China’s aluminum door and window manufacturing sector includes a range of suppliers offering thermal-break systems, customized solutions, OEM/ODM production, and products for international building projects. A recent industry guide highlights Guangdong Dejiyoupin, Guangdong EEHE, Foshan CIVO, Sichuan Yazhixuan, and Sichuan Mingrenju, citing their production capabilities, product portfolios, project experience, customization services, and testing or certification coverage. The companies differ in their areas of focus. Dejiyoupin is highlighted for its production capacity and international certifications, while EEHE is noted for patents and a broad range of project solutions. CIVO focuses on factory-direct customization and climate-oriented systems, while Yazhixuan provides OEM/ODM...
Every Can Counts (ECC) has unveiled a giant art installation outside Trafford Centre to highlight the importance of recycling during Recycle Week 2026 (14th – 20th September). The Infinity Sculpture, made from more than 1,200 recycled drink cans, has been created to illustrate the life cycle of a drink can, highlighting that aluminium can be recycled time and time again. Shoppers and centre visitors can get a glimpse of the can-based artwork that will be on display by the Great Hall Entrance at Trafford Centre until Sunday 20th September to mark the occasion. This is the first time the Infinity Sculpture has been showcased in Manchester, where it will act as a physical reminder of the importance of recycling to the community. On Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th September, visitors wanting to...
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ASI has certified the BMW Group against ASI Performance Standard. The group achieved Material Stewardship Certification for its light metal foundry at BMW Group plant in Landshut, Germany for responsible production, sourcing and stewardship of aluminium. The plant produces aluminium engine components as well as structural parts for the vehicle body including cylinder heads or crankcases, as well as side members and tailgate frames. ASI ‘material stewardship’ certification process addresses issues such as product design, life cycle assessments, management of process scrap and collection and recycling of products at end-of-life. The independent, third-party audit of the BMW Group plant was carried out by Bureau Veritas. Fiona Solomon, Chief Executive Officer at ASI said “We warmly...
Ardagh has appointed John Sadlier as its Chief Sustainability Officer. John, who served as the Chief Procurement Officer of the company, will be responsible for managing all aspects of Ardagh’s sustainability agenda. In addition, Ardagh has announced the creation of a Global Sustainability Action Group. The Global Sustainability Action Group will co-ordinate its global sustainability work, accelerate sustainability programmes and increase responsiveness. Paul Coulson, Chairman and CEO Ardagh Group said: “These important initiatives reflect Ardagh’s longstanding emphasis on sustainability and its importance to our continued success. Consumer awareness of sustainability has reached an inflection point and Ardagh is ideally-placed to meet existing and new customers’ need for innovative and...
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced that four additional Amcor operations have been certified against its Chain of Custody (CoC) Standard. The certification includes four additional operations in France, Germany and Switzerland: Amcor Flexibles Sarrebourg SAS, Amcor Flexible Packaging France SAS, in de Froges, Amcor Flexibles Teningen Tscheulin-Rothal GmbH, and Amcor Flexibles Rorschach AG. This enables Amcor to offer its customers products with ASI certified aluminium and the option for on-pack ASI labelling. Amcor uses aluminium in its packaging solutions for food, drink, and pharmaceuticals, as well as for foils used in electronics, transportation, construction and other industrial applications. Dr Gerald Rebitzer, Director Sustainability at Amcor Flexibles, said:...
Britvic has announced new carbon emissions reduction targets to tackle climate change. The company has planned to switch to aluminium cans to reduce carbon emissions. These new targets have been verified by the Science Based Target initiatives (SBTi). The company expects to reach its goal of a 50 per cent reduction in emissions from its operations by 2025. Britvic also targets to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. Britvic becomes the first UK soft drinks company to have an approved 1.5°C target. To achieve its targets, the company is making strategic and meaningful changes to operations, such as installing biomass boilers to power its manufacturing and switching packaging from steel to aluminium cans, Britvic said. Britvic has also announced plans to cut emissions by 35 per cent across...
Mercury Marine received the Sustainable Process Award from the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council (WSBC) at the Sustainable Business Awards Ceremony. The award recognized Mercury Marine for several sustainable practices in the company’s process of using aluminum for manufacturing outboard marine engine blocks. “We’re certainly not the only manufacturer to use aluminum in building engine blocks but, as this award attests, Mercury does stand out in how we strive to be environmentally responsible and derive the maximum sustainable benefit from our use of this material,” said Scott Louks, Mercury sustainability manager. According to Louks, who received the award at this evening's ceremony, Mercury’s sustainable process for using aluminum includes the following benefits: Mercury uses only...
