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 use to grow in US: Ducker Worldwide
By 2025, more than 75% of all new pick-up trucks produced in North America will be aluminum-bodied, according to a survey of vehicle manufacturers conducted by US-based consulting and research firm Ducker Worldwide. The study, which confirms a significant breakthrough for automotive aluminium into...
Next Toyota Camry to use aluminum body panels
Following several other automakers, Toyota is turning to aluminum to make its vehicles lighter. Next year, the 2016 Lexus RX 350 crossover will become the company's first model with an aluminum hood and liftgate built in North America, while in 2018 the popular Toyota Camry sedan will get an...
Aleris to add aluminum automotive body sheet capabilities in North America
Aleris announced today that it will invest $350 million to upgrade capabilities at its aluminum rolling mill in Lewisport, Kentucky. The investment positions Aleris to meet anticipated significant growth in North American automotive demand as the industry pursues broader aluminum use for the...
The aluminium-bodied 2015 F-150 being put to the test
Ford Motor is all set to test the aluminium bodied F-150. The car that is going to be released later this year is currently touring 26 cities for demonstration and introducing the sales personnel to the new pick up trucks. This aluminium truck has created a lot of interest in the auto industry...
Increased car sales in US boost aluminium prices
The cash price of aluminium has risen from $1,725.93 per tonne in January to $2,029.55 per tonne, which is the current price. The overall jump in the LME aluminium prices is recorded at 15% since the beginning of the year. Mintec explains that the price rise is largely due to the falling aluminium...
JLR to unveil Jaguar XE in London on Monday
Jaguar Land Rover is set to launch its much-anticipated Jaguar XE on Monday, a compact car that will help the Tata Motors’ premium division take on the likes of the Audi A4, BMW 3 Series and Mercedez Benz C Class. Jaguar Land Rover has gradually been releasing details of the car — due to be...
Atlas Copco bets on new car assembly technologies
Atlas Copco’s interest in new assembly technologies has been spurred by a trend among car makers to use more aluminium to reduce the weight of their vehicles. Swedish engineer Atlas Copco is investing in new techniques for assembling cars, believing powerful adhesives and new rivets could see a...
Mini Superleggara Vision with aluminium inspired design set to launch in UK
The Italian coach builder, Touring is designing the new Mini Superleggara Vision with handcrafted aluminium bodywork. This car has been designed to create the look of a classic two-seater roadster but integrating it with all the modern technologies. This stunner will debut at the Salob Privé...
Automotive industry relies on aluminium and multi-material solutions to lightweight vehicles
While aluminium is expected to be relied on heavily to meet new fuel efficiency standards for vehicles, multi-material solutions, engineering plastics and advanced composites will also play a key role, according to a WardsAuto survey sponsored by DuPont. CAFE standards 64% of the nearly 900...
Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products boosts production capacity of aluminum forged suspension parts by 50%
Kobe Steel, Ltd.'s U.S. joint venture, Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products, LLC (or KAAP), has increased its production capacity of aluminum forged products for automotive suspension systems by 50 percent. Based in Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA, KAAP began construction of a $66-million expansion of...
The aluminium loaded Jaguar awaits September 8 release
The aluminum-bodied Jaguar XE Compact Sports Sedan is all set for its London release on September 8 and the company has just released the technical details of the new launch. The aluminium-intensive architecture is the central focus in the design which has been developed around the same riveted and...
Ford races to rebuild truck plant for aluminum F-150
Carefully choreographed chaos is under way in and around Ford's historic Dearborn Truck Plant as the automaker races to get it ready to build a very different F-series truck. On Saturday morning the last steel-bodied 2014 Ford F-150 rolled off the line and workers were ripping up equipment behind...
Aluminum Association to present at SCRS' OEM Collision Repair Technology Summit
The Society of Collision Repair Specialists (SCRS) has announced that Doug Richman, Technical Committee chairman of the Aluminum Transportation Group (ATG), will offer insight into the role aluminum will play in collision repair businesses now and in the future at the OEM Collision Repair...
World's biggest aluminum supplier says automotive-grade sales will triple
Novelis, based out of Atlanta, is the largest supplier of aluminum sheet to the auto industry, counting Ford, Audi and Jaguar among its clients. It's owned by Mumbai, India-based metals company Hindalco, the world's largest producer of aluminum sheet, and company reps see the aluminum market and...
Lightweight Jaguar EX to average 75 mpg and emit less than 100 g/km of CO2
Jaguar is proving the fuel-saving benefits of reducing the weight of its cars, with new figures showing that its forthcoming XE compact executive saloon should average more than 75 mpg and emit less than 100 g/km of CO2. Using recycled aluminium, Jaguar has invented a new alloy from which it is...
Novelis the driving force behind Ford's aluminum trend
Novelis, a global aluminum supplier, is seeing a 45-year-old dream come true as the auto industry is on the cusp of making the lightweight material mainstream. Novelis is supplying aluminum for the 2015 Ford F-150 that goes on sale later this year. The supplier is expanding its Oswego, N.Y. plant,...
Lightweighting goals top automotive design and manufacturing survey
DuPont has published the results of a new survey conducted with WardsAuto that asks the automotive design and engineering community what technologies they are working on to reduce emissions and improve fuel economy. Topping the list was lightweighting, engine efficiency programs, vehicle...
Maxion to open new aluminum wheel manufacturing facility in Limeira, Brazil
Maxion Wheels, a producer of wheels for passenger cars, light trucks, commercial trucks and trailers, has announced that it will open a new light vehicle aluminum wheel manufacturing facility in Limeira, Brazil. The new facility will join an existing steel wheel plant on the same site and create...
