BorgWarner has won its first commercial order for an electric motor developed with aluminium-wire hairpin winding technology. The US automotive supplier will provide the new eMotor to a major Chinese automaker for use in hybrid vehicles, bringing the technology into its first production application. The motor uses aluminium-wire hairpin winding technology and is designed for hybrid vehicles. Its applications include generator motors and traction motors for auxiliary drive systems, with production scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2026. Explore AL Circle’s report ALuminium Wires & Cables - Insights & Forecast to 2030 for insights into aluminium applications, industry developments and opportunities across the electrical sector . Compared with conventional copper-wire motors with...
Getting a clean, smooth finish while removing material quickly is not always easy when machining high-strength aluminium alloys. A new study on AA7075-T6 aluminium alloy has explored this challenge, identifying two different sets of drilling conditions to improve surface quality and maximise machining productivity. The research examined how cutting speed, feed rate and drill depth influence conventional drilling performance. Using response surface methodology and a central composite design, the researchers developed predictive models to determine how changes in these parameters affect the machining process. The models showed a strong level of accuracy, with coefficients of determination (R²) reaching 0.9731 for surface roughness and 0.9359 for material removal rate. Further confirmation...
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Putting all speculations to rest the government of India said yesterday, June 28, that it is not considering privatising National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco); rather, it is facilitating the PSU with its INR 5,540 crore worth expansion plan that would make it a leading aluminium producer of the country. In a statement Ministry of Mines said, "It has come to the notice of the government regarding a news item appearing in some section of the Press that Government of India is trying to privatise the National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) through buyback and offer for sale (OFS). Due to such news items, NALCO is facing agitation by its workers.” "NALCO is a prestigious Navratna Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE) and the central government appreciates its role in the progress of...
Japan is one of the biggest aluminium consumers in Asia. The country’s aluminium flat rolled production is on upward trend. The total FRP production in the country was estimated at 1,249.9 thousand tonnes last year. In January 2017, the production reached 91.8 thousand tonnes, rising 2.5 per cent from 89.6 thousand tonnes in the same period previous year. Japan’s export of aluminium plates, sheets and strips is also forecasted to be increased in Q2 2017-18. {newsStudioGallery} According to the data released by the Japan Aluminium Association, the shipments of rolled aluminium products to domestic and overseas markets rose 3 per cent from a year ago to 174,890 tonnes in May, marking third consecutive month of year-on-year growth. As shown by our data, Japan exported 68417 tonnes of...
On June 22, the Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC) testified at the public hearing of the Section 232 Investigation on the Effects of Imports of Aluminum on U.S. National Security. For decades aluminum extrusions have been used in military applications ranging from plated material designed to protect American soldiers from IEDs to key components in the next generation of warplanes. Furthermore, nearly 40% of all extrusions consumed in the U.S. go into applications identified by Homeland Security as critical infrastructure. In 2010, the Aluminum Extruders Fair Trade Committee on behalf of the U.S. aluminum extrusion industry successfully filed for protection from the unfair and illegal trade practices of China. Those orders, finalized in April 2011, have brought much-needed relief to the...
Global high purity alumina market is slated to witness a significant demand boost. The market which was valued at US$1,784 million in 2015 is forecasted to reach US$5,816.2 million by 2022, growing at a CAGR of 18.5 per cent, stated a recently published market research report by Market.Biz. Asia-Pacific region with China from the forefront will pose as the biggest growth engine for the market. 4N category will account for the largest share of revenues; and LED will account for the largest share of consumer market during the period under review, the report stated. High purity alumina (HPA), also known as non-metallurgical grade aluminium oxide (Al2O3) is a highly pure form of aluminium oxide with purity level ranging from 99.99% to 99.9999%. The mineral is mostly used in industrial and...
The prices for A00 Aluminium Ingot for all provinces in the China markets (North, South, North-East and South-West) have registered a rise for two consecutive days after the last drop on June 27 2017. On June 29 2017, among the domestic markets, the average prices for A00 Aluminium Ingot for North China market have increased from RMB 13,700/ t on June 28 to RMB 13,800/t . A00 Aluminium Ingot at South China market jumped from RMB 13,825 /t on June 28 to RMB 13,860/t on June 29. The price in East China market (Zhejiang) jumped from RMB 13,700 /t on June 28 to RMB 13,805/t on June 29 and for Jiangsu province it increased from RMB 13,705 /t to RMB 13,775/t . For the Northeast China market, the price increased from RMB 13,680 /t on June 28 to RMB 13,770/t today. For the Southwest China market,...
