Aluminium alloy powder production for additive manufacturing is set to expand through a new technical cooperation agreement between CNPC Powder China Ltd and Xi’an Bright Laser Technologies Co Ltd (BLT). The agreement covers the production and international distribution of BLT-AlAM400, an aluminium alloy powder developed for applications in humanoid robotics, new energy vehicles (NEVs), aerospace and other industrial sectors. Under the agreement, BLT has authorised Shanghai-based CNPC Powder to manufacture BLT-AlAM400 on a contract basis in China and sell the powder internationally. CNPC Powder has also secured exclusive overseas agency rights, excluding BLT’s direct sales network and existing regional agents. With an annual powder production capacity of almost 10,000 tonnes, CNPC Powder...
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...
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Aluminium downstream products comprise a key export commodity of Austria. The country ships extruded aluminium ingots of both alloyed and non-alloyed varieties to the European as well as global product manufacturers. According to a recent market report, automotive industry followed by packaging and electricals are the main demand drivers of Austrian aluminium industry. Due to a recent surge in the domestic demand for aluminium extrusions, the country’s export volume has been on declines over the last three years. With downstream aluminium manufacturers scaling up their capacities, the export is expected to surge in the next five years. {newsStudioGallery} Austria exported 231,572.5 tonnes of aluminium alloy ingots in 2014. In the next financial year, the volume declined slightly by one...
Aluminium convenience food packaging company i2r has opened a new warehouse at its manufacturing facility in Telford. Jon West, commercial director of i2r has spent around £1.5m for the extension of building and same amount on press capacity and tooling in 2016. At present, the packaging solution company has 13 aluminium lines and five paper lines that will rise to 15 and nine respectively in 2017. Last year, i2r grew 16 per cent and the company is expecting to reach 17 per cent in 2017. Jon West commented: “We will be the second manufacturer, and are confident of taking market share. We have secured significant contracts for tulip wraps – in the UK and overseas. We are the only UK manufacturer of paper and foil packs in this field.” He added that food packaging sector has made growth in...
Preliminary estimates by Aluminum Association indicate that aluminium demand in the United States and Canada that includes shipments by domestic producers plus imports stood at an estimated 24,296 million pounds for the f first 11 months of 2016. This records a 2.1 per cent increase over the same period of last year. Demand for semi-fabricated (mill) products records a slight increase to stand at 17,031 million pounds. Apparent consumption (demand minus exports) is estimated at 21,406 million pounds for the first nine month of 2016, up 1.1 per cent from the same period of 2015. Preliminary shipments of Aluminum Extruded Products (extruded shapes, pipe & tube, and rod & bar) by U.S. and Canadian producers totalled 5,160.6 million pounds for the full year 2016, up slightly over the 2015...
Rolls Royce has secured a contract to supply MTU diesel engines for six new search and rescue (SAR) vessels for the Turkish Coast Guard, the company said on 19 January. The search and rescue (SAR) vessels are made of aluminium. MTU is the core brand of Rolls-Royce Power Systems. The SAR vessels to be constructed by Damen Shipyards and each will be powered by two 8-cylinder MTU Series 2000 engines. The boats will assist rescue migrants along with Turkish coast from the crisis area. The MTU engine will keep operating the vessels even in extreme occasion. Knut Müller, Head of the Marine and Government Business Division at MTU said: "We have designed our engines specifically for such difficult operational conditions, including the unlikely event of capsizing.” The aluminium hull design is...
According to the Aluminum Association reports, new can stock (class) scrap receipts in USA stood at 53.6 million pounds during December 2016. This records a slight decrease from the December 2015 total of 54.0 million pounds. In a month on month comparison, scrap receipts increased six-tenths of one per cent over the November 2016 total of 53.3 million pounds. Preliminary can stock (class) scrap receipts for the full year 2016 totalled at 685.1 million pounds, slightly up over the 2015 total of 681.2 million pounds.
Further to its press release of January 16, 2017, Orbite Technologies Inc. today provides an update on the company's progress with the production of high purity alumina ("HPA"). In an earlier production run announced on January 16, 2017, close to 2 tonnes of HPA was produced over 3 days. Feedstock material fed to the calcination section of the plant consisted of aluminium chloride hexahydrate ("ACH") with a purity of approximately 4N7 (HPA equivalent), produced in the digestion and crystallization sections of the plant. The purity of the HPA produced using this source material was also approximately 4N7. This indicates that next to no impurities were picked up in the calcination section of the plant, a significant and better than expected result as an increase of impurities in the first...
