Novelis has supplied approximately 100,000 m² of aluminium façade materials for six construction projects across the UK, highlighting the metal's growing role in architectural design, infrastructure modernisation and urban regeneration. The materials have been used across developments in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham and London, covering applications ranging from transport infrastructure and residential refurbishment to commercial and mixed-use buildings. The projects demonstrate the versatility of aluminium in modern building envelopes, with Novelis supplying architectural materials designed to combine durability, aesthetic flexibility and performance. Aluminium supports diverse architectural applications Commenting on the projects, Michael Hahne, Vice President Commercial of Novelis...
Bahrain’s aluminium wire exports continued to gain momentum in the second quarter of 2026, with shipments rising significantly compared with the corresponding periods of 2025 and 2024. The country exported 80,895 tonnes of aluminium wire in Q2 2026, taking its total shipments during the first half of the year to 143,518 tonnes. The export data covers aluminium wire under HS code 7605, excluding stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and similar products, electrically insulated wires and strings for musical instruments. Export volume registers strong Y-o-Y growth Comparing the quarterly figures, Bahrain’s aluminium wire export volume increased by 23.76 per cent Y-o-Y in Q2 2026, against 65,366 tonnes shipped during Q2 2025. The latest quarterly volume also marked a considerable rise from Q2...
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Jaya Hind Industries, the Pune-based aluminium die casting company, has been conferred with the ‘ALUCAST Best Foundry 2014 Large Scale Sector‘ award at the International Exhibition and Conference ALUCAST 2014 held at Bangalore from December 4-6. The international exhibition and conference is a biennial event organised by the Aluminium Casters’ Association of India, Alucast. The ALUCAST Best Foundry 2014 award is based on specific parameters on which the nominated die casting organizations are judged. Parameters like commitment to quality in all aspects of manufacturing, improvement projects and continuous investment in new technologies are amongst the criteria considered. Jaya Hind Industries (JHI) qualified for the large scale sector foundry awards based on its production of over 4000 T...
Aluminium is often recognized as one of the best recyclable metals. This is the reason why it is used in many industries. China based Tosta Aluminium is one of the leading aluminium suppliers that specialize in a wide variety of aluminium parts to be used in a variety of industries. The company announces the availability of lithographic coils and discs made of aluminium that are in high demand for home appliances, printing and construction industries. The spokesperson of the company reveals that they maintain a ready stock of aluminium discs and lithographic coils to be shipped at any time to anywhere across the globe. "The coils and discs are made of high quality aluminium to help meet the desired requirements of the industries. One can always find aluminium products available with us...
Molten aluminium alloys at 700 °C naturally contain a high percentage of dissolved hydrogen, left untreated, the resulting solid metal is highly porous. The most widely- used method of hydrogen removal – argon rotary degassing - is energy intensive and requires costly components. In pilot scale trials funded by EU Framework Seven Programme, the team, led by Prof Dmitry Eskin of the Brunel Centre for Advanced Solidification Technology, found that ultrasound was just as efficient as the standard method but produced far less waste material (dross) and was much greener. Said Prof Eskin: "We know from industry that the price of argon gas continues to rise because making it requires producers to liquefy air which takes a lot of energy. There are also issues with the graphite impellers used. If...
Six Dutch cities are taking advantage of a metal return program that supports their respective sustainability goals while turning old aluminium poles into new ones. Sapa established the program to close the loop with regard to past-their-prime aluminium light poles and their subsequent replacement. In theory, the concept is simple. Old light poles are collected and stripped, then all parts are returned and brought back into the technical cycle. The idea was hatched with the Dutch municipality of Katwijk, a seaside town bordering the North Sea and located just north of The Hague. The town had a concern, and after learning of Sapa’s Cradle to Cradle® aluminium light pole, it contacted the company to discuss how to create a return system. “In the past, when we disposed old light poles, the...
There are a great many rumors as to what will debut at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show, but the newest rumor suggests that a new SVT Raptor based on the aluminum bodied 2015 Ford F150 will be among the high performance premiers in the Motor City come January. While details are very limited – like limited to pretty much nothing – the folks at Road & Track have sources that have stated that the newest Ford SVT Raptor F150 will make its debut at the 2015 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. That isn’t official nor have the sources offered any idea as to what we can expect from the new F150 Raptor, but it goes without saying that the performance truck world will be eagerly watching the news from Detroit in January with the hopes of seeing the next high performance SVT pickup. Since...
