KAP Minerals and Cymat Technologies are exploring a partnership to produce scandium-aluminium master alloy in Ontario, following the signing of a memorandum of understanding. The partnership would use scandium oxide from KAP’s Kapuskasing critical minerals project and Cymat’s aluminium-processing technology to produce alloys for aerospace, defence and manufacturing applications. To know the global production, demand and consumption forecasts of aluminium extrusions, explore our report " The World of Aluminium Extrusions to 2035 " Scandium-aluminium alloys can improve strength, performance and weldability while reducing weight. The companies aim to use the proposed venture to establish a domestic supply chain, converting Canadian critical minerals into value-added industrial materials....
India’s renewable energy transition is gathering pace, with installed renewable power capacity surpassing 300 gigawatts (GW) in 2026, almost quadrupling over the past decade. The country has also achieved its target of sourcing 50 per cent of installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuel sources five years ahead of schedule, strengthening its position as one of the world’s fastest-growing clean energy markets. The expansion is beginning to deliver measurable energy security benefits by reducing dependence on imported fossil fuels, while competitive renewable power costs and expanding domestic manufacturing are opening new investment opportunities. However, sustaining this momentum will require substantial improvements in electricity transmission, storage infrastructure and...
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Trivium Packaging bagged the Design for a Better World Award from Centro Brasil Design for creating a refillable aluminium cologne bottle for Boticario. The result was a user-friendly, lightweight, and recyclable cologne refill bottle with a unique dropper that came with this cutting-edge packaging was made to suit the original glass container. Trivium created an idea that uses a unique aluminium bottle with a specific dropper to enable the end user to conveniently refill the standard glass. The idea was tested in Boticario's filling line and passed several protection tests for transportation, shelf life, vacuum sealing, and leaking. To ensure the new refill solution had a reduced carbon footprint than competing products—which are often made of plastic—the business performed a lifecycle...
American Aluminium Extrusion has acquired all stocks owned by businessman Diane Hendricks after 22 years of joint ownership held by Sam Popa and the former. Located in Roscoe, Illinois, American Aluminium Extrusion provides the local semitrailer manufacturing industry with aluminium profiles. The age-long collaboration between Sam Popa, owner of American Aluminium Extrusion and Beloit business giant Diane Hendricks ended after the total buy-out was conducted on January 16. The 22 years of joint ownership by Popa's share of American Aluminum Extrusion and Hendricks's group of business holdings will now be listed under Popa Holdings, as was confirmed by Popa. The acquisition also includes the company's manufacturing units in Roscoe and Canton, Ohio. American Aluminium Extrusion successfully...
Rio Tinto Group, the world’s second-largest metals and mining corporation, has published the operational results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2022 ended December 31. In the report, the company noted its aluminium production in Q4 amounted to 783,000 tonnes, witnessing an increase of 3 per cent month-on-month and year-on-year. That brought Rio’s total aluminium output in 2022 to 3.009 million tonnes, down by 4.48 per cent from 3.15 million tonnes last year. The downfall in the annual aluminium production in 2022 was due to reduced output at Kitimat smelter in British Columbia, Canada and Boyne smelter in Queensland, Australia. However, the recovery at both the smelters is progressing and is expected to come into operation at full capacity in 2023. Bauxite production in Q4 stood...
LME aluminium opened at US$2,595 per tonne on Monday and closed at US$2,603.5 per tonne, an increase of US$8.5 per tonne or 0.33 per cent. On January 16, Monday, the LME aluminium cash bid price and the LME aluminium official settlement price glided up by US$92 per tonne or 3.66 per cent, closing at US$2,602.50 per tonne and US$2,603 per tonne. The LME price is on an upward stroll keeping last Friday’s hike in mind. The 3-month bid price witnessed an escalation of US$79.50 per tonne or 3.1 per cent, officially resting at US$2,623.50 per tonne, and the 3-month offer price saw a rise of US$78 per tonne or 3.06 per cent to halt at US$2,624 per tonne. December 24 bid price and December 24 offer price stood at US$2,767 per tonne and US$2,772 per tonne on Monday, with an ascend of US$57 per...
On Monday, January 16, Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) held a programme to commission the Forced Cooling Network (FCN) Project at Potlines 4 and 5. The occasion was attended by Alba's Chairman Shaikh Daij bin Salman bin Daij Al Khalifa and Chief Executive Officer Ali Al Baqali, along with Directors and Managers and concerned teams of the respective area. The FCN project, managed by the in-house Engineering and Operations team, has lifted Alba's amperage to 410 kA at Potlines 4 and 5, enabling the first aluminium smelter in the Middle East to increase production capacity by approximately 17,000 tonnes per annum. Commenting on this occasion, Alba’s Chairman Shaikh Daij bin Salman bin Daij Al Khalifa said: “By chasing operational efficiency, we will attain excellence as we journey to the...