LME aluminium is continuing its rise. The contract having risen 1.68 per cent from the previous day's closing of US$1,839 per tonne, ended at US$1,870 per tonne after Monday's night trading. Shanghai Metals Market forecast says LME aluminium may meet some resistance and hover at US$1,830-1,840 per tonne on Tuesday, January 24. As on January 23, LME official cash buyer price of aluminium stands at US$1,868 per tonne, cash seller & settlement price is US$1,870 per tonne, 3M buyer price is US$1,861 per tonne, 3M seller price is US$1,863 per tonne, Dec1 buyer price is US$1,885 per tonne, and Dec1 seller price is US$1,890 per tonne. The current LME official Opening Stock of aluminium is estimated at 2298625 tonnes, total Live Warrants is 1628600 tonnes, and Cancelled Warrant is 660675 tonnes....
Arconic Inc. confirms through a press release that the company will announce its fourth quarter 2016 and full year 2016 financial results on Tuesday, January 31, 2017. The presentation materials and press release will be available in the “Investors” section of Arconic’s website after the New York Stock Exchange has closed on January 31. The conference call and webcast will begin at 5:00 PM EST. The conference call of the results will be hosted by Klaus Kleinfeld, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Arconic and Ken Giacobbe, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Webcast will also be available on the “Investors/Events and Presentations” section of the Arconic website. A replay of the call will be available on the same section from January 31 at 8:30 PM EST until February...
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), the Bahrain-based international aluminium smelter, was the proud winner of the 2017 Occupational Excellence Achievement Award and the 2017 Significant Improvement Award by the National Safety Council (NSC) – USA. These wins endorse the Company’s long-standing commitment to Safety as well as its efforts in creating a safe working environment for its employees and contractors alike. The NSC Occupational Excellence Achievement Award is granted to organisations that meet strict criterions based on the results in their safety performance in accordance with the OSHA requirements in the USA. Commenting on winning this accolade, the Chief Executive Officer Tim Murray, said: “Alba's track record for promoting good health and Safety at the workplace has been truly...
Herbert smith Freehills and Allens, the noted international law firms, have suggested AGL on the power deal that the company signed on recently. Silverton Wind Farm and the aluminium smelter in Victoria are the two deals that these law firms have suggested on. HSF suggested AGL on the 200MW Silverton Wind Farm project that the company signed a few days back on its delivery, planning and land while Allens suggested on its sale and project financing of the wind farm venture worth $450 million. The HSF also suggested AGL on a new four-year electricity supply agreement to the Portland Smelter Joint Venture in Portland, Victoria. Alcoa of Australia, Marubeni Aluminium Australia and CITIC Nominees jointly operate the aluminium smelter. The law firm said that the parties are under pressure to...
Egypt is set to become home to a new aluminium composite panel manufacturing unit, announced Trade Minister Tarek Kabil on Sunday. China's Guangzhou Goodsense Decorative Building Materials Co. Ltd. will be setting up a factory at an aggregated cost of US$100 million. The ministry said in an official release that a 16,000 square-metre area has been allocated for the Egyptian-Saudi-Chinese joint venture in the industrial zone of Ataqa in Suez Governorate. Photo Courtesy: Egyptian trade ministry The Chinese firm specializing in aluminium building components and composite panel production aims to "benefit from the available major competitive advantages represented in the [Egyptian] market that exceeds 90 million consumers, and also benefit from several free trade agreements signed between...
Bajaj Auto has launched two bikes for 2017 models of the KTMC RC- the new RC 390 and the new RC 200. The RC200 features a new paint scheme with graphics mimicking its elder sibling; the colour design is dissimilar though. The KTM RC 390 gets an aluminium side-slung exhaust. The updated RC 390 receives mechanical update and advanced technologies. It is equipped with the CAN (Controller Area Network) bus in the bike and EVAP system that prevents vaporised fuel losses. The RC 390 mode is powered by a 373.3cc engine that produces 43.5PS of power and 36Nm of torque, 1Nm increase as compared to its previous model. It gets a bigger 320mm front disc brake and ride-by-wire technology which gives the bike a better throttle response. The Austrian motorcycle maker KTM has launched the new RC 390 and...