Lightweight metals leader Alcoa today unveiled breakthrough manufacturing technology, the Alcoa MicromillTM, that will manufacture the most advanced aluminum sheet on the market. The Micromill will enable the next generation of automotive aluminum products, and equip Alcoa to capture growing demand. The Alcoa-patented Micromill process dramatically changes the microstructure of the metal, allowing the production of an aluminum alloy for automotive applications that has 40 percent greater formability and 30 percent greater strength than the incumbent aluminum used today while meeting stringent automotive surface quality requirements. Additionally, automotive parts made with Micromill material will be twice as formable and at least 30 percent lighter than parts made from high strength...
The growing use of aluminum in car bodies to save weight and fuel could create an opportunity for dealership F&I departments to sell more paintless dent removal policies, some F&I experts say. Aluminum is nothing new. Import brands such as Audi, Jaguar and Land Rover have relied on aluminum body panels for years. But the redesigned, all-aluminum Ford F-150 pickup puts aluminum on the mainstream F&I agenda because there’s a perception that the metal is susceptible to dents and dings. “Can’t sell dent-and-ding? Ford built the new F-150 out of aluminum,” Rick McCormick, national account development manager for F&I training firm Reahard & Associates, said at an industry conference in September. He said some imports’ aluminum decklids need to be closed just right or they’ll get dinged up in...
The first-ever economic study on the downstream EU aluminium industry conducted by LUISS University in Rome unveils the magnitude of the damage inflicted on EU SME's and the unfair competitive advantages given to EU and extra-EU producers by the current import tariff regime and the financial diversions it permits. The maintaining by the European Union of an economically unjustified import duty on primary aluminium has imposed up to 15.5 billions Euros additional costs to downstream aluminium SMEs in the past fourteen years, seriously impinging on their competitiveness, and has allowed producers of this metal in and outside Europe to cash-in important artificial benefits to the detriment of the competitiveness of the EU aluminium industry. This extra-cost is due to the fact that all...
The first, much-awaited, 2015 F-150s to be delivered are coming from the company’s Dearborn, Mich., plant which has worked through early production glitches. Ford workers in Claycomo have been training to build it while continuing to make some of the older F-150s in the interim. The Dearborn plant will be able to build 400,000 of the trucks when at full speed, and Claycomo’s capacity will be 300,000. Ford says its Kansas City area plant will begin manufacturing the 2015 model early next year, but it hasn’t been more specific. It will start with one shift and ramp up to three. The Claycomo plant, which also makes the Transit commercial van, has about 6,000 employees. That’s a stark contrast to a few years ago when the plant lost the Ford Escape and the F-150 was down to one shift, spawning...
Kaiser Aluminum Corp. CEO Jack A. Hockema unloaded 5,000 shares of the stock on the open market in a transaction dated Monday, December 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $73.13, for a total value of $365,650.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer now directly owns 23,190 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,695,885. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Kaiser Aluminum Corp. traded up 0.01% during mid-day trading on Tuesday, hitting $73.17. 292,088 shares of the company’s stock traded hands. Kaiser Aluminum Corp. has a 1-year low of $66.43 and a 1-year high of $81.62. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $71.8 and its 200-day moving average is $74.2. The...
Leading Italian brake brand, Brembo, has announced plans to invest 32 million euros in an aluminium brake caliper manufacturing facility in Escobedo, Nuevo Leon, just outside of Monterrey, Mexico. According to the company, the plant will include a new aluminium foundry and machining facility capable of producing two million calipers per year destined for the company’s customers in the NAFTA region. The foundry will have a melting capacity of 14,000 tons. The facility will cover 31,500 square metres and when fully operational is expected to generate an annual turnover of 100 million euros. The plant is expected to commence initial production in 2016 and be fully operational by the end of 2018. Plant outpput will be destined for European, Asian and American original equipment manufacturers...
China exported 320,000 mt of aluminum semis in October, down 5.88% MoM, but up 23.08% YoY, customs data showed. Extrusion exports jumped 27.32% YoY to 65,000 mt in October, and rose 19.63% YoY to 606,000 mt during January-October. Foil exports soared 33.72% YoY to 77,000 mt in October, and grew 13.94% YoY to 716,000 mt during January-October. Exports of plate/sheet and strip increased 12.45% YoY to 155,000 mt, and rose 4.34% YoY to 1.37 million mt through January-October. Exports of mid and high-end aluminum semis held steady due to a stable consumer base. Outbound shipments of low-end products, in contrast, surged as tumbling SHFE/LME aluminum price ratio enticed Chinese producers to sell overseas. Exports are expected to remain high for the foreseeable future.
