Rio Tinto To Supply BMW With Proprietary Zero-Carbon Aluminium
Anglo-Australian Rio Tinto Group has agreed to supply German automaker BMW AG with low-carbon aluminium this week. Rio Tinto will...
German automaker BMW Group said last week that its new MINI Cooper SE Convertible will feature alloy wheels made entirely from recycled aluminium. The model in question, which consumes 17.2kWh/100 km while releasing 0 g/km of carbon, will be the first series...
Anglo-Australian Rio Tinto Group has agreed to supply German automaker BMW AG with low-carbon aluminium this week. Rio Tinto will...
Norway’s aluminium titan Norsk Hydro ASA has been chosen by Mercedes-Benz to collaborate on a common low-carbon technology roadmap beginning...
Norway’s aluminium titan Norsk Hydro ASA announced an investment of €35.7 million in a new high-strength aluminium press at its...
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) this week certified RONAL GROUP facilities RONAL POLSKA Sp. z o.o. in Wałbrzych, Poland and RONAL AG Headquarters in Härkingen, Switzerland under its Performance Standard V2 (2017) with Material Stewardship focus. Founded in 1969, RONAL GROUP is a major manufacturer of light alloy wheels. The company operates across the complete […]
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 with Tier 1 suppliers and automakers. The new CSC in Novi, Michigan joins […]
European value-added aluminium firm Constellium NV announced this week it has been chosen to provide auto body sheet to Mercedes-Benz AG for its C-Class of compact executive automobiles as they are produced in Europe, China, and South Africa. Constellium will provide two of its aluminium products to Mercedes-Benz, namely its Surfalex line for the outer […]
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced a planned US$15 million expansion of its aluminium remelting facility in Henderson, Kentucky last week. Hydro said in a press release that the capital expenditure would allow the plant to produce advanced aluminium alloys intended for the automotive industry. Among the aluminium products to be produced at the […]
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 […]
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 ...