Fraunhofer IWU is developing lightweight aluminium foam sandwich panels that could help inland cargo vessels continue operating when low water levels force conventional ships to reduce their loads or risk running aground. The proposed shipbuilding structure could reduce vessel weight by...
The 2025 calendar maps the aluminium flat-rolled products (FRP) industry at the intersection of two major trends, i.e., the accelerating transition toward circular manufacturing and the rapid growth of sectors requiring advanced aluminium FRP solutions. Leading this transformation are a select...
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Novelis’ Shanghai Customer Solution Center (CSC) has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Tsinghua University Suzhou Automotive Research Institute (TSARI) to to drive research and development of aluminium products and solutions to promote a low carbon, sustainable future....
Novelis, the world leader in aluminium rolling and recycling, has announced today, May 28, that it will supply sustainable, lightweight aluminium body sheet to Nissan for the all-new Qashqai SUV and create a closed-loop recycling system in Europe. Novelis aluminium body sheet will be used in the...
Tunisia represents a mixed economic system, which provides a variety of private freedom, combined with centralized economic planning and government regulation. As per the World Bank, the COVID-19 pandemic has stretched into 2021, which result in socio-political unrest and Tunisia’s growth and...
The United States exported 23,500 tonnes of aluminium plates, sheets and bars to Canada in February 2021, down by 1,700 tonnes or 6.75 per cent month-on-month, found the US Geological Survey data. In January, the United States’ exports to Canada stood at 25,200 tonnes by remaining flat compared to...
AMAG has signed a supply contract with Audi Hungaria to close the loop on aluminium recycling. The agreement will see production waste generated at the Audi plant in Györ will be delivered to AMAG in Ranshofen in the form of sorted aluminium sheet scrap. AMAG will then recycle into new aluminium...
MQP, the leading aluminium specialist has developed an increasingly robust version of its top-selling grain refiner to brace customers in the high specification segments. Build on the success of its standard Optifine TiBAl grain refiner, Optifine 5:1 125, which consistently reduces additional rates...
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative has certified Assan Alüminyum against Provisional Performance Standard Certification for remelting and rolling activities at the Tuzla and Dilovasi production facilities in Turkey. The facilities, with an annual production capacity of 300,000 tonnes of flat-rolled...
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative announced on Friday, March 5, that it certified Chalco Ruimin Co., Ltd.’s two plants in Fuzhou, China, against Chain of Custody Standard Certification for remelting and casting, hot rolling, cold rolling, and finishing activities. The company produces rolled...
Shangqiu Yangguang Aluminium Product Co., Ltd. has received Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) Performance Standard certification for its plant in Henan Province, China. The casthouse and material conversion facility manufactures aluminium alloy plate, sheet, and strip. Fiona Solomon, Chief...
The United States exports of aluminium plates, sheets and bars to Canada decreased in November 2020 after two consecutive months of hike, found the latest US Geological Survey data. In November, the exports stood at 25,200 tonnes, down by 3,600 tonnes or 12.5 per cent month-on-month. In October,...
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative has welcomed Golden Aluminum Inc. as a new Production & Transformation member, bringing the total number of ASI members to 156. Golden Aluminum Inc. was formed in 1980 by Coors Brewing Company (Coors) to augment the latter’s recycling efforts of beverage cans....
The economy of Iceland is predicted to recover in 2021, as the global economy reopens and international travel resumes. Although there is uncertainty over the evolution of the pandemic lingers and clouds the outlook, posing a key downward risk to recovery. As per FocusEconomics panellists, the...
Slowdown in demand due to the global manufacturing downturn amid the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a decline in Japan’s aluminium products output for 2020, found the Japan Aluminium Association. Data shows production of rolled and extruded aluminium products decreased by 10 per cent from a year...
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative has certified Audi against Chain of Custody (CoC) Standard for rolled material press shop operations undertaken at production facilities in Neckarsulm and Ingolstadt, Germany. At the two facilities, rolled material press operations create automotive body parts...
As per the World Bank’s Economic Update for the edition released in October’20, the Emerging and developing economies in the Europe and Central Asia region are on course to shrink by 4.45 in 2020 and considered as the worst recession since the global financial crisis of 2008. Georgia’s economy was...
According to data shared by the US Geological Survey, the United States aluminium plates, sheets and bars imports from Saudi Arabia decreased 890 tonnes or 12.45 per cent month-on-month to 6,260 tonnes in September 2020, following hikes in July and August. In August 2020, the US aluminium plates,...
Aluminium plate, sheet and strip consumption in China’s automotive sector looks optimistic in 2021. But in the construction sector, it may see a limited growth, said Man Xu, Senior Analyst in SMM, at the 2020 Nonferrous Metals Industry Chain Annual Conference in Suzhou on Friday, December 4....
Jiangsu Dingsheng New Materials Joint-Stock Co., Ltd. has been certified against Aluminium Stewardship Initiative Chain of Custody Standard Certification for its three production facilities in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province. The plants’ operations covers aluminium re-melting, continuous casting, cold...