The Chinese government is continuing to push for wide-scale aluminium supply side reform. After China Hongqiao Group, the biggest aluminium producer in China, announced curtailment of its outdated capacity a few days back, it is time now for another aluminium giant Shandong Weiqiao Group to walk the same path. The company, also a subsidiary of China Hongqiao Group , announced that it will cut aluminium capacity by 250,000 tonnes. This decision comes as a huge boost to the government’s aluminium supply side reform initiatives. Unnamed sources say that Weiqiao has already started executing its plans, but there were no official confirmation prior to this. Shanghai Metals Market (SMM) learnt that the aluminium supply reforms will take much longer than it was expected. While on one hand,...
The European Aluminium Foil Association (EAFA) has elected Bruno Rea, commercial director at Laminazione Sottile Group of Italy, as the new president at the Association’s summer conference in Bilbao, Spain. Bruno Rea said, “The industry enjoyed a record breaking 2016 and the economic outlook, both in Europe and the rest of the world, is very positive. In all the core markets for aluminium foil, such as packaging and construction, the story is one of increasing demand and new opportunities for growth.” The European Aluminium Foil Association (EAFA) is the international body representing companies engaged in the rolling and rewinding of alufoil and in the manufacture of aluminium closures, alufoil semi-rigid containers and of all kind of flexible packaging. “EAFA has a strong voice thanks...
A press release from the Every Can Counts initiative says that their members would now make the general public aware of the sorting of cans outside their residences by conducting events on major events, offices, schools, beaches or public spaces. They aim to count on each citizen to do his/her part in improving on the environment and to make sure that each can count. Every Can Counts was launched in England in 2009 at the initiative of the aluminium and steel can manufacturers, which is now active in twelve European countries. Although the beverage can is the most recycled packaging in the world, much effort is still needed to ensure that all cans end up in the right sorting bin for proper recycling, like the Blue PMC bag in Belgium. In Liège and Libramont in Belgium, the Every Can Counts...
Ghana’s Senior Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo yesterday said at a conference in London after coming from China, that it has inked a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with China for the development of country’s bauxite industry. “To develop the bauxite project with its railway and converting bauxite into aluminium we will need about $10 billion … we signed an MOU.” “The money will come from the Chinese Development Bank; the implementation of the project will come from other agencies, infrastructure agencies in China, like China Railway,” he added. The project includes construction of 1,400 km of a proposed 4,000 km railway network. The railway network would connect bauxite mines and production sites as well as establish a rail link into neighboring Burkina Faso. In March this year, the Minister...
LME aluminium has finally reversed its downtrend- but will this uptick extend into a sustained uptrend? Unlikely- suggests technical analysis by market experts. The lightmetal which had touched the monthly low of US$1,855 per tonne earlier this week rose to US$1,886 per tonne after night trading on Wednesday, June 29, up 1.34 per cent from its previous close of US$1,861.50 per tonne. Shanghai Metals Market observes that LME aluminium will struggle between the 20-day and 10-day moving averages and range at US$1,889-1,904 per tonne on Thursday, June 29. Reuters’ technical analysis suggests that LME aluminium may retrace to as low as US$1,756 per tonne over the next three months. As on June 28, LME official cash buyer aluminium price stands at US$1,885.50 per tonne, cash seller & settlement...
Ecotourism & Conservation Society of Malaysia (Ecomy) has urged for the assignment of an independent group in order to monitor the bauxite mining in Kuantan, Malaysia. Ecomy is in favour of harmonised bauxite mining in the city with proper considerations of public health and environmental degradation. “Bauxite mining must be harmonised with nature and this can be done through regular monitoring by the independent group,” Andrew Sebastian, co-founder and CEO of the Ecotourism & Conservation Society of Malaysia (Ecomy) told FMT. Andrew Sebastian stated over extension of bauxite mining moratorium in Pahang, “This is a good time to take stock of what happened and to ensure all the possible loopholes within the processes of the EIA (Environment Impact Assessment) that have been uncovered in...
