Germany and France share one of Europe’s busiest downstream aluminium corridors, and the metal flows in both directions. In the first seven months of 2026, aluminium flat rolled products (FRP), which cover aluminium plates, sheets and strips (HS code: 7606), as well as aluminium foil (HS code: 7607), crossed the border each way, amounting to a total of around USD 692 million. However, the bilateral trade flow is tilted towards Germany, which remains France’s largest FRP supplier. Nonetheless, the inter-dependence remains as the countries do exchange the same products but engage in cross-border trade of specialised high-value products and alloys, feeding the demand on either side. The trade figures for January–July 2026, as compiled from the International Trade Administration, highlight...
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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Federal-Mogul Corporation (NASDAQ: FDML) has developed an aluminium piston that meets the higher strength and thermal performance demands of very high-power diesel engines. BMW is the first to use the piston in its triple-turbo 3.0-litre diesel (N57D30S1) engine, which with a specific power output of 93kW/litre (124bhp/litre) is the world's most powerful light diesel. Premium vehicle manufacturers are introducing higher power diesel engines that improve dynamic performance, CO2 emissions and fuel economy, but power outputs of more than 90kW/litre have long challenged piston designs. "Increasing the specific power output produces higher mechanical loads and temperatures, making a piston's heat dissipation as important as its strength," said Gian Maria Olivetti, Federal-Mogul's vice...
Glazing from leading architectural aluminium systems supplier Kawneer forms a "major part" of the façade to the stunning £23 million South Bristol Skills Academy. The latest campus addition to the City of Bristol College, one of the largest of its kind in the UK, is an iconic building with a distinctive curved façade that forms a gateway into Hengrove Park, itself a multi-million £ regeneration programme to transform south Bristol into one of the most sought after areas in the south west. Kawneer's AA100 curtain walling and sloped-drained shaped rooflights, together with AA 601 top-hung casement and AA602 horizontal pivot windows, were specified by AWW architects and installed by specialist sub-contractor Aluminium Sashes for main contractor Cowlin Construction. The zone-drained vertical...
SmarTrend identified a Downtrend for Noranda Aluminum on March 8th, 2012 at $10.98. In approximately 3 months, Noranda Aluminum has returned 30.24% as of today's recent price of $7.66. Over the past year, Noranda Aluminum has traded in a range of $6.29 to $15.50 and is now at $7.66, 22% above that low. In the last five trading sessions, the 50-day moving average (MA) has fallen 2.7% while the 200-day MA has slid 0.7%. Noranda Aluminum Holding Corp is an integrated producer of aluminum products, as well as rolled aluminum coils. The Company produces aluminum products in the form of billets, rods and sows, used mainly for building construction, architectural and transportation applications. Noranda also produces foil and light gauge sheet products from its rolling mills. SmarTrend will...
Novelis has opened a research and technology center that it hopes will help it improve sustainability and innovation of aluminium for use in the beverage market. The 160,000 square foot Global Research Center will focus on solutions for the company’s can business and will be the central point for technical activities including engineering, manufacturing and metallurgy. The facility includes a variety of material development and testing laboratories, a pilot beverage can production line and plans include a small scale aluminium rolling mill. Center focus The full scale site opened to focus on coatings, the shapes and sizes of cans and bottles and mechanical surface testing on aluminium. The firm said they hope the center will increase collaboration with customers, enabling development of...
Westwood Aluminum Castings Inc. in Waukesha, a former aluminum foundry that went out of business last August, will auction off its machinery and other assets on Wednesday at the foundry. The public auction of the assets, including melting furnaces, crucibles, blast-cleaning machines, mixers, crushers, ovens, cranes, air compressors and other gear necessary to melt and cast aluminum, will be conducted by liquidation firm LiquiTec Industries Inc. "This sale is an exciting event as it includes a wide variety of manufacturing assets for those in the foundry business as well as many other manufacturers in allied industries," Marc Swirsky, president of LiquiTec, said in a news release. The auction begins at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the foundry, 1242 Lincoln Ave. in Waukesha. Bidders can bid in...
