Aluminium aerosol cans are significantly less likely to be recovered during recycling operations than conventional drinks cans, according to new research by waste intelligence company Greyparrot. An AI-powered analysis of waste streams found that aluminium aerosols recorded a sorting success rate of 68 per cent, compared with 85.3 per cent for drinks cans, highlighting the challenges faced by recycling facilities in recovering non-beverage aluminium packaging. The findings were generated through Greyparrot's Deepnest platform, which analysed 1.2 billion waste items across facilities in the UK, the US and the Netherlands, including 395,424 aerosols. The results were discussed during a recent webinar involving representatives from waste management company Biffa, packaging manufacturer Ball...
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....
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The world-class bauxite project developer Canyon Resources has received a nearly A$12.1 million strategic placement from Eagle Eye Asset Holdings to advance the development of its Minim Martap bauxite project in Cameroon. Pramod Prusty, the President and CEO of Asset Holding, said on the Strategic Placement, “We are pleased to make this strategic investment into Canyon. We are confident about the future development prospects of the Minim-Martap Project and view Cameroon as the new source of high-grade bauxite supply that will feed the world’s growing demand. Our vision with this investment is to participate in the bauxite and aluminium value chain from Africa, and importantly, we have a successful track record of investing and developing projects in Africa and are looking to repeat this...
The amazing outcomes of heat transfer demonstrations for aluminium coated with THERMAL-XR (TXR) driven by GMG Graphene, as compared to uncoated bare aluminium, have been provided by the Australia-based cleantech company, Graphene Manufacturing Group Ltd (GMG). The business claimed that GMG's THERMAL-XR decreases the surface temperature of aluminium by around 15 per cent at temperatures ranging from 70°C to 90°C. This claim was verified by the University of Queensland Materials Performance Consulting (UQMP). A 10-millimetre (mm) thick aluminium plate was split in two during an experiment. One half of the plate was coated with GMG's THERMAL-XR, while the other was left untreated. The undersides of the two neighbouring plates were then both heated at the same time. According to the business,...
The President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, announced on December 20, 2022, that the nation would ban bauxite exports, the primary ore source of aluminium, starting from June 2023 to boost the domestic processing of the material. Indonesia ranks among the world's largest bauxite suppliers, with China as a significant consumer. The bauxite export ban's timing complies with Indonesia's present mining regulations. During an economic forum, the Indonesian President said Indonesia would announce a ban on commodity exports without disclosing which or a timeframe for implementation. Exports of other unprocessed minerals, such as copper, are prohibited under Indonesia's current mining law. However, the President did not specify when the bans on shipments of the other materials would be implemented....
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) has certified China Hongqiao Group’s subsidiary operation Shandong Hongchuang Aluminium Holding Co., Ltd., along with its three wholly-owned subsidiaries, against the Performance Standard V2 (2017) Certification. Shandong Hongchuang Aluminium Holding Co., Ltd. is primarily engaged in research and development, production and sales of aluminium sheets, strips and foils, including household foils, container foils, blister foil and decorative foil, destined for food and pharmaceutical packaging, architectural decoration, and transportation. It has an annual production capacity of 200,000 tonnes of the roll-casting plate, 200,000 tonnes of the cold rolled plate and 120,000 tonnes of foils. On receiving the certification, Zhang Wei, General Manager at...
LME aluminium opened at US$2,370 per tonne on Tuesday, December 20, with high and low at US$2,410 per tonne and US$2,363.50 per tonne, respectively, before closing at US$2,371.50 per tonne, a gain of US$1.5 per tonne or 0.06 per cent. On Tuesday, December 20, LME aluminium cash bid price slightly grew by US$4 per tonne to settle at US$2,329 per tonne, and LME aluminium official settlement price inched up by US$2.50 per tonne to rest at US$2,329.50 per tonne. 3-month bid price and 3-month offer price increased by US$6.50 per tonne and US$7 per tonne, respectively, to peg at US$2,370 per tonne and US$2,371 per tonne. December 23 bid price and December 23 offer price rose by US$5 per tonne to hover around US$2,453 per tonne and US$2,458 per tonne. LME aluminium opening stock further suffered...
