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 Zhongwang Holdings, China’s top industrial aluminium extruder, paints a rosy picture of automotive aluminium market, National Business Daily reported. The company is building the world’s single largest aluminium rolling project in terms of designed annual capacity, the media added. The...
Detal company and Russian Alfa-Metal have signed a contract for 3 years. Under the contract, Detal exports to the Russian market of 30 thousand tons of metal products. Products will mainly consist of rolls and boards colored aluminum. At the current price level, the cost of the contract will be $70...
Delaware based Logan Aluminum’s long talked about expansion project will likely be unveiled this week. Logan County’s largest employer announced that it would hold a ground breaking ceremony for an expansion project on Wednesday at 1 p.m. No further details were announced, but in March the Kentucky...
Hydro has entered into a binding agreement to sell its aluminium rolling mill in Cisterna di Latina, Italy, to Rolling Mills International GmbH. Hydro's rolling mill in Cisterna di Latina produces aluminium rolled products, mainly standard strip and sheet, as well as plain foil. Through the...
Lightweight metals leader Alcoa today announced it has completed an expansion at its Tennessee facility dedicated to supplying aluminum sheet to the automotive industry. The plant will provide aluminum sheet to automakers that include Ford Motor Company, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and General...
United Company Rusal Plc, a leading aluminum producer, is setting up more joint venture with its Chinese partners in Russia to make high value-added, greener aluminum products. "Rusal has a clear advantage in aluminum technologies, and hydropower resources are abundant in Russia," Oleg...
From Alcan's Kingston Works to Novelis Inc., the aluminum manufacturing plant is celebrating 75 years in the Limestone City. "I think in the heyday there was 4,100 to 4,200 employees, three plants," recounted Jake Czyz, Novelis plant manager. "We pretty much say everybody in Kingston knows somebody...
In a recently published report, aluminium and aluminium alloy has been together termed as the future of China automotive lightweight material (metals) industry. The key findings of the report are: - China's consumption of automotive aluminium alloy hit 300,000 tons in 2014. The supply and demand of...
AMAG, a leading producer of high grade rolled aluminium products based in Austria, offer customers in Asia a wide range of specialty materials for aircraft, automotive and electronics. AMAG has over 70 years’ experience in the production of aluminium with special competence in high-strength sheet...
Aluminum processing industry is developing in full swing in Huolingol Industrial Park, Inner Mongolia. Inner Mongolia Jinlian Aluminum Co. has partially finished construction of its 3 million-tpy aluminum plate, strip & folil project, whose investment totals 100 billion yuan ($16 billion). Main...
Henan Zhongfu Industrial Co. Ltd., the Chinese subsidiary of the international investment and industrial holding Vimetco, one of the largest on the aluminum market, has obtained the Quality Management System Certificate for Production of Components and Provision of Respective Services in the...
According to the Aluminum Association reports, estimated shipments of Aluminum Foil by U.S. and Canadian producers totaled 82.4 million pounds during June 2015, a decrease of 7.0 percent from the June 2014 total of 88.6 million pounds. Compared to the previous month, shipments were off 4.1 percent...
Novelis’ Brazilian unit has decided to concentrate more on export markets, in an attempt to offset declining demand growth in domestic market. According to Tadeu Nardocci, President-South American operations, Novelis, the company plans to expand its presence in the export markets of South America...
Demand for aluminum semi-fabricated (mill) products in the United States and Canada (measured in shipments by domestic producers plus imports) totaled an estimated 1,527 million pounds in April, increasing 7.8 percent over the April 2014 total of 1,416 million pounds. Aluminum sheet and plate...
Chinese exports of semi-finished aluminium products are likely to drop in coming months as prices in the international market fall, industry sources and traders said. Exports of the semis, including profiles and plates, have been blamed as a factor for lower global premiums on primary aluminium....
The Aluminum Association’s “Index of Net New Orders of Aluminum Mill Products” for April decreased 5.5 percent from the previous month. Orders for flat roll products were down 6.8 percent, while orders for extruded products declined seven-tenths of one percent and orders for redraw rod were off 6.3...
Kobesteel’s automotive aluminum sheet factory in Tianjin is under construction and scheduled to start production early next year, CNMN reported. The factory, with total investment at 389 million yuan ($63 million), will produce 100,000 tonnes of automotive aluminum sheet annually. Sinosteel is...
Baosteel Co. attended the recent Shanghai auto show and will soon release information concerning its foray into aluminum and magnesium alloy business, a source at Baosteel said. Baosteel’s automotive sheet sales soared from less than 1 million tonnes in 2011 to 7.25 million tonnes in 2014, claiming...
