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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Aluminium rolled product suppliers seek a pie of China's auto panel trade
Aluminium end use applications are growing and how. In Asia, China, as always, is leading the league as the most promising market of aluminium rolled products, providing the much needed traction to the entire aluminium value chain. The sectors that are creating maximum demand are beverage packaging...
Volvo Cars gives new face to V40 with aluminium interiors
Volvo Cars gives its bestselling V40 and V40 Cross Country the new face of Volvo for Model Year 2017 with trim updates across the range. V40 will feature upscale aluminium interiors along with other critical components made from the lightweight metal. Central to the model year exterior updates are...
Rolls-Royce tests all-new aluminium architecture, will discontinue current Phantom models
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars announced that the current seventh generation of Phantom will enter the last stages of its celebrated life. Calling it the time to take the next step in the luxury journey, the carmaker will not renew the Phantom Coupé and Drophead Coupé models in the future. A special...
Aluminium regains ground on MCX, Mumbai
Aluminium prices surged 4 per cent last week, with the spot price on the London Metal Exchange (LME) closing on a stronger note at $1,562 per tonne on Friday. This is just above an important resistance at $1,560. The metal is up about 10 per cent from its low of $1,423 made in November 2015....
The Aluminum Association publishes 2015 Automotive Aluminum Joining Manual
The Aluminum Association has published a multi-chapter manual that details the range of commercially available production processes for joining aluminum components in automotive applications. Developed in collaboration with the European Aluminium Association (EAA) and theAluminum Extruders Council...
Lindberg/MPH ships aluminum immersion holding furnace to large automotive die caster
Lindberg/MPH announced the shipment of an electric immersion aluminum holding furnace to a large automotive die caster. The equipment provided includes three electric immersion aluminum holding furnaces used to keep aluminum at die casting temperature. These aluminum holding furnaces utilize...
Automotive demand growth for metals likely to slow down
After news of Toyota’s recent supply chain troubles, so ably covered by my colleague Lisa Reisman last week, news from the US car industry, by contrast, couldn’t be better. General Motors reported $9.7 billion net income for 2015 as it was bolstered by buoyant US light-truck sales. Results for the...
Novelis Works with Jaguar Land Rover to Create RC5754 High Recycled Content Aluminum Alloy for Automotive Industry
Novelis, the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, today announced that its RC5754 alloy, a new automotive product designed to contain up to 75 percent recycled content, has been successfully integrated into the structural components of high volume production passenger vehicles. RC5754...
STUDY: Vehicle lightweighting an economical solution for truck fleets
Commercial truck fleets looking to increase fuel efficiency, haul more freight and retain more drivers can look to lightweighting as a key enabler, according to a recent Confidence Report on Lightweighting by Trucking Efficiency. The report found that investing in lightweighting is an attractive...
China Zhongwang upbeat about automotive aluminium market
China Zhongwang Holdings, China’s top aluminium extrusion producer, is pinning hopes on the automotive sector for pulling up demand for aluminium extrusions, reported sources close to the company. Zhongwang’s managing director perceives three areas of growth that will buoy aluminium applications...
Exclusive Speaker Interview: Francois Nadeau, Technical Leader, Aluminium Assembling Technologies, the National Research Council Canada
With the CAFE standards continuously driving the automotive industry towards manufacturing technologies that allow maximum weight reduction while maintaining parts performance has long since became the priority for automakers. GALM series is bringing the 3rd Annual Lightweight Vehicle Manufacturing...
Toyota's Lotus Evora 400 gets a chassis built of bonded lightweight extruded aluminium
The new Lotus Evora 400 which now becomes the fastest road car that Lotus has ever built, just moved into the supercar category, with a zero to 100km/h sprint time of a mere 4.2 seconds, and a top speed of 300kph from the manual transmission model. There is an automatic version which hits only...
Ford's 2015 profit jumps on stronger sales
Improving sales in most of the world helped Ford Motor Co. achieve a record pre-tax profit in 2015, and the company says the numbers could go even higher this year. Full-year pretax profit jumped 48 per cent to $US10.8 billion ($A15.33 billion) as its global sales and market share grew. Ford's US...
China Zhongwang's new aluminium-body automobile production unit to come up in Yingkou
China Zhongwang Holdings, the world's second largest and Asia's and China's largest producer of industrial aluminium extrusion products is planning to come up with an aluminium-body automobile manufacturing plant in Yingkou City, Liaoning. Operations at the project, with a planned investment of 6...
Kobe Steel launches new 7000 series aluminium alloy 7K55
Kobe Steel, Ltd. has developed a 7000 series aluminium alloy called 7K55 that offers both outstanding stress corrosion cracking resistance and high yield strength in the 400 N/mm2 class. 7K55 has already been adopted for use as an extrusion for bumper beams by a Japanese automaker. Kobe Steel aims...
General Motors Shanghai VP Mr. Heil to speak at Asia Automotive Lightweight Procurement Symposium
The 4th Automotive Lightweight Procurement Symposium will be kicked off on the 11th of July 2016 at the Jumeirah Himalayas Hotel in Shanghai, China. The AluMag Symposium, which was held the first time in Düsseldorf (Germany) back in 2014, has experienced a steady growth in attendees from 85 at the...
Indian aluminium in 2016: can a turnaround happen?
Aluminium producers in India are looking to the US and other export markets with hope in the new year, after the double whammy of cheap Chinese imports and low prices for the silver -white metal for almost all of 2015. As in other countries, the overall global commodity free fall was the main cause...
Schuler adapting hot-forming technology to the rising demand of automotive aluminium alloys
Schuler, the technological and global market leader in metal forming equipment such as presses, automation, dies, with deep process know-how is adapting the technology of hot forming to the special demands of high-strength aluminium alloys used in automobile manufacturing. The lightweight...
