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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There was no immediate threat of "serious injury" to the domestic aluminium industry from the shipments of aluminium products sailing in from China and countries in South East Asia and Middle East, said Directorate General of Safeguard, India, today in its final findings on 'safeguard investigation' concerning imports of 'Unwrought Aluminium (Aluminium not alloyed and Aluminium alloys).' Saying there was no need to impose a safeguard duty on certain aluminium products as sought by the primary producers like Vedanta and Hindalco, DGS rejected their contention outright. The DGS, under the Finance Ministry, said there was data showing import decreasing over the last three years while production and sales of Domestic Industry (DI) have increased. As LME aluminium prices have reversed their...
United Arab Emirates is the global leader in export of aluminium alloys. The country has doubled its export capabilities in the last 5 years. Global Aluminium (EGA) which was formed by the merger of EMAL and DUBAL is the major producer of aluminium alloys in UAE. {newsStudioGallery} Most of EGA's annual production is value-added products, with about 90 per cent of total production being exported across the world. Alloy billets make up 46 per cent of EGA’s total production. A large proportion of the annual production is cast in highly extrudable 6063 alloy. The two operations of EGA at Jebel Ali and Al Taweelah manufacture high purity aluminium in the form of ingots for high-precision use in the electronics and aerospace industries. They also produce a range of alloys for automotive...
Aluminium recycling has improved the quality of lives for hundreds of villagers in Vietnam's Nam Truc District in Northern Province of Nam Ðinh. Ever since the residents here started using recycled aluminium for making handicraft items their livelihood has changed- changed for the better. For more than 30 years now, people living in Bình Yên Village located near the Nam Ninh Hai River have been successfully collecting and recycling aluminium cans, containers, and used household items with a capacity of waste amounting to over 1,500 tonnes per month. Presently, more than 300 households in the village are associated with the profession. Every day, about 1,000 odd labourers collect aluminium beverage cans to make trays, pots, basins and other household items of daily use. Most of the...
BMW luxury brand unit Rolls-Royce plans to develop and test a new super luxury SUV made of new aluminium space frame and body underpinning all future new cars going on sale from 2018 and on. In the last few decades, the use of aluminium in automotive technology has increased. Aluminium provides both strength and lightweight properties which can enhance fuel efficiency. An aluminium body frame can absorb a higher energy crash impact better despite the lightweight structure. In February 2015, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars announced that the model would use aluminium space-frame architecture. Torsten Müller-Ötvös, Chief Executive Officer, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars said, "Bringing together the new four-wheel drive system and the new 'architecture of luxury' for the first time sets us on the road to...
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As the U.S. Federal Reserve readies to end the year with Interest Rate Hike to be decided in today's policy meeting, markets take guard with wary sentiment. Crude oil prices, on the other hand, have jumped by 4.82%, sitting at US$56.95/bbl. The price rally in the benchmark oil prices got reflected in LME aluminium prices which were up 0.2% at US$1,755/mt on December 13, in a mixed day. However, the market as of now is cautious ahead of the announcement of Fed’s interest rate decision, and Shanghai Metals Market analysts say base metals including aluminium will move weakly in the short term. The contract will test support at the 5 and 20-day moving averages and will move at US$1,730-1,750/mt on Wednesday. As on December 12, CASH Buyer price of aluminium stands at US$1749/mt, CASH Seller &...
Global technology, engineering and advanced manufacturing leader Arconic has signed more than $450 million in long term agreements over the past year with customers in North America , South America, Europe and Asia for its forged aluminum wheels. The largest is a long-term agreement with PACCAR, a global leader in the design, manufacture and customer support of high-quality light-, medium- and heavy-duty trucks. Arconic will supply forged aluminum Alcoa® wheels for PACCAR trucks under the Kenworth and Peterbilt nameplates. “This new agreement builds on our decades-long partnership with PACCAR to deliver premium performance wheels to PACCAR customers,” said Merrick Murphy, President of Arconic Wheel and Transportation Products. “Our forged aluminum truck wheels are the lightest commercial...
