Vedanta's ₹210b metals push targets India's EV and critical minerals demand
Vedanta is expanding aluminium, copper and other metals capacity as electric mobility and India's demand for critical minerals reshape the domestic materials market. Vedanta Group is putting INR 210 billion (USD 2.21 billion) into metals production and capacity through FY2026, building a broader...
CFMoto’s 2027 Ibex 800 E combines aluminium components with radar safety technology
CFMoto's 2027 Ibex 800 E combines an aluminium swingarm and forged aluminium pistons with radar-based safety technology, while starting at USD 9,799 in the US. The Ibex also comes with an 8-inch touchscreen, adjustable KYB suspension and several touring features as standard. The Ibex 800 E comes...
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Rise of Car Sales In China And India Will Help Aluminium
...Aluminium will find it much easier to sail on volatile markets than any other metal in the business. The rise of Car sales in China and India is expected to help the metal considerably when other metals like Copper, Lead and Zinc are facing demand crisis and rise of supplies. Aluminium is used...
Study finds aluminum can reduce vehicle body structure weight safely by up to 40%
...Using aluminum in select automotive components could reduce vehicle body structure weight safely by as much as an additional 40% compared to today’s vehicles, according to a recent study by the University of Aachen (Germany) for the European Aluminium Association (EAA)...
Aluminium consumption for a car firstly surpasses USA: China 2010
...China produced 18,264,700 cars in 2010, growing 32.44% on 13,791,000 cars in 2009. Cars sales reached 18,061,900, rising 32.3% YoY. USA once created production and sale record of 17,000,000 cars over the world’s car development history, but now China has refreshed the new record...
Aluminum Tests Its Mettle Against Steel in Drive for Lighter Cars
...Tougher fuel-efficiency standards, made even more urgent by the recent run-up in gasoline prices, are intensifying the fight between steel and aluminum companies to build the next generation of lightweight cars...
Alcoa CEO: The US Auto Industry has Totally Recovered
...Alcoa (NYSE:AA) CEO Klaus Kleinfeld spoke with FOX Business Network (NYSE:NWSA) about increasing demand for aluminum from the auto industry and ETFs. Here’s the video. It’s a bit of a commercial for aluminum, Your Cheat Sheet to his comments are below:...
Alcoa Forged Wheels Selected for Ferrari 458 Italia
...Alcoa’s automotive wheels business secured the contract to supply lightweight forged aluminium wheels for critically acclaimed Ferrari 458 Italia. The deal, which was sealed at the end of October 2010, sees the company supply forged aluminium wheel technology that ensures that the front wheel...
Hindalco: Novelis buy pays off
...The markets are not known to reward managements for their long-term vision. In 2007, Kumar Birla faced the wrath of the stock market when he took a $6.2 billion call on Novelis, the Atlanta-based producer of rolled aluminum products. The markets questioned his assumption that more aluminum would...
Qatar Ag plans aluminium, carbon fibre production
... To significantly contribute to the growing automobile sales worldwide and to ensure a friendlier environment, the Qatar Automotive Gateway (Qatar Ag) is planning to build an automotive industry platform in the country by 2020...
Alcoa Sees `Headwinds' in Growth in China Aluminum Use as Car Demand Slows
... Alcoa Inc. said growth in demand for aluminum in China, the world’s largest market for the metal, ... China’s aluminum consumption will expand 15 percent in 2011 compared with 21 percent last year, the New York-based company said yesterday in its fourth-quarter earnings presentation. ...
China Output And Motor Vehicle Sales Up In Jan-Nov 2011
... In the first 11 months of 2010, China motor vehicle output and sales were 16.4001 million and 16.3954 million respectively, up by 33.71% and 34.05% year on year. ... The rise in automobile sales is helpful for Aluminium. A major portion of Aluminium goes in making of automobiles. MCX Aluminium...
China Output And Motor Vehicle Sales Up In Jan-Nov 2011
... In the first 11 months of 2010, China motor vehicle output and sales were 16.4001 million and 16.3954 million respectively, up by 33.71% and 34.05% year on year. ... The rise in automobile sales is helpful for Aluminium. A major portion of Aluminium goes in making of automobiles. MCX Aluminium...
Fuel gauge running on aluminium
...HOLDEN may use expensive aluminium panels to get fuel use of its Commodore down to a figure that would put many mid-sized cars to shame...
Domestic Vehicles Sale Remain Strong, Aluminium Will Enjoy The Trend
...Coming year is expected to remain favorable for Aluminium demand looking at the domestic sales trend of vehicles in India. Thetrend in past few years has been on the rise and with further demand picking upon good monsoon in 2010 the multiplication of vehicles is quite possible...
Luoyang Expected to Become China’s Processing Base for Auto Aluminum Wheels
...It is reported that a new project with total investment more than 500 million Yuan has settled in Xin’An industrial zone...
Northwest Aluminum Succeeded in trial manufacturing Large-sized thin-walled tube
...Aluminum Corporation of China Northwest Aluminum Processing branch currently succeeded in trial manufacturing for two large size thin-walled tube used for cars. The product characterizes large diameter, thin wall, complex process, difficult trial work, etc...
Auto makers evince interest to invest in Orissa
...After steel, aluminium, power and cement, now biggies in the automotive sector have evinced interest in investing in Orissa. Tata Motors, Fiat and John Deere are mulling to set up their manufacturing bases in Orissa, given the state's stable political climate, investor policies, availability of...
Luoyang's aluminum wheels will be increased largely
...On the morning of Oct 20th, a big project with total investment of over 500 million yuan settled in Xin An industrial zone. After the completion of the item, the project can produce 5000,000 auto aluminum wheels each year, which will help Luoyang to take place in China’s aluminum wheel market...
Aluminum and Art Meet in Hybrid Jaguar Concept Car
...We wouldn’t classify ourselves at MetalMiner as petrol-heads, indeed we write more often on fuel efficiency in automotive developments than out and out sports cars but the boys among us at least can’t resist the occasional lustful review of a new super car if (as the editor sternly reminds us)...