Russian news agency Interfax reported that the country’s energy ministry on Tuesday June 27 said that the Rusal smelters at Novokuznetsk, Khakass, Sayanogorsk, Bratsk, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk had lost power due to power outages at the Boguchansk HPP and Berezovskaya power plants. However, UC RUSAL announced through a press release that all production facilities that have been impacted by certain power disruptions in Siberia are operating normally. The statement confirms that the company has successfully handled the power disruptions in the 500kV transmission lines in Siberia on June 27, which however, resulted in the temporary loss of power at RUSAL’s smelters. According to the company statement, all potlines in the smelters are now operating normally and their team has been able to avoid...
The Indonesian government has proposed to extend the safeguard duty on aluminium-zinc coated steel sheet for a further three years, which was set to expire this year. The government apprised the World Trade Organization (WTO) about the extension plan with different tax rates each year, cnmn.com reported. The tax rate is $245 per tonne in the first year, $185 per tonne in the second year, and $126 per tonne in the third year. The related products are aluminium-zinc coated steel sheet with width above 600mm and thickness below 0.7mm, according to a report published by Shanghai Metals Market. In January this year, the Indonesian government was considering to extend the safeguard duty on aluminium-zinc-coated flat steel imports. In 2014, the country’s financed ministry announced that the...
Prolyte Products, a subsidiary of the Dutch group Prolyte, which manufactures aluminium systems and structures for events commissioned a new production plant in Piatra Olt, Olt county in southern Romania. Prolyte Group is a world leading manufacturer of hardware products and structural solutions for the entertainment industry including aluminium truss and scenes. It is one of the largest truss manufacturers in the world. Prolyte Products has used a RON 15.7 million (EUR 3.4 million) loan from Romanian state-owned bank EximBank for this project. The new production plant was inaugurated last week. The project was commissioned one year after the group opened its first factory in Piatra Olt which had an investment of over RON 18 million (EUR 3.9 million). It was part of a project co-financed...
The China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association (CNIA) released latest data that showed the aluminium semis production in Shandong and Henan province in the first half of 2017. Shandong province, one of China's major aluminium producing regions, produced 9.77 million tonnes of aluminium semis in H12017, ranking the first place in China. Henan, one of the five major aluminium producing regions in China, produced 8.44 million tonnes of aluminium semis in H12017, ranking the second place in China. Aluminium semis production in Henan Province grew in Q1 2017. Aluminium semis output in the province increased 10.69 per cent from the corresponding period previous year to total at 2.95 million tonnes. The volume accounted for 21.28 per cent of the total Chinese aluminium semis production for the...
Guinea, the country with the highest bauxite reserves in the world amounting to 7.4 billion tonnes, is racing past many countries to become a key exporter of bauxite globally. It is ramping up its production fast to cater to the growing demand of bauxite in China. In the initial five months of 2017, bauxite export from the country to China reached 9.4 million tonnes, up 164.5 per cent from the corresponding period previous year. In May alone, Guinea bauxite export to China reached 2.2 million tonnes, up 131 per cent from last year and down 4.3 per cent from the previous month. According to the international export-import statistics, bauxite export from Guinea was estimated at 28 million tonnes in 2016. However, the data is not in agreement with the actual annual bauxite output of the...
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Spot Alumina prices in major China markets have remained unchanged for a fortnight now. Since mid-June, there has been no change in the daily average prices. The average spot alumina price in South China market dropped from RMB 2,610/t to RMB 2,600 on June 28. In the North China market, spot alumina prices remain unchanged at RMB 2,660/t on June 28. Market price difference between North China and South China also dropped to RMB 50/t today from RMB 60/t. The drop is alumina in the South China market was driven by relatively low bauxite prices in Guangxi, one of the bauxite producing regions in South China. For all other markets (East China & Central China) alumina prices remain unchanged. Chalco alumina prices and average imported alumina prices remain flat at RMB 2,650/t and RMB 2,800/t....
Major India aluminium scrap commodity prices registered a drop on the Scrap Register Index on Monday, June 26, while aluminium futures prices showed no change at the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX). The market focus was on rising aluminium supply, higher inventories, and surging exports from China. The output costs of the primary metal in India’s domestic market, however, were recorded at lows. India aluminium scrap commodities which showed a clear downtrend on the Index were aluminium rod company, aluminium rod local, aluminium sheet cutting, aluminium utensil scrap and aluminium wire scrap. Other aluminium scrap commodities remained unchanged at their previous price levels. On MCX, the most active June aluminium contract remained flat at INR 120 per kilogram on Monday, June 26. The MCX...