LOFTEK 50W has launched a multi coloured LED flash light primarily made out of an aluminium die-cast alloy shell and tempered glass. It has a standard look of an LED flashlight with a strong aluminium body. The front consists of a black aluminium die-cast alloy frame, thicker on the bottom with the LOFTEK logo imprinted in it. A clear tempered glass piece is inset in the middle with a silver reflective back surface which angles inwards towards the central LED lighting component. The back is comprised of a thicker black aluminium die-cast alloy piece with fins on the back and the power cord is attached to the middle of the bottom of the back. Sandwiched in between the two black pieces are a thin yellow metal piece, and an adjustable yellow metal stand is attached to the back piece on each...
National Aluminium Company (Nalco) expects its aluminium output to rise 3.5% by the end of FY 2016/17 in the face of growing domestic consumption and rising prices, as told by NALCO Chairman Tapan Kumar Chand to Reuters. The state owned company will end the fiscal year with an aluminium output of 385,000 tonnes, about 3.8% higher than the 372,000 tonnes it produced in FY2015/16. "Nalco is ramping up this production ... to take advantage of growing consumption in the domestic market, and ... to take volume variance," said NALCO Chairman Tapan Kumar Chand. According to him it was the narrow profit margins that have prompted the company to increase production volumes to boost profits. In order to increase the aluminium capacity, the company is raising its alumina output by 9.1% in FY 2016/17...
Emirates Global Aluminium today announced that the first bauxite bulk sample shipment from its mine under development in the Republic of Guinea has left from the port of Kamsar, bound for bauxite customers in China. The shipment of 55,000 tonnes is an important milestone in EGA’s programme to unlock Chinese and other markets for Guinean bauxite. EGA is the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside the oil industry. Guinea Alumina Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EGA, is currently building a major bauxite mine in Guinea in the largest greenfield investment in that country for four decades. With construction now fully underway, commercial production of bauxite is set to begin in 2018 and ramp up to 12 million tonnes of bauxite per annum. As part of the project,...
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Developmental work at Rio Tinto's Amrun bauxite project is gathering pace. The global metals and mining giant has awarded a $160 million worth works contract for the $2.6 billion worth bauxite project in North Queensland's Weipa to Civmec. The construction firm will build a bauxite processing facility including bauxite beneficiation plant and associated water, electrical and lighting systems and shiploader at the site near Cape York Peninsula. The Amrun bauxite project will also see Civmec mobilising 11,800 tonnes of Australian steel and precast concrete from its manufacturing facilities in Newcastle, New South Wales and Henderson, Western Australia to the site. According to the company sources, construction of the facilities is scheduled to start immediately and will see completion...
Silvio Porto is appointed new Executive Vice President Bauxite and Alumina, and member of Hydro's Corporate Management Board. The change is effective as of December 13, 2016. Silvio Porto comes from the position as Chief Operational Officer (COO) in Bauxite and Alumina. He joined Hydro in 2014, when he was appointed plant manager for Hydro Paragominas bauxite mine. Porto has more than 30 years' experience from the aluminium industry with management positions in bauxite mining, alumina refineries and aluminium smelters. Porto replaces the interim head of Bauxite & Alumina, Chief Financial Officer Eivind Kallevik, who fully resumes his CFO position.
Last week’s International WorkBoat Show in New Orleans saw the launch of aluminium rigid-hulled inflatable boat by Brunswick Commercial & Government Products (BCGP) The 850 Aluminium Impact (Rigid Inflatable Boat) is the introductory model from a first-of-its-kind boat series that features five variants ranging in size from 7.5 meters (24′) to 12 meters (40′) within a power range of 300 hp to 700 hp. Designed for the commercial and government use, BCGP will market the new boats to domestic law enforcement agencies as well as militaries globally. “We are happy to introduce the Aluminium Impact line here at the International WorkBoat show,” said Jeremy Davis, BCGP director of sales. “This international stage provides us the opportunity to showcase the new aluminium boat’s capabilities to...