A recycling programme at a New South Wales prison has successfully streamlined 80 tonnes of waste from landfills along with generating crucial funding for homelessness irradicating initiatives. Since 2019, inmates under maximum security from South Coast Correctional Centre have been relentlessly sorting and recycling materials available inside the prison, like their aluminium meal trays, cardboard and drink containers. The programme coordinator, Steve Orton, exclaimed that the drive had unleashed a humungous impact on the prison's environmental footprint. "We've recycled about 56 tonnes of cardboard and about 26 tonnes of co-mingled waste," he stated. "It's quite a lot, and that stuff is not going to landfill anymore," Orton mentioned in a positive tone. "One hundred per cent of that...
Ronald Odur, a famous Ugandan sculptor, uses aluminium plates, copper wires, and acrylics to create his work of art. Themes of his works sculpted in aluminium printing are displayed in his living room. He created a chandelier out of 1200 cast aluminium bullets strung together with copper wires. His other remarkable creations include a passport, a carton of cigarettes, a bottle of moonshine gin, and aluminium replicas of Ugandan currency notes. The only other items in his room are a bible, a stone, and an aluminium-plate television set from 1990. He calls his piece of art Muwawa, which means "without care" in the original Arabic. The Ugandan artist chose copper wires and aluminium printing plates because he wanted his work to be distinctive. Born in 1992, Odur received his education at...
Vedanta Limited lifted its aluminium products and aluminium ingot prices by INR 4,500 per tonne on Saturday, January 14. That brought the company’s aluminium wire rod price to INR 243,000-250,500 per tonne versus INR 238,500-246,000 per tonne on January 12. With the latest hike, Vedanta’s aluminium billet price mounted to INR 244,500 per tonne, compared with INR 240,000 per tonne two days earlier. Vedanta’s aluminium ingot price ranged between INR 235,500- 266,000 per tonne, 2 per cent more than INR 231,000- 261,500 per tonne. Vedanta links its aluminium ingot and aluminium products prices to the three-month futures of aluminium on the London Metal Exchange, which grew by US$64 per tonne or 2.62 per cent from US$2,447 per tonne to US$2,511 per tonne on January 12. Vedanta's aluminium...
The Goldman Sachs Group, a leading global investment bank and financial services company, shared aluminium price forecasts whereby it projected a growth led by soaring demand in Europe and China. But the setback it might create is supply shortages. As per the prediction noted by analysts like Nicholas Snowdon and Aditi Rai, aluminium is likely to average US$3,125 per tonne this year on the London Metal Exchange. This will reflect an increase of US$530 per tonne or 20.42 per cent from the past year’s average price of US$2,595 per tonne and US$562 per tonne or 21.93 per cent higher than the bank’s previous forecast of US$2,563 per tonne. Goldman also shared the metal price would most likely mount to US$3,750 per tonne in the next 12 months. “With visible global inventories standing at just...
Ximi Li Design is a Shanghai-based studio active in multiple fields like creative direction, interior designing and furniture designing. In a recent collaboration with Monochrome, the brand's debut collection, ‘Basic’, was created by Ximi Li, which took a fundamental approach to evaluate the viability of contemporary industrial design applications for an avant-garde result. Li created practical chairs and tables out of thin tubes by folding, bending, and fusing them together using aluminium as the base material. Despite the welding scars and the unpredictable results caused by the material's toughness, the pieces had an elegant, somewhat organic feeling of fluidity that contrasted with their industrial design. Basic, a piece created for Monochrome, a stand-alone division of Urbancraft, a...
Automobile wheel manufacturer from Chennai, Wheels India Ltd, on January 16, declared that it has commenced the export of wheels created by the flow form technology to suffice the requirements of the US market. The company has illustrated that this flow form technology incorporates the utilisation of pressure to the inner barrel of the aluminium wheel while the spinning action is taking place after it has been formally cast. This procedure elongates and compresses the aluminium to augment the tensile strength of the non-ferrous metal. Wheels India is presently crafting its patented wheels using this particular technology to keep up with the fasting-flowing pace of the modernising world. The Managing Director, Srivats Ram, commented: "The Flow Form Technology will be a first in the Indian...
The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) and India's NBR Cooling Systems Pvt Ltd signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Thursday, January 12, establishing a new manufacturing/assembly facility in Guyana that will concentrate on the engine cooling systems for motor vehicles. This agreement will also see the Indian corporation invest about $1 million in Guyanese companies. Transferring, manufacturing and assembling technology for radiator condenser and charge air cooler from India to Guyana would be part of the business framework. The framework will also include the production of radiator condensers and charge air coolers made of aluminium, copper, and brass; importing all the equipment and raw materials needed to produce charge air coolers and radiator condensers;...