On December 20, 2022, the disruptive technology driver in the world of aluminium scrap sorting and recycling, Sortera Alloys, Inc., announced that it had achieved high-quality sorting of pre-production aluminium with more than 95 per cent accuracy. These findings demonstrate that Sortera's advanced deep-technology platform, which includes a vision and other advanced hardware sensors and is powered by a software stack that includes machine learning and artificial intelligence, can handle complex sorting effectively and efficiently, specifically processing end-of-life mixed alloys by category and chemical composition. This enables the business to recycle these resources into the supply chain without compromising their integrity or compound makeup, supporting North America's circular economy...
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative is an organisation responsible for evaluating the operational standards of a company before providing proper certifications so that a firm can get ready for global validation. The Certification Programme has evolved through an extensive multi-stakeholder consultation process and is by far the only voluntary sustainability standard initiative for the aluminium value chain. ASI Performance Standard certifications focus on 'material stewardship', addressing issues such as product design, life cycle assessment, management of processed scrap and collection and recycling of products at the end-of-life. Once a company is registered under the ASI protocol, it can be considered a globally acceptable brand for safe aluminium transportation, storage or...
Aluminium is benefitting a lot these days from innovations brought in by eminent institutions across the globe. Some innovations have evolved the production processes of the metal, while others have advanced the technologies used in the processes. Here in this article, we have picked five institutions that have treated the global aluminium value chain to one-of-a-kind technologies and applications. EU’s Reveal Research Project works on heat-based energy storage in aluminium The Reveal Research Project involving nine participants from seven European countries has initiated the noble objective of producing aluminium from alumina in a way that emits the least amount of carbon dioxide. The project magnifies a vital idea if aluminium can hold electricity as heat that can be released later to...
The Board of the Russian aluminium giant and one of the world’s leading aluminium producers, Rusal, has approved the updated climate strategy until 2032 with a perspective up to 2050. The updated climate strategy was adopted at the Rusal Board of Directors meeting in Krasnoyarsk. The Strategy is divided into two scenarios: basic and intensive, each of which defines a strict framework for achieving the company's decarbonization goals. Rusal plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions intensity per tonne of metal from all production facilities (Scope 1, Scope 2 - direct and indirect energy emissions) by at least 25 per cent by 2032 and by at least 47 per cent by 2050, compared to 2018, excluding the effect from carbon emissions neutralization projects. This reduction is in line with the most...
The Architectural Aluminium Ltd., a construction company that erected extensive cladding on many well-known industrial and commercial structures, including Terminal 2 at Dublin Airport, has been appointed joint provisional liquidators by the High Court. The construction company based in Dublin's Western Business Park had gone bankrupt after registering losses of almost €988,000 up to October. By the end of the next month, more losses of about €1.6 million are anticipated, and the total amount owed to creditors is already €5.2 million. It has 133 employees. To protect the company's assets, particularly the items it had stored on several sites in Dublin, Kilkenny, and Carlow, the firm's directors petitioned the court on Friday to appoint a provisional liquidator. The petition claimed that...
BRT Property Holdings LLC took over the aluminium extrusion factory under BR Properties Group LLC on December 1 with an investment of US$3.6 million, as was stated in the reports by the Trumbull County Auditor’s office. The facility functioned for BRT Extrusions Inc., an aluminium extruder that Corbel Capital Partners and Gallamar Group had already acquired in 2021. BRT has been logged with the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office as a foreign limited liability firm, which means the company was established outside Ohia and registered with the Delaware state. According to the official fillings, BRT Properties took shape on November 30. The auditor’s records further illustrate that Gearmar Properties Inc. had bought the establishment in 2003 from Niles Properties Inc. for US$275,000, whereas in...
The United States aluminium scrap export volume dipped in September 2022 by 8,000 tonnes or 4.50 per cent, following a rise in the previous quarter, found the US Census Bureau data. From 178,000 tonnes in August, the United States aluminium scrap export decreased to 170,000 tonnes in the succeeding month. The export in August had grown by 14.84 per cent month-on-month from 155,000 tonnes. So, with the ups and downs through the third quarter of 2022, the total aluminium scrap export volume from the United States amounted to 503,000 tonnes, 1.18 per cent or 6,000 tonnes less than 509,000 tonnes in Q2. On a year-on-year calculation, the United States aluminium scrap exports in September 2022 edged a slight dip of 1,000 tonnes from 171,000 tonnes to 170,000 tonnes. In the first nine months of...