Ducker Worldwide, an independent consulting and research firm, recently concluded a study on behalf of the Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC) focused on identifying the benefits from and future risks to the U.S. Aluminum Extrusion market’s trade case against the People’s Republic of China. This revealing report indicates that up to 20% of the U.S. extrusion market has returned to domestic producers. Furthermore, the study lays out three scenarios based on the resolve of and future success in the domestic industry’s defense of the Department of Commerce’s trade orders. “It was clear through trade data analysis and interviews with extruders, customers and suppliers that the AEC’s actions to date in the U.S. industry’s trade case against Chinese extruders have dramatically reduced imported...
Kobe Steel, Ltd. announces that it has begun deliveries of aluminum extruded shapes to Hitachi, Ltd. for use in the railway car body for the Intercity Express Programme (IEP)1 in the United Kingdom. Kobe Steel has received an order to supply nearly the total amount necessary to build the fleet of trains. Rolling stock for the IEP will total 866 cars. A portion of each car will be manufactured by Hitachi at its Kasado Works in Japan as part of a comprehensive contract received by Hitachi Rail Europe Ltd.2 Kobe Steel is supplying material in the form of aluminum extruded shapes. Kobe Steel’s aluminum extrusions are manufactured at the company’s Chofu Works in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, where a variety of aluminum shapes can be made. For railway rolling stock, the Chofu Works...
Hulamin Containers exhibited at Propak Cape from 21 to 23 October 2014. Propak is a bi-annual South African trade show focusing on the food packaging industry. The location of the exhibition alternates between Johannesburg and Cape Town. Hulamin Containers is a regular exhibitor at both exhibition locations. Aside from visitors from the Cape region, visitors and customers from KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and a number of neighbouring countries like Namibia, Angola, Botswana and Zimbabwe were received at, and welcomed to the Hulamin Containers exhibition stand. The exhibition once again provided an excellent opportunity to network and meet with customers, end-users, key packaging decision makers and representatives of the major national retail groups like Pick and Pay, Shoprite Checkers, Spar...
Constellium N.V. today announced that Laurent Musy has been appointed President of its Aerospace and Transportation (A&T) business unit effective December 1, 2014, reporting to Pierre Vareille, Chief Executive Officer of Constellium. Mr. Musy has served as President of Constellium’s Packaging & Automotive Rolled Products business unit since 2008. Mr. Vareille will serve as interim President for the Packaging and Automotive Rolled Products until a successor to Mr. Musy is appointed. Commented Mr. Vareille: “Laurent Musy brings more than16 years of experience in the aluminium industry and has a long track record of driving operational excellence and business development, as reflected in Constellium’s strong performance and market leadership positions in packaging and automotive rolled...
The Crystal has been named for its architectural resemblance with a rock crystal, and the building has become one of the most remarkable in London. Sapa Building System has contributed energy-efficient windows for the Crystal’s complex façade. Built and operated by Siemens, the Crystal is a global center for sustainable urban development. Innovative techniques have led to what could be considered the world’s best and largest energy-efficient building. Its extraordinary shape, with many angles and slopes, is an architect’s dream and the epitome of passive design. Its shape ensures natural lighting and shading, and the outer shell of triple-glazing counts 150 controllable façade openings for natural ventilation. Rainwater, graywater and blackwater are collected and purified in the building....
Carubba Collision Corp. has opened a new aluminium-body repair shop at 1520 Niagara Falls Blvd. in Tonawanda in anticipation of greater demand for the service in future. The president and CEO of Carubba Collision, Joseph Carubba says that although the demand for aluminium vehicles and their repairs are not that great now but in the next couple of years there is a great probability of Chevy trucks and passenger cars coming in aluminium versions. Some vehicles have already started incorporating aluminium into their vehicles in terms of hoods and other parts, and now Ford has already launched in all-aluminium F-150 pick ups. Seeing the trend emerging, Carubba has invested around $200,000 to construct a separate building next to one of his shops. Carubba believes that aluminium repair...