China Association Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), the country’s top auto industry body, expects automobile sales in China to slip 2 per cent to 25.32 million units in 2020. Xu Haidong, assistant secretary general of CAAM, said at a conference on Thursday, December 12, that China’s auto market, which is the world’s biggest, is unlikely to rebound until 2022. He also said that during 2023-2025, the market is expected to see an annual expansion of about 4 per cent. Earlier this week, data from CAAM showed that China’s auto sales in the first 11 months of the year fell 9.1 per cent year on year to come in at 23.11 million units. For new energy vehicles, production and sales came in at 110,000 and 95,000 units in November, down 36.9% and 43.7% year on year, respectively. Pure electric...
PATHWATER, the first purified water in an infinitely reusable and recyclable aluminium bottle, has teamed up with global business and financial software company, Intuit to reduce single-use plastic waste. Intuit will now offer PATHWATER's purified water in reusable, recyclable aluminium bottles. Sean Kinghorn, Global Sustainability Leader of Intuit said: "We could no longer support the wasteful sale of thousands of plastic water bottles a day, and once we decided to reduce single-use plastics, we sought out PATHWATER as a partner to offer a 100% recyclable and refillable bottled water alternative." "PATHWATER has devised a solution for tackling the global epidemic of single-use plastic water bottles, and their competitive price point, premium reusable packaging, and responsibly-sourced...
Balustrade specialist Q-railing has reportedly manufactured a brand-new high-grade aluminium railing system called Easy Alu. It has a modern look and is available with various finishes and custom options. The Easy Alu aluminium parts, available with a brushed anodised finish, mill finish, or powder-coating in any RAL colour, are convenient to assemble into ready-to-install modules before they are even at the project site. They can be pre-assembled by yourself or by the company. Either way, they are easy to work within tight time slots for the final installation. Q-railing Product Manager Jeffrey Meijer said, “We know that aluminium railings aren't new to the market. People are familiar with benefits such as attractive pricing and the low weight of components, but we wanted to offer...
China’s production of automobiles came in at 2.59 million units in November. This was up 13% month-on-month and 3.8% year-on-year, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) said on Tuesday, 10 December 2019. Auto sales in China stood at 2.46 million units in November, with a month-on-month increase of 7.6%. The auto sales dropped 3.6% year-on-year, smaller than a decline of 4% in the previous month. In the first eleven months of 2019, automobiles production amounted to 23.04 million units, down 9% year on year, while auto sales fell 9.1% to 23.11 million units. Production of new energy vehicles fell 36.9% from a year earlier to 110,000 units last month. NEVs sales also dropped by 43.7% year-on-year to 95,000 units. Sales of pure electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids...
China’s new energy vehicle (NEV) sales in November fell year-on-year by 41.7 per cent to 79,000 units, as reported by the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) on Monday, December 9. This marks the fifth consecutive month of decline in new energy vehicle sales since the sharp cut on NEV subsidies went into effect in late June. However, on monthly basis, the sales of new energy vehicles increased from 66,000 units in October, which in September was even lower by 1 per cent from the succeeding year. During January-November, China’s NEV sales amounted to 923,000 units, up 7.7 per cent from the same period last year. China’s retail sales of passenger vehicles also declined for the fifth straight month in November by about 4.1 per cent from a year earlier to 1.94 million units, according to...
Carl Friedrik unveils a new suitcase, the Carry-on, featuring a rigid aluminium frame and Italian leather detailing, which represents nothing less than style yet practical designing. The case, which is carry-on sized, has a dark grey polycarbonate shell and leather detailing offered in cognac, chocolate, and black. The handle is made of vegetable-tanned Vachetta leather that promises to age over time and develop a tasteful patina on more usage. Inside the suitcase, there is a large zip compartment on one side and compression straps on the other. That way, the users can keep their clean and dirty clothes separate from each other. There are also an optional and removable battery slots inside the case that provide power through a USB port located behind the deployable handle to enable users...