Saudi Arabia’s Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu has attested to five investment calls worth SR43 billion (US$11.4 billion) approximately for the construction of major industrial projects in the Arabian cities of Yanbu and Ras Al Khair. The signing of these deals was accomplished under the pretext of the International Mining Conference, housed at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center in Riyadh. The agreement also laid provisions for the Red Sea Aluminium Industrial Company to acquire leased industrial land in Yanbu Industrial City to constitute a unit for the safe smelting and rolling of aluminium and its alloys. The factory shed would also be used for drawing, purifying and casting, alongside the casting of non-ferrous metals, as the Royal Commission mentioned in a...
Hindalco Industries Limited back-to-back hiked its aluminium ingot and aluminium products prices on January 14. Previously, on January 12, Hindalco lifted its aluminium ingot price by INR 3,250 per tonne from INR 226,750 per tonne to INR 230,000 per tonne. On Saturday, January 14, the price was further raised by INR 4,500 per tonne to INR 234,500 per tonne. Hindalco’s aluminium wire rod price also saw an increase of INR 4,500 per tonne on January 14 to INR 245,600 per tonne, following a lift of INR 3,250 per tonne from INR 237,850 per tonne INR 241,100 per tonne. Aluminium billets price also witnessed a hike of INR 4,500 per tonne on January 14 to stand at INR 248,600 per tonne after a rise of INR 3,250 per tonne on January 12 from INR 240,850 per tonne to INR 244,100 per tonne. Hindalco...
In December 2022, the average operating rate of aluminium extruders recorded a month-on-month drop of 1.4 percentage points and a year-on-year decline of 14 percentage points to stand at 36.5 per cent, found the Shanghai Metals Market data. The average operating rate of large enterprises was 37.8 per cent, mid-sized companies 35.8 per cent, and small firms 20.5 per cent. The construction aluminium extrusion sector’s operating rate dipped 1.7 percentage points from the previous month to peg at 32.6 per cent, which on a yearly basis decreased by 18.6 percentage points. The industrial aluminium extrusion sector fell 1.3 percentage points month-on-month but rose 2.2 percentage points year-on-year to come in at 52.3 per cent. The average operating rate of aluminium extruders declined in...
LME aluminium opened at US$2,552 per tonne last Friday and closed at US$2,592.6 per tonne, an increase of US$44.1 per tonne or 1.73 per cent. On Friday, January 13, both LME aluminium cash bid price and LME aluminium official settlement price shot up by US$94.5 per tonne or 3.86 per cent and US$64 per tonne or 2.61 per cent to settle at US$2,510.50 per tonne and US$2,511 per tonne. 3-month bid price and 3-month offer price surged by US$68.5 per tonne or 2.76 per cent and US$70 per tonne or 2.82 per cent to reside at US$2,544 per tonne and US$2,546 per tonne. December 24 bid price and December 24 offer price also hiked by US$60 per tonne or 2.26 per cent and US$2.25 per cent to stand at US$2,710 per tonne and US$2,715 per tonne. LME aluminium opening stock settled at 403250 tonnes. Live...
On January 15, 2023, Emirates Global Aluminium, one of the leading producers of aluminium and the leading beverage producers, can-makers and waste management companies, announced the launch of the Aluminium Recycling Coalition, intending to drive a step-change in aluminium recycling in the UAE. The partnership was launched at EGA in Al Taweelah in the presence of UAE Economy Minister Abdullah Bin Touq Al Marri and UAE Climate Change and Environment Minister Mariam bint Mohammed Saeed Hareb Almheiri. The alliance comprises EGA, Veolia, Aujan Coca-Cola Beverages Company, Coca-Cola Al Ahlia Beverages Company, BEEAH Tandeef, Pepsi-bottler Dubai Refreshment, Crown Bevcan EMEA, Abu Dhabi Waste Management Company (Tadweer), Aujan Coca-Cola Beverages Company. Aluminium is crucial to the...
The usage of aluminium is still growing, expanding in the twenty-first century thanks to the development of advanced alloys that can withstand enormous loads, allowing for the use of strong glass walls that let more light into buildings and skyscrapers. The use of aluminium in architecture has made it possible to construct taller structures with better energy efficiency and lower CO2 emissions. The concept of "green building" is becoming increasingly important in terms of environmentally friendly and sustainable solutions. It is not a surprise that aluminium, one of the most sustainable and energy-efficient building materials, is used extensively in this contemporary ecologically friendly architecture. A new and modern era of lightweight building has been ushered in by aluminium. However,...
