Alba Debuts New Aluminium Alloy Tailored for Extrusions
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) debuted a new aluminium alloy this week. Alba’s new 6060.HE joins its AA6060 aluminium alloy line,...
Hydro, a leading player in the aluminium and renewable energy sector, is marking its presence at the London Design Festival by exhibiting a sustainable collaboration with famed designer Lars Beller Fjetland. This partnership earlier bore fruit in the form of the Bello!...
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) debuted a new aluminium alloy this week. Alba’s new 6060.HE joins its AA6060 aluminium alloy line,...
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) welcomed Swiss extrusion press manufacturer Alu Menziken Group as its latest Production and Transformation member....
Sweden’s aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced this week a plan for NOK67 million (€6 million) in improvements to its...
Aluminium smelter Constellium SE signed a binding agreement with Belgian industrial group Vaessen Aluminium on the sale of three of Constellium’s extrusion plants in Germany for €48.8 million (US$54.31 million). The three Constellium plants are in Burg, Crailsheim, and Landau and specialize in soft aluminium alloy extruded products. The three plants employ about 450 workers […]
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced last week the certification of Hydro Precision Tubing Reynosa under its Performance Standard. They Reynosa plant obtained Hydro’s first ASI certification in Mexico. The plant, which is just south of the Rio Grande River, opened in 2006. The 320-strong workforce produces aluminium heat exchange solutions mainly to customers in […]
International aluminium trade organization The Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC) released its updated Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for Aluminum Extrusions and the corresponding Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) this week. The organization also released a sensitivity analysis that shows stakeholders how they may reduce the carbon footprint of the products they specify. The EPDs, which are certified […]
Norway’s aluminium titan Norsk Hydro ASA announced an investment of €35.7 million in a new high-strength aluminium press at its plant in Szekesfehervar, Hungary this week. Per the firm, the new automotive aluminium press will join Hydro’s network of automotive aluminium production, which includes its Denmark plant that will be receiving an automotive press of […]
Trade group American Extruders Council (AEC) lauded the U.S. International Trade Commission’s (ITC) unanimous decision this week to extend protections from subsidized aluminium imports from the People’s Republic of China. The ITC’s decision to extend protections for US aluminium extruders came in the five-year sunset review of the protections it enacted in 2017. ITC’s reviews […]
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