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2016 Roundup: Aluminium in the Transportation Highlights

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Transport industry continues to stand aluminium’s demand in 2016. Transportation sector has been the major end use market for aluminium due to its lightweight, flexible, strong, and anti-corrosive properties. The aluminium industry develops and manufacture aluminium products for the transport market manufacturers through the supply chain in the development of vehicle. The use of aluminium helps in weight reduction and fuel economy and improves the aesthetics too. Few days remain until the end of the 2016 let’s look back at the popular stories covering transportation sector.



Automotive aluminium: the light weighting metal

Recent studies conducted across major geographies give clear indication that the use of aluminium auto sheets are on a rising trend. The years of 2014 and 2015 were recognized as inflection points for the switch from traditional steel to aluminium and other light materials in automobiles, including the replacement of advanced high strength steel (AHSS) with aluminium. This was also due to the increasing Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) targets in Europe and USA from 2012 to 2025. Vehicle lightweighting is set to play a critical role in meeting the new CAFE requirements, resulting in a substantial change in engineering methods and use of materials.

1. According to auto industry study, Jaguar has saved 500,000 tons of greenhouse gas pollution through the use of recycled aluminium in its XE. The Coventry-based car maker has been using a closed-loop aluminium recycling process to construct the XE’s body shell, and says that after 12 months of production it has reclaimed more than 50,000 tons of the metal – about the same weight as 200,000 XE body shells or six Eiffel Towers.

2. Novelis was awarded the prestigious European Aluminium Award at the ALUMINIUM 2016 Trade Fair. The award was bestowed upon Novelis for its work in automotive aluminium innovation on the REALCAR (REcycled ALuminium CAR) project in collaboration with Jaguar Land Rover.  The REALCAR program by Jaguar Land Rover is a multi-stakeholder initiative established to create a closed-loop vehicle production model that recycles automobiles at the end of their lifecycles. Novelis AdvanzTM s5754 RC was first introduced in the Jaguar XE series in February 2016and is now featured in all new and legacy Jaguar Land Rover models.
 
3. Jaquar launched its second generation XP in South Africa this week. The car happens to be 190kg lighter than the previous-generation XF. JLR’s smart use of recyclable Novelis aluminium makes the car a sustainable choice.

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4. Ford is set to use more aluminium than ever for its future 2020 Ford Branco. Branco will keep its square look, which made it an icon among its peers, the automaker already uses aluminium for the F-150's body which comes from various suppliers.

5.Ford is set to introduce its latest F-150 SUV with an all-aluminium body in 2017 as 2018 model. The switch to aluminium would not only reduce the overall weight of the vehicle but also improve its performance and fuel economy.

6.According to Ford, it recycles 20 million pounds of aluminium to build 30,000 F-150 bodies a month using closed-loop system at Dearborn Truck Plant.

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7.Porsche has revealed its all-new Panamera four-door aluminium-body super saloon, with a refreshed new look, a tech-laden interior and new, more powerful turbocharged engines fitted with a new eight-speed PDK transmission.

Other automobile companies like Bristol, BMW, Audi have also made significant uses of aluminium in their latest model cars.
 
More aluminium in the sky

Aluminium alloy is the perfect choice for manufacturing aircraft body parts and engines due to its corrosion resistant, high strength, less expensive qualities.
 
1. Amsterdam’s Constellium launched Airware, a technology which lowers density and improves metal properties, helps to optimize structural design, which translates into weight reduction and a corresponding drop in CO2 emissions.

2. Leading car manufacturer Audi is set to launch a lunar rover made with weight-saving 3D-printed aluminium parts by the end of 2017. Audi has developed the vehicle in last two years in collaboration with a space travel group called Part-Time Scientists and entered the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition. The final goal is to facilitate the sending of the co-developed rover to the moon.

3. Honeywell Aerospace a Phoenix-based manufacturer of aerospace parts has commissioned a new aluminium 3D printer laboratory. Aluminium is a preferred metal for manufacturing aerospace parts because of its lightweight and anticorrosive qualities. The facility uses lasers, electron beams and sand to print a variety of parts in nickel and now they will be using the technology to make aluminium aerospace parts.

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4. Nasa publishes details of radical 'proton power' system that could send a spacecraft to the edge of the solar system in just 10 years. The slowly spinning spacecraft will use 10-20 electrically charged aluminium wires. They hope to test this new system or spacecraft by 2020.

Revolutionizing the Railways

The Indian railway ministry is endorsing the proposal of the Aluminium Association of India to manufacture aluminium rail coaches after conducting a techno-eco study recently. Coaches made of aluminium will be much lighter and faster.

1. After the successful trial run of Talgo train, Indian Railway Ministry is decisive about procuring 300 light-weight aluminium coaches from the market to for faster inter-city travelling. According to the railway ministry sources, a global tender will soon be floated to acquire lightweight aluminium trains.

2. Aluminium is expected to acquire a permanent place in the Indian high speed train sector, as the light-weight train uses less energy and moves faster in comparison to steel coaches.

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3. Indian Railways have taken a decision to use a span made of Aluminium alloy in a steel rail bridge. Railways would replace the ageing Scherzer’s span, designed by a German Engineer, at the century-old Pamban Rail Bridge with an aluminium alloy span that will be strong durable and corrosion free.

Lighter, portable vehicles- aluminium changes the transport sector

Aluminium is replacing other metals and materials in vehicles. Transport sector generates 25% of man-made greenhouse gas emissions. The reduction of the weight of transportation vehicles improves fuel efficiency, and reduces energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

1. Norway based Sapa AS has announced signing of an agreement with Sweeden's Chargestorm whereby the downstream aluminium manufacturer and technology leader provides aluminium profiles for wall-mounted chargers (for electric vehicles) made by the latter. The product is meant to capitalize on the now booming electric vehicle market in Europe.

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2. Kirkby Tyres, “one of the largest stockists of truck trailer and industrial wheels in the UK and Ireland," is introducing Accuride forged aluminium wheels for the European market, a brand that occupies top supply positions to American OEMs.

Aluminium has proved indispensable in the transport sector. vehicle makers are constantly using aluminium due to its distinctive combination of high strength. Use of aluminium in the transport industry is expected to increase significantly in 2017.

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