With 85 different points of movement, the aluminium alloy-designed extra-terrestrial (ET) alien model for the 1982 classic ET: The Extra-Terrestrial was sold at a recent Julien's Auctions, and TCM Presents: Icons and Idols Hollywood Auction for an astounding $2,560,000. Long before computer animations were available, the great Italian special effects expert, Carlo Rambaldi, developed and built the aluminium alloy skeleton model of the endearing extra-terrestrial (ET). Directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, the film was the highest-grossing movie of all time, surpassing Star Wars, and it maintained that title for eleven years until Spielberg's own Jurassic Park overtook it in 1993. "Pre-dating modern CGI technology and effects, this one-of-a-kind cinematographic relic (constructed in...
United Arab Emirates' (UAE) Lunar Rover 'Rashid' is set to conquer the moon's surface after the scheduled landing in April 2023. This is the very first lunar rover that the Arabs have successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on December 11. Rashid weighs only 10 kg due to the use of extremely lightweight aluminium and carbon fibre for its composition. UAE's Lunar Rover has been thrust into space with the help of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, and it rides on Hakuto-R, a Japanese Lunar lander specially crafted for such purposes by the robotic exploration company ispace. If the mission is successful, Rashid will be the first commercial spacecraft to achieve a controlled landing on the moon's surface. The Lunar Rover weighs just 10 kg due to its exceptional aluminium, magnesium alloy...
Discovery Bauxite, an Atlantic Alumina subsidiary that aims to plant 200,000 trees over three years in support of the National Tree Planting Initiative, has announced that it is ahead of schedule. Operation Discovery Tree was launched in December of last year. Ackee, jackfruit, apple, kola nuts, pimento, cedar, mahogany, blue mahoe, moringa, citrus, mango, breadfruit, and avocado trees have been planted so far. According to Discovery Bauxite, the initiative also contributes to its community-wide land restoration and replanting programme, which includes rehabilitating mined-out sites around Lime Tree Gardens, Water Valley, Tobolski, and other regions. This was stated in the company's newsletter for December. Delroy Dell, the Vice-President and Country Manager of Discovery bauxite, said,...
Hindalco Industries Limited has continued to cut its aluminium ingot and aluminium products prices for the fourth time in a row, effective from Tuesday, December 20. After a cut of INR 1,500 per tonne on December 17, Hindalco has further reduced its aluminium ingot price by INR 3,000 per tonne to stand at INR 221,500 per tonne as of December 20. Hindalco’s aluminium wire rod price has also been cut by INR 3,000 per tonne or 1.34 per cent on December 20 to INR 232,600 per tonne. On December 17, the wire rod price stood at INR 235,600 per tonne, down by INR 1,500 per tonne from INR 237,100 per tonne. Hindalco’s aluminium billets price has also suffered a loss of INR 3,000 per tonne on December 20 to peg at INR 235,600 per tonne versus INR 238,600 per tonne on December 17. Hindalco has...
On Monday, December 19, Gränges reportedly broke ground on an expansion at its Newport facility to boost aluminium battery cathode foil (BCF) production. This investment positions Gränges as the first company in the US to fund BCF production. BCF is a crucial component for lithium-ion batteries, which is used in the production of electric vehicles. Gränges Americas President, Patrick Lawlor, said: “We continue to invest in the foil industry benefiting our customers, employees and the communities in which we operate. Gränges is excited to lead the way in battery foil development partnering with the State of Arkansas to invest in this exciting new high-growth industry.” The objective behind expanding the facility is to fulfil the increased demand for battery cathode foil in electric...
On Friday, December 16, Aluminium Stewardship Initiative announced the joining of RP Products Ltd as its new Industrial User member. RP Products is the manufacturing subsidiary of Radii Planet Group Ltd, specializing in designing, producing, and installing architectural glass solutions, certified glazed fire-rated systems, and partitioning that meets the highest standards. They are also known for manufacturing and fabricating aluminium, glass and steel. The aluminium components are kept in stock in mill finish aluminium. It is prepared for finishing by a cutting-edge conveyorized automated powder painting system to any RAL colour reference or an anodizing treatment to meet the specific project requirements. According to the company, the ASI certification will allow them to further...
