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 the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, today announced price increases on its North American Automotive and Specialty aluminum sheet products for all new orders effective immediately. All existing orders and firm agreements confirmed prior to August 7, 2014 will be honored...
Alcoa and its competitors have enough rolling capacity in North America to meet demands from automakers for more sheet aluminum, but aluminum-intensive vehicles will take material away from other uses, says Mike Murphy, vice president-automotive at Alcoa. The losers will be the lowest-margin...
China’s aluminum semis exports did not grow as much as expected in June, Shanghai Metals Market learned. Outbound shipments rose only 2.9% from a year ago to 280,000 tonnes. Overseas buyers continued to push for lower prices, squeezing Chinese producer margins. Besides, many processors preferred to...
With more than 20,000 Kentuckians working in it, the state aluminum business is booming, according to the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development. Earlier this year, Europe-based Constellium N.V. and UACJ Corporation, of Japan, announced plans to open a joint $150 million aluminum facility in...
Toyota Motor Corp. will dramatically expand the use of aluminum body panels and structures in its 2018 Camry, a major step in a global shift toward increased aluminum usage in cars and trucks. Sources familiar with the matter told AMM that Toyota has already launched an aluminum-intensive design...
Japan’s Kobe Steel will build an aluminum sheet rolling plant in the US with around 100,000 million tons per year capacity together with trading firm Toyota Tsusho, as it focuses on producing 6000-series aluminum-magnesium-silicon alloy sheets for the US car market, Chief Executive Officer Hiroya...
China’s aluminum semis exports fell 6.90% to 270,000 tons in May from a year ago due to falling exports of plate/sheet, strip and flake, Shanghai Metals Market learned. The exports in May, virtually unchanged on a monthly basis, registered a 17.15% year-on-year drop of exports in aluminum...
Following a selection process, Hydro decided on BWG Bergwerk- und Walzwerk-Maschinenbau GmbH as general supplier for this part. BWG, headquartered in Duisburg, Germany, develops and designs process lines, machines and special constructions. Hydro has worked with BWG on previous projects. “We are...
Jiangsu ALCHA Aluminium Co. will get its capacity building of a 100,000-tpy aluminum plate, foil and sheet/strip project late this year,reported cnal.com today. 8 casting rolling lines were put online for this project this January, it added.
ALUMINIUM giants Alcoa and Novelis spent decades wooing Detroit’s vehicle makers to toss out their heavy steel vehicle bodies and overhaul their factories in order to mass produce vehicles made out of lighter aluminium. This year, with Ford Motor ’s launch of its new aluminium-intensive F-150...
Global aluminum-sheet use in auto bodies will climb fivefold by 2020 as carmakers seek lightweight materials to improve fuel economy, said Derek Prichett, a vice president of global recycling at aluminum supplier Novelis Inc. Sheet consumption will jump to 1.8 million metric tons from 350,000 tons...
China Aluminum Network Zhongfu Industrial’s board secretary Yangping said the company will pay close attention to the high-end market of aluminum and aluminum alloy plate/strip/foil, efforts to realize target product positioning of “ high alloy content, high surface quality and high size...
As of late 2013, the capacity of aluminum foil in China, as the world´s largest producer of aluminum sheets, strips and foils, hit 3.4 million tons/a; the capacity of aluminum cold rolling sheet/strip and aluminum hot rolling strip both reached 12.5 million tons/a. In particular, "1+4" hot...
Preliminary estimates indicate that aluminum demand in the United States and Canada (shipments by domestic producers plus imports) totaled an estimated 6,149 million pounds during the first three months of 2014, down one-tenth of one percent from a year ago. Demand for semi-fabricated (mill)...
Kobe Steel Ltd. said it is planning to start a joint venture for constructing an aluminium steel plant in U.S with Toyota Tsusho Corp., the Japanese trading house. This decision shows the increasing demand for aluminium sheet in autoparts in U.S due to tighter fuel regulations. The two companies...
Novelis, the world leader in aluminium rolling and recycling, today announced a price increase on its specialty aluminium sheet products produced in Germany. The fabrication price for plain, shate, industrial and foil container products and other selected aluminium specialty sheets will increase by...
Aluminium factories located in China are using the metal more for making beer cans as well as cigarette packaging. They have maintained their surplus production for the eighth year although other producers like United Co. Rusal & Alcoa Inc. (AA) has cut down their output. China’s total production...
The statistics released by the Aluminum Association indicates that the new mill orders for the month of April 2014 have increased marginally by 0.32% over the previous month. The year-to-date new mill orders index is down 1.16%. New orders for plates were down in April when compared with March this...