Italy is the second largest aluminium market in Europe just after Germany with consumption amounting to 2 million tonnes per annum. As pointed out by Mr. Fabrizio Ciampoli, CEO of All Metal Services, Italy, in the recently held Aluminium and New Materials roundtable at the Bengal Global Business Summit in Kolkata on January 20, the European nation produces zero primary aluminium but boasts a secondary aluminium production volume of 4.5 million tonnes per annum. Most of the aluminium produced here is used by the domestic aluminium rolled product manufacturers and automotive industry. However, given the increasingly strong demand of these industries, Italy has to import aluminium scrap from the international market as well. {newsStudioGallery} Italy’s aluminium scrap imports have been...
TeamIndus, a Bengaluru-based space start-up, has offered an opportunity to the citizens of India to drop their names on the moon on small-sized aluminium objects. TeamIndus’s innovative technology involves procedure of engraving people’s names on small-sized aluminium objects and placing them on the moon’s surface during the next mission. The name plate plan on aluminium device is a part of a crowd-funding effort. TeamIndus is charging INR 500 for sending names on the lunar surface. The mission is scheduled on 28th December 2017. The ISRO’s PSLV rocket will travel 3.84 lakh kilometres from earth and will make a soft landing on the moon on January 26, 2018. During landing, the aluminium device with names engraved on it will be put on the surface. The robotic rover will send back photos and...
LME aluminium kept logging higher till the end of last week as dollar index was at its low. The contract closed at US$1,839 per tonne after Friday's night trading, edging higher by 0.32 per cent from the previous day. Shanghai Metals Market forecast says LME aluminium will keep firm and scale at US$1,830-1,870 per tonne range on Monday, January 23. As on January 20, LME official cash buyer price of aluminium stands at US$1,838.5 per tonne, cash seller & settlement price is US$1,839 per tonne, 3M buyer price is US$1,832 per tonne, 3M seller price is US$1,833 per tonne, Dec1 buyer price is US$1,860 per tonne, and Dec1 seller price is US$1,865 per tonne. The current LME official Opening Stock of aluminium is estimated at 2300375 tonnes, total Live Warrants is 1654875 tonnes, and Cancelled...
Novelis Deutschland GmbH awarded Tenovo, worldwide partner for innovative, reliable solutions in metals and mining, the Final Acceptance Certificate (FAC) for a state-of-the-art aluminium automotive finishing line at the Nachterstedt Plant in Germany at the end of 2016. Novelis, world’s leading supplier of aluminium flat rolled products, has invested $85 million to increase company’s annual production capacity by 120,000 tons of automotive sheet and will offer high-quality automotive sheet of alloys used in lightweight vehicle structures and body panels to the worldwide buyers. Nachterstedt Plant is located next to Novelis' existing rolling mill and the world's largest aluminium recycling centre. The aluminium automotive finishing line is processing automotive aluminium coils having a...
The Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO), owned by the government of Ghana, will be resurrected by the government in order to attain ideal capacity. In recent years, the Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO) has faced challenges in energy supply and huge debts. Mr Yaw Osafo Maafo, Senior Minister Designate said that the government will implement measures to restore production capacity at the VALCO. He said the country needs VALCO because “we need to push the aluminium integrated project concept.” He told the Appointments Committee on Friday, VALCO’s problem is availability of power”, adding that Ghana has “a lot of bauxite and we must go back to integrate it by converting bauxite to alumina to enable VALCO use it. He further stated, "It is an integration the government has mentioned in the manifesto...
The Roundtable Conference on Aluminium and New Materials: The Investment in Technology held yesterday at ITC Sonar Bangla Hotel, Kolkata, West Bengal, was a resounding success. Held as a part of the Bengal Global Business Summit 2017 , the event saw AlCircle joining in as an esteemed co-organizer along with leading Italian industrial bodies Metef, VeronaFiere and ArtValley. The LIVE-streaming of the event on AlCircle Facebook page generated an overwhelming response. A large number of stakeholders from within the industry logged in to listen to the experts LIVE, and participated virtually by commenting, ‘liking’, and sharing the event within their circles. Here’s your chance to catch up with all the discussions if you have missed out on the Live-streaming: The discussion opened with Mr....
