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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China's production of ten nonferrous metals including aluminium in the first two months of 2016 fell 4.3 per cent from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday, in a delayed data release. Total output stood at 7.612 million tonnes. The production reversed a 5.8 per cent...
Aluminium processing industry in Henan Province, among China’s top three aluminium producing regions, reported production and sales boom in the first quarter of this year, local media reported. Yidian Holding Group posted notable output growth, and its sales of aluminium plate/sheet, strip and foil...
The Micromill is Alcoa’s proprietary technology that manufactures the most advanced aluminium sheet on the market, according to Alcoa. Since being introduced in December 2014, Alcoa has achieved some significant breakthroughs, producing more formable aluminium sheet, with greater strength, lighter...
Utility vehicle manufacturer Fruehauf has designed a new series of tip-trailers, which, for improved strength, durability and weight-saving reasons, are manufactured using Alcoa's Endur-Al aluminium sheet. Endur-Al is 52 percent harder than a standard aluminium alloy of type 5083 H111, and 20 to 30...
Full Year 2015 Results and Business Highlights: • Net Sales $1.4 Billion; Value Added Revenue Up 8% to $790 Million • Operating Loss $346 Million; Adjusted EBITDA $183 Million; EBITDA Margin 23% • Record Shipments of Heat Treat Plate and Automotive Extrusions • Expanded Sales Margins - Improved...
Shandong Nanshan Aluminum, a large Chinese vertically integrated aluminium processor, is aiming to become one of the global top ten aerospace aluminium materials suppliers, China Securities reported. The company had strategic cooperation with famous aircraft manufacturers, like Boeing and Airbus in...
China will export 14.4 per cent more aluminium semis in 20016 than the corresponding period previous year, after a spike in 2015, SMM expects. Intensified competition among domestic downstream market players will drive down processing fees for aluminium semis. This, along with improving product...
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...
According to an Aluminum Association report shipments of all major aluminium products declined in the month of December. Shipments of can stock by domestic producers totaled 345.5 million pounds during December 2015, off 1.1 percent from the December 2014 total of 349.4 million pounds. Compared to...
AMAG has certified final acceptance of the innovative twin-coiler rolling mill developed by Danieli Automation. This hot rolling mill is used to process products ranging from medium-thickness plates to thin-strip coils, for alloys ranging from series 1xxx to 8xxx for aerospace, marine,...
China's aluminium semis exports soared 40.2% month-on-month in November, but the growth is likely to slowdown in the short term. The significant increase was mainly driven by aluminium extrusion, whose exports rose 131,600 tonnes to 201,900 tonnes, Chinese customs data showed. Lower SHFE/LME...
According to an Aluminum Association report estimated net shipments of Aluminum Sheet and Plate by U.S. and Canadian producers totaled 649.4 million pounds during November 2015, up seven-tenths of one percent over the November 2014 total of 645.0 million pounds. Compared to the previous month,...
Aluminium Corporation of China Ltd (Chalco) has made great breakthrough in auto body aluminium alloy sheet manufacturing. After over two years of R&D, the State-owned aluminium major has achieved this feat, communicated Rare Earth Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of Chalco. In recent years,...
The Slim plant in Cisterna di Latina will from January 1, 2016 be operated by Rolling Mills International GmbH under the name of SLIM Aluminium S.p.A. An after-tax book loss of 45 - 55 million euros will be realized in Hydro’s fourth-quarter 2015 reported results. The rolling mill in Cisterna di...
Novelis, the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, today announced it is supplying high-strength, military-grade, aluminum for the upcoming Ford F-Series Super Duty lineup of trucks, the toughest, smartest, most capable Super Duty ever. Following the launch of the 2015 Ford F-150, the...
PPB has launched its first range of premium aluminium composite materials (ACM) targeted at digital printers, signmakers and fabricators. PPB said the product, proBond Aluminium Composite, offers a high-quality sheet for short-term digital print projects or high-end corporate ID signage. According...
Tianjin Zhongwang announced another good news that the two cold rolling mills for wide-width aluminium plates and sheets produced the first aluminium coil in success. Till now, both of the two sets of single-stand cold rolling mills for wide-width aluminium plates and sheets have entered into the...
Leading auto aluminium sheet supplier Hydro announced the regional government of Düsseldorf had approved its new rolled products facility in Grevenbroich. The official opening of the facility is scheduled in 2017. "This is a major project that's advancing all the time and remains on time and on...
