Inc. announced yesterday a significant upgrade of the hot-mill facilities at its plant on the outskirts of Knoxville, Tennessee. Per the firm, the US$100-million investment at the plant in the town of Alcoa will update the hot mill equipment on site and add in new downstream equipment intended for use […]
Amsterdam rolled and extruded aluminium leader Constellium N.V. revealed yesterday that it has been chosen as a supplier of aluminium structural components for BMW AG’s newest model, the BMW X Model Sports Activity Vehicles. The company’s contract for supply of aluminium structural components includes the Crash Management System on the X4 and X5, both of […]
Amsterdam rolled and extruded aluminium leader Constellium N.V. announced yesterday that it has been chosen to be the supplier of front Crash Management Systems and other aluminium structural components to the new Mercedes-Benz model A-Class and two derivative vehicles of the Mercedes-Benz A-Class global platform from its plants at Gottmadingen, Germany, and San Luis Potosí, […]
German automaker Audi AG is marking five years of production at its Münchsmünster facility, which has been producing diecast aluminium components for a wide range of Audi, VW, Bentley, and Lamborghini production models. Begun in the fall of 2013, the Münchsmünster facility now employs 900 individuals across three shifts. Last year the site produced 25 […]
Endurance Technologies Ltd, through its subsidiary Endurance Overseas Srl., Italy (EOSrl), is now the proud owner of Italian aluminium die casting firm Fonpresmetal Gap SpA (Fonpresmetal). The auto-components maker announced the €8.16-million (US$9.3 million) deal in a stock exchange disclosure earlier this week. Per the disclosure, Fonpresmetal will be re-christened Endurance Castings SpA. Its aluminium […]
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 ...
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both ...
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...