General Cable Corporation has confirmed that it will shut its New Zealand manufacturing and support operations in 2017, while axing the jobs of 170 employees. The company had announced a proposal to wind down the local unit in November and eventually converted it into a shut down. Manufacturing at Christchurch head office site is expected to continue until the end of March 2017, with sales of special products sourced from the international network of General Cable for special projects to continue after the closure. The 170 employees affected by the closure will receive full redundancy entitlements in line with their employment agreements. General Cable Holdings New Zealand, the local holding company, reported a loss of $8.5 million on sales of $163.9m in calendar 2015, compared to a loss...
According to the preliminary data released by the General Administration of Customs, China's exports of unwrought aluminium and aluminium semis were 380,000 mt in November, with YTD exports from January to November at 4200,000 mt, down 3.1 per cent year-over-year. If we look at the year-over-year trend of aluminium semis exports, we can see a rise in shipment volume in 2015 from 2014. In 2016, however, the trend has reversed and an overall decline in the figure is estimated. The earnings from aluminium bar rods, and profiles export have also shown a similar trend- rising YoY in 2015 and declining again in 2016 being faced by international trade violation challenges. {newsStudioGallery} In 2014, China exported a total volume of 0.86 million mt aluminium bar rods, and profiles, which soared...
As reported in the Aluminium Association highlights in cooperation with the Aluminium Association of Canada, primary aluminum production in North America (U.S. and Canada) was at an annual rate of 3,982,153 tonnes during November 2016. This records a drop of 1,438 tpy from the October 2016 rate of 3,983,591 tonnes. The primary aluminium production rate in the U.S. was up 2.9% month on month, while the production rate in Canada was down slightly. On a YOY comparison, the North American annual rate dropped 11.3% than the November 2015 rate of 4,489,013 tonnes. For the period from January to November 2016, actual primary production totalled 3,689,430 tonnes. This records a 9.9% drop from the same period of 2015.
LME Aluminium met resistance after rising for three consecutive days and closed at US$1,749.50/mt on Monday, December 12. Shanghai Metals Market predicts, the contract will move in the range of US$1,725-1,745/mt on Tuesday. The market is now looking ahead to the possible interest rate hike in Fed’s December end policy meeting. Any effect from possible Fed rate hike will be limited to base metals, unless the rate hike unexpectedly shakes global market, analysts believe. This year, base metals price dynamics mainly hinged on China’s demand and capacity restriction this year. The same will continue through 2017 unless any major cutback in Chinese aluminium smelter is announced. In China, aluminium traded on Shanghai Metal Exchange slipped marginally by 0.61 per cent to open at US$1,932/mt on...
Showa Aluminium Can Corporation (SAC), a wholly owned consolidated subsidiary of Showa Denko (SDK) headquartered in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo, will start to produce aluminium sleek cans for beverages in Vietnam from this December. Sleek cans have smaller diameters and taller heights than those of regular cans. Sleek cans are adopted by beverage makers all over the world due to their appealing designs. In Southeast Asia, some foreign affiliated beverage companies in Thailand and Vietnam have started to substitute sleek cans for regular cans, to use them mainly as containers for carbonated beverages. In May 2014, SDK and SAC completed the procedures for jointly acquiring 91.75% of shares in Hanacans Joint Stock Company (Hanacans), a manufacturer of aluminium beverage cans in Vietnam, and made...
The Manufacturers for Trade Enforcement (MTE), a coalition representing more than one million workers in the aluminum, steel, cement, chemical, textile and other manufacturing industries, today expressed appreciation for the U.S. government’s continued commitment to apply its established criteria for determining whether a county is a non-market economy for purposes of the antidumping law. China has claimed that it should automatically receive market economy status following the 15th anniversary of its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on December 11, 2016. However, U.S. law requires that the Department of Commerce (DOC) make a market economy status (MES) determination based on a six factor statutory test. The coalition lauded comments by Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker...
