
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have advanced the use of DuAlumin-3D for high-temperature automotive components, opening new possibilities for stronger, lighter 3D-printed aluminium parts in engines and beyond. Aluminium has long been attractive for automotive components because it...
India’s public-sector banks have proposed putting electric vehicles, charging networks, battery-swapping infrastructure and climate-transition projects into a clearer priority-sector lending framework. The plan could direct more formal credit toward the systems needed to scale electric mobility,...
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The integrated technology group, Rheinmetall has secured a follow-up order from an unnamed German carmaker to produce aluminium engine blocks with a total value crossing more than €100 million. Rheinmetall AG is a publicly listed company based in Düsseldorf, Germany and is a powerful,...

Alcoa Corporation will deliver sustainable, low-carbon aluminium for the wheels on the e-tron GT, Audi’s first electric sports car. The company will supply metal to RONAL GROUP for the manufacture of the Audi e-tron GT’s high-performance alloy wheels, produced with a combination of metal from the...

The Indian state-run petroleum marketing company Indian Oil Corporation and Israeli company specialising in aluminium-air and zinc-air battery systems for electric vehicles company, Phinergy, have already announced their joint venture “IOC- Phinergy”. The Israeli-Indian JV will engage in research...

The Chief Procurement Officer at Volvo Car Corporation, Martina Buchhauser who stepped down from his position recently, where she was also part of the Executive Management Team, is proposed as a new member of the Board of Directors to be elected at the Annual General Meeting on 6 th May 2021....

Aluminium component supplier CastAlum will invest £5 million in its aluminium casting plant IN Welshpool, Powys. The expansion will allow the company to expand production capacity. CastAlum, which supplies car brands such as Porsche, Mercedes, and BMW, will install two new, state-of-the-art...

ALVANCE Aluminium Duffel BV has announced the supply of the first coils certified under the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) Chain of Custody standard. The company will ship coils to the Audi plant in Neckarsulm for the Audi A6. “The ASI Chain of Custody standard ensures that not only the...

On Wednesday, January 27, global aluminium rolled products manufacturer Constellium and American industrial aluminium company Novelis announced the launch of Alumobility, a non-profit organisation to provide innovative, implementation-ready solutions for advancing the adoption of aluminium...

Mahindra & Mahindra Limited, one of the biggest automakers in India, projects electric-vehicle sales to outperform gas guzzlers as prices become more aligned and infrastructure and technology improve. The company expects this to happen with help from the Government. Mahindra Deputy Managing...

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...

According to Shanghai Metals Market data, secondary aluminium producers operating rates in China increased slightly by 0.23 percentage point month-on-month to stand at 62.65 per cent in December 2020. This marks the second consecutive month of rising in secondary aluminium operating rates as they...

TRIMET Aluminium SE, the aluminium product manufacturer has developed a new aluminium alloy for crash-relevant components. The wrought alloy trimal®-53 is worth for structural components with high strength and excellent deformation capacity. The aluminium specialist thus now delivers a material for...

Since 1970’s the manufacturing process of Aluminium alloy wheels have developed a lot and due to sophisticated wheels design, casting has become the dominant manufacturing process. On the due course of time, it has been identified that vehicles with aluminium wheels have better stopping and...

AUDI AG’s rolled press plants Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm have been certified against Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) Chain of Custody. AUDI claims that the company is the first automobile maker to be awarded the Chain of Custody certificate. “This certifies that Audi can comply with the...

BORBET Leichtmetallräder has joined the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) as a new Industrial User member. This brings the total number of ASI Members to 151. BORBET is one of the leading manufacturers of light alloy wheels worldwide for the automobile industry. The company acquired BORBET...

2020 witnessed a massive growth in electric vehicles, whereas the aviation industry affected due to coronavirus pandemic. The Electric vehicle sales in India recorded a growth of 20 per cent to 156,000 units in the financial year 2019-20, largely driven by the sales of electric two-wheelers that...

The new computer tool facilitates the production of car components, while the properties of the materials from which the car parts are made will be as the big car manufacturers want it to be. The system can calculate stiffness, strength and stability and the calculations that used to take months...

The automobile market in China started recovering in April 2020, with production and sales achieved year-on-year growth. According to China Association of Automobile Manufactures (CAAM) forecast, the domestic auto market is likely to achieve steady growth in the next five years, with sales...

Maruti Suzuki Ltd., India’s largest carmaker withholding more than 50% of market share in the passenger vehicle segment, announced that from January’21 it would increase prices of its vehicles. It is forecasted that the price rise could be more this time, as the cost of raw materials has increased...