A truck’s overall weight comes from dozens of components, including the engine, chassis, tyres, etc. Wheels are one area where fleets can explore lightweighting. Traditional steel wheels, widely used across the transport industry, are known for their robustness. Forged Alcoa aluminium wheels offer...
India’s aluminium recycling sector has matured significantly over the past decade. Secondary aluminium, produced by remelting and refining scrap, now accounts for a growing share of the country’s total aluminium consumption. Recycling aluminium requires up to 95 per cent less energy than smelting...
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Petron Corp., one of the Philippines' largest oil refining and marketing companies, has introduced a new refillable liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) product in Luzon, dubbed Fiesta Gas 170-gram refillable cylinders. The Fiesta Gas 170-gram is designed to be compatible with LPG-rated portable burners...
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative has presented Performance Standard V2 (2017) Certification to Aluphoenix srl for its remelting and casting facility in Riese Pio X, Italy. The facility has an annual production capacity of around 50,000 tonnes of aluminium ingots destined for transportation....
The end user sector has seen essential advancements this week, with Reynears Aluminium constructing a new factory in Żabia Wola near Warsaw, with a production hall of 31,000 sq. meters and office space of 1,200 sq. meters. Aluminium use in sustainable transportation is estimated to rise...
Aluminium Steward Initiative has acknowledged seven facilities of Yunnan Aluminium Co., Ltd. with Performance Standard V3 (2022) and Chain of Custody Standard certifications. All of them are located across six prefectures of Yunnan, China. Yunnan Aluminium has vertically integrated operations...
Aluminium is a chemical element that was discovered 200 years ago. After an initial period of technological development, aluminium alloys were used in many structural applications, including the civil engineering field. Al is the second most widely specified metal in buildings after steel and is...
Gaming on the go is a popular trend, with devices like the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck making it possible. Asus has joined the market with its new offering, the ROG Flow Z13, which boasts a lightweight aluminium chassis. Depending on a user's needs, this portable device can be utilised as a...
Teknodrom Valuable Maden Recycling Inc ., Turkey's first and only precious metals recycling plant, was established in 2015. Teknodrom, which began in the computer sector and subsequently moved on to the iron and steel business, gathered expertise in precious metal recycling (like gold, silver, and...
RMIT Europe, a global university of technology, design and enterprise, has received funding of AU$434K from the EU Research Fund for Coal & Steel (RFCS) for its new research project ALCOAT. ALCOAT is a 42-month project to develop two new families of aluminium alloy coatings by recycling metal scrap...
Apple CEO Tim Cook unveiled the Apple Vision Pro, the company's long-awaited augmented-reality headset, at its annual software development conference WWDC 2023, on Monday. Apple has taken its first significant step with Vision Pro since the debut of the Apple Watch nine years ago. A single piece of...
The domestic aluminium scrap market remained stable. Price alternations by important industry participants had little impact on the market. Stress grade scrap was recorded at INR 163,000 per tonne, while utensil prices were INR 173,500 per tonne exy-Delhi. As a result, transactions remained mild,...
A00 aluminium ingot price in China has decreased over the weekend ending Monday, June 5, following two consecutive hikes on June 1 and June 2. According to the Shanghai Metals Market data, the ingot price has slumped by RMB 160 per tonne to settle at RMB 18,410 per tonne but stands higher...
The Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum (VITM) in Bengaluru will showcase a life-size replica of NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity in its Space Technology Gallery. The replica, built by Cornell University students in the US, was originally displayed at the Smithsonian's Air and Space...
The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 comes packed with AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS CPU (clocked at 4.00GHz), Radeon 780M Graphics and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 with 12 gigabytes of RAM to take care of the graphics processing. The fingerprint-resistant magnesium-aluminium alloy deck keeps it looking new day after day....
The Rathmann Xterminator go-kart was created in 1961 by Jim Rathmann Racing Products Inc in Dallas, Texas. Jim Rathmann, a successful race car driver who won the Indianapolis 500, developed the go-kart with a lightweight aluminium alloy frame, which was unique for its time. This frame was...
Thok has recently developed a new aluminium prototype for their full suspension using a metal 3D printer, marking a first for the industry. Thok has partnered with an aerospace company to achieve this extraordinary feat. The company prioritises performance and tests the geometry and components of...
Aluminium, with its fantastic recycling properties, has caught the attention of many heavy industry manufacturers in recent years. The metal is widely used in automobile, aviation and construction industries, but that doesn't narrow its scope of venturing into other essential commodities or zones....
According to local media reports on Wednesday, Uniprom, a company in Montenegro, has closed down the last 12 electrolysis cells at KAP (Aluminium Plant Podgorica), ending aluminium production at the plant after 52 years. However, the facilities for aluminium logs and aluminium alloy production will...
Lenovo has released a new cooling bracket called the Z2, made of aluminium alloy. The stand is designed with an open hollow structure to fit the heat dissipation vents of most notebooks in the market, allowing improved airflow and heat dissipation. The Lenovo Z2 aluminium alloy stand can reduce the...