Aparna-Craft, a joint venture between Aparna Enterprises, and Craft Holdings, Hong Kong, has forayed into premium aluminium window and door systems with the launch of its brand Alteza. Alteza will initially support the growing demand for these products in the Southern and Western markets, particularly Bengaluru, Mumbai and Hyderabad. Alteza will provide end-to-end services (designing, manufacturing, installation and post-sales support for high-end aluminium window and door systems. Mr. Ashwin Reddy, Managing Director, Aparna Enterprises Limited, said, “Owing to the durability and malleability of aluminium as a premium material, aluminium window and door systems are fast becoming the preferred solution in India. The market for high-end aluminium window and door systems in India is pegged...
Despite the continuous drop in sales of electrified vehicles after the subsidy cut in June, Beijing continued its push on the automakers towards building more electric vehicles. The message was conveyed in the draft “development” plan of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for the domestic electrified vehicle industry covering 2021-35. Under the plan, the ministry, which regulates the domestic auto industry, expects EVs to account for 25 percent of annual new light-vehicle sales in 2025, up from the 20 percent target it set in a similar plan in 2017. The ministry expects EVs to account for 25% of annual new light-vehicle sales in 2025, up from the earlier target of 20%. The target would be a giant leap from the current share of electrified vehicles in China. In the first...
Hindalco Industries Limited has handed over India’s first all-aluminium freight trailer in Rajasthan to Kamal Exim Pvt. Ltd., a leading Jaipur-based transporter of UltraTech Cement Limited. The 34-foot long aluminium freight trailer can ferry a wide range of materials such as cement, alumina, fly ash, grains, flour, steel coils and cylinders. Image for representation purpose only Satish Pai, MD, Hindalco Industries Limited said, “Hindalco’s aluminium trailer is one of our big initiatives for India’s logistics and freight industry. At Hindalco, sustainability is integral to our business and this is a significant step to introduce sustainable, engineered transport solutions for the logistics industry. We are happy to commence our journey with UltraTech Cement and hand over our first...
Kingston Automation Technology, a Kingston based business owned by mother-son duo has modernized the aluminium container production process in order to make aluminium bottles more convenient and a viable alternative to plastic bottles. “It was important that we redesign these lines,” owner Ben Pilon said. “These are generally, around the world, 60- or 70-year-old technology. We wanted to make them smaller. Kingston Automation Technology is likely to produce about 75 million containers in 2020 and create about 30 jobs at its Montreal location. The company’s patented blow moulding technology can create easily recyclable and reusable aluminium containers in comparison to plastic or glass. They are easy to produce and transport, and more cost effective than traditional aluminium bottles. “Our...
According to researcher Niklas Lindahl from the Department of Physics at Chalmers University of Technology, aluminium air batteries (AIBs), which is in an R&D phase now, will be at per with lithium-ion batteries in 10 to 15 years’ time and substitute them in many applications. Once industrial scale manufacturing starts, AIBs would provide a better, cheaper and less environmentally harmfull charge carrier than lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), Lindahl added. Researchers from Swedish Chalmers University of Technology and the National Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana, Slovenia are working to resolve the issues that are stopping commercial use of AIBs. The team has recently made a breakthrough by making batteries with twice the energy density of available AIBs. While LIBs use scarce graphite,...
According to a recent report, the BMW group is investing 400 million euros in restructuring its Dingolfing vehicle plant for the production of electric vehicles, including the highly automated BMW iNEXT. The update of the plant should be done by 2021 and the BMW iNEXT will be the first pure electric vehicle produced in Dingolfing. According to BMW, the Dingolfing plant after the revamp will be capable of producing the right mix of fully-electric vehicles, plug-in hydbrids and models with combustion engines to suit demand on a single assembly line. So, this investment is not only for the transmission to e-mobility but also for standard production of highly-automated vehicles. Milan Nedeljkovic, member of the board of management, BMW said: “Thanks to our flexible production structures, our...
Aluminium cans are the most recyclable packaging units till the end of their lifecycle without quality degradation, and that makes them the preferred packaging material for brands across industries, ahead of other materials like plastic and paper. Recently, the Can Manufacturers Institute pointed out the average aluminium cans in the US have a recycled content of 73%, whereas that in the plastic PET bottles is less than 10 per cent. Besides, other qualities such as lightweight, strong, affordable, easy to handle, and highly resistant to corrosion have contributed to the journey of aluminium cans turning into the most widely used containers. In 2018, the demand for aluminium cans was estimated to grow between 3.7 – 4 per cent, and that in the next five years by some 4 – 3.6 per cent CAGR....