Aleris today announced that it has named Kerry Groves vice president, Sales, of its Rolled Products North America (RPNA) segment. In this role, Groves is responsible for inside and outside sales activity, supporting customers in building and construction, distribution, transportation, light gauge and original equipment manufacturing. "Kerry has had a long, achievement-oriented career at Aleris," said Stephen Stone, Aleris RPNA senior vice president and general manager. "He is a true partner to our customers, enabling them to meet their business objectives, and is well suited for this increased responsibility." Groves joined Aleris in 1980 as a production planner at the company's Lewisport, Kentucky, plant. He progressed through various leadership roles and in 2001 was promoted to...
Aluminum product manufacturer Hulamin gained 1,8% to R5,60 yesterday after saying its Camps Drift hot finishing mill has been repaired and recommissioned, 46 days after a failure in its main 68-ton motor. It said production of thicker gauge plate and production from the mill’s twin roll casters continued during the outage, with production losses limited to about 25000 tons. But it could not divulge what lost production might cost until the insurance claim was settled, nor whether this would materially affect group results. "All our products were affected — for example, can end stock, foil, automotive brazing sheet, thinner gauge plate and sheet and coil — except the thick gauge plate and certain alloy standard sheet and coil products," CEO Richard Jacob said yesterday. He said, to varying...
PSI subsidiary PSI China has been awarded by the Chinese Guangxi Alnan Aluminium Fabrication Company Limited with the implementation of the production management solution PSImetals for all four Alnan plants such as cast house, extrusion plant, hot rolling mill and cold rolling mill. The project scope includes the complete portfolio of PSImetals from integrated planning, production execution, quality management including order dressing, logistics and energy management. Alnan decided in favour of the powerful solution due to PSI’s deep and long term aluminium knowledge. The project will be divided into two phases casting and extrusion houses, HRM and CRM as well as planning. The project kick off is April, 2012. Guangxi Alnan Aluminum Fabrication Company Limited is located in the aluminium...
After seven years of planning, Alcoa City Schools unveiled plans for their new high school. The new building would nearly double student capacity. The existing building, parts of which were built in 1939, is suitable for 600 students, according to Director of Schools Dr. Brian Bell. He says the new 180,000 square foot facility would accommodate 1,000 students. Currently he says they're on track to exceed capacity of the current facility off Faraday Street in the next two to three years. But first, voters must approve a half-cent sales tax increase to fund the three phase, $30 million project. The plans feature a sprawling lawn leading up to an aluminum dome and columned entry way. Bell says it was a conscious effort to pay tribute the former aluminum company in Alcoa that donated the...
Whether an odor is given off by production at Aluminum Castings or not, one thing seems clear from information provided by the Illinois and U.S. Environmental Protection agencies: The company produces minimal pollution that is unlikely to be hazardous to anyone’s health. The issue surfaced June 4 during the first reading of a City Council resolution to allow the sand mold foundry to produce heavy industrial work in its building zoned for light industrial. The company has plans for a $2 million expansion that will double its workforce from 30 to 60. Alderman Peter Schwartzman, Ward 5, opposed the resolution because of concerns increased emissions would be harmful to children at the nearby YMCA Kid Station, as well as to people downtown. “The release of unknown chemical effluents and the...
Control Devices presents the SBG3I pressure die-cast aluminium sensor housing featuring two integrated sensors for measuring accelerations and/or inclinations along three-axis acceleration and/or two-axis inclination. The SBG3I aluminium sensor housing is suitable for applications requiring precise acceleration or inclination measurements along three axes under harsh circumstances and returning of a 4-20mA output signal each. The IP65 aluminium sensor housing also contains three independent signal conditioners, each with a 4-20mA, 2-wire output and three separate, highly stable voltage supply feeding off the corresponding current loop, one for each sensor. Each signal conditioner includes an active low pass filter, whose upper cut-off frequency/ settling time can be adjusted to suit the...
