Recycled aluminium producer Aluminum Dynamics LLC will invest more than USD 200 million to build a recycled aluminium slab centre in Lowndes County, Mississippi, creating 100 new jobs. The facility, to be located in the Golden Triangle Industrial Park, will recycle aluminium-bearing materials,...
Forklifts, powered trucks that lift and move heavy items, are essential across the aluminium value chain. They carry raw materials in smelters and move billets, slabs, coils, sheets, extrusions and finished products in downstream plants. Good material handling keeps production flowing smoothly. As...
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<p>Aluminium is a ubiquitous part of our modern age, but it’s hard to produce alloys for it without putting up with significant waste from bad mixtures. Over the past three years, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) assistant professor of metallurgy Antoine Allanore and his student...
GARMCO, the Bahrain-based international aluminum rolling mill and one of the largest downstream aluminum facilities in the Middle East, has awarded today a contract worth $47 million to Fives, an industrial engineering group and supplier of machines, process equipment and production lines for the...
On August 15, Tianjin Zhongwang 4500mm heavy plate mill commenced its first heat load test. The thick and heavy ingot slab was passed through the machine and then rolled down to an aluminium plate. A Tianjin Zhongwang official declared that the first heat load test of the 4500mm heavy plate mill...
GARMCO, the Bahrain-based international aluminum rolling mill and one of the largest downstream aluminum facilities in the Middle East, today announced the signing of a letter of intent with Fives, an industrial engineering group and supplier of machines, process equipment and production lines for...
Hulamin said the turnover of the group was helped by the improved performance from extrusions and depreciation of the rand. But the group faced potential supply ructions after BHP Billiton began consultations with their employees in its Aluminium SA business in January on halting of aluminium...
If successfully concluded, current negotiations between aluminium group Hulamin and BHP Billiton offer the tantalising prospect of comparatively stable earnings growth for Hulamin over the foreseeable future. Such growth should see a reversal of fortunes for Hulamin shareholders who looked on as...
Aluminium products manufacturer Hulamin has advised shareholders that it has entered into negotiations with BHP Billiton South Africa over the future of slab supply from the Bayside casthouse, in Richards Bay. This followed BHP Billiton having initiated a formal consultation with employees of its...
A member of the Deviant Art team has come up with a new concept for the upcoming Nexus 5. We think that it looks like a aluminum slab, but there is some glass and plastic mixed in it too. It is the specifications which are interesting though as we could expect them to show up at some point in the...
TRIMET Aluminium SE has yielded seven millionth ton aluminium at its Essen plant. This produced quanity in the past week is a record since the foundry’s foundation. The jubilee Aluminium was delivered in the form of highly specialized slabs to the company’s long-standing customer Constellium Singen...
CRU, independent commodity industry analysts and management consultants in the global metals, mining and fertilizer industries, has launched their Aluminium Casthouse Shapes Market Outlook, a resource for forthcoming developments in the industry. CRU's Aluminium Casthouse Shapes Market Outlook...
A new international shipping service will boost the viability of one of Tasmania's largest private employers -- Bell Bay Aluminium. The service, however, offers little relief for other Tasmanian exporters who have been forced to ship goods to market via Melbourne since the withdrawal of the state's...
Rusal announced Thursday the completion of the first stage of its value-added campaign for its Aluminium Division West business unit. The program boosted the share of value-added products, or VAP, for three smelters, reaching 100% at the Volkhov unit (24,000 mt/year of VAP), 80% at the Nadvoitsy...
Russia's Rusal said Tuesday it to increase its aluminium alloy production capacity in Siberia by 800,000 mt/year to 1.93 million/year by 2016, representing a 70% boost in its Aluminium Division East alloy output. The Russian aluminium producer said it will invest $5 million in 2012 in the upgrade...
Russia's aluminum giant United Co. Rusal PLC (0486.HK) Tuesday said it plans an increase of up to 70% of alloy production at its Siberian smelters by 2016. "By 2016 we plan to produce 1,930,000 tons of high value-added products at our Siberian smelters, in order to satisfy consumer' demand. This...
UC Rusal has launched a magnetic hydrodynamic mixer at its Krasnoyarsk smelter’s casthouse to extend its alloy product range. The $2M magnetic hydrodynamic mixer will enable the Krasnoyarsk aluminium smelter (KrAZ) to produce 1000, 3000, 5000 and 8000 series alloys and to increase the production...
JSW Steel has ordered a continuous slab caster from Siemens VAI. JSW Steel will use the caster at its Toranagallu, Karnataka State, India steelworks. As with caster no. 3, also supplied by Siemens, the casting plant will be equipped with DynaGap Soft Reduction. This solution enables the taper and...
Hulamin Ltd. (HLM), Africa’s biggest maker of fabricated aluminum products, said it will be able to provide for its own raw material needs even if BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP) halts its supply of so-called rolling-slabs in June next year. Hulamin, which is based in the South African town of...