Taizhou Parfaitindustry Co. Ltd owns professional divided cutting facilities and testing staff. It mainly supplies food aluminium foil, hydrophilic foil, condensing aluminium foil, packing aluminum foil and aluminium board, etc. Major alloys are 1100, 1234, 1050, 1060, 3003, 5052, 5083, 6061, 7076, 8011. Products of the company are sold to as far as Japan, Korea, Thailand, Philippine, Canada, America, Turkey, Pakistan, Iran and UAE, etc. After years’ of hard work, Taizhou Parfaitindustry Co., Ltd can slit and process aluminium strip and steel strip with width of 8mm.
Automakers are now on a new mission to increase aluminum content in their upcoming vehicle models to improve fuel efficiency. As you all know this is an era of plug-in hybrids and electric cars, automakers intends to develop lighter vehicles to meet the demands. According to Alcoa’s director of automotive marketing, the overall thrust to improve fuel efficiency in vehicle fleets will more than double demand for aluminum in the auto industry by 2025. Automaker giants such as BMW and Audi began plans for tougher Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards. They have decided to move away from existing heavier steel body frames and opt for aluminum to be used in vehicles. Carmakers are basically reacting to increases in fuel economy requirements and regulations. Every major market around the...
Midas Holdings Ltd's unit, Jilin Midas Aluminium Industries Co Ltd, has signed a new master agreement with Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin und MUnchen, Sector Infrastructure & Cities, Division Rail Systems. Under the terms of the renewed agreement, Siemens will continue to engage Jilin Midas as a preferred supplier of aluminium profiles, with the purpose of achieving standardisation and cross-project bundling in the procurement of aluminium extrusion products for railway car bodies, welding, machining and other mechanical treatment of such profiles. Midas chief executive officer, Patrick Chew, said the company was pleased that the quality of its work delivered to Siemens over the years has contributed to the extension of the preferred supplier status. "The latest development will also...
Alcoa's Kawneer business and The American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) announce today the Enlightening Libraries: Student Design Competition. Sponsored by Kawneer and administered by the AIAS, this competition will challenge students to redesign a dated public library that is an effectively urbanized, collaborative community space appealing to all generations and integrating the most recent technologies. Total prize money is $7,750, including $3,000 for the first place winning design team. The competition, now in its seventh year, challenges students to learn about building materials and techniques, specifically architectural aluminum building products and systems, while demonstrating an understanding of sustainable design. Participants are required to integrate a variety of...
36MN extrusion machine of Chinalco Northwest Aluminium Branch started installation on June 11. The installation work was expected to be finished before the end of August and to be put into operation in this year. This project was of great importance for Northwest Aluminium to raise its extrusion products capacity. It would raise the company’s extrusion product production to a new level and ensure the company’s production and supply of key products. The project was key to Northwest Aluminium’s future development.
Heavy metal might not be a big part of the musical stylings at this year's Capital EX, but a new touring show will bring the metal to the Edmonton Expo Centre. Northlands announced Thursday that The Aluminum Show, featuring costumes and props made out of recovered materials from industrial factories, will be the 2012 festival's feature show. The international touring show that fuses dance, humour and visual theatre will run three times daily during its first appearance in Canada. The Israel-based group made its debut in Jerusalem in 2003. "It's something different that nobody's seen before," Northlands spokesperson Jennifer Sheehan said during the announcement at Montrose Elementary school. Montrose students built two art pieces that will likely be used in the show. Students presented an...
Demand for aluminium in the auto industry is expected to more than double by 2025 as manufacturers seek lightweight alternatives to steel in an effort to meet ever tightening fuel efficiency regulations. Reuters reports that more and more auto makers are beginning the transition away from heavy steel components and moving toward an increased use of aluminium according to the world’s leading producer of primary and fabricated aluminium, Alcoa, whose director of automotive marketing, Randall Scheps, spoke to delegates attending the American Metal Market’s Aluminium Summit in New York this week. Scheps said that as markets around the world tighten fuel standards, carmakers are forced to react. “We have every car maker calling us, wanting to increase their aluminium content, wanting to start